About the firm
Advisory from someone who has actually been in the chair.
Authentic Tech Leadership exists to close the gap between AI ambition and AI capability — with the discipline that only comes from having led the work, not just described it.
Most advisory firms sell you the destination. We install the discipline to reach it. Authentic Tech Leadership is an advisory practice and a practitioner publishing house, built on a career of leading technology transformation from the inside — across aerospace, defense, energy, and other regulated industries, at every scale.
We work with executives and investors who can't afford to get AI wrong: CEOs and CIOs owning a mandate, PE and VC firms driving value creation, and leadership teams that want an honest read before they commit. Every engagement runs on the same Seven Pillar methodology — and the same belief that AI transformation is a leadership challenge first.
Technology doesn't fail organizations — leadership does.
The firm is also an imprint. We put honest, useful frameworks into the world and help other practitioner-experts publish well. The book was the first artifact. The practice, the methodology, and the catalog all grow from the same root.
Founder & Principal
Neil D. Morris
Neil is an author, keynote speaker, and fractional technology executive with more than 25 years leading IT across aerospace, defense, and regulated environments. A two-time ORBIE-nominated CIO and Forbes Technology Council member, he wrote Why AI Fails and founded Authentic Tech Leadership to put its discipline to work.
Let’s turn your AI ambition into capability.
One conversation. No pitch. A clear picture of where you stand and what to do about it.