AI is personal
It's reshaping what expertise means,
how judgement is held - and what good work looks like.
I help you work out what it means for you
Whether you're building AI into your daily practice, rethinking where your professional value sits or navigating a career that's shifting beneath you — the real challenge isn't just learning new tools. It's working out what AI means for your judgement, your credibility and the decisions you're making right now.
That's the work I do. Structured, honest and designed for people who want to engage with AI without losing the standards they've spent a career building.
Three shifts that matter right now
Build fluency. Develop a practice. Define your future value.
From knowing AI matters — to knowing what it means for you.
Build your AI Fluency
Move from scattered experimentation to genuine understanding.
Know where AI strengthens your work, where it doesn't, and what you can trust.
Develop a personal
AI practice
Close the gap between understanding AI conceptually and having a working practice - tools, workflows, judgement - that fits your professional life.
Define your future value
Understand where your value sits now - and where you can create the greatest value next.
"You don't need to move fast.
But you do need to move forward."
How we work together
Three ways in, depending on where you are and what you need right now.
Peer Group · 6 Weeks · Live Online
AI Leadership Circle
Build your AI fluency — with peers who get it.
Move from knowing AI matters to understanding where it helps, where it doesn't and what you can trust.
Practical, psychologically safe, facilitated live online.
Six weeks. Small group. Max 10.
Want more depth? Ask about the AI Leadership Accelerator.
Private 1:1 Advisory · over 4 to 6 weeks
The Reorientation
Understand where your value sits now — and where you can create the greatest value next.
For experienced leaders navigating what AI means for their work, leadership and future direction.
A private advisory programme designed to help you:
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understand where value is moving in your field
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articulate the distinctive value you bring
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build a considered position on AI
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identify which opportunities align with your future value - and which don’t
You leave with clarity about your future value, a considered position on AI, and a clear sense of where to focus next.
1:1 · Confidential · Tailored to You
Private AI Advisory
Build a personal AI practice you actually trust.
One-on-one advisory for board directors, and senior leaders who want dedicated, confidential support.
We start with your context - your role, your decisions, your questions - and build a working AI practice that fits your professional life.
What People Say
Jacinta Whelan, Lead Partner (Melbourne), Watermark Search International
"Confidence, tenfold. It enabled me to have the courage to experiment with building agents and streamlining my workflow.
It’s not been dramatic to say that it’s been life changing. It has been. It really has.”
Donna Burr - Partner, Watermark Search International AI Leadership Circle
"Sue helped me build an AI position I could stand behind. Within five weeks, I'd taken it into a senior networking conversation, written it into my resume, and used it to propose AI-enabled outcomes in a major government tender. It's genuinely the thing that may get me my next job."
Sam Dureau - Senior Public Service Executive
The Reorientation
"Sue helped me move from dabbling with AI to deploying it deliberately into my working week — building my tech stack, applying guardrails, managing data. She has been a patient and wise partner to work with, making suggestions and challenging my thinking without telling me what to do. An expert guiding hand to fall back on and get me through any uncertainty."
Jo-Anne Bloch - Chair and Non-Executive Director with a portfolio of boards
Private AI Advisory
Sue Cunningham
25 years transformation experience. Crisis-tested leadership. Real AI fluency. Coaching depth. And the lived experience of navigating the AI transition myself.
MIT Sloan · Oxford · INSEAD · GAICD · Certified Master Coach · National Emergency Services Medal