BROADLEY/SPEAKING

Virtual Chief AI & Data Officer

AI and data leadership, from the work floor to the board room.

BROADLEY/SPEAKING helps teams, executives and boards turn AI and data into a valuable, well-governed asset, for public and private sector organisations, delivered 100% remotely.

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Public & private sectorPartnerships and new operating models
Low-trust, high-risk readyStrategy built for scrutiny
100% remoteLean, efficient delivery

Services

Data leadership at the level you need it.

THE WORK FLOOR

Data engineering & platforms

Resilient, scalable platforms shaped to your organisation, whether in high-risk settings or cloud ecosystems. Simple by design, so you're not reliant on hard-to-find data engineers.

On AI

  • Write the business rules down once, where every person and every agent can read them.
  • Test AI like a control: fix the model version, keep known-answer tests and rerun them on a schedule.
  • Use the smallest tool that does the job. Often that isn’t a large language model.
THE EXECUTIVE

Virtual Chief AI & Data Officer

We sit alongside your executive team to shape AI and data strategy and operating models, including for low-trust, high-risk environments, so your AI and data investment pays off.

On AI

  • Own your workflow, not your prompts: plan for prices rising and models changing under you.
  • Buy the commodity, build your edge, and name the jobs before handing out licences.
  • Redesign the junior pathway on purpose, so your future managers still come through.
THE BOARD ROOM

Board member

Close the data gap in your board's skills matrix: ethics, privacy, confidentiality, risk, reputation and the commercials of your data, from GDPR to the Consumer Data Right.

On AI

  • A model can suggest. A person decides, and a person signs.
  • Four questions for every AI decision: what if the price doubled, where is the human sign-off, can we get our data out, and does this need an LLM at all?
  • Ethics before privacy, and “no AI” is not a policy.

Speaking

AI talks from a practitioner, not a futurist.

Plain-English keynotes, leadership sessions and workshops on what AI actually is, what it does to people, and what to do on Monday. Built from products running in production, not from reading about them.

Recent talk

humAIn: human in the loop with AI

Conference keynote · October 2026 · 2 hours

A practitioner’s view for business leaders: what AI actually is, who owns your intelligence, what it is doing to people and the profession, and what to do on Monday. Attendees took home three read-only AI skills for Xero and myIR.

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Chart of AI sentiment by day across 1,567 of Drew’s own prompts to AI, 2 September to 12 October 2026: mildly negative and steady, with a net score of −0.35.
From the talk: 1,567 of my own prompts to AI, scored for sentiment.

Talks I give

  1. What AI actually isAnd what kind of bubble it is. Why a chatbot is one tool in the box, and often not the right one.
  2. Who owns your intelligence?Prices, suppliers, data sovereignty, and models that change under you.
  3. Foundations that workBusiness rules, clean data, privacy, and a policy that isn’t “no AI”.
  4. The human in the loopJuniors, fatigue, critical ignoring and the career ladder. A job, not a checkbox.
  5. Your customers are eating your lunchWith AI agents, customers now build what they used to buy from you, and come in through the side door. Where your value moves next.
  6. Knowledge that compoundsWhat living with AI agents teaches about rework, memory and shared knowledge.

Keynotes, partner and leadership sessions, board briefings and workshops.

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Environment Canterbury Greater Wellington Regional Council Ministry of Transport InternetNZ Netsafe Nova Energy Meta BDO New Zealand

About

As Director of BROADLEY/SPEAKING, I bring a blend of AI and data expertise that helps public and private sector partners work together, and new business models take hold.

We've been on both sides of the governance table, as director and as board member. We work 100% remotely, which keeps projects lean and efficient, and we bring real enthusiasm to every engagement.

Drew Broadley, Director

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