Media Resources
Resources for podcast hosts, journalists, and event organisers.
If you're considering inviting me onto your show, commissioning a piece,
or booking me to speak, this page has the assets and information you'll need.
For anything not covered here, please get in touch directly.
About Peter Allen
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Peter Allen is the author of The Conscious Organisation: In the age of AI, capability is a commodity and founder of Prosilience. He works with senior leadership teams on the leadership risks of AI deployment. Postgraduate qualifications in AI, Corporate Affairs, and Leadership from the University of Oxford.
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Medium bio (150 words)
Peter Allen has spent over 25 years leading transformation in major organisations, most recently as Executive Director, Corporate Affairs and Communications at National Highways, and previously at the Bank of England and the European Central Bank. He is the author of The Conscious Organisation: In the age of AI, capability is a commodity, and founder of Prosilience, where he advises senior leadership teams on the leadership risks of AI deployment. His proprietary AI Archetypes Framework gives boards and executive teams a shared language for the identity and accountability decisions hiding inside AI adoption. Peter holds postgraduate qualifications in Artificial Intelligence, Corporate Affairs, and Leadership from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and an MBA from The Open University. He is also Chair of Trustees of the CLL Support Association, a national charity supporting people living with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia.
Speaking Engagements
Speaking
I speak to executive teams, boards, conferences, and leadership development programmes on AI, leadership, and organisational identity. The argument I bring: AI is a leadership question dressed up as a technology one, and most boards are addressing it at the wrong level.
Formats
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Keynote addresses (30–60 minutes)
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Conference and panel contributions
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Board and executive committee briefings (90 minutes)
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Half-day or full-day workshops using the AI Archetypes Framework
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Leadership development programme contributions
Suggested topics
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Why AI failures are leadership failures. What recent high-profile cases reveal about how boards are misreading AI risk, and what to do differently.
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The AI Archetypes Framework: ten ways AI enters your organisation. A practical introduction to the framework, with examples of each archetype in action.
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What you've handed over: the hidden decisions inside AI adoption. Every AI deployment is an identity decision in disguise. How leaders can recognise and govern what they're actually delegating.
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AI and the Ship of Theseus. When does an organisation, plank by plank replaced, stop being itself? The governing question of AI-era leadership.
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The belief–action gap. Why leaders rate AI as critically important yet deploy it cautiously, and what that gap reveals about the underlying problem.
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Why technologists can't answer the questions that matter most. The case for AI as a leadership discipline rather than a technical one.
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Capability is a commodity. What's your soul? The book's central argument, applied to specific sectors and audiences.
Speaker fees
Fees vary by format, audience, location, and travel. Please enquire with the brief and I'll provide a tailored quote. Reduced or waived fees are available for selected charity and academic events.
The Book
Title: The Conscious Organisation: In the age of AI, capability is a commodity
Author: Peter Allen
Published: May 2026
ISBN: 978-1-0666-1350-2
Back cover copy
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Most leaders ask what AI will do for their organisation. Few ask what it will do to it.
AI doesn't transform organisations so much as reveal them. Deploy it into a business with genuine alignment between stated values and actual behaviour and it becomes a powerful ally.
Deploy it without that alignment and it becomes a dangerous accelerant, making the gap between what the organisation claims to be and what it actually does wider, faster, and far more visible.
The Conscious Organisation maps ten archetypes through which AI enters organisational life, each arriving as an improvement and each carrying a risk most leaders don't see until it's too late. The pattern across all ten is consistent: the greater the distance between an organisation's stated values and its actual behaviour, the more destructive the capability it has just been handed.
The governing metaphor is the Ship of Theseus. Your organisation's planks are being replaced right now — its processes, its communications, its memory, its decisions — and the question is whether the ship that emerges is still, in any meaningful sense, yours.
This is not an IT book and requires no technical knowledge. It is written for leaders who understand that the most consequential decisions about AI are not being made by engineers but in boardrooms, right now, by people who may not yet have asked the right questions.
In the age of AI, capability is a commodity. The future belongs to authentic organisations, not the most automated ones.
Selected appearances and publications
Podcast
Industrialise Podcast, Episode 11 — AI, Leadership and the Soul of an Organisation (2025). Conversation on how AI can support future leaders, how organisations retain their culture in the age of AI, and the emerging promise of agentic AI. [Listen]
Research
Own the Interface or Lose the Project (February 2026). A diagnostic survey of 62 project professionals, co-authored with Donnie MacNicol, published in partnership with the Association for Project Management. Reveals the belief–action gap in AI adoption among project professionals and offers a practical roadmap for closing it.
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Article
AI in the Built Environment: Beyond Productivity. Industrialised Construction Journal, Issue 3 (2025). On how construction leaders can move beyond productivity use cases to deploy AI for insight, governance, and strategic advantage. Written on behalf of Acumen 7. [Read article]
Contact
For podcast invitations, media enquiries, speaking bookings, and interview requests:
Email: peter.allen@prosilience.org.uk
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Phone: +44 7714 019413
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Website: prosilience.org.uk
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Response time: I aim to reply to all media enquiries within two working days.
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Suggested Interview Questions
Hosts and journalists are welcome to use these as starting points or adapt them.
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You argue that high-profile AI failures are not technology failures but leadership failures. What do you mean by that?
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Your book opens with the line "most leaders ask what AI will do for their organisation; few ask what it will do to it." What's the difference, and why does it matter?
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The AI Archetypes Framework names ten roles AI can play in an organisation. What are they, and which one do leaders most often get wrong?
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You use the Ship of Theseus as a governing metaphor. How do you know when an organisation has crossed the line into being something different?
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You've spent decades at the Bank of England, the ECB, and National Highways. What did those environments teach you about deploying AI well?
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Many leaders report believing AI is critical but using it cautiously. What's behind that gap?
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What's the single question every board should be asking about AI right now, and aren't?
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If a CEO came to you tomorrow and said "we need to do something about AI" — what's the first conversation you'd want to have?