Articles, essays, and dispatches on AI governance, leadership, and what it actually takes to change large institutions before you have the authority to demand it.
Published Articles
CDO Magazine
Almost nobody in a large enterprise is actually incentivized to do governance. Here's what CDOs can do about it before regulators force the conversation.
↗MIT Sloan Management Review
Most organizations are asking the wrong question. The right one is simpler, and almost nobody can answer it.
↗CDO Magazine
Most AI governance programs treat governance as a review process. Effective governance starts much earlier, embedded in systems, permissions, and guardrails.
↗IAPP
AI doesn't erase past governance work. It removes any tolerance for inconsistency and amplifies the debt you've been carrying.
Essays
I write about governance, leadership, and institutional change, not as theory, but as someone building it inside one of the world's largest technology companies.
The Sea Turtle Test
Why the most expensive thing my team ever built had to die twice before I understood what actually went wrong.
We Don't Need AI Governance
AI didn't create your governance problems; it made them impossible to ignore.
Confidence Runs Out. Conviction Doesn't.
Why the most important leadership skill has nothing to do with believing in yourself.
What I Believe about Data and AI Governance
The Governor Manifesto, or, lessons learned after a decade of lessons to learn.
Human in the Loop Is Not a Governance Strategy
When an agent makes 200 decisions in nine seconds, being "in the loop" means reading the post-mortem.
Who Says No?
Every company says they govern AI. Most can't name the person who can shut it down.
9 Seconds
An AI agent destroyed a production database in 9 seconds. The model was governed and compliant. The process had no governor.
Governance Is Enablement, Not Control
Governance is fuel to a fire and enablement to companies.
The Future of AI Governance Is Infrastructure
The future isn't more approvals. It's better defaults.
Measuring What You Don't Govern
The gap between what AI exists and what's governed is the most honest metric in your program.
Where Will Your AI Get Its Groceries?
Why every AI program needs a grocery store, not a scavenger hunt.
The Three People Who Need Governance (And the One Who Doesn't Know It)
Every AI governance challenge maps back to one of three personas. Most programs only serve one.
What Real Governance Actually Looks Like
It doesn't live in a framework. It lives in how decisions get made.
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