Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE
Technology, Future of Work & Digital Transformation Keynote Speaker for Management & Consultancy
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE works with management consultancies and professional services firms as they adapt to new expectations around what it means to be a trusted, high-value advisor in an increasingly technology-driven world.
Her keynotes focus on helping leaders understand not just what technologies like AI can do, but how they should be applied in complex, client-facing environments where judgement, credibility, and relationships still matter.
Rather than approaching technology as a standalone topic, Anne-Marie frames it as a catalyst for rethinking how expertise is developed, how insight is generated, and how value is delivered to clients.
Where Anne-Marie Is Most Relevant
Anne-Marie’s talks are particularly valuable for:
- Strategy consultancies and advisory firms navigating rapid technological change
- Professional services leaders looking to integrate AI and digital tools into client delivery
- Organisations under pressure to improve speed, insight, and innovation without compromising quality
Trends & Challenges in Consulting:
Management and consultancy firms face unprecedented pressure to demonstrate value in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Anne-Marie Imafidon understands the sector’s unique pressures and provides practical frameworks that work in fast-paced, client-focused environments, helping firms adapt how they generate insight, deliver work, and develop talent.
🤝 Customer Service Transformation
Consultancies are under pressure to adopt AI in client interactions, but risk eroding the human judgement and trust that underpin advisory relationships.
Anne-Marie focuses on how firms can deploy intelligent systems to improve response times and service quality, while preserving the depth of relationship clients depend on.
🚀 Onboarding & Capability Development
Firms are expected to scale talent in line with client demand, while also equipping consultants with new technical capabilities.
Anne-Marie explores how AI can be integrated into traditional consulting skillsets, enabling new hires to become client-ready faster while reducing the cost and complexity of knowledge transfer.
📄 Asset Creation & Knowledge Management
The pressure to deliver faster outputs is increasing, but firms must still maintain the originality and rigour that differentiates their thinking.
Anne-Marie examines how AI can accelerate proposal development, research synthesis, and thought leadership production without standardising or diluting intellectual property.
🔍 Research & Insight Generation
Consultants are working with ever-growing volumes of information, making it harder to produce clear, differentiated insight.
Anne-Marie shares how emerging tools can be used to deliver sharper client insights, competitive intelligence, and market analysis that drives better-informed decisions.
🧪 Experimentation & Scenario Testing
Clients increasingly expect evidence-backed recommendations, even in uncertain and fast-moving environments.
Anne-Marie looks at how consultancies are using AI-powered simulations to model scenarios, test strategies, and provide more robust, evidence-based advice.
⚖️ Inclusive Innovation & Team Performance
Consulting firms are solving more complex, multi-dimensional problems, yet often lack the diversity of thinking required to address them effectively.
Anne-Marie connects diversity directly to performance, showing how inclusive teams improve the quality of thinking, broaden client solutions, and strengthen long-term resilience.
Recent Management & Consultancy Keynotes
Specifically designed for strategy consultancies, advisory firms, and professional services organisations, these presentations address the urgent challenges facing consulting leaders today.
The Tech Landscape and Why It Needs Diversity
Tech is a booming industry with growing importance in any given economy, but it is also suffering from a large skill shortage at a time when a criminally low proportion of women are entering and staying in the field. Anne-Marie will dissect the HERstory of the tech industry of the past and present and discuss what we can do to cultivate future tech and business innovators.
Key Takeaways:
- A clearer understanding of how team composition influences the quality of problem structuring, analysis, and client recommendations
- Practical ways to strengthen diversity within consulting teams working on complex client engagements
- Greater awareness of how to build fairness and rigour into AI-supported insight in client work
AI & The Future of Work
Robots are going to take our jobs eventually — in fact it’s already started. This is a comical, yet real, look at what the future looks like and ways to future-proof yourself and your business.
Outcomes for consulting firms:
- A clearer view of where AI can support core consulting activities, including research, analysis, and deliverable creation
- Practical ways to use AI to accelerate proposal development, insight generation, and knowledge synthesis
- A better understanding of how to rebalance consultant time towards higher-value client interaction and advisory work
- Ideas for how AI may reshape service lines, pricing models, and client expectations
Transforming Fear into Fuel: the Continual Evolution of Tech
A transformative session that will empower you to reimagine your professional trajectory in the face of continuing technological change. Anne-Marie will draw on cross-sector insights to share how you can harness your existing knowledge and skillset to conquer tech-related fears and kickstart a new era of your professional career. Discover how to amplify your impact and become a force for positive change in your work, life and society.
Key takeaways for consulting professionals:
- Increased confidence using AI and digital tools within live client engagements
- Practical ways to integrate emerging technology into day-to-day consulting workflows
- A more constructive approach to engaging teams—across analysts to partners—with technological change
- Ideas for positioning technology adoption as a differentiator in client conversations
Taking CTRL / She’s in CTRL
Anne-Marie draws on learnings from her own career, those of the people she looks up to, and shares her vision for a world where more people have technical and digital literacy. In line with her book of the same name, she shares ways to communicate, investigate, broker deals, problem-solve and protect yourself in a digital world — finishing with actionable next steps on how to make tech work for you and your career.
Key outcomes for consulting firms:
- Practical ways to apply digital tools in high-stakes, client-facing environments where accuracy and trust are critical
- New approaches to structuring problem-solving and decision-making in consulting projects
- Greater awareness of how to build inclusive teams that improve the quality of client work
- Ideas for creating team environments where a wider range of perspectives informs client solutions
Why Management Consultancy Needs Diversity
The business case for diversity in professional services has never been stronger. Anne-Marie explores how diverse consulting teams produce better strategic recommendations, serve complex client bases more effectively, and drive sustainable innovation.
Key Takeaways:
- How unconscious bias shapes data-driven analysis and AI-assisted research in consulting work
- Ways to build inclusive cultures that attract and retain diverse consulting talent
- Where representation gaps exist in senior advisory and partnership roles and how to address them
- How methodologies and solutions can better reflect and serve diverse client communities,
- How team diversity directly impacts the quality of client outcomes
- How to support and develop future consulting leaders from underrepresented backgrounds
Deep Technology Expertise In A Consulting Context
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon brings a combination of technical depth and real-world experience that is particularly relevant to consulting and professional services environments.
Her background spans financial services, government advisory, and social enterprise leadership — giving her a practical understanding of how technology operates in complex, high-stakes organisations where rigour, client relationships, and results all matter.
Having worked with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank early in her career, Anne-Marie understands the expectations placed on professionals operating in client-facing roles, where credibility and precision are critical.
As Founder of Stemettes and current Chair of the Institute for the Future of Work, she brings a front-line view of how AI and automation are transforming professional work — and what organisations must do to adapt.
A recognised prodigy who passed A-level computing at age 11 and earned a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford at 20, she combines genuine technical depth with the communication skills to make complex ideas accessible, actionable, and commercially relevant to non-technical audiences.
Deep Impact: Tech Industry and beyond
70,000+
Young people inspired through Stemettes
200+
Global keynote presentations
MBE
Awarded 2017 for services to STEM
Trusted by Leading Organisations
From global professional services firms to major technology companies and government bodies, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE has helped leaders navigate digital transformation and build more inclusive, future-ready organisations.
Goldman Sachs · Deutsche Bank · Google · Facebook · ASOS · Mercedes-Benz · Mastercard · Fujitsu
What Leaders Are Saying
Audiences consistently praise Anne-Marie’s ability to make complex technology accessible whilst challenging organisations to think differently about talent, innovation, and the future of professional work.
“Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE shared a powerful view on how organisations can futureproof their workforce and build the capabilities needed to thrive in an AI-driven world.”.”
— PA Consulting
“Feedback from the delegates was fantastic and many said Anne-Marie was the most informative speaker on the day and they really took away a lot from her session.”
— Ascentis
Ready to transform your approach to technology and talent in professional services?
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