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Jana Werner
Dr Jana Werner is one of the world's leading voices on AI transformation and adaptive leadership, guiding Fortune 500 executives through the strategic and cultural complexity of AI adoption. Co-author of the award-winning Harvard book The Octopus Organization and Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services, Jana has presented at AstraZeneca, Oxford University, and leading institutions globally.
Dr Jana Werner is a global executive advisor, technologist, and AI transformation leader recognised as one of the most authoritative voices on how organisations must evolve to lead in the age of artificial intelligence. As an Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services, she advises Fortune 500 leaders on AI strategy, operating model transformation, and building the leadership cultures that make change stick.
Jana's remarkable career spans scaling a technology start-up to acquisition by Hewlett Packard, leading AI-driven transformation in financial services at Tesco Bank, and advising global organisations including DHL on large-scale change programmes. She has led AWS's Enterprise Transformation Practice across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, working at board and C-suite level to accelerate the realisation of AI's full business value. Jana is also a guest lecturer at some of the world's most prestigious institutions, including Oxford University, the London School of Economics, and Hong Kong University.
She co-authored the award-winning book The Octopus Organization and contributes regularly to Harvard Business Review. Jana challenges leaders to confront the cultural and structural barriers that prevent AI transformation from taking hold. Her approach cuts through the noise to focus on the decisions, behaviours, and ownership models that determine whether AI initiatives deliver lasting impact. She equips leaders to become architects of transformation, working on the organisation, not just within it.
Audiences leave with a clearer understanding of what AI leadership actually demands and a clear framework for building organisations that are faster, more innovative, and more responsive to change. Her sessions translate complex AI transformation challenges into practical, high-conviction approaches that resonate from the boardroom to the front line. Book Jana to equip your leadership team with the clarity, confidence, and capability to lead transformation in the AI age.
Dr Jana Werner is one of the most credible voices in AI transformation worldwide, having operated at the forefront of enterprise AI both from the inside and at an advisory level. Jana has helped multinational organisations like DHL navigate the strategic and cultural complexity of AI adoption and has spent years at Amazon Web Services shaping how the world's most ambitious organisations implement AI at scale.
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Jana Werner draws on a proprietary framework developed through her advisory work with Fortune 500 organisations, translating AI transformation challenges into structured models that address decision-making, ownership, and cultural change at leadership level.
Dr Jana Werner specialises in AI strategy, operating model transformation, leadership culture, and organisational change. She is Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services, where she has led the AWS Enterprise Transformation Practice across EMEA and advised Fortune 500 leaders at board and C-suite level, and is co-author of The Octopus Organization, recognised as an award-winning book.
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