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Paul Gibbons

Paul Gibbons is an author and AI adoption strategist who applies behavioral science to the question of how organizations take up AI. After going back to school for master's degrees in psychology and philosophy, he founded the London leadership development company Future Considerations in 2001 and sold it in 2010. His book The Science of Organizational Change appeared in 2015, he taught business ethics at the University of Denver from 2015 to 2018, and he began giving talks on AI in 2017. With James Healy, he wrote Adopting AI: The People-First Approach in 2025, and he published Polymath Poker, on poker and AI strategy, in 2026. He runs Paul Gibbons Advisory, where he works as a fractional Chief AI Officer and keynote speaker.

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Timeline

  1. 2001–2010

    Founding Future Considerations

    Mid-career, he goes back to school for master's degrees in psychology and philosophy and founds the London leadership development company Future Considerations in 2001. Its clients include Shell, BP, HSBC and Barclays, and he sells the firm in 2010.

  2. 2015

    The Science of Organizational Change

    Pearson FT Press publishes his book The Science of Organizational Change in 2015. It describes change management as full of myth, pseudoscience and flawed pop psychology, and it replaces those ideas with behavioral economics, neuroscience and complexity theory.

  3. 2015–2018

    Adjunct professor at Denver

    He serves as an adjunct professor of business ethics at the University of Denver from 2015 to 2018.

  4. 2017

    A culture ranking and AI talks

    In 2017, he is recognized as one of the top 20 experts on culture change, and he starts giving talks on AI. He wants to feel the same pain his clients feel, so he builds working AI systems himself.

  5. By 2019

    The book Impact

    By 2019, he has published Impact, the second book in his Leading Change in the Digital Age series, on change management, behavioral science, digital transformation and the future of work.

  6. 2025

    The book Adopting AI

    In 2025, he and co-author James Healy publish Adopting AI: The People-First Approach. The book presents Adaptive Adoption, a bottom-up, experimental framework with ethics at its center.

  7. 2025–2026

    Polymath Poker and the WSOP

    In the 2025 WSOP Main Event, he records his best finish yet. His book Polymath Poker appears in 2026 and applies poker concepts such as expected value, Bayesian updating and range thinking to AI strategy.

  8. As of October 2026

    Fractional Chief AI Officer

    He runs Paul Gibbons Advisory, where he works with boards and executive teams as a fractional Chief AI Officer, strategic advisor and keynote speaker, and coaches senior executives on AI over ninety-day sprints. In September 2026, he speaks at the Harvard Business School European Alumni Summit in Amsterdam.

Career

  1. NowPaul Gibbons AdvisoryFractional Chief AI Officer
  2. 2015–2018University of DenverAdjunct professor of business ethics
  3. 2001–2010Future ConsiderationsFounder

From the biography.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Denver. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes University of Denver. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIWe estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Paul Gibbons on technology and humanness sea.peoplemattersglobal.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Paul Gibbons, Adaptive Adoption Framework Creator & Author Keynote Speaker at Speakers Associates speakersassociates.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. An Insider's Look At Change Management Consulting With Paul Gibbons: Podcast #134 consultingsuccess.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Science of Successful Organizational Change, The: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture | InformIT informit.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Books & Whitepapers on AI Adoption and Change | Paul Gibbons paulgibbonsadvisory.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. James Healy / Paul Gibbons - Some Of My Colleagues Are Aliens tempo.substack.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. The Rail: Week starting June 15 | Pokerfuse pokerfuse.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Paul Gibbons - Keynote Speaker londonspeakerbureau.com. Checked 20 October 2026.