Shari advises clients on AI, growth, and innovation, particularly in situations of disruptive change and high ambiguity. He helps develop strategies to unlock near-term commercial performance and resilience while repositioning business models for sustained future value creation.
In helping clients through their AI journeys, Shari emphasizes AI programs that are tightly coupled with and accelerate enterprise strategy and key profit drivers; remain practical and executable while advancing digital maturity, capacity for change, and AI capabilities over time; and create near- and long-term competitive advantage through superior operating economics and more compelling customer-centric value propositions. His work helps leaders navigate uncertainty around AI investments and organizational implications while also understanding how AI may shift industry paradigms and create the need for AI-first business models.
Shari also works with leadership teams on some of their most complex strategy and innovation priorities, helping them understand and respond to disruptive threats and opportunities arising from near-term shocks and longer-term ecosystem shifts by making portfolio, capability, and resource allocation choices that drive profitable growth. His focal industries include consumer, retail, and technology, with broader experience spanning financial services, aviation, automotive, industrials, and healthcare.
Key engagements:
- 10-year future-back strategy for a major food retailer - identified AI-led shifts in customer experience, automation, retail media, health trends, and store-estate strategy
- Operational and customer-facing AI use-case portfolio for an airline group - identified and prioritised opportunities to drive cost takeout and growth
- Core resilience and new-growth strategy for a European juice maker - linked category strengthening with adjacent growth opportunities amid ingredient supply shocks and shifting demand
- Long-range strategy and innovation system design for a digital consumer-identity and location-services provider - defined strategic priorities and innovation-system enablers for future growth
- New-product scaling operating model for a global data, software, and analytics company - designed organisational and process enablers to accelerate innovation and growth
- C-suite and board AI education for a European confectionery company - aligned leadership on strategic implications, priority use cases, and next steps
- Scenario planning and strategy for a high-end luxury company - shaped the response to disruptive substitution affecting volume, pricing power, and share