We inherited a definition of productivity from the Industrial Revolution: output divided by input, refined in the factories of the nineteenth century. We've been applying it ever since — to computers, to the internet, and now to artificial intelligence.

So we use AI to do the same things faster and cheaper. We automate the email, compress the meeting, accelerate the report. And we measure success by how much time we saved.

But time saved is not the point. The point is what you do with it.

The organisations that will thrive in the next decade are not the ones who automate the most. They're the ones who ask a harder question: now that the machine is handling that, what should a human be doing instead?

That shift — from efficiency to effectiveness — is the most important strategic question of the age. And it's the question I've been building my work around for the last ten years.

Speaking

Keynotes that move from provocation to possibility. Delivered to audiences from 50 to 5,000 — boardrooms, conference stages, academic institutions, and global summits. Dave works with organisers before the event to ensure his contribution lands at the moment of greatest impact.

Workshops & Advisory

When the keynote needs to go further. From half-day strategic workshops to ongoing board-level advisory relationships. The entry point is the keynote. The relationship goes deeper from there.

The Ideas

Five named intellectual frameworks — developed over a decade of practice — that give organisations a new vocabulary for thinking about humans, machines, and what comes next. Not abstractions. Tested in the room, every week.