King's College London

Aviva UK

Sony Music

DMGT

Ian Johns

Founder @ SentientConsulting & Ex Chief Architect @ KCL

June Cohort

July Cohort

How to reinvent yourself from technical firefighter to high impact strategic leader.

Former Chief Architect at KCL 

Modern enterprises are trapped in an accidental architecture of legacy systems that drain time and money and expose cyber-risks. When leadership demands AI transformation, teams face an overwhelming paralysis—they simply do not know where to start.This course transforms you into a high-value leader possessing the rare strategic vision to decide what to change, when, and why.You'll learn to harness the zero-code power of google Labs to very rapidly look at an organisation objectively, diagnose precisely where its architecture is failing and where waste can be eliminated. You will develop simple, analytical AI agents to dynamically segment and prioritise suppliers and technologies to evolve the ecosystem harmoniously, and deploy agents to bring boards and teams with you.Crucially you will also develop the evaluation skills needed to separate AI hype from actual business utility and isolate low-risk, high-impact business domains, mapping out controlled tech experiments that prove value before scaling.

Strategically remove the cost and risk of tech sprawl and accelerate AI adoption

Business and technology domain definition

Build the tools to assess current and target maturity

Align with corporate strategy

Assess risk

Manage and control cost

Tech Firefighters drowning in software, legacy platforms and shadow IT and lacking the time and automated tools to map it all out manually.

Constrained Business Leaders who need tech that works for their teams at scale but lack the budget for expensive consultants.

Consulting Architects and PMs ready to skip the manual discovery phase and spreadsheets and get straight to client value.

How to deploy an AI to help you think, plan and communicate strategically.

Former Chief Architect at KCL

Aviva

DMGT plc

Deutsche Bank

Ian J

An experienced leader adept in the art of personal and corporate transformation.

In this course you are the architect as you build a practical strategic companion to help you navigate your role and career.You will learn how to translate your unique industry knowledge and skills into high impact results in the workplace.Most learning has a short half-life, but here you will learn more than a framework that fades from memory.Zero code or technical jargon, just real world case studies, simple tools and a friendly experienced coach to help you navigate your project.The value of this course is embedded in the product you will build and take with you. One that knows your North Star and is always on to help you get there.

Expand your strategic horizon

Strategic Clarity

Future Ready

Leadership

Decision Velocity

Strategic Companion

Roadmap

AI Curious: you want to explore simple, useful tools and avoid tech heavy theory.

Stuck in the Middle: you want to move beyond task management and be seen as a thought leader in the workplace.

Emerging Leaders: you are looking for a system that makes strategy a daily habit not a quarterly ceremony.

Learn directly from Ian Johns

Ian Johns

Courses

Practitioner in AI risk and cost management

AI Configuration: Building a strategically aligned AI

Lightning Lessons

Updating Your People Strategy for Agentic AI

Build-a-long: create an AI data architecture in 60 mins

Master the C suite mindset: Deconstruct to Deliver