I built the course I couldn’t find.
I am the Global Chief Operating Officer of an FCA-regulated, publicly listed specialist investment manager. I have spent nearly twenty years inside regulated investment management, and I sit on subsidiary boards of entities regulated by the FCA, the Central Bank of Ireland and the JFSA. My responsibilities span technology, data and AI, vendor management and operational resilience. When AI enters the firm, it enters through doors I'm accountable for.
When AI landed on board agendas, I went looking for training that would prepare a director for what was actually coming: the personal accountability, the regulator’s letter, the insurer’s questions, the proxy adviser’s scoring. What I found was AI literacy dressed as governance: courses that explain what a neural network is and call it board readiness.
So I built BoardClarity. Nine modules, written the way one board member talks to another.
Directly, with real cases, real regulatory obligations and real consequences. No hype about transformation. No fear-mongering about robots. Just the question every director eventually faces: when this fails, can I show I governed it? And the fastest honest route to answering yes.
Everything in the course is sourced, dated and verified. Where I cite published research, whether from proxy advisers, regulators, academics or asset managers, it's cited as exactly that: third-party published work. The judgement about what a board should do with it is mine, and it's the same judgement I apply in the seat I hold today.
Three rules I don’t break
Peer-to-peer, always
The moment content sounds like a lecture, a vendor pitch or generic eLearning, it's rewritten, until it sounds like a credible colleague speaking across a boardroom table.
Every claim sourced
Every statistic is attributed, dated and verified before it enters a module. A board audience challenges unattributed claims. So do I.
Governance, not upside
The course will never sell you AI's opportunity. The organising spine is personal accountability and live regulatory duty, because that's what lands on you.
