Experience Across Industry
Advisory, contract, and hands-on consulting from C-suite strategy through to implementation and code. Whether you need executive guidance, embedded leadership, specialist delivery, or a combination of these, engagements are shaped for you.
Experience Across Industry
Across every industry and every level of data maturity, the same categories of work tend to define whether organisations succeed with data and AI. The specifics differ, but the patterns are often the same.
Getting data and AI to deliver value at an organisational level requires more than technology. It requires clarity of strategy, alignment of leadership, and operating models designed for how the work actually flows.
Analytics capability spans a wide spectrum, from foundational reporting through to advanced modelling. The challenge is building capability that organisations actually use, and turning insight into action.
AI should create measurable business value while appropriately managing governance, risk, privacy, and security. The gap between a compelling proof of concept and a production system that earns trust is where most AI initiatives stall.
Engagements are shaped around the work, not a fixed template. Whether you need strategic guidance, embedded leadership, or someone who can architect and build. The right model depends on your context.
Strategic guidance, governance frameworks, roadmap development, and executive-level advisory that helps organisations make better decisions about data and AI investment and direction.
Embedded leadership support for organisations that need senior data and AI capability without a permanent hire, covering strategy, team direction, and stakeholder engagement on a part-time or interim basis.
Leading initiatives from concept to implementation. Scoping, planning, managing stakeholders, and ensuring that projects deliver the outcomes they were designed for, not just technical outputs.
Direct implementation, solution design, and coding across analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI systems. Comfortable moving between architecture decisions and writing production code.
Available for fixed-term contracts, project-based engagements, and specialist support. Equally suited to short, focused interventions and longer-term embedded roles.
The best work often needs more than one lane. Many engagements span multiple modes — strategic one week, hands-on the next. No translation needed.
Executive Consultant — Data, Analytics & AI
Conor O'Neill is a data, analytics, and AI leader who works at the intersection of strategy, technology, and delivery. Over the past decade he has helped organisations across financial services, travel, e-commerce, mining, media, and scientific research turn complex data and AI initiatives into measurable business outcomes.
What distinguishes his approach is the ability to move comfortably between executive discussions and implementation detail. Whether shaping strategy with senior leaders, guiding teams through delivery, or working directly with data and code, the focus remains the same: creating practical outcomes that organisations can sustain and build upon.
A recognised industry leader and conference speaker, Conor combines deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of organisational change, helping businesses navigate the opportunities and realities of data and AI adoption.
Whether you're navigating a specific challenge, looking to build capability, or working out what's possible, a conversation is the right place to start.