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𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝗼𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗖𝗣 – 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 

Diane is a senior adviser to private equity portfolio companies.  She helps investors and portcos to deliver robust growth against value creation plans - including via post-merger integration.  She has a sweet spot in Tech-enabled B2B Services including Professional Services in the UK and EMEA.

Her experience includes:

- pre-deal MDD and post-deal operating reviews of portcos - eg for Blackstone, Mercia, Silverfleet, LDC, Rockpool, Foresight
- rapid recovery of post-merger integration and transformation, ahead of an IPO (backed by TPG)
- commercial risk analysis for a PE portco, triggering an exit via secondary buyout (backed by ICG)
- recovery of an off-shore proposition, re-positioning for growth ahead of a merger
- design and global rollout of a post-merger data integration model.

Her skills include P&L management, business strategy, sales, operations, business transformation, and change management – drawing on her experience in startups, scaleups and global business.

Founder

Career Coaching by Diane Blaxland

🚩 How will you know if my Career Coaching is right for you? Five quick signs: 

•	there is a gap emerging between your career and your satisfaction level 
•	addressing the gap is increasingly important to you 
•	there are risks if you do something, and risks if you do nothing 
•	you have some advice, but you want to take a wider, longer term view 
•	talking it through with an experienced executive feels like a good place to start 

#ExpertLeaders #Careers #PersonalDevelopment

Catalysis Advisory Ltd

𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗘 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗰𝗼 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝘀:
🔺 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 (𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲)
🔺 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 - 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀
🔺 𝗽𝗿𝗲-𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝟮𝗕 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗚𝟮𝗖 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝗕𝟮𝗕𝟮𝗖 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗕𝟮𝗚 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵

Business Advisor

Johnson Controls Inc

$5b EMEA region of $20b Business Services division of $40b Fortune100 listed company

Director Change Management, EMEA

Blaxland Consulting

Advising clients on operational and commercial change.

CPA Global

£100m global Business Services company, backed by Private Equity

Director Strategy

Williams Lea

£20m Division of this £1b global Business Services company, part of DAX30 company DeutschePost

Managing Director 

Clifford Chance LLP

£100m+ M&A practice of this £1bn global Professional Services firm

Head Business Development Operations

Blake Dawson Waldron

A$350m international Professional Services firm (now part of £1b Ashurst LLP)

Business Development, Sales & Marketing management

CEO & Founder Expert Leaders™ | Career Direction & CV Coaching | £1B PSF | $40B Fortune100 | PE scaleups | London Business School

I help professionals step into clarity, confidence, and growth - especially when navigating complex career transitions in challenging or unfamiliar markets.

My clients are technically brilliant, ambitious … and many are internationally experienced. They’re often MBAs, engineers, M&A/finance experts, consultants, lawyers, or technology & data/AI specialists. 

They're ready to step into senior leadership, but something isn’t landing. Their pitch isn’t quite resonating. The growth opportunities they seek feel just out of reach.

That’s where I come in.

With more than 10 years in senior leadership - including as Managing Director responsible for 550 people - I’ve led growth, transformation, and turnaround across organisations from under £10m to over $5Bn. 

I’ve advised private equity investors and portfolio companies on operations, building robust solutions to complex problems. 

And I bring that same level of focus, clarity, and strategic thinking into my coaching practice.

My sweet spot lies in tech-enabled B2B services - including engineering, data/AI, finance, legal, and consulting. 

Highlights of my work include: 

▪️Steering post-merger integration for a $6Bn PE-backed global professional services firm, resolving operational failures, client complaints, and transformation across 15 countries.
▪️Leading the recovery of a £1bn NHS Trust’s lab project post-dispute, bringing together investors, clinicians, scientists, suppliers, and engineers to co-create a viable solution.
▪️Delivering commercial risk analysis that identified a -70% risk to a target exit valuation for a PE-backed £100m B2B services firm, unlocking a £1Bn exit in under three months.
▪️Repositioning a struggling new BPO offshore (India) proposition for profitable growth, delivering 50% savings to the client in a new £3m contract while also tripling profit margins.
▪️Rolling out a post-merger Sales/Marketing/Finance integration model for a £1Bn global professional services firm across 30 offices in 20 countries, deployed to 4,000+ staff.

All of that senior experience now feeds directly into my career coaching.

Many of my clients are mid-career or post-MBA, and sense a need to reframe their narrative, sharpen their presence, and navigate a system that may not easily understand their value. 

We don’t just talk. We rehearse. We edit. We test. We build influence from the inside out.

Whether you're preparing for interview, pitching for promotion, or making a full pivot, I’ll help you to tailor your story, build trust, and move forward with strategic clarity.

🎯 Diane Blaxland

Founder ▪ Former Chief Medical Officer ▪ MIT Sloan Fellow alum ▪ LinkedIn Top Voice

Dr. Nehal is a medical AI expert, board certified clinical informaticist, digital health founder, population health leader, value-based care expert, and former Chief Medical Officer.

She leads a team for an MIT-incubated AI-enabled digital health venture. Her passion for personalized medicine and user-centered design in health tech is inspired by her own patient journey, the stories of over 300 women, and interviews with dozens of clinicians.

Dr. Nehal has honed skills in AI-enabled big data analytics, clinical decision support, and human-centered design as an MIT Sloan Fellow, graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Stanford LEAD candidate.

A seasoned physician executive, a former Chief Medical Officer for 14 centers, a co-author of $1.8b in Medicaid value-based care reform, Dr. Nehal is skilled at public-private partnerships to advance cross-sector solutions. She is a keynote speaker and has been an invited expert to the White House, NIH, HHS, and CMS. She is the lead editor for a book on systems thinking for physician leaders to be published in Summer 2026.

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Domains of work:
➡️Consulting
Founder of healthcare consulting firm with services in assessment of new technology for clinical/cost effectiveness, quality improvement, program evaluation, clinician engagement, community partnership, change management, coaching, & personal brand. Advise on clinical standards for SaMD, FHIR, and FAVES.

➡️Medical Affairs leadership: 
-Former Medicaid medical director with deep expertise in value-based care and delivery system transformation, clinical lead on $1.8b DSRIP design. 

-As a CMO, led a multi-specialty, multi-site practice setting, a certified Patient Centered Medical Home with integrated behavioral health, dental, vision, and specialty care. Responsible for compliance for quality of care, operational excellence, cost targets, population health.

-Former Chair of Provider Review Committee for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ensuring compliance with standards.

-Former Chair of IRB ensuring research ethics and safety.

➡️Communication:
Keynote speaker and a four time LinkedIn “Top Voice” and invited to speak on social media in STEM and for physicians. Led grassroots campaigns in marginalized communities on behalf of White House and HHS. Advisor to federal and state agencies. 

➡️Medical Education
Physician leader who has co-authored national ACGME compliant curriculum and contributed to two state public health curricula. Published refugee health curriculum in an open access journal.

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH, MBA

Powerful. 

#HumanCenteredDesign #Design #Inclusion. #DisabilityInclusion

Medical AI Builder ▪ Value Based Care Expert ▪ Healthcare Systems Strategist▪ Former Chief Medical Officer ▪ Founder ▪ Educator▪ LinkedIn Top Voice

What makes this campaign powerful is not what it explains, but what it reveals.

It doesn’t ask you to understand inclusion intellectually.
It invites you to experience what exclusion feels like.

By turning everyday reality on its head, it exposes an uncomfortable truth:
the world we call “normal” was never neutral. It was designed around a narrow idea of who belongs.

When spaces, services, and systems ignore real human diversity, the result isn’t just inconvenience.
It becomes constant negotiation, quiet exhaustion, and invisible isolation for those forced to adapt.

Inclusion is not about exceptions or accommodations added later.
It is about intention built in from the beginning.

It asks different questions:
Who was assumed?
Who was overlooked?
Who has been carrying the burden of adjustment all along?

Real progress doesn’t start with checklists or compliance frameworks.
It begins with perspective, with the humility to see through someone else’s lived experience.

When perspective changes, design changes.
And when design changes, dignity expands for everyone.

💬 Reflection:
What’s one everyday design decision you benefit from that others might struggle with?

🎥 Credit:
“The world is harder when it wasn’t designed for you”
Created by the Vozes da Inclusão Institute, dedicated to accessibility and inclusion.
Shared by @theadnetwork

#WeAreBillionStrong #SDGs #Accessibility #a11y #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityPowerIndex

The domain experts who live the reality daily are the best people to design and build solutions.

A Polish cardiologist just beat 13,000 developers at Anthropic's global hackathon.

He built the app in 7 days. While working hospital shifts.

Here's the story of Dr Michał Nedoszytko MD, PhD:

-born in Poland
-became a cardiologist, not a coder
-MD from Gdański Uniwersytet Medyczny (Medical University of Gdańsk) (2008)
-PhD in cardiovascular genetics
-moved to Brussels
-interventional cardiology
-the kind of doctor who threads catheters into hearts
-high stakes, zero margin for error

-but he had a side obsession
-software
-taught himself Laravel, Vue.js, Azure
-built tools between procedures
-medduties.com — scheduling for doctors
-Previsit.ai — patient prep
-AngioAI — coronary imaging
-no VC, no press, no Twitter clout
-just shipped

-2026: Anthropic announces a hackathon
-13,000 applicants worldwide
-Michał has an idea
-patients leave doctors confused
-they forget 80% of what they're told
-diagnoses lost in translation
-what if AI could follow up?

-problem: he's a working cardiologist
-no sabbatical
-no "build week"
-so he codes everywhere
-hospital break rooms
-airport lounges
-on the plane to San Francisco
-7 days total

-PostVisit.ai is born
-upload visit transcript + medical records
-AI translates to plain language
-ongoing personalized guidance
-answers the questions patients are afraid to ask
-built by someone who sees confused patients daily

-result: 3rd place globally
-not a Stanford CS grad
-not a YC founder
-a cardiologist who codes between saving lives

-why it worked:
-real problem, felt daily
-domain expert built it
-no hand-wavy demo
-actually works for actual patients
-privacy-first, GDPR compliant
-built with Claude, Codex, Gemini

The best founders aren't always in tech.

Sometimes they're in scrubs.

This week alone, my LLMs overrode my explicit instructions at lease 5 times. Innate to the name and type of #tech, “generative” #AI, it will make up or fabricate or not follow rules (is probabalistic, not deterministic). Consider these consequences:

“If AI systems can override data classifications, the consequences are real:
🔹 Sensitive negotiations may surface 
🔹 M&A discussions, pricing strategy, or legal correspondence may surface
🔹 Regulated data processing may trigger compliance scrutiny
🔹 Trust with partners, customers and regulators can erode.”

Board advisor in AI strategy, governance, sovereignty ⎮ ex-Amazon, Orange ⎮ C-level executive ⎮ Founder ⎮ AI, Cloud, IoT, SaaS, Digital Transformation

When “Confidential” isn’t
This week, Microsoft confirmed that a flaw in Copilot allowed emails marked “Confidential” to be read and summarised despite Data Loss Prevention controls designed to prevent that.
Microsoft identified the issue and began rolling out a fix, but has not disclosed how many companies were impacted.

If AI systems can override data classifications, the consequences are real:
🔹 Sensitive negotiations may surface 
🔹 M&A discussions, pricing strategy, or legal correspondence may surface
🔹 Regulated data processing may trigger compliance scrutiny
🔹 Trust with partners, customers and regulators can erode.

Encryption does not prevent this. Encryption protects against outsiders.
Copilot operated as an authorised insider. That distinction matters.

For decades, corporate governance rested on a human-centered model:
▫️ Classify information
▫️ Control access
▫️ Audit behaviour
Humans open documents, forward emails, and violate policy.

Generative AI does not merely access a file:
🔹 It interprets across many.
🔹 It synthesises context
🔹 It generates new meaning.
In this case, the interpretive layer moved ahead of the control layer.
If “Confidential” can be bypassed by a misalignment inside a trusted platform, how many other safeguards rely on assumptions that have never been tested against AI behaviour?

Most enterprises have Copilot embedded across Microsoft 365. 
In many environments, AI features are enabled by default. 
Updates are continuous. Capabilities expand quietly in the background.
Oversight, however, remains static and periodic.

Can similar cases happen again? Yes, as:
✔️ AI systems evolve rapidly
✔️ Vendor release cycles are continuous
✔️ Governance frameworks update slowly
As long as innovation moves faster than oversight, misalignment risk persists.

“Confidential” used to mean: limit who can see this.
In the AI era, AI systems don’t just see information. They reason over it.  They connect it. They compress it.
When AI is embedded inside core systems, governance can no longer be about static permissions. It has to be about dynamic behaviour.

The most underappreciated risk today is institutional lag.
AI systems improve and update continuously. Oversight structures do not.
In complex systems, gradual drift is more dangerous than sudden failure.
The organisations that adapt will be the ones that redesign governance to operate at the same cadence as the technology.

#AIGovernance #RiskManagement #AI #Boardroom #BusinessStrategy

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