Decision & Planning Advisory

Helping organisations make better decisions through structure, clarity, and digital & AI enabled thinking.

I work with leadership teams and project organisations facing complex planning and investment decisions. My focus is on improving decision quality, simplifying processes and advising where digital and AI capabilities genuinely add value - without adding unnecessary complexity or organisational overhead.

What I do

Decision Support

Independent support for framing critical decisions, clarifying options and tradeoffs, and challenging assumptions in a structured and constructive way.

Process Design & Simplification

Analysis and redesign of planning and decision processes that have become slow, fragmented or ineffective in practice.

Digital & AI Translation

Advisory support to translate business pain points and decision challenges into concrete, executable digital and AI use cases — and to clarify where digitalisation adds real value, and where it does not.

How I work

My work is advisory, independent, and deliberately bounded.

Clear scope and deliverables agreed upfront
Time-boxed engagements
Senior sparring and independent challenge
Written outputs that support decision-making
No ownership of execution or line responsibility

Experience

I have over two decades of experience working in and with asset-intensive organisations, primarily in Oil & Gas, at the intersection of operations, planning, and digital decision support.

I co-founded and helped grow WhiteSpace Solutions, where I worked closely with operators, asset teams, and leadership to address complex planning and optimisation challenges. This included portfolio decision support, field development planning, logistics and scheduling optimisation, and the practical application of advanced algorithms and AI in operational contexts.

My experience combines deep industry understanding with strong analytical and systems thinking, and a pragmatic view on what digital and AI can - and cannot - deliver in real organisations.

Engagements

I typically work through short, clearly defined advisory engagements, such as:

Decision framing and independent review
Process diagnostics and simplification proposals
Digital and AI opportunity assessments
Board or steering committee sparring
Limited advisory retainers (e.g. 1–2 days per month)