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Phil Le-Brun
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Digital Transformation
Artificial Intelligence
Drive meaningful transformation with Phil Le-Brun, AWS Executive in Residence and organisational change expert. Phil works with senior leaders to align culture, technology, and strategy, helping organisations become more adaptive and effective. Twice named among the UK’s top 100 CIOs for his work at McDonald’s Corporation and co-author of The Octopus Organization.
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Phil Le-Brun helps organisations move beyond rigid structures to become adaptable in an era of continuous technological change. He serves as Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services and previously spent over 25 years at McDonald's Corporation, where he held roles as Corporate Vice President and International CIO.
At McDonald's, Phil co-led the consolidation and modernisation of technology across the organisation's 38,000 restaurants in 120 countries, serving one per cent of the world's total population daily. His work helped scale digital capabilities, including e-commerce and delivery, while driving significant cost efficiencies and operational improvements. He was named one of the UK's top 100 CIOs two years running during this time.
Now leading the Executives in Residence team at AWS, Phil advises Fortune 500 and public-sector organisations on navigating complex transformation programmes. His work centres on aligning technology strategy with culture, enabling organisations to move faster, experiment more effectively, and unlock value from cloud, data, and AI investments.
Phil is a regular contributor to leading publications, including the Wall Street Journal and The Guardian and is a guest lecturer at universities such as Oxford and the London School of Economics. He co-authored The Octopus Organization, and its accompanying Harvard Business Review publication, with Dr Jana Werner. Together, they frequently deliver keynote talks and conference sessions globally, exploring how organisations can become more adaptive and responsive.
Audiences gain a clearer understanding of how to align people, culture, and technology to deliver meaningful, sustained change, enabling organisations to respond more effectively to disruption while maintaining focus on long-term performance.
Book Phil to transform how your leadership thinks about change and replace disruptive explosions with sustainable progress.
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Phil Le-Brun structures his sessions around the framework developed in The Octopus Organization, co-authored with Dr Jana Werner, using this model to walk audiences through how organisations can align people, culture, and technology to become more adaptive. He draws on case studies from his tenure at McDonald's, where he led technology consolidation across 38,000 restaurants in 120 countries, to ground the framework in large-scale, real-world transformation.
Phil Le-Brun speaks on organisational adaptability, technology strategy, and the alignment of culture with digital transformation, drawing also on cloud, data, and AI investment themes. He serves as Executive in Residence at Amazon Web Services and previously held the role of International CIO at McDonald's Corporation, where he co-led technology modernisation across 38,000 restaurants in 120 countries; he was named one of the UK's top 100 CIOs two years running and co-authored The Octopus Organization with an accompanying Harvard Business Review publication.
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