Speaking & Teaching
What it takes to make transformation happen.
I bring enterprise and startup experience into conversations about digital transformation, innovation, and leadership. The focus is practical: the decisions, tradeoffs, and human realities that shape execution.
Useful questions for your next leadership conversation.
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Closing the gap between strategy and execution
How decision-making, ownership, capability, and ways of working affect a transformation effort. A practical starting point for leaders who need to turn priorities into action.
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Bringing startup methods into the enterprise
How established organizations can create space for experimentation and faster learning while retaining the governance and discipline they need.
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Building the operating capability for AI
How to connect AI use cases with workflows, team readiness, review responsibilities, and business outcomes.
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Leading people through change
How to understand resistance, involve teams, and support adoption beyond the initial launch.
Built around the people in the room.
Topics can be shaped for executive teams, business and professional communities, or postgraduate learners. Depending on the audience and purpose, we can discuss a talk, facilitated workshop, guest lecture, or panel contribution.
Teaching
Helping future leaders apply ideas with judgment.
My postgraduate teaching at NEXT Campus covers digital transformation, enterprise innovation, design thinking, and project management, including work within programs associated with London Metropolitan University.
I connect concepts with the questions leaders face: what to prioritize, how to bring stakeholders together, and how to make a decision when information is incomplete.
Speaker bio
Amila Pathirana is an enterprise transformation executive with more than 20 years of experience across corporate leadership, innovation, venture building, and growth. His career includes roles at Intel, MAS Holdings, and Hemas, alongside work on the GamerTech venture and Magma Glove. He also teaches digital transformation and related subjects in postgraduate programs at NEXT Campus. His focus is the connection between business strategy, operating capability, and practical execution.
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