
Ian Johns
Founder, former Chief Architect at KCL with 20+ years in digital transformation
Ian Johns helping professionals accelerate their careers
Ian supported a global newspaper group through digital transformation in the 2000s as news moved online to turnaround declining circulation.
In the 2010s he helped a global music group post their first growth in over a decade through digital transformation of their supply chains and business model, and in the 2020s he served as Chief Architect to a world leading university during the pandemic helping researchers and educators move online.
Having established a highly popular advice centre called the Digital Drop In offering support to a workforce of 11,000 he founded Sentient Consulting with a mission to provide interactive learning experiences for professionals and emerging leaders to accelerate their careers.
Courses
Multi-day, guided programs to get real results

Practitioner in AI risk and cost management
How to reinvent yourself from technical firefighter to high impact strategic leader.

AI Configuration: Building a strategically aligned AI
How to deploy an AI to help you think, plan and communicate strategically.
Workshops
Single-day, hands-on sprints to practice new skills
Lightning Lessons
Free, interactive sessions to explore new topics

Build-a-long: Win boardroom approval fast with AI red teams

Build-a-long: Create a dependency tracking AI agent

Build-a-long: Create an agentic AI change architect

Updating Your People Strategy for Agentic AI

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