Description
Every consultant has experienced the moment. A deadline is close, the problem is messy, and the machine produces something fluent and polished in the time it takes to refill your coffee. The relief is real. So, is the question that should follow and too often does not: has the thinking improved, or only its appearance?
As AI drives the cost of competent work toward zero, the value shifts to what is hardest to automate and easiest to underrate: judgement, creativity, the sense to read a situation and the nerve to stand behind a call. Not, it turns out, ‘soft skills’ at all. This is the hard edge of human advantage.
This presentation by Adam Riley and Dr David Smith will travel from problem to practice to people. They will start by defining the judgement gap; then turn to the habits that close it and finally focus on the human skills that AI makes more valuable, not less.
Provider Information
This event is presented in partnership with the BAM Management Consulting Network and the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence.
Who should attend?
This event speaks to A2, A3, B2, B3, C1, C2, D2, D3, E1, E2 and E3, as detailed in the BAM Framework.
Guest Speaker
Adam Riley MBA
Adam Riley is a senior strategy and management consultant with over thirty years of experience in insight, customer-led growth strategy and scenario planning. Adam started his career in insight agencies, and after an MBA at the London Business School joined Samsung in South Korea as a Global Marketing Strategist before becoming a senior consultant in the marketing strategy practice of Monitor Company.
In 2006 he founded the insight consultancy Decision Architects. In 2023 Adam co-founded Polymathmind.ai to focus on the human side of the human-AI equation. Adam is currently pursuing a PhD, researching the impact of AI-mediation on cognition and judgement in management consulting practice.
Prof David Smith
Dr. David Smith is an award-winning business researcher and management consultant. He holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology from the University of London and is Professor and Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Hertfordshire Business School in the UK.
Throughout his career he has been at the forefront of advancing business skills training, management consultancy practice and business insight - work recognised through numerous industry awards. David has authored five books covering insight, entrepreneurship and AI.
David's current focus is on the strategic platform organisations need for effective AI implementation, and on the design of capability-building initiatives that place human advantage at the heart of human-AI collaboration. David co-founded Polymathmind.ai in 2023.
Chairs
Professor Karol Szlichcinski
Professor Karol Szlichcinski is Associate Director of Chartered Association of Business Schools' Centre for Management Consulting Excellence (CMCE); he has 30 years’ experience as a management consultant and was also a Professor at the University of Silesia School of Management, Katowice, Poland.
Dr Jeanette Hartley
Dr Jeanette Hartley is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University. She recently completed her PhD entitled “Management Consultants Navigating Competing Systems of Engagement” a study of how management consultants experience and manage the competing demands of their client, consultancy and personal life.
Prior to entering Academia Jeanette was a practicing Management Consultant with a global firm for fifteen years. This followed a career in Retail Banking where Jeanette held a number of Senior Management roles in customer sales, service and the formulation of retail channel strategy.
Event Fee
Event Ticket: FREE
Registrations are being organised by the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence. Please head to the registration link to book your place.
Contact
Please contact the BAM Office at [email protected] with any queries.