Application for AI and Innovation Director
Building an AI-enabled Civil Service that people can trust
I help senior leaders turn emerging technology into practical organisational change, combining AI strategy, future operating models, workforce transformation and hands-on delivery.
Chris Bradshaw · AI Transformation Leader · Innovation Director · Product Strategy Director
AI transformation is an organisational challenge
The greatest opportunity for AI in government is not simply the automation of existing tasks. It is the chance to reconsider how work is organised, how decisions are supported, how capabilities are shared and how public servants can focus more of their time on work that requires judgement, empathy and accountability.
Real transformation requires more than technology. It requires trusted leadership, coherent governance, workforce planning, reusable capabilities, measurable outcomes and the confidence to stop initiatives that do not create value.
Future operating models
Designing how people, policy, processes, data and technology work together in an AI-enabled organisation.
Adoption and capability
Giving leaders and teams the confidence, skills and practical tools required to use AI responsibly.
Portfolio leadership
Connecting pilots, products and programmes through clear priorities, ownership and evidence.
Trust and public value
Balancing ambition with safety, accountability, transparency and measurable benefits.
Experience aligned to the mission
Shape the future workforce and operating model
I have helped organisations connect AI strategy with organisational design, governance, capability-building, funding and delivery. My work focuses on how AI changes roles, decisions and services, not merely how it automates individual tasks.
- Designed AI operating models and transformation roadmaps
- Advised senior leaders on workforce implications and organisational readiness
- Connected strategy, governance, delivery and capability development
- Translated complex technical possibilities into practical organisational choices
Drive adoption across complex organisations
Through AI Confidence, Collective Intelligence and Board of Innovation, I help leaders and teams move from awareness and experimentation to prioritised use cases, practical deployment and repeatable internal capability.
- Trained and facilitated senior leaders, CxOs and multidisciplinary teams
- Created problem-first approaches to identifying valuable AI opportunities
- Built leadership cohorts, executive workshops and practical learning programmes
- Developed reusable frameworks, methods and AI-enabled products
Coordinate, measure and scale innovation
I have led portfolios spanning strategy, product, design, engineering, data and operations. I establish clear outcomes, bring fragmented activity into a coherent programme and create mechanisms for evidence-based decisions about what to stop, improve or scale.
- Led multidisciplinary teams across complex transformation programmes
- Created portfolio assessment and prioritisation methods
- Established measurable outcomes and delivery roadmaps
- Helped organisations consolidate fragmented pilots into structured programmes
Build an AI-first culture grounded in trust
Adoption depends on confidence, clarity and credible leadership. I combine technical understanding with advanced facilitation to help people engage honestly with the opportunities, risks and organisational implications of AI.
- Simplified traditional AI/ML and generative AI for non-technical leaders
- Facilitated alignment across executive, operational and technical stakeholders
- Developed governance, cybersecurity and responsible-AI exercises
- Built thought leadership around practical human-AI collaboration
Current AI transformation work
AI Confidence
Co-Founder & AI Leadership Programme Director
A premium AI leadership and capability-building programme helping senior leaders, CxOs, consultants and operational teams make confident decisions about where and how to apply AI.
- Executive AI education and leadership cohorts
- Problem-first AI adoption framework
- Opportunity, readiness, governance and security mapping
- Practical action plans and deployment pathways
- Responsible adoption focused on measurable organisational value
Collective Intelligence
Founder & AI Strategy Director
An AI transformation consultancy focused on practical human-AI collaboration, future operating models and AI-enabled services.
- AI strategy and operating-model design
- Generative AI products and automated workflows
- Executive facilitation and organisational alignment
- AI readiness, adoption and governance
- Repeatable methods for identifying and scaling priority use cases
Board of Innovation
AI Transformation & Enterprise Enablement Consultant
Supporting complex organisations as they establish the structures, capabilities and governance required to adopt AI responsibly at scale.
- End-to-end AI operating models
- Senior stakeholder alignment
- Reusable capability frameworks
- Governance and assurance
- Pilot consolidation and scale-or-stop decisions
Leadership built through delivery
Career history
Product Strategy Director
Infinum
Founder and CEO
WeAgile
Co-Founder and Group CEO
Konekt Group
Managing Director
Thin Martian
Technical Director
Overthrow Digital
Head of Digital
MAMA & Company
Digital and Technology Manager
Involved Group
CTO and Co-Founder
Level Theory
Professional capability
My leadership approach is supported by advanced training in facilitation, design sprints, management and technology. These methods help multidisciplinary groups move from uncertainty to shared decisions and practical action.
- AJ&Smart Workshopper Master®
- AJ&Smart Design Sprint Master
- AJ&Smart Full-Stack Facilitator
- AJ&Smart Workshopper Pro
- 33A AI Design Sprint Training
- Multiple advanced workshop design and facilitation programmes
- BulletProof Manager
- Certified ScrumMaster
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
- BSc (Hons) Applied Computer Technology & Business
How I approach AI transformation
Understand the mission
Start with strategic and public-service outcomes, not technology.
Identify valuable problems
Find areas where AI can improve decisions, services, productivity or workforce experience.
Assess readiness
Evaluate data, processes, governance, technology, skills and organisational constraints.
Prioritise and test
Select focused interventions with clear ownership and measurable hypotheses.
Learn and decide
Measure outcomes honestly, sharing learning and stopping weak initiatives.
Scale capability
Reuse successful products, patterns, knowledge and skills across the organisation.
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Understand the mission
Start with strategic and public-service outcomes, not technology.
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Identify valuable problems
Find areas where AI can improve decisions, services, productivity or workforce experience.
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Assess readiness
Evaluate data, processes, governance, technology, skills and organisational constraints.
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Prioritise and test
Select focused interventions with clear ownership and measurable hypotheses.
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Learn and decide
Measure outcomes honestly, sharing learning and stopping weak initiatives.
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Scale capability
Reuse successful products, patterns, knowledge and skills across the organisation.
“The objective is not an organisation filled with more AI. It is an organisation better able to achieve its mission because people and AI work effectively together.”
Application materials
CV
Detailed experience, skills and professional background.
Link pendingCover letter
My motivation and alignment with the role.
Link pendingAI-generated introduction: https://anthropic.chrisbradshaw.ai/
Ambitious about AI. Serious about implementation.
The Civil Service has an opportunity to shape one of the most consequential organisational transformations of the coming decade. I would bring strategic ambition, practical AI experience, advanced facilitation and a strong sense of accountability for turning that opportunity into measurable public value.