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.
- 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 for how uncertain an AI use case still is, across technology maturity, data readiness, ethics, and people impact. It tells a leadership team whether to proceed, run a bounded test, monitor, pause, or limit autonomy.
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.
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 at ai-mindsets.com.
Clients
Organizations I have worked with, across finance, retail, manufacturing, health care, education, and the public sector.
