Talks, workshops & 1:1.
A provocative talk series for firms navigating AI — plus workshops and 1:1 advisory built on the same frameworks.
01 The Talk Series
The Intently Human™ Talk Series.
Provocative talks for professional firms navigating AI, trust, expertise, and the uncomfortable future of human value.
Most AI talks in professional services focus on prompts, productivity, automation, tools. These don't. Built from the frameworks in Intently Human, the series explores what AI exposes about firms, expertise, accountability, and the real value professionals create.
No vendor fluff. No AI utopianism. No "10 prompts to save time." Sessions combine unusual real-world case studies, behavioural psychology, systems thinking, commercial strategy, and live audience participation.
AI doesn't just change work. It exposes what the work was really worth in the first place.
Your Clients Don't Know What You Do
Why hidden human value becomes more important when AI gets better at the task.
For years, many professionals defined their value through process, repetition, accuracy, speed — "doing the books." AI destabilises that identity. When the task becomes faster, cheaper, and increasingly automated, a difficult question appears: what part of your value survives when the machine gets good at the work?
A provocative and unexpectedly hopeful talk about identity, trust, and the human role inside increasingly automated professions — the reassurance, interpretation, accountability, and commercial judgement clients rarely articulate, but deeply rely on.
The dangerous thing about AI isn't replacement. It's discovering your value was never properly understood in the first place.
Best for
Accountants and bookkeepers — the practitioners this work was built for. Built from twenty years inside that world, for the people doing it. Also lands with professional institutes, sole practitioners, small-firm conferences, and human-centred leadership forums adjacent to the profession.
AI Ate the Apprentice
What happens when nobody learns the work properly anymore?
Professional judgement was never downloaded instantly. It was built slowly — through repetition, friction, mistakes, observation, and years of exposure to real work. But AI is removing many of the very tasks that once created future experts.
A sharp, uncomfortable talk about the long-term risk facing professional firms: in the pursuit of efficiency, are we automating away the pathway that created capable seniors, trusted advisors, and future partners in the first place?
If juniors never deeply learn the work, where do future experts come from?
Best for
Accountants, bookkeepers, and the institutes that train them — the practitioners this work was built for, and the bodies responsible for the next generation. Also lands with CPD programmes, leadership development events, graduate and talent forums, and governance or future-of-work discussions adjacent to the profession.
A third talk — Said vs Signed: the gap between what firms promise and what they will actually stand behind — is in active development for governance, risk, and Consumer Duty audiences. Get in touch to be the first to host it.
02 More formats
Workshops & 1:1.
When a single keynote isn't the right shape — modular Playbook content for teams, and four-session arcs for individual partners.
In-house & CPD
Modular Playbook content for CPD events and in-house training. For accountants, advisers, planners, and adjacent professionals working through commoditisation together.
- Half-day: Find Your Irreplaceable Core
- Full-day: The Four Moves — Analyse · Evidence · Communicate · Protect
- Two-day intensive: the 30-day sprint, condensed into a team retreat
Coaching & Advisory
For partners, practice owners, and senior practitioners working through the framework on a specific positioning question.
- Format: usually a four-session arc
- Cadence: fortnightly, six to eight weeks
- Capacity: limited slots; book ahead
03 Deeper engagement
Longer than a session.
When the work is strategic rather than single-session — positioning at scale, narrative for a whole practice — that's a Forge engagement.
04 Direct contact
Drop a line.
[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmatthewmontgomery/) is the best place to hear my thoughts and connect — for booking, email works fastest.
- LinkedIn jamesmatthewmontgomery
- Email hello@intentlyhuman.co.uk
- Based Whitstable, UK