Where the experience comes from
Work
I am a project delivery man. For years that meant PMOs, governance, and audit-grade paperwork across government and enterprise programmes. It still does.
What changed is how the work gets done: I am rebuilding my firm, DBiLL, into an AI-first business where agents carry the admin and people keep the judgement. I am doing it in the open and writing down what breaks and what works, so you can lift and shift what you can.
DBiLL gives growing businesses project managers who arrive complete with tools and methodology. If that is what you need, it lives at dbill.co.za.
Where the experience comes from
Eighteen years of other people’s deadlines
Before any of this was a talk, it was a job. Eighteen years of delivery across mining, energy, government, manufacturing, infrastructure and ICT: programme offices built from nothing, governance that had to survive an audit, and schedules that other people’s money depended on.
That is the part that matters when I am in front of your people. I have run the handover meeting where nobody knew who to call in November. When a date slipped, I was the one who stood in front of the steering committee and said so. The examples come from rooms I was accountable in.
What the work actually was
- Programme and project offices. Set up, staffed and run, mostly where one had failed before.
- Governance that holds. Reporting, risk and audit-grade paperwork for public-sector ICT programmes.
- Delivery across districts. Multi-site programmes where the teams who have to work together sit hundreds of kilometres apart.
And what it taught me
- Most programmes do not fail on the plan. They fail on the handover, the escalation nobody made, and the meeting that went long.
- People use a system they helped design. They route around one they did not.
- A room that laughs is a room that is still listening. That is not a soft observation, it is the whole job.
Right now
What I am doing this year
My firm, DBiLL, is being rebuilt into an AI-first business where agents carry the admin and people keep the judgement. It is happening in the open. What breaks gets written down, so you can lift what works and skip the rest.
Alongside it I coach Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption inside a large insurer, as one of a five-facilitator team, cohort after cohort since June 2026. That programme is where the AI adoption keynote comes from. Everything I say about what makes AI stick, I watched happen in that room first.
DBiLL gives growing businesses project managers who arrive complete with tools and methodology. If that is what you need, it lives at dbill.co.za.
If what you need is someone in front of your people, that is the speaking side.
Building in public
The journey, documented
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