Google Higher Education Faculty AI Fellow
AI / people / leadership
Your people are already using AI. I help leadership teams understand what matters, build capability, and make better decisions.
ACCA Asia Pacific Dialogue, Hanoi
Original event photography
Your people are already using AI. I help leadership teams understand what matters, build capability, and make better decisions.
The proposition
I work where technology, people and institutional decision-making collide — helping leaders get a clearer picture of what is changing, what it means for their organisation, and what is worth doing next.
Three ways to work with me ↘︎Ways to work together
From a keynote that gives a room a better mental model, to hands-on capability work, to ongoing advisory for leadership teams navigating live decisions.
Keynotes, panels and leadership briefings that cut through the noise and give people a clearer view of what has changed — and what deserves attention.
02Hands-on sessions for executives and professional teams: practical enough to change behaviour, structured enough to create a shared language for what comes next.
03Focused work with leadership teams on AI governance, organisational learning and the decisions that sit between frontline adoption and formal authority.
Proprietary tools
I use proprietary simulation and diagnostic tools to surface how AI is actually being used, how decisions are made, and where leadership lacks visibility.
The point is not another framework on a slide. It is to create evidence a leadership team can actually work with.
Realistic AI scenarios put leaders inside the decision rather than asking them to discuss it in the abstract — making judgement, authority and differences in risk tolerance visible.
Anonymous AI-led conversations surface patterns in how people actually work with AI — creating an organisational picture from experience that often never reaches formal governance.
Selected work
Different audiences, different responsibilities, different levels of technical familiarity. The common job is making the conversation useful.
Nobel Prize Dialogue · 2025
Dialogue design and moderation for a seven-person, three-sector conversation on AI, education and what comes next.
RMIT University Council Strategy Day
A strategic AI intelligence brief designed for the people holding institutional responsibility.
ACCA Asia Pacific Dialogue · Hanoi
Generative AI for a profession built on trust, ethics and evidence — in front of 700+ delegates from 15 countries.
EuroCham Vietnam · Corporate AI capability
A two-session series for 35 member companies across fifteen-plus sectors — from real tasks to a boardroom simulation.
That gap is increasingly where the interesting work lives.
Writing & media
Published arguments. Ongoing conversations. A regular view of what is changing and why it matters.
Times Higher Education
· Opinion
Why institutions do not need faster committees so much as better, more current intelligence about what is changing and what people are actually doing.
Read in THE
LSE Higher Education Blog
· Opinion
Learning analytics, asynchronous learning and the other tools already within reach. The case for putting proven technology to work, not just chasing what is new.
Read at LSETimes Higher Education
With Sean McMinn, HKUST
Looking beyond academic integrity to the responsibilities institutions face as AI becomes part of students’ lives.
Read in THEKeep up with the conversation
Read on. Listen in.The newsletter
A regular briefing on what’s changing in AI—and what it means for education, leadership and institutional decision-making.
Read the newsletterThe podcast
Conversations about AI and higher education, co-hosted with Dale Leszczyński. What is changing, what deserves attention and what it means in practice.
Two educators.
Plenty to discuss.
About
I’m a Learning Futurist at RMIT University Vietnam and an inaugural Google Higher Education Faculty AI Fellow. My work spans AI capability, governance, organisational learning and high-stakes conversations — from practitioner communities to executive briefings, corporate training and international stages.
Start a conversation
If you’re planning a keynote, leadership session, capability programme or advisory piece, tell me the audience, the problem and where you need to get to.
Email Nick nick@nickmcintosh.co