Independent AI and digital advisor · Montréal
Make sense of AI.
Move forward with confidence.
I help leadership teams turn AI and digital change into decisions they can defend: what to build, what to buy, whom to trust, and what to leave alone.
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- Advisor
- Founder of FMCSIndependent advisory in Montréal, trusted since 2008.
- Teacher
- McGill Executive InstituteFaculty member: Leading with AI and the McGill Mini-MBA.
- Author
- AI MindsetsThirty-one mindsets for leaders who have to decide.
Consulting
Executives call me when a decision is close: a budget, a vendor, a program that has stalled, or a team that can no longer tell signal from noise.
I advise through FMCS, the firm I founded in Montréal. The work starts from the business, not the tool, and the advice is independent, unbiased, and impartial. It has been since 2008.
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See what is actually wrong
360° audit
A proprietary audit of code, integration, data, requirements, and deployment, with a plan to get the project back on track.
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Decide what to build
Strategy and architecture
Strategy and architecture tied to the business plan: people, process, technology, a roadmap, and a budget.
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Choose whom to trust
Vendor selection
An RFP run from end to end: the right players at the table, a selection committee, and the contract negotiation.
Two frameworks of my own anchor the AI work
- Leading with AI
- What a team needs, all at once, to make AI work: the mindset, the skillset, the toolset, and the actionset.
- AI Fog Index
- A score, from 0 to 5, for how much uncertainty remains around an AI use case, across eight criteria that run from technical maturity and business value to legal, human, and environmental conditions. It comes with conditional guidance for a leadership team: consider deployment, run a bounded pilot, monitor, or avoid.
Speaking
I speak to leadership teams, conferences, and professional associations, in English and in French, about the mindsets a team needs to make AI work.
The rooms change. What I want for the people in them does not: a clearer decision than the one they walked in with.
Signature topics
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Practical AI mindsets
Attitudes, skills, habits, and ethics for everyday work.
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Leading transformation through uncertainty
How to decide without chasing the newest tool.
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Omnichannel and agentic commerce
Strategy tied to how people actually buy.
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Digital identity, privacy, and changing work
Protecting a digital life, and what AI changes about the job.
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AI for mission-driven organizations
Health care, professional communities, and social impact.
Example keynote
Chihuahua or Muffin?
A practical 30 or 45 minute session on what AI makes possible in business, with demonstrations tailored to your audience.
See the keynote
Selected engagements
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The Role of AI in Sustainable Development
HEC Montréal, Social Business Creation · Guest lecture
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Quels mindsets adopter durant cette transformation?
École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Montréal · Keynote
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Quel AI mindset adopter pour les architectes d’entreprise?
AI4EA, Alithya and BizzDesign
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We need new mindsets!
McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) · Senior leadership retreat
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Attitudes et compétences pour développer un AI mindset
Fédération des dentistes spécialistes du Québec, 4th congress · La Malbaie
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Mindsets IA : attitudes, compétences et habitudes essentielles pour adopter un nouvel état d’esprit
CDPQ (La Caisse)
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Le mindset IA : les attitudes, compétences et habitudes essentielles pour tirer parti de l’IA au quotidien
SAP Canada, Montréal
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Le retail omnicanal au Canada : défis et opportunités
Paris Retail Week, Paris
Teaching
I am a faculty member at the McGill Executive Institute.
I lead Leading with AI, a course built for leaders, not engineers. Participants learn to evaluate opportunities, ask better questions of their teams and vendors, and connect AI decisions to business value.
I also teach in the McGill Mini-MBA Online, the institute’s concise management program for experienced professionals.
Book
AI Mindsets
I wrote AI Mindsets for business leaders, managers, and professionals who need the strategic implications of AI without getting lost in the code.
Thirty-one mindsets, in four sections.
Available in paperback and Kindle.
Clients
Organizations I have worked with, across finance, retail, manufacturing, health care, education, and the public sector.
