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I hack systems for a living. Nations are systems.
I provide consulting, advisory, board service, and the occasional stage or screen, for leaders whose AI decisions have to hold the first time. What proves it: I architected one of the first national K-12 AI pilots in the world, for Iceland's Ministry of Education, with Anthropic and Google in one program.
The record
A nation put its teachers on AI. I built the program.
Most AI advice stops at the pilot. I work inside ministries and organizations where the deployment has to hold the first time and the institution lives with the result. The method is the deliverable: take the system apart, find what actually holds, and write it down so your own people can run it without me.
Every figure on this page comes from a live deployment, not a white paper.
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“Josh provides the independent, vendor/technology-neutral perspective directors actually need on AI - not whether you're using it, but what it changes about who you are and how you operate. He did at national scale what most boards and organizations are still theorizing about.”
Marcel Bucsescu · Vice President, Strategic Engagement, NACD
In their words
From the people who hired the work.
Josh provided reinforcement and validation from a credible external perspective ... and accelerated our ability to move forward.
David Eyton · then Head of Technology, BP
Josh brings a rare form of clarity in our new world of AI ... boards and executives can actually distill and act with confidence in uncertainty.
Siobhan Clarke · Chair & Non-Executive Director
Josh played a key role in bringing AI to teachers across Iceland. His engagement, perspective, and steady presence mattered to the success of the pilots.
Þórdís Jóna Sigurðardóttir · Director General, Directorate of Education (Iceland)
Josh helped us pull together a comprehensive document with deep technical understanding and strong growth benchmarks that gave us the framework we needed to move forward.
Paul Bennett · then Chief Creative Officer, IDEO
Josh is an insatiably curious mind, always ready to open a new door, a new alley, a new highway towards the future.
Marc Mathieu · then Global Brand Manager, Coca-Cola
My brain is still splattered against the wall from this morning.
Nikole Yinger · Producer, Bloomberg TV
A fuller index of clients and rooms: the client ledger.
The projects
Where the playbooks come from. I build things between engagements to find the seams in systems.
On stage, 2024.
The stages
The talks come from the work.
The arc runs through the TED Main Stage (2009), TEDx Times Square, the WEF's Davos conference, SXSW, MIT/Sloan, and a decade of NACD keynotes. The current material is Iceland: what a nation learns when it puts AI in every classroom, and what boards and executives should take from it.
Author · host · producer
Three books in print. Television produced, not just hosted.
Hacking Work
Why the official way to do your job is usually the slow way, and what happens when people route around it.
Reputation Economics
What your data and your reputation are worth once algorithms start trading on them.
Roo'd
A cyberpunk novel. The fiction end of the same preoccupations.
The Link · National Geographic · host
How the most world-changing innovations in history created our present, and our future.
Smart China · host
World-changing innovations from one of the biggest countries on Earth.
Game Vision · host & producer
The history and future of games.
Built for Change · Accenture · co-host
Two-time AdWeek Thought Leadership Podcast of the Year; Top 20 all-time on Apple Podcasts' Management chart.
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What AI is actually doing inside ministries, boardrooms, and live deployments, before it becomes conventional wisdom. The list stays small.