About Benjamin Black

AI enablement leader for regulated financial institutions

I help asset managers, broker-dealers, and fintech teams bridge the gap between AI ambition and sustained adoption— blending literacy programs, change management, and responsible governance so people trust and use the tools we launch.

AI enablement capabilities
Literacy · Workflow · Governance
Average user confidence score
4.7 / 5
Regulatory findings across AI launches
0

Why clients bring me in

Financial institutions know that the hard part isn’t deploying another model—it’s earning trust, satisfying regulators, and coaching teams to change how they work. My role is to design end-to-end enablement programs that make AI safe, explainable, and valuable for every stakeholder.

I combine experience launching AI and analytics initiatives with executive-level change management and governance expertise. Every engagement ships with the literacy content, workflow design, and accountability structures that keep adoption high long after pilots end.

AI enablement strengths

  • AI literacy and coaching: role-based training for portfolio managers, risk, compliance, and operations teams.
  • Human-AI workflow design: explicit hand-offs, explanations, and escalation paths tailored to regulated environments.
  • Governance activation: translating policy into operational controls inside Collibra, model inventories, and reporting cadences.
  • Change management: incentives, communications, and feedback loops that keep momentum and surface issues quickly.

Recent change-management wins

Desk-wide adoption in 8 weeks

Designed literacy tracks and office hours that drove 85% daily usage of approved AI assistants across 14 asset-management teams.

Trusted augmented workflows

Introduced explainability dashboards and confidence tiers so middle-office staff knew when to review, approve, or escalate outputs.

Governance without red tape

Implemented AI risk taxonomy, control library, and executive reporting with zero regulatory findings and faster pilot approvals.

Executive sponsorship that sticks

Facilitated cross-functional councils and retrospectives to keep leaders aligned on progress, value, and accountability.

Credentials that regulators respect

  • MIT Sloan MBA focused on analytics, strategy, and organizational change.
  • Active security clearance enabling work with government and highly regulated enterprises.
  • A decade leading data and AI programs across asset management, broker-dealers, and fintechs.
  • Hands-on expertise with Collibra, SQL/Python, Power BI/Tableau, and AI governance tooling.

How we start working together

  1. 1Discovery session with executives, risk, and business stakeholders to align on ambition and constraints.
  2. 2AI readiness assessment covering literacy, workflows, governance, and measurement gaps.
  3. 3Co-design of enablement tracks, pilot workflows, and guardrails tailored to your organization.
  4. 4Launch with adoption scorecards, change support, and leadership reporting from day one.
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Speaking & training

Available for executive briefings, team workshops, and conference sessions on AI enablement, responsible adoption, and governance in financial services.

Let’s plan your next enablement milestone

Whether you’re kicking off pilots or scaling across business units, I’ll help you create an adoption plan your teams embrace.