AI Governance
Practical governance for responsible AI adoption
AI is becoming part of everyday business faster than many organisations can establish the governance needed to manage it. Employees are using generative AI. Existing technology platforms are introducing AI capabilities. Vendors are embedding AI into their services. New use cases are emerging across business operations, often before organisations have established clear accountability, oversight or processes for assessing the risks involved.
I help organisations turn AI governance principles into practical processes that work in the real world. My approach brings together AI governance, privacy, data governance and regulatory risk to help organisations establish proportionate oversight without creating unnecessary barriers to AI adoption.
Making AI governance practical
Good AI governance should help your organisation answer some fundamental questions:
Where are we using AI?
Who is accountable for it?
What risks does it create?
What level of oversight is appropriate?
How do we know it continues to operate as intended?
The answer does not need to be another layer of unnecessary process. Governance should be proportionate to the potential impact of the AI being used, allowing lower-risk applications to move efficiently while applying greater scrutiny where the consequences are more significant.
How I can help:
AI Governance Consulting
Establish or strengthen the foundations needed to govern AI responsibly.
I work with organisations on AI governance frameworks, policies and standards, AI registers, risk classification and assessment, assurance and validation, human oversight, vendor governance, monitoring and incident management.
Whether you are starting from scratch or reviewing an existing approach, the focus is on building governance that can actually operate within your organisation.
Fractional AI Governance
Need ongoing AI governance expertise, but not a full-time AI governance role?
Fractional AI governance provides ongoing access to specialist governance capability as your organisation's use of AI develops.
I can help establish the foundations, support decisions about new AI use cases, review risks, maintain governance processes and provide independent advice as new issues emerge.
Governance that works with your organisation
AI governance should not sit in isolation. AI intersects with privacy, data governance, cyber security, technology risk, vendor management, legal obligations and enterprise risk.
Where possible, I help organisations build AI governance into the structures they already have, identifying where existing controls can be extended and where genuinely new governance is required. The result is an approach designed around your organisation, its AI use, risk profile and governance maturity.
Not sure where to start?
You do not need to know exactly what AI governance framework you need before getting started.
If AI is already being used within your organisation, or you are preparing to increase its use, we can start by understanding your current environment and identifying the areas that need attention first.
Let's discuss where your organisation is today and what practical AI governance could look like.