Turn AI into measurable business value.
"AI is fundamentally changing the landscape of business, work and value. AI must be teated as a buisness redesign, not a technology initiaitve. How are you creating the options your business needs to survive and thrive?" Vincent A. Powell, Author of The CEO's Guide to AI Transformation
Oblongix Advisory helps CEOs, boards, and leadership teams redesign decision-making, embed AI into core workflows, fix foundations, and govern AI like enterprise risk.
What Oblongix Advisory does
We help organisations capture real value from AI by treating it as an operating model and decision redesign, then delivering the foundations, workflows, and governance required to scale.
Delivery spans advisory and consulting engagements, leadership education through The CEO's Guide to AI Transformation training programme, and execution support through the Oblongix AI Transformation Platform.
A structured method that starts with value and leadership alignment, and ends with AI operating safely in production.
- Align - clarify value, sponsorship, and scope
- Diagnose - assess challenge, constraints, risks, and readiness
- Design - define change and roadmap
- Build - deliver change and core capabilities
- Embed - drive adoption in real business workflows
- Govern and Operate - monitor performance, controls, and scale
- - You have pilots but few measurable outcomes
- - Value is unclear or governance is weak
- - Data ownership and operating constraints block scale
- - Leaders need a board-ready plan for controls and risk
- - Short, focused engagements with clear outputs: diagnostics, decision maps, operating model changes, and delivery support.
- - Longer-term partnerships for ongoing transformation and governance.
- - Four-week leadership training and platform-enabled transformation programmes for sustained capability and visibility.
Our clients include large corporations, private equity firms, and small to mid-sized businesses across multiple sectors. We also advise government departments.
Typical client contacts include CEOs, CIOs, COOs, and boards who need to understand how to capture value from AI while controlling risk.
As an independent advisory firm, we also partner with consultancies, software businesses, and systems integrators.
Services
A structured service model built around execution, advisory depth, and leadership visibility.
Ongoing guidance for CEOs, CIOs, COOs, and boards that need decision confidence without full execution support.
- - Monthly or quarterly leadership sessions
- - Vendor and investment decision reviews
- - Strategic sounding board
- - Translate technical issues into business impact
- - Clarify risk and opportunity posture
- - Support investor and regulator readiness
- - Retainer or equity-based support
- - Positioning and scale strategy
- - Responsible AI operating principles
Hands-on engagements where we help leadership teams implement what the framework sets out.
- - Where AI should be used first
- - Buy vs build decisions
- - Data requirements
- - Legal, ethical, and security risks
- - 90-day, 6-month, and 12-month plans
- - Budget estimates
- - Role, team, and governance changes
- - Executive AI pilots
- - Workflow automation
- - Analytics and forecasting tools
- - Data strategy and deployment
- - Executive AI pilots
- - Workflow automation
- - Tool deployment
- - Data
- - Analytics
- - AI Literacy / Training needs
- - AI Architecture
- - Metrics and dashboards
- - Executive alerting
- - Advanced Analytics
- - Forecasting and scenario planning
Paid speaking for conferences, offsites, and leadership forums.
The book acts as proof of a coherent point of view to support individual client initiatives.
Interactive sessions that bridge speaking and consulting.
The book provides pre-reads, shared language, and a clear methodology.
A four-week online interactive training programme designed to help CEOs and leadership teams understand the challenges of AI transformation and implement solutions that drive measurable business value.
- - Weekly live sessions with practical leadership frameworks and application exercises
- - Built for executive teams who need a shared language, decision discipline, and clear action plan
A platform that guides leaders and everyone involved in AI transformation initiatives, ensuring the right practices are introduced while progress is tracked and communicated effectively.
- - Structured initiative playbooks aligned to governance, controls, and measurable value outcomes
- - Progress, risk, and delivery visibility across teams for stronger leadership oversight
The CEO's Guide to AI Transformation
The advisory work is grounded in the book's leadership framework: treat AI as business redesign, redesign decision-making, embed AI into core workflows, fix foundations, and govern AI like material enterprise risk.
Published by Oblongix Advisory Publishing- A board-ready transformation agenda tied to value and risk
- Decision rights: where AI advises/decides plus human override
- Workflow embedding plan with measurable KPIs
- Governance model: controls, monitoring, and accountability
- Foundational fixes: data ownership and operating constraints
About
Oblongix Advisory helps leadership teams convert AI ambition into measurable value with stronger decision architecture, safer governance, and execution that works in real operating environments.
Led by Vincent A. Powell (CStat, BSc Hons), a transformation leader with 25+ years of experience across private equity, portfolio boards, and executive teams delivering value through data, AI, analytics, and digital transformation.
Profile highlights include former PwC Partner for Data and AI in Private Equity and Value Creation, advisory on billion-dollar transactions, scaling high-value consulting businesses, and senior leadership roles at PwC, HPE/DXC, CSC, and IBM Global Services.
Vincent combines CxO-level business leadership with deep technical delivery, including modern AI platform design and agent-enabled operating models used in enterprise environments.
- Client Business Centred Transformation
Every AI decision is anchored to commercial priorities, operating realities, and leadership accountability. - Deep Technology Understanding
We combine strategic guidance with practical expertise in data, platforms, automation, and modern AI architecture. - Outcome Led
Work is measured by impact on value, decision quality, speed, and risk control, not activity or tooling. - Principled but Pragmatic
Strong standards on governance and ethics, delivered in ways that are practical and executable for the business.
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