Think
A confidential sounding board for your real questions and challenges. Examine competing advice, test assumptions and work through situations you are not ready to take elsewhere.
Private AI Advisory
Become an AI-capable leader.
Private, one-to-one advisory for senior executives and board directors. Work on the real decisions in front of you - using AI, talking honestly about what you find, and building the judgement and capability AI now asks of leaders.
Strategic advice · Executive coaching · Firsthand AI experience
The leadership challenge
You can't lead what you don't understand.
You are expected to lead on AI while you are still working it out yourself. You are accountable for decisions, conversations and investments, while your own understanding is still forming. It can be difficult to judge the advice you are receiving without enough experience of your own.
It can be hard to say what you do not yet know in the rooms you lead. This is a confidential room to think out loud, test your assumptions and the answers you are being given, and build firsthand experience in your own work.
We connect the strategic questions with the personal work of leadership: how you exercise judgement, build confidence, challenge others and lead through uncertainty.
Who it is for
Senior executives and board directors building their own AI capability and leadership.
How we meet
Private online sessions of 60 minutes. Three or five sessions, with the option to go further.
The focus
Make sense of AI. Use it wisely. Lead yourself and others through the change.
How we work
Think. Decide. Do.
Your context and the challenges in front of you determine the balance of strategic advice, executive coaching and practical AI experience.
Decide
Make strategic choices you can explain and advocate for. Examine value, priorities and consequences, including what you will pursue, test, hold back or keep human.
Do
Apply AI in your own role and test what it produces. Take your choices into leadership conversations and action, then reflect on what you learn.
The value of the work
Work on the questions you carry.
Build the capability to act on them.
Every engagement builds your AI judgement, practice and leadership confidence. We agree where to go deeper around your role and priorities.
Sharper AI judgement
Understand what AI can and cannot do, what it means for your role and organisation, and how to assess the advice and outputs in front of you.
Practical AI capability
Use AI more effectively in your own work, with approaches you have tried, tested and can trust.
Strategic choices worked through
Bring your real questions and challenges to an experienced adviser. Test alternatives and develop recommendations you can explain and advocate for.
Greater confidence to lead
Ask sharper questions, contribute your own view and understand more of what you are asking of others as their work changes.
For directors, we shape the work around governance responsibilities: firsthand understanding, oversight, questions for management and the evidence you need.
What clients say
“The hands-on approach helped me understand the shifts in the way of working that we are imposing on our teams at scale when we introduce AI into the workplace.”
Sundeep SinghGroup Officer, BHP · Private AI Advisory“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.”
Jo-Anne BlochChair and Non-Executive Director · Private AI Advisory“Alongside the Circle, I also completed three coaching sessions with Sue, which were invaluable in turning ideas into implementation. Those sessions gave me the space to look specifically at my own business model, identify where AI could create the greatest leverage, and develop practical strategies to embed it into my day-to-day work rather than keeping it as something I was only exploring on the side.”
Margot AndersenFounder and CEO, Insync Network Group · Circle + Private Advisory
Why Sue
Why work with Sue
I bring more than 25 years of executive leadership in $50 million to $3 billion organisations where people, trust and reputation matter. My work has spanned strategy, transformation and crisis response across health, aged care, community services, emergency management and international development.
As a certified coach and experienced facilitator, I help leaders ask the questions they have held back, compare perspectives and work through what AI means for themselves and their people.
I’ve built my own AI capability and a human-led, AI-enabled advisory practice, supported by formal study in AI strategy and safety. I use AI across research, analysis, design, client work and operations, working through the same choices about value, risk and human judgement that we explore together.
GAICD · B.Eng (Hons) · Certified Master Coach · Certified AI TrainerAI study: MIT Sloan · Oxford Saïd · INSEAD (Distinction) · Bluedot Impact
Read my storyThe engagement
Room to apply, reflect and build.
Choose three or five private sessions. Three gives you a focused start on the questions that matter most; five gives us more room to apply, reflect and build. We can agree further sessions if useful.
Sessions are online for 60 minutes, usually weekly or fortnightly. Between sessions, put the thinking into practice. We return to what happened, what you learned and what needs attention next.
Both options include a tailored advisory note after each session, usually two to four pages, with relevant resources and recommended next steps, plus direct email access between sessions.
I work with a small number of private clients at a time. We agree the focus, fee and any sponsor arrangements before beginning, whether you commission the work privately or your organisation funds it.
Let’s have a conversation
What do you need to understand, decide or do to lead differently?
Bring the questions you are carrying and what you want to be able to do differently. We can work out where support would be useful.