50 Influential UK Tech and Software Leadership Voices

Last updated: June 2026

If you want to understand what is genuinely shaping tech and software leadership in the United Kingdom right now, the most efficient thing you can do is find the right people to follow. The 50 leaders in this guide represent the full breadth of the field: engineering managers, software architects, CTOs, founders of influential communities, researchers, government digital leaders, and advocates reshaping who gets to work in and lead technology organisations. As of June 2026, these are the voices whose ideas, books, communities, and careers are defining how UK technology and software teams are built and led.

This list deliberately moves past the handful of names that appear on every technology rankings list to surface the leaders who genuinely deserve to be far better known. The UK technology sector produces world-class thinking on engineering management, software delivery, team structure, digital inclusion, and responsible technology. The voices here are doing that work in practice, not from a distance.

The UK technology sector employs over two million workers, according to CompTIA, and is now valued at approximately 892 billion pounds, according to HSBC Innovation Banking and Dealroom's 2025 research. Despite that scale, women represent just 22 percent of IT specialists, according to the BCS Gender Diversity in the Tech Sector Report 2025, and the representation challenges run deeper than gender alone. This list reflects that reality: it includes leaders who are not just building great engineering teams but actively reshaping who those teams include and what leadership in technology looks like.

If you lead or work inside a technology or software organisation in the UK, the 50 people below are the ones your learning should be shaped around. For UK leadership teams that want practical support translating these ideas into team-level change, executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and keynote speaking on communication, accountability, and team dynamics, reach out to Jonno White, author of Step Up or Step Out and Certified Working Genius Facilitator, at jonno@consultclarity.org.

Why Does UK Tech and Software Leadership Deserve Its Own Lens?

The United Kingdom's technology leadership community operates in a context with specific characteristics that distinguish it from Silicon Valley, Singapore, or the ANZ market. UK engineering organisations navigate a distinct regulatory environment, a mature relationship between government digital service and commercial technology, a fintech ecosystem that is among the most active in the world, and a technology culture shaped heavily by a mix of British pragmatism and genuine engineering excellence.

The UK produced the Web Science discipline, the World Wide Web itself, continuous delivery as a formal engineering practice, Team Topologies as an organisational framework, and a government digital service that has become a model for public sector technology globally. Those are not minor contributions. They represent a genuine philosophy about how software should be built and led. Following the people who are extending and applying that philosophy in 2026 is the highest-leverage learning available to anyone building a technology organisation in the UK today.

The LeadDev engineering leadership conference has been hosted in London for over a decade, drawing thousands of engineering leaders from across the country and the world. CTO Craft, the largest CTO mentoring and learning community in the UK, was founded in London and has grown to a community of over 15,000 technology leaders globally. QCon London remains one of the most important software architecture and engineering leadership conferences in the world. The UK is not just a consumer of technology leadership thinking. It is a significant producer of it.

For leadership teams wanting to develop the communication, team dynamics, and accountability habits that underpin everything these thought leaders discuss, Jonno White, author of Step Up or Step Out and Certified Working Genius Facilitator, works with technology teams across the UK and globally. Email jonno@consultclarity.org. International travel is often far more affordable than organisations expect.

For more on global technology thought leaders, see the blog post on the 50 Best Thought Leaders in Technology for 2026 at consultclarity.org/post/50-best-thought-leaders-in-technology-2026.

How This List Was Compiled

This list was built to surface the leaders who genuinely deserve to be far better known across the UK technology and software leadership community. Every person on this list was selected on the basis of three criteria: a documented, substantive contribution to UK tech and software leadership through published work, a recognised community, a significant credential, or an active practitioner platform; genuine current engagement in 2025 or 2026 through original content, speaking, or organisational leadership; and UK presence, whether through location, primary professional community, or a body of work grounded in the UK technology context.

Software Delivery and Engineering Practice

The UK has been at the forefront of thinking about how software should actually be delivered. The continuous delivery movement, agile software development, and the Team Topologies organisational framework all have deep roots in UK practice. The practitioners below are the direct inheritors and active developers of that tradition.

The leaders in this category share a conviction that software delivery is as much about organisational design and human systems as it is about tools and techniques. They are not theorists. They are practitioners who have shipped production systems, scaled engineering organisations, and built the intellectual frameworks that help others do the same. Their books, channels, and communities have shaped how thousands of UK engineering teams work.

1. Dave Farley

Dave Farley has spent his career building the intellectual and practical foundations of continuous delivery, and he remains one of the most active and clear-thinking voices in UK software engineering. As founder and managing director of Continuous Delivery Ltd, and creator of the Continuous Delivery YouTube channel that has attracted nearly 15 million views, he has found a way to share decades of hard-won engineering knowledge with a genuinely global audience from his base in the UK.

His co-authored book "Continuous Delivery" with Jez Humble, published in 2010, won the Jolt Award and established the practices that underpin how serious engineering organisations deploy software today. His subsequent books "Continuous Delivery Pipelines" and "Modern Software Engineering" extend that thinking into broader principles of engineering effectiveness. Farley's specific contribution is his insistence that software development should be treated as an engineering discipline in the scientific sense: hypothesis-driven, feedback-oriented, and based on measurable outcomes rather than accumulated habit. He is one of the authors of the Reactive Manifesto and a winner of the Duke Award for the open-source LMAX Disruptor project.

2. Matthew Skelton

Matthew Skelton is one of the most important voices in how UK technology organisations design their teams and delivery structures. As CEO and CTO of Conflux, based in Leeds, and as co-author of Team Topologies with Manuel Pais, he has produced what has become the defining framework for how modern engineering organisations structure themselves for fast flow of value.

The Team Topologies second edition, published in 2025 with new case studies, shows that the original framework's core ideas have continued to evolve and remain relevant as engineering organisations scale. Skelton's specific contribution is his insistence that team structure is not a people management problem but a system design problem: how you draw the boundaries between teams determines what your software architecture will look like, whether or not you plan it that way. As a Chartered Engineer with a background spanning London Stock Exchange, GlaxoSmithKline, FT.com, and the UK government, he brings genuine cross-sector credibility to that claim.

3. Sam Newman

Sam Newman spent twelve years at ThoughtWorks before building one of the most influential independent consulting and writing practices in UK software engineering. Based in London, he is the author of "Building Microservices" and "Monolith to Microservices," both published by O'Reilly, which have become the standard reference for engineering teams navigating distributed systems design.

Newman's contribution to the field is his ability to translate complex distributed systems thinking into practical, implementable guidance without losing the nuance that makes the field genuinely hard. His work on the Backends for Frontends pattern and his thinking about the relationship between team structure and system architecture complement the Team Topologies framework in important ways. He continues to speak at QCon London and other major events, and his LinkedIn posts on distributed systems and software architecture generate substantive engagement from engineering leaders across the UK.

4. James Stanier

James Stanier has built one of the most trusted and practical bodies of work on software engineering management available anywhere, and he does it from Cumbria in the north of England. As CTO for Veterinary at Nordhealth, and as the author of three books, "Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager," "Effective Remote Work," and "Become a Great Engineering Leader," he has created a progression of writing that takes an engineer from their first management role to the VP and Director level.

His specific contribution is his focus on the practical, day-to-day skills that most engineering management writing skips: how to structure one-to-ones, how to think about delegation, how to navigate the transition from manager to manager of managers. The Engineering Manager blog and newsletter he runs has become a reference resource for UK engineering managers at all levels. His work is particularly valuable for leaders at scale-ups navigating rapid team growth, where the gap between technical expertise and management capability can be most damaging.

Engineering Leadership and the CTO Community

The UK has a particularly rich ecosystem of communities and practices around CTO and VP of Engineering leadership. The leaders in this category have built the institutions, communities, and frameworks that make UK engineering leadership development possible.

What distinguishes UK engineering leadership from its US counterpart is its practical, community-oriented character. Where US tech leadership culture tends toward individual guru-building and large-scale platform development, the UK community tends toward peer learning, cross-sector knowledge sharing, and an emphasis on context-specificity. The people below have built that culture.

5. Andy Skipper

Andy Skipper founded CTO Craft in 2017 from a simple observation: CTOs needed a peer community that could provide the kind of honest, context-specific guidance that no consultant, book, or conference could replace. From that insight, and from his own experience as the founding CTO of Made.com and CTO of Comic Relief, Skipper built a community that now numbers over 15,000 technology leaders globally.

CTO Craft's annual conference in London has become one of the most significant events in UK technology leadership, drawing hundreds of CTOs and engineering directors for substantive knowledge exchange. Skipper's own writing and coaching focuses on the specific challenges of first-time CTOs: how to build the board relationships, hiring practices, and engineering cultures that allow a technology organisation to deliver consistently. His newsletter Tech Manager Weekly provides a steady stream of practical insights for technology leaders at all levels.

6. Meri Williams

Meri Williams brings a combination of scale, range, and genuine intellectual rigour to UK engineering leadership that is genuinely rare. Having led engineering teams at Procter and Gamble, the Government Digital Service, MOO, Monzo, and Healx, they have operated across sectors and contexts that few UK technology leaders have navigated. As CTO, NED and advisor through their micro-consultancy ChromeRose, they now help other organisations develop the leadership capability they have built over two decades.

Williams has been the chair of the LeadDev conference in London, one of the most important gatherings of engineering leaders in the UK, and they remain one of the most sought-after voices on what it means to be an effective engineering leader. Their specific contribution is their focus on the organisational design and psychological safety dimensions of engineering leadership: the insight that most technical problems are actually people and organisational challenges in disguise.

Academic and Research Voices

UK universities and research institutions have produced some of the most important foundational thinking in computer science and technology governance. The voices below are making that thinking relevant to practitioners.

7. Dame Wendy Hall

Dame Wendy Hall is the Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and one of the most credible voices anywhere on how societies should govern themselves in relation to artificial intelligence. As co-founder of the Web Science discipline with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and as former co-chair of the UK government's AI Review, she brings a rare combination of technical depth and policy influence.

Her 2021 book "Four Internets," co-written with Kieron O'Hara, remains one of the most rigorous treatments of how the web's development has fractured into distinct political and architectural models. In 2023 she was appointed to the United Nations high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence, confirming her standing as one of the UK's most internationally respected technology voices. For technology leaders navigating the governance and ethics dimensions of AI adoption, her public lectures, writings, and advisory outputs are essential reading.

Government Digital and Public Sector Technology

The UK government digital service has been a globally influential model for how public institutions should build and deliver technology. The leaders below are shaping how government technology works in 2026.

One of the most significant developments in UK technology leadership over the past decade has been the rise of government digital as a serious and respected domain. The leaders below have made public sector technology a genuine leadership discipline, and their contribution to UK technology thinking extends far beyond the public sector.

8. Daljit Rehal

Daljit Rehal is the Chief Digital and Information Officer of HMRC and the current President of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. His significance lies not only in the scale of what he manages, overseeing the IT systems for one of the largest government departments in Europe and leading a technology transformation programme that affects every tax-paying citizen in the UK, but in how actively he shares his thinking on digital transformation and leadership.

His career spans British Gas, Centrica, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media before his arrival at HMRC in 2020, giving him a perspective that spans commercial and public sectors in ways that few technology leaders can claim. His writing and speaking on the combination of big data, AI, and agile transformation in government contexts represents one of the most valuable bodies of UK technology leadership thinking available.

9. Christine Bellamy

Christine Bellamy is Director General of Digital Products Group at the Government Digital Service, making her one of the most senior technology leaders in UK government. Her work overseeing the products and platforms that citizens use to interact with government, including GOV.UK Pay and GOV.UK One Login, represents a form of technology leadership at scale that commercial organisations rarely encounter.

The GDS roadmap for modern digital government published in January 2026, co-authored with Emily Middleton, sets out a vision for how every corner of the state will use technology to serve citizens through to 2030. Bellamy's contribution to UK technology thinking is her sustained focus on user-centred design and iterative delivery as the foundation of government technology, a philosophy that was genuinely radical when GDS first articulated it and remains influential far beyond the public sector.

10. David Knott

David Knott is the Government Chief Technology Officer at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, making him the most senior technical voice in UK government. His role spans the full breadth of government technology strategy, from AI adoption to cybersecurity to the infrastructure that public services rely on.

Knott's contribution is his work on how government should approach technology procurement, platform development, and the build-versus-buy decisions that determine whether public sector technology remains capable of genuine service delivery or becomes dependent on a small number of large vendors. His thinking on government as a technology platform rather than a technology consumer has shaped UK digital strategy.

Cybersecurity and Digital Infrastructure Leadership

As digital systems become more critical to every aspect of UK life and commerce, the leaders who define how organisations think about and defend those systems become essential voices for technology leadership broadly.

11. Richard Horne

Richard Horne became CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre in October 2024, having previously chaired the Cyber Security Practice at PwC UK and served as Managing Director of Cyber Security at Barclays. His appointment brought to the NCSC's leadership a practitioner who had spent his career helping boards and executives think clearly about cyber risk and build genuine resilience rather than compliance theatre.

Horne holds a PhD in mathematics from Royal Holloway and brings analytical rigour to a field that is often dominated by vendor-driven fear narratives. His public statements on the importance of focusing on fundamentals, that organisations which address the basics of identity security, patching, and access management significantly reduce their risk, represent exactly the kind of clear, practical thinking that UK technology leaders need. His leadership of the NCSC's annual threat reviews and guidance publications makes him one of the most important voices shaping how UK organisations think about technology risk.

Digital Inclusion and Community Building

Some of the most important work in UK technology leadership is not about building better software. It is about building a technology sector that draws on the full breadth of UK talent. The leaders below have built the communities, organisations, and policy interventions that are making that possible.

The UK technology sector's diversity challenge is well-documented. BCS research shows women represent 22 percent of IT specialists. Representation of Black, Asian, and minority ethnic professionals in senior technology roles remains significantly below population levels. The leaders in this category are not just commentators on this challenge. They are the practitioners who have built the organisations that are actually changing the numbers.

12. Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon

Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon is the CEO and co-founder of Stemettes, the social enterprise that has inspired over 65,000 young women and non-binary people toward STEM careers since its founding in 2013. Voted the Most Influential Woman in UK Tech in 2020 by Computer Weekly, appointed as the UK government's Women in Tech Envoy in 2025, and named to the Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech globally, she is one of the most recognised and respected technology voices in the country.

Her 2022 book "She's In CTRL" makes the case for why women reclaiming their place in technology is not just a fairness issue but an economic and innovation imperative. As Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University and Chair of the Institute for the Future of Work, she extends her influence beyond community building into the governance and policy dimensions of technology and work. Her Stemettes work is directly relevant to any UK technology organisation thinking seriously about where the next generation of engineers and leaders will come from.

13. Charlene Hunter

Charlene Hunter is the founder of Coding Black Females, the largest community of Black women in tech in the UK. Since founding the organisation, she has built a community that provides coding skills, networking, and professional development to Black women at every stage of their technology careers, from those just entering the field to senior practitioners navigating leadership transitions.

Hunter was appointed to the UK government's Women in Tech Taskforce in December 2025, a formal recognition of her standing as one of the most effective practitioners in the technology inclusion space. Her specific contribution is her focus on intersectionality: the recognition that the barriers facing Black women in technology are not just about gender or race separately but about their intersection, and that generic diversity programmes that do not address that specificity tend to leave Black women behind.

14. Anna Brailsford

Anna Brailsford is CEO and co-founder of Code First Girls, the social enterprise that has trained over 150,000 women and non-binary people in coding and technology skills. Her appointment to the UK government's Women in Tech Taskforce in December 2025 reflects her standing as one of the most operationally effective technology inclusion leaders in the country.

What distinguishes Code First Girls from many diversity initiatives is its focus on real technical skills rather than awareness-raising. The organisation runs full coding courses that produce graduates who are genuinely job-ready, and it has built partnerships with hundreds of employers who recognise its graduates as serious technical talent. Brailsford's contribution to UK technology thinking is her sustained demonstration that the pipeline problem in technology diversity is not really a pipeline problem at all. It is an access and community problem, and it can be solved with the right combination of community and genuine technical education.

15. Naomi Timperley

Naomi Timperley is the innovation director at Oxford Innovation and co-founder of Tech North Advocates, the private sector-led collective that has championed the technology sector in the north of England. Named as one of the Most Influential Women in UK Tech in 2025, she is one of the few technology leaders in the UK who consistently makes the case for the strength and distinctiveness of the technology ecosystem outside London.

Tech North Advocates has played a significant role in making the case that Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, and the broader Northern Powerhouse are genuine technology centres rather than satellite offices of London, and Timperley's work at Oxford Innovation extends that mission through innovation programmes that help businesses across the UK harness emerging technologies including AI. Her contribution is her consistent focus on geographic equity in UK technology development.

16. Rioch Edwards-Brown

Rioch Edwards-Brown is the founder of So You Wanna Be In Tech?, a community and platform helping people from underrepresented backgrounds break into and progress within the technology sector. Featured on the UKtech50 2026 longlist, she represents a generation of UK technology community builders who are using digital platforms and authentic storytelling to reach the people that traditional recruitment and education pathways miss.

Her work addresses the specific challenge of social mobility in technology: the reality that who you know, not just what you know, shapes career trajectories in tech, and that the informal networks that accelerate careers in the sector are not equally accessible. By building an alternative network rooted in community rather than exclusivity, she has created a genuine pathway for people who would otherwise be filtered out by the systems that were never designed to include them.

Technology Strategy and Digital Transformation

The leaders in this category are shaping how UK organisations think about technology strategy, digital transformation, and the organisational changes that technology investment requires.

17. Sally Eaves

Sally Eaves is the founder of Aspirational Futures and a former Chief Technology Officer whose work now focuses on the intersection of technology, inclusion, and social impact. Recognised as a LinkedIn Top Voice in technology and honoured by multiple organisations for her work on responsible technology and inclusive digital transformation, she is one of the most prominent UK voices on what it means to build technology that creates value for all people rather than concentrating it.

Her thought leadership addresses what she describes as the technology and humanity intersection: the specific challenge of ensuring that AI, cloud, and digital transformation genuinely serve the people they claim to be built for, not just the organisations deploying them. Her work is relevant for any UK technology leader who wants to move beyond compliance and box-ticking on responsible technology toward a genuine leadership philosophy.

18. Neil Perkin

Neil Perkin is the founder of Only Dead Fish, a UK-based consultancy focused on organisational agility, digital strategy, and the leadership capabilities that organisations need to thrive in rapidly changing conditions. His writing and consulting address the fundamental question that faces every established UK organisation navigating digital change: how do you transform a large, complex organisation without destroying what made it valuable in the first place?

Perkin's contribution to UK technology thinking is his sustained focus on the cultural and leadership dimensions of digital transformation. His work makes the case that transformation fails not because of poor technology choices but because organisations underinvest in the leadership development and organisational design changes that make technology adoption genuinely effective. For UK technology leaders who are more often the agent of change than its subject, his thinking provides an essential external perspective.

19. Julian David

Julian David is the CEO of TechUK, the technology trade association that represents over 1,000 technology companies in the UK. In that role he has become one of the most important voices shaping the policy environment in which UK technology organisations operate, from digital skills to AI regulation to the industrial strategy that determines where government technology investment flows.

David's significance for UK technology leadership extends beyond policy: through TechUK he has built an infrastructure for knowledge sharing, advocacy, and community building that benefits technology leaders across the sector. His speaking and writing on the relationship between technology and economic growth, and on what a genuinely pro-technology industrial strategy should look like, reflects a pragmatic and informed view of how UK technology leadership connects to broader economic outcomes.

20. Sue Daley

Sue Daley is the Director of Tech and Innovation at TechUK, appointed to the UK government's Women in Tech Taskforce in December 2025, and awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours List for services to the technology industry. Her work spans AI, cloud, data, quantum, digital identity, and digital ethics, giving her one of the broadest views of the UK technology landscape of anyone in the sector.

Daley has been recognised multiple times on the UKtech50 longlist and inducted into the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame, reflecting the sustained impact of her work building TechUK's advocacy and knowledge programmes. Her contribution is her ability to translate technical complexity into policy language and policy complexity into technical context, a bridging function that is genuinely rare and genuinely valuable in a country where the gap between technology practitioners and policymakers remains wide.

Inclusion, Ethics, and Responsible Technology

Some of the most important UK technology leadership thinking is happening at the intersection of technology and society. The leaders below are shaping how UK technology organisations think about their responsibilities.

21. Belinda Parmar

Belinda Parmar is the CEO of The Empathy Business and a non-executive director at the UK Ministry of Defence. Her work on empathy in technology leadership, which she has developed through research, consulting, and writing over more than a decade, makes the case that empathy is not a soft skill or a nice-to-have but a measurable leadership capability that directly predicts technology team performance and innovation.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her insistence that the way technology leaders relate to the people they work with and the people they build for is a strategic variable, not just an ethical preference. Her consulting with FTSE 100 companies, government departments, and technology organisations has produced a body of evidence about what empathetic leadership looks like in practice and what it produces. For UK technology leaders who are interested in the human dimensions of engineering culture, her work offers a rigorous and evidence-based framework.

22. Gaia Marcus

Gaia Marcus is the Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, the UK's leading independent research organisation on the governance of data and AI. Her work shaping the Institute's research agenda on algorithmic accountability, data rights, and the societal impacts of AI systems has made her one of the most important voices in the UK on what responsible AI governance actually requires.

The Ada Lovelace Institute's research under her direction has produced some of the most rigorous and influential work on AI governance in Europe, including research on algorithmic decision-making in public services, on biometric technologies and their social implications, and on what meaningful public participation in AI governance looks like. For UK technology leaders navigating the governance and ethics dimensions of AI adoption, the Institute's outputs are essential reference material.

23. Beeban Kidron

Baroness Beeban Kidron is the founder and chair of 5Rights Foundation, the global advocacy organisation for children's digital rights, and one of the most effective policy advocates in the UK technology space. Her work on the Age Appropriate Design Code, which became law in 2021 and has since influenced digital regulation far beyond the UK, represents a significant achievement in translating technology ethics advocacy into practical legal change.

Kidron's contribution to UK technology leadership is her demonstration that sustained, technically literate advocacy can change the conditions in which technology organisations operate. For technology leaders building consumer-facing products, her work on children's digital rights and design represents both a compliance challenge and a genuine invitation to think differently about what it means to build technology responsibly.

Entrepreneurship and Community Building

The leaders in this category have built the institutions, companies, and communities that have made UK technology entrepreneurship more accessible and more diverse.

24. Alice Bentinck

Alice Bentinck is the co-founder of Entrepreneur First, one of Europe's most influential startup talent programmes that has helped thousands of individuals found technology companies, and the co-founder of Code First Girls. Her 2022 book "How to Be a Founder" draws on her experience supporting hundreds of technology founders to produce one of the most practically useful guides to technology entrepreneurship available.

Her contribution to UK technology leadership is her focus on talent as the bottleneck in technology: the insight that the limiting factor on technology company creation is not capital or market opportunity but the willingness and ability of technically talented individuals to take the step into founding. Through Entrepreneur First she has built a systematic approach to identifying and supporting that founding moment, and through Code First Girls she has extended access to the technical skills that founding requires.

25. Sheridan Ash

Sheridan Ash is the founder and co-CEO of Tech She Can, the award-winning charity that works with more than 240 member organisations to improve the ratio of women in technology roles. Named as Computer Weekly's Most Influential Woman in UK Tech in 2024, she has spent her career making the case that technology's gender diversity challenge is solvable, and building the practical infrastructure to solve it.

Her specific contribution is her focus on the career-long nature of the challenge: Tech She Can works with women and girls at every stage, from school programmes that build interest in technology careers to mid-career re-entry programmes for women who have left the sector. Her decade of work at PwC, where she led initiatives that more than doubled the percentage of women in tech, gave her the credibility and the practical knowledge to build Tech She Can into the sector-defining organisation it has become.

26. Karen Blake

Karen Blake is one of the UK's most experienced technology inclusion strategists, having served as co-CEO of the Tech Talent Charter, the employer-led initiative that has driven greater inclusion in UK technology through transparency, data sharing, and best practice community. Appointed to the UK government's Women in Tech Taskforce in December 2025, she brings deep experience of what actually changes hiring and progression patterns in technology organisations.

Her specific contribution is her focus on the systems and data dimensions of inclusion: the insight that good intentions without measurement produce no change, and that the organisations that have genuinely improved their technology workforce diversity are the ones that have treated it as a management discipline with metrics, accountability, and iteration. Her work provides UK technology leaders with a practical framework for doing the same.

27. Jon Topper

Jon Topper is the founder of The Scale Factory, an AWS Ambassador and one of the most respected voices in UK cloud and platform engineering for scale-up technology organisations. His speaking at QCon London 2025 on common mistakes building SaaS software drew on his experience working with hundreds of UK scale-ups navigating the transition from startup to enterprise-grade engineering.

His contribution to UK technology leadership is his sustained focus on the practical lessons that scale-up engineering teams learn the hard way: why multi-tenancy planning from day one matters, why disaster recovery planning is not optional, and why the automation investments that feel expensive in the short term are the ones that enable sustainable growth. For UK technology leaders at scale-ups navigating rapid growth, Topper's pragmatic, experience-driven perspective is one of the most valuable available.

Women in Technology: Executive Voices

The leaders in this category are senior technology executives whose careers are redefining what executive technology leadership looks like in the UK.

28. Alison Kay

Alison Kay is Vice President and Managing Director of AWS UK and Ireland, a role that makes her one of the most senior cloud technology leaders in the country. With over 25 years of experience across enterprise technology, she is a consistent advocate for innovation, inclusion, and solving the complex problems that technology investment is meant to address.

Her work at AWS sits at the intersection of major enterprise digital transformation and the cloud infrastructure that underlies almost every significant UK technology initiative. Her perspective on how UK organisations are navigating cloud strategy and AI adoption reflects a view from the centre of UK enterprise technology that few others can offer.

29. Clare Barclay

Clare Barclay is President of Enterprise and Industry for Microsoft EMEA, and formerly UK CEO, making her one of the most senior technology executives in Europe. Her work leading Microsoft's engagement with UK enterprise and public sector organisations reflects a view of UK technology leadership that spans commercial strategy, public policy, and organisational transformation.

Her specific contribution to UK technology leadership thinking is her focus on the relationship between technology investment and economic outcomes: the consistent case that technology adoption produces genuine productivity gains when organisations invest in the leadership and cultural change that technology adoption requires, not just in the technology itself.

30. Deborah O'Neill

Deborah O'Neill leads technology innovation strategy for Oliver Wyman across the UK, Ireland, and the Nordics. She is also a co-author of research on why women leave technology careers, and a strategic partner for gender inclusion initiatives within the consultancy. Her work bridges strategic digital transformation advisory with a sustained commitment to ensuring that the technology careers pipeline remains accessible to women throughout, not just at entry level.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on the structural barriers that cause women to exit technology organisations at the mid-career stage, and on the leadership interventions that make those organisations worth staying in. For UK technology leaders who have achieved strong entry-level diversity but struggle with retention at the senior level, her research is directly actionable.

Architecture and Systems Thinking

The leaders in this category are shaping how UK technology organisations think about the structure of their systems and their teams.

31. Czarina Barnsby

Czarina Barnsby is Head of Technical Architecture for Secure Transformation Services at Accenture, Vice-Chair of the BCS Enterprise Architecture Specialist Group, and co-founder of ArchitectHer, a community supporting women in enterprise architecture roles. Nominated for UKtech50 2026, she brings a perspective on software architecture that combines deep technical practice with a sustained commitment to making the discipline more diverse and accessible.

Her specific contribution is her work on enterprise architecture as a leadership discipline rather than a purely technical one: the insight that the decisions about how systems are structured are inherently decisions about how organisations are structured, and that architects who understand that dimension of their role are far more effective than those who treat it as a purely technical question.

32. Bella Abrams

Bella Abrams is the Group CTO at Jisc, the organisation that provides shared digital infrastructure and services for the UK higher education and research sector. Her work leading technology strategy for an organisation that serves hundreds of universities and research institutions represents a form of technology leadership at significant scale with a direct public benefit dimension.

Her contribution to UK technology leadership is her focus on the shared infrastructure model: the insight that the UK higher education sector can achieve more with its technology investment by building shared platforms and shared capabilities than by each institution building its own. This is a philosophy with implications far beyond higher education, for any set of organisations that face similar technology challenges and would benefit from pooling their investment.

Policy, Governance, and the BCS Community

33. Rashik Parmar

Rashik Parmar is the Chief Executive of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, the professional body for information technology with over 70,000 members. His leadership of BCS has focused on making the value of professional standards in technology visible and tangible at a moment when AI adoption is raising urgent questions about the competence, ethics, and accountability of technology practitioners.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his sustained case for professionalisation: the argument that technology's social and economic impact has grown to the point where informal self-governance is insufficient, and that the profession needs the same kind of standards, accountability mechanisms, and ethical frameworks that medicine, law, and engineering have built over centuries. Whether or not one agrees with every aspect of that case, it represents one of the most important ongoing conversations in UK technology leadership.

34. Alexandra Jones

Alexandra Jones is the Director General for Science, Innovation and Growth at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Her role in shaping how the UK government invests in and supports technology innovation places her at the intersection of policy, economic strategy, and technology leadership in ways that affect every UK technology organisation.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her work on the industrial strategy dimensions of technology: the policy choices about where government invests, what standards it sets, and what regulatory environment it creates that determine whether the UK remains a leading technology nation or cedes ground to the US, China, and the EU in the technology sectors that will define the next decade.

35. Tom Crick

Tom Crick is Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Professor of Digital Society and Policy at the University of Bristol, having taken up the Bristol role in January 2026. His work spans computing education policy, digital skills, and the governance of AI, and he represents one of the few voices in UK technology policy who is equally credible as a researcher and as a practitioner.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his sustained focus on computing education: the case that the UK's long-term technology competitiveness depends on whether children and young people learn to understand and create with technology, not just consume it, and on the policy decisions about curriculum, teacher training, and school infrastructure that determine whether that happens.

Digital Infrastructure and Sector Leadership

36. Joe Baguley

Joe Baguley has been CTO at Broadcom, formerly VMware, in the UK for over a decade, making him one of the longest-serving senior technology executives in UK enterprise infrastructure. He is also a founding member of the BCS data centre specialist group and sits on TechUK's cloud leadership board, giving him a perspective on UK cloud and infrastructure strategy that spans commercial leadership, professional standards, and industry advocacy.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his sustained focus on the infrastructure layer: the insight that the shift to cloud does not eliminate infrastructure complexity but transforms it, and that organisations that invest in understanding their infrastructure decisions rather than delegating them entirely to hyperscale vendors make better long-term technology decisions.

37. Richard G. Brown

Richard G. Brown is the CEO of R3, the enterprise technology company that developed the Corda distributed ledger platform, and one of the most experienced voices in UK financial technology and distributed systems. His work building R3 from a consortium of financial institutions into an enterprise software company with global customers represents a form of UK technology entrepreneurship that combines deep domain expertise with sustained technology innovation.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his work on the enterprise application of distributed ledger technology: the sustained and technically rigorous case for when distributed systems add genuine value beyond the hype, and when they do not. In a field often characterised by enthusiasm over evidence, Brown's analytical rigour and willingness to make specific, falsifiable claims about what the technology can and cannot do represent a valuable corrective.

38. Colin Birchenall

Colin Birchenall is Chief Digital Officer of Glasgow City Council and CTO of the Digital Office for Scottish Local Government, making him one of the most senior local government digital leaders in Scotland. His work building shared digital capability across Scottish local authorities represents one of the most interesting examples of public sector technology leadership in the UK.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his focus on digital government at the local level: the specific challenges and opportunities of building technology-driven public services for the people who depend most on them, in the context of local government's resource constraints and democratic accountability structures. As central government digital programmes increasingly look to extend their reach to local government, Birchenall's experience of what actually works in practice is genuinely valuable.

Digital Skills and Education Technology

39. Carrie-Anne Philbin

Carrie-Anne Philbin is a leading figure in computing education in the UK, currently conducting academic research at the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre. Her work making computing education accessible, engaging, and effective for young people, particularly girls, has shaped how UK schools think about technology education.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on the educator as the key lever in technology education: the insight that changing who goes into technology careers requires changing what teachers know, believe, and are supported to do in classrooms, not just changing the curriculum on paper. Her research and advocacy on this point have influenced UK computing education policy over more than a decade.

40. Ankit Jadav

Ankit Jadav is Global Head of Digital Operations at Portmeirion Group and an alumni and industry fellow at Nottingham Trent University, bridging the worlds of enterprise technology practice and academic knowledge sharing. Nominated for UKtech50 in both 2025 and 2026, he represents a generation of UK technology leaders who are building careers at the intersection of operational technology leadership and knowledge sharing.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his focus on operational digital transformation in consumer goods and retail: the specific challenges of building digital capability in organisations where technology is not the primary business but where digital infrastructure increasingly determines whether the business can compete. For UK technology leaders operating outside the native technology sector, his perspective is directly relevant.

Independent Voices and Commentators

41. Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is the editor-at-large of TechCrunch, a Member of the British Empire for services to the UK technology industry and journalism, and co-founder of Techfugees, TechVets, and the Startup Coalition. His work over two decades as the most prominent journalist covering European and UK technology startups has made him one of the most important connective nodes in the UK technology ecosystem.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his sustained focus on the ecosystem: the insight that individual companies succeed or fail within a broader network of capital, talent, policy, and culture, and that building and advocating for that ecosystem is as important as building any individual company within it. His work with Techfugees, which applies technology skills to supporting refugee communities, and TechVets, which supports military veterans into technology careers, reflects the same instinct applied to the social dimensions of technology.

Emerging and Mid-Tier Voices

The leaders in this category are at the mid-career stage, building the bodies of work that will make them essential references for the next decade of UK technology leadership.

42. Shadi A. Razak

Shadi A. Razak is the CTO and co-founder of Angoka, the UK-based cybersecurity company focused on machine identity and connected devices. Nominated for UKtech50 2026, he represents a generation of UK technology entrepreneurs who are building companies at the intersection of deep technical expertise and genuine market need, specifically around the security of the billions of connected devices that underpin the UK's critical infrastructure.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his focus on machine identity: the emerging challenge of managing the identities, credentials, and access permissions of the billions of connected devices that now underpin everything from energy infrastructure to healthcare systems. As the UK's critical infrastructure becomes increasingly software-dependent, this is a challenge that will only grow in urgency.

43. Beth Lawton

Beth Lawton is the Chief Digital and Information Officer at the University of Strathclyde, one of Scotland's leading technology universities. Her work leading digital transformation at a major research institution reflects the specific challenges of building technology capability in organisations where the technology must serve both administrative efficiency and research excellence, often in tension.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on higher education as a technology leadership laboratory: the insight that universities, with their combination of technology research, digital services, and educational mission, are one of the most interesting places to watch how technology leadership is evolving. Her work at Strathclyde is both a contribution to Scottish technology leadership and a model for how universities can operate as genuine digital organisations.

44. Bee Hayes-Thakore

Bee Hayes-Thakore is Chair of Jangala, the UK charity providing internet access for people in the most challenging environments, VP of Marketing at Kigen, Arm's IoT security company, and a board director of The Planetary Society. This combination of roles makes her one of the most genuinely cross-sector technology leaders in the UK, spanning social impact, enterprise technology, and space science.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on technology access as a justice issue: the work that Jangala does providing internet access for refugees, displaced communities, and disaster zones makes tangible the claim that connectivity is now a prerequisite for full participation in society. For UK technology leaders who want to apply their skills beyond their immediate commercial context, her career is one of the most interesting models available.

45. Rachel Seymour

Rachel Seymour is Manager of Cloud FinOps Engineering at the London Stock Exchange, one of the most important financial market infrastructure organisations in the world. Nominated for UKtech50 2026, she represents a category of UK technology leadership that is often invisible to the broader conversation: the engineering leaders working inside major financial institutions who are building and running the systems that financial markets depend on.

Her specific contribution is her focus on FinOps, the practice of financial management for cloud infrastructure, as a genuine engineering leadership discipline. As cloud costs have become a major factor in UK technology organisations' economics, the leaders who can manage cloud investment with the same rigour that they manage engineering quality are increasingly essential. Seymour's work at one of the UK's most demanding technology environments makes her a credible voice on this challenge.

46. Cijo Joseph

Cijo Joseph is the Chief Technology and Information Officer at Mitie, the UK facilities management and professional services company, and a consistently nominated UKtech50 candidate. His work building technology capability inside a large operational services business reflects the specific challenges of technology leadership outside the native technology sector.

His contribution to UK technology thinking is his focus on digital transformation in facilities management and operations: the application of AI, IoT, and data analytics to the physical systems that buildings and infrastructure require. For UK technology leaders working in operational technology rather than pure software, his experience of what digital transformation looks like from the inside of a large operational business is directly relevant.

47. Wendy Redshaw

Wendy Redshaw is the Chief Digital Information Officer for Retail at NatWest Group, making her one of the most senior technology executives in UK financial services. Her work leading digital transformation for NatWest's retail banking business reflects the specific challenges of building digital capability inside a regulated financial institution at significant scale.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on customer-centred digital banking: the sustained case that the measure of digital transformation in financial services is not the sophistication of the technology deployed but the improvement in the experience of the customers it serves. In a sector that has sometimes been more focused on technology for its own sake than on the customer outcomes it produces, her perspective is a useful corrective.

48. Sarah Luxford

Sarah Luxford is a Partner specialising in DDaT (Digital, Data and Technology) recruitment at GatenbySanderson, and co-founder of TLA Women in Tech, a community supporting women in technology leadership roles across the UK. Her work placing senior technology leaders in both public and private sector organisations gives her an unusually broad and current view of what UK technology leadership capabilities are most in demand.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on the human capital dimensions of technology leadership: the insight that the effectiveness of technology investment depends critically on whether organisations have the right leadership talent in place, and that building that talent requires deliberate community building, sponsorship, and pipeline development rather than just better recruitment. TLA Women in Tech is a practical expression of that conviction.

49. Alex Depledge

Alex Depledge is the founder and CEO of Resi, the UK's leading home extension and renovation platform, and an entrepreneurship advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Her work building Resi has combined technology with a traditionally non-digital sector to produce a platform that makes architectural services accessible to homeowners who would previously have found them inaccessible.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on the intersection of technology and traditionally non-digital sectors: the insight that the most interesting opportunities in UK technology are often not in building the next SaaS tool for technology companies but in applying technology to the sectors where it is least expected but most valuable. As an advisor to the Chancellor on entrepreneurship, she also represents a connection between UK technology entrepreneurship and the policy environment in which it operates.

50. Avril Chester

Avril Chester is the founder of Cancer Central and CTO of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, bringing together social entrepreneurship and senior technology leadership in a way that is genuinely distinctive in the UK sector. Cancer Central is a digital platform connecting cancer patients with information and support, building on her technology expertise to address a genuine social challenge.

Her contribution to UK technology thinking is her focus on technology as a social infrastructure: the work of building digital platforms that serve people in the most vulnerable moments of their lives, where the standard assumptions about user behaviour and interface design require fundamental rethinking. For UK technology leaders interested in the intersection of social impact and genuine product engineering, her career is one of the most interesting models available.

Notable Voices We Almost Included

This list focused specifically on UK-based voices with demonstrated original thought leadership in technology and software leadership. In developing it, a number of internationally prominent voices were deliberately excluded because their UK connection, while real, does not define their primary practice. Martin Fowler, born in Walsall and one of the most influential figures in software architecture and agile development globally, is now based in Massachusetts. Gergely Orosz, who spent formative years at Skype in London and at Skyscanner, now publishes The Pragmatic Engineer from Amsterdam. Pat Kua, who built much of his career at ThoughtWorks in London, is now based in Berlin. Each of these voices is genuinely important for UK software engineering practitioners to follow. They simply did not qualify for a list specifically focused on UK-based leadership voices.

Also considered were a number of government digital leaders whose institutional roles are highly significant but whose public thought leadership contribution, in terms of published writing, speaking, and original content generation, is more limited. The list prioritises those whose ideas travel, not just those whose titles are impressive.

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Learning from UK Tech Leaders

The most common mistake UK technology leaders make when engaging with the voices on this list is treating them as a reading list rather than a thinking list. The temptation is to read their books, follow their newsletters, and attend their conferences, checking a box that says learning done. That approach consistently produces less value than engaging with their ideas as live, contested, evolving thinking that is worth arguing with.

The second mistake is applying frameworks without understanding the context in which they were developed. Dave Farley's continuous delivery practices were shaped by the specific context of large-scale distributed systems in UK financial services and media. Matthew Skelton's Team Topologies framework was shaped by his observations of how real UK engineering organisations were failing to scale. Sam Newman's microservices thinking was shaped by the specific problems he encountered at ThoughtWorks clients. Understanding that context is not optional. It is what allows you to apply their thinking appropriately rather than cargo-culting their outputs.

The third mistake is drawing the technology and leadership learning conversations too tightly. The most valuable thing about following a diverse set of voices, from Dame Wendy Hall's AI governance thinking to Charlene Hunter's community building to Dave Farley's continuous delivery practice, is that the connections between them are often more valuable than any individual insight. The leaders who apply AI governance thinking to engineering culture decisions, or who apply continuous delivery principles to organisational change management, or who apply community building thinking to engineering culture development, tend to be the ones who produce the most interesting results.

For UK technology leadership teams that want practical support working through these challenges, Jonno White works with technology organisations on the team dynamics, communication, and leadership effectiveness that underpin everything the voices on this list discuss. Email jonno@consultclarity.org. International travel is often far more affordable than clients expect.

For a global perspective on software engineering thought leaders alongside this UK-specific guide, see the blog post on the 50 Best Thought Leaders in Software Engineering at consultclarity.org/post/50-best-thought-leaders-in-software-engineering-2026.

How to Apply This List

The most effective way to engage with the 50 voices on this list is to start with three rather than fifty. Pick the three whose current focus most closely matches your most pressing current challenge: if you are navigating a significant engineering culture problem, start with Meri Williams, Andy Skipper, and James Stanier. If you are building a more inclusive technology organisation, start with Charlene Hunter, Anna Brailsford, and Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon. If you are navigating a technology architecture transition, start with Dave Farley, Matthew Skelton, and Sam Newman.

From those three, follow the threads. The voices on this list reference each other, engage with each other's work, and build on each other's frameworks in ways that will naturally expand your reading into the broader ecosystem. The goal is not to consume all 50. It is to find the entry points that most directly address your current situation and follow them as deeply as they take you.

The second step is to attend at least one event where several of these voices appear together. LeadDev London, CTO Craft Con, and QCon London are the three events in the UK where the density of high-quality engineering leadership thinking is highest. Seeing these voices in conversation with each other and with the audiences who challenge their ideas produces a quality of understanding that reading alone cannot replicate.

The third step is to apply, not just accumulate. Every idea from every voice on this list is most valuable when it is tested against your specific context. The frameworks work differently in a fifty-person scale-up than in a five-hundred-person enterprise. The inclusion programmes that produce results in financial services require adaptation before they work in healthcare or education. The technology leaders who extract the most value from engaging with these voices are the ones who treat their ideas as hypotheses to test, not conclusions to adopt.

For UK technology leadership teams that want a facilitator who can help structure the conversations that turn these ideas into team-level action, Jonno White, author of Step Up or Step Out and Certified Working Genius Facilitator, works with technology organisations globally. Email jonno@consultclarity.org. Many organisations find that bringing in an external facilitator for a leadership offsite or Working Genius workshop accelerates this process significantly.

For more on IT leadership thought leaders globally, see the blog post on 35 Leading Thought Leaders in IT Leadership Globally at consultclarity.org/post/thought-leaders-it-leadership.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who are the most important thought leaders in UK tech and software leadership to follow in 2026?

The most important voices in UK tech and software leadership in 2026 span several distinct categories. For software delivery and engineering practice, Dave Farley, Matthew Skelton, Sam Newman, and James Stanier represent the UK's strongest contribution to global software engineering thinking. For engineering leadership and CTO development, Andy Skipper and Meri Williams lead a community of practice that is genuinely world-class. For digital inclusion and community building, Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, Charlene Hunter, and Anna Brailsford have built the most effective organisations addressing who gets to work in and lead technology. For academic and policy grounding, Dame Wendy Hall represents UK computer science research at its highest level. The most valuable approach is to follow voices across these categories rather than focusing exclusively on any one.

What makes UK tech and software leadership different from leadership approaches in the USA or elsewhere?

UK technology leadership is shaped by several distinct contextual factors. The UK government digital service has made public sector technology a genuinely respected domain and has produced frameworks for user-centred design and iterative delivery that have influenced technology practice globally. The UK's continuous delivery movement, shaped significantly by Dave Farley, Jez Humble, and the ThoughtWorks community, gave the global industry its most rigorous framework for software delivery practice. The UK's proximity to European regulation, including GDPR and the AI Act, has made responsible technology a practical leadership concern rather than a theoretical one. And the UK's specific challenges around geographic equity, with significant technology centres in Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Bristol alongside London, mean that the conversation about technology leadership has a regional dimension that US discourse often lacks.

How should technology leaders use thought leadership content to develop their teams?

The most effective approach is to use thought leadership content as a starting point for team conversation rather than as a source of ready-made answers. Pick one framework, one idea, or one specific challenge from a thought leader's work, and use it as the prompt for a team discussion about how it applies to your specific context. The conversations that follow, where team members push back, extend, or contradict the framework based on their experience, tend to produce more learning than passive consumption. For leadership teams that want structured support facilitating those conversations, Jonno White works with technology organisations on exactly this challenge. Email jonno@consultclarity.org.

Which UK tech and software thought leaders should I follow on LinkedIn?

All 50 voices on this list maintain active LinkedIn presences with varying levels of original content production. The highest-frequency original content producers include Dave Farley, whose posts on software engineering practice consistently generate substantive engagement, James Stanier, whose writing on engineering management is among the most practical available, Andy Skipper, whose CTO Craft community produces a steady stream of engineering leadership insights, Matthew Skelton, whose thinking on team topologies and organisational design extends well beyond his books, and Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, whose advocacy on STEM inclusion and the future of work reaches a genuinely broad audience. For structured learning, the newsletters of James Stanier, Andy Skipper, and Matthew Skelton provide a consistent stream of high-quality insight.

Final Thoughts

The 50 voices in this guide represent something specific and valuable about UK technology leadership: its diversity of perspective, its grounding in practice, and its willingness to engage with the hard questions about who technology is for and who gets to build it.

The UK has produced some of the most important intellectual contributions to software engineering and technology leadership over the past two decades. Continuous delivery, Team Topologies, web science, the government digital service model, and a remarkably rich ecosystem of engineering leadership communities and practitioner voices have all emerged from this relatively small island. That contribution continues in 2026 with the voices on this list, who are extending, challenging, and building on those foundations in ways that matter.

The most important thing technology leaders can do with this list is act on it. Follow three voices. Attend one event. Read one book. Apply one framework. The value is not in knowing who these people are. It is in being shaped by their thinking.

For UK technology leadership teams that want practical support developing the communication, accountability, and team dynamics that underlie everything these voices discuss, Jonno White, author of Step Up or Step Out and Certified Working Genius Facilitator, works with organisations globally. Hire Jonno White to facilitate your next leadership offsite or team workshop by emailing jonno@consultclarity.org. International travel is often far more affordable than clients expect.

For a companion perspective on technology and software leadership voices in Australia and New Zealand, see the post on 50 Essential Thought Leaders in Technology and Software Leadership in ANZ at consultclarity.org/post/thought-leaders-technology-software-leadership-australia-new-zealand.

About the Author

Jonno White is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator, author of Step Up or Step Out, and leadership consultant who has worked with schools, corporates, and nonprofits around the world. His book Step Up or Step Out has sold over 10,000 copies globally, and his podcast The Leadership Conversations has featured 230+ episodes reaching listeners in 150+ countries. Jonno founded The 7 Questions Movement with 6,000+ participating leaders and achieved a 93.75% satisfaction rating for his Working Genius masterclass at the ASBA 2025 National Conference. Based in Brisbane, Australia, Jonno works globally and regularly travels for speaking and facilitation engagements. Organisations consistently find that international travel is far more affordable than expected. To book Jonno for your next keynote, workshop, or facilitation session, email jonno@consultclarity.org.

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If you found this list valuable, the 35 Leading Thought Leaders in IT Leadership Globally provides a complementary global perspective on the voices shaping IT and technology leadership from the United States, Asia, Europe, and beyond.

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