Peter Wardle spent 25+ years leading transformation programmes across telecoms, rail and energy - and got so frustrated with big systems integrators failing to deliver that he set up his own consultancy to fix broken programmes.

In this episode of The Unique Boutique, Peter shares his journey from the Royal Engineers to founding Mainstay Consulting and Intelligent Assessments, and how he turned decades of health check IP into MAST, a continuous assurance platform now used by boutique consultancies to digitise their own frameworks.

We cover:

• The go, no-go meeting where every leader scored 90%+ confidence - and one subject matter expert said zero
• Why anonymous confidence pulses surface problems months earlier than status reports
• The rebrand that changed everything: nobody wanted "assurance" (it sounds like audit), but everyone wanted "delivery intelligence"
• The honest truth about productising your IP - including the mistakes Peter made when the platform became a shiny object and client work suffered
• How to use assessments as both a diagnostic and a marketing tool, without turning them into a data mining exercise
• Why AI is a brilliant intern but a terrible postman - and the governance every consultancy needs around it

Plus Peter's Snog Marry Avoid: document your IP, live by your frameworks, and stop regurgitating unchecked AI output to clients.

Connect with Peter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwardle/
Intelligent Assessments: https://intelligentassessments.ai

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