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Brendan Hooft
CEO & Managing Partner, ESPER
Brendan is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council, invitation-only communities for world-class technology executives and thinkers. His published perspectives explore the Human-AI Symphony, AI-native leadership, and how nations, organisations and individuals become who they are meant to be in the digital era.
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- 21 September 2026
The Human-AI Symphony Playbook: Becoming AI-Native
The playbook for becoming AI-native: how leaders move beyond pilots and tools to recompose their organisations around the Human-AI Symphony, with practical steps for every stage of the journey.
- 14 August 2026
Higher-Level Skills Software Engineers Need In The AI Era
As AI takes on more of the routine work of engineering, the skills that matter are rising a level. Brendan explores the judgment, systems thinking and craft that define the next generation of software engineers.
- 14 August 2026
The Rise Of The Conductor: Inside The Human-AI Symphony
A look inside the Human-AI Symphony and the emergence of a new kind of leader, the conductor, who orchestrates people and intelligent systems into a single, coherent performance.
- 05 June 2026
Conducting The Human-AI Symphony
How leaders orchestrate people and AI to build resilient digital workforces, and why the most successful organisations treat transformation as composition, not implementation.
- 27 April 2026
The New Management Practices AI Demands From Tech Leaders
AI is rewriting the playbook for technology leadership. This piece sets out the management practices leaders need to adopt to stay credible, decisive and human in an AI-native era.
- 22 April 2026
The GCC AI Paradox: Speed Vs. Sovereign Value
The GCC is moving faster on AI than almost any region on earth. Brendan examines the tension between speed and sovereign value, and what it takes to turn ambition into lasting capability.