Most AI advisory work happens at the wrong level.
Vendors talk to IT teams. Trainers work with individual contributors. Strategy consultants talk to boards. The executives and leaders who actually set the direction and decide where resources go are largely on their own. That's the gap Garrett Strategic Partners was built to fill.
Matt Garrett
Matt Garrett
Matt Garrett started out as an engineer. That background stayed with him. He approaches problems analytically, gets skeptical of things that look good on slides but don't hold up in practice, and pushes toward concrete answers.
More than a decade at ServiceNow, working directly with executive teams at Fortune 500 companies on technology transformation, automation, and modernization at scale.
Led the global Customer Value function at Firstup, overseeing Customer Success, Professional Services, and Solution Consulting through a significant organizational redesign.
Founded Garrett Strategic Partners after the same pattern kept showing up: the bottleneck was almost never the technology.
Matt Garrett
Matt Garrett started out as an engineer. That background stayed with him. He approaches problems analytically, gets skeptical of things that look good on slides but don't hold up in practice, and pushes toward concrete answers.
More than a decade at ServiceNow, working directly with executive teams at Fortune 500 companies on technology transformation, automation, and modernization at scale.
Led the global Customer Value function at Firstup, overseeing Customer Success, Professional Services, and Solution Consulting through a significant organizational redesign.
Founded Garrett Strategic Partners after the same pattern kept showing up: the bottleneck was almost never the technology.
The same pattern kept showing up.
The same pattern kept showing up.
After years working inside enterprise technology transformations, including many that stalled, the same problem kept surfacing. The bottleneck was almost never the technology. It was the absence of real ownership and direction at the top.
AI adoption is a leadership problem
Organizations don't fail to adopt AI because they picked the wrong tools. They fail because their leaders don't have a clear mental model for where AI creates real leverage versus where it adds noise.
Modeling matters more than training
When leadership actively uses AI to do better work, not as a gimmick but as a real part of how they analyze information and structure decisions, it changes what's culturally acceptable in that organization.
The same pattern kept showing up.
After years working inside enterprise technology transformations, including many that stalled, the same problem kept surfacing. The bottleneck was almost never the technology. It was the absence of real ownership and direction at the top.
AI adoption is a leadership problem
Organizations don't fail to adopt AI because they picked the wrong tools. They fail because their leaders don't have a clear mental model for where AI creates real leverage versus where it adds noise.
Modeling matters more than training
When leadership actively uses AI to do better work, not as a gimmick but as a real part of how they analyze information and structure decisions, it changes what's culturally acceptable in that organization.
Ready to get your leadership team aligned on AI?
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Ready to get your leadership team aligned on AI?
Ready to get your leadership team aligned on AI?
No complex form, no automated process. Reach out and we'll set up a brief conversation to see if it's a fit.