Ronnie Barnard Executive AI Advisor & AI Transformation Consultant
Ronnie works with CEOs, boards, and senior leadership teams to build AI-enabled organizations. His focus is helping leaders turn AI from a topic of interest into a disciplined, value-producing capability.
“My role is to ensure AI serves your strategy - not the other way around.”
Executive AI Guidance Focused on Outcomes
Ronnie partners with leadership teams to make clear, commercially grounded decisions about AI: what to pursue, what to pause, and how to implement it responsibly.
Board & C-Suite Counsel
Private, ongoing counsel for CEOs, boards, and senior teams on how AI affects strategy, risk, and opportunity and where it can create durable advantage.
AI-Enabled Operating Models
Support designing operating models and workflows where AI and automation amplify your people and processes, instead of adding complexity.
Flexible AI Executive Role
Part-time executive AI leadership for organizations that need a Chief AI Officer's perspective and oversight without a full-time C-level hire.
Long-Term Strategic Partnership
A confidential thought partner for leaders facing complex AI decisions, major initiatives, and cross-functional change.
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AI Today Consulting hosts the full catalog of services, example engagements, and delivery structures. Visit the firm site for more depth, and book a consultation when you're ready to talk.
Invite Ronnie as a Speaker or Podcast Guest
In addition to advising leadership teams, Ronnie is available for select keynotes, private executive sessions, and podcast interviews on the real-world impact of AI on strategy, operations, and leadership.
Ronnie brings a practitioner's perspective to AI, grounded in decades of building advanced systems and advising leaders responsible for complex organizations. His sessions are designed to be clear, commercially relevant, and free of hype, helping audiences understand what AI can do today and how to move forward responsibly.
Whether speaking to a board, an internal leadership offsite, an industry conference, or a podcast audience, Ronnie focuses on practical insight: where AI genuinely changes the game, what often goes wrong, and how leaders can navigate the next wave of transformation with confidence.
- Boards and C-suite leadership teams
- Industry and technology conferences
- Private executive offsites and retreats
- Podcasts focused on leadership, AI, and the future of work
Speaker & Media Kit
For Ronnie's full speaking profile, sample topics, formats, and booking details, download the Speaker & Media Kit.
Who Ronnie Is And Why Leaders Work With Him
Ronnie brings three decades of building and leading advanced systems into his work as an Executive AI Advisor and AI Transformation Consultant.
Ronnie's career began in the formative era of intelligent systems: expert systems, workflow engines, optimization models, and early machine-learning efforts. Working across industries and geographies, he learned how complex systems behave in the real world: how they fail, how they scale, and how they quietly reshape organizations.
Over the years, the systems he designed have helped organizations secure technology and innovation awards. Ronnie himself has received multiple recognitions, including the Best Technologist Award from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Among his most visible contributions is CLEO, the Corrections Law Enforcement Officer AI system; a secure, domain-aligned AI platform built for one of the most sensitive operational environments in government. Delivered to the Florida Department of Corrections and deployed within a private OpenAI GovCloud instance, CLEO has been recognized as an early example of responsible, mission-specific AI at scale.
Today, as Founder and Chief AI Officer of AI Today Consulting, Ronnie advises leaders who want AI to become a disciplined, dependable capability woven into strategy, operations, and decision-making.
Evidence of Impact
Awards are not the objective, but they are useful proof points that the work delivers real, visible outcomes.
Ronnie has been trusted with complex, high-stakes transformations in environments where reliability and security matter as much as innovation. The systems and strategies he has designed have enabled organizations to secure recognition for technology and innovation in their markets.
For Ronnie, the value of these awards lies in what they represent: when AI is applied thoughtfully, it creates measurable advantage.
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Best Technologist Award - Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Recognition for contributions to advanced systems and their impact on organizational performance. -
Internal organizational excellence awards
Multiple acknowledgements for leadership in technology-enabled transformation and delivery. -
Technology & innovation awards enabled by his solutions
Organizations using systems designed by Ronnie went on to win external innovation and technology awards. -
Creator & Architect of CLEO Corrections Law Enforcement Officer AI
A pioneering secure AI system in a high-security government environment, highlighted as an example of responsible, domain-specific AI.
Request a Private Advisory Conversation
Ronnie works with a limited number of organizations at any given time to ensure depth, discretion, and meaningful results. If you are exploring AI as a core strategic lever, this is where the dialogue begins.
- Board and executive briefings on AI and its strategic implications
- Assessment of where AI and automation can deliver outsized impact
- Design or review of your AI roadmap and operating model
- Flexible, ongoing advisory relationships with leadership teams
This is a starting point. Sensitive or confidential details can be shared later in a private setting.