Clare Kitching: Make My Business Grow, How Can I Do This?

In this episode of On the Subject of Leadership, I speak with Clare Kitching, founder of Cambiq Consulting—formerly of McKinsey, QuantumBlack, and Treasury Wine Estates where she served as General Manager of Data, Insights and Analytics. Clare has spent the last fifteen months building an independent practice helping Australian businesses make sense of artificial intelligence—its uses, its limits, and the leadership reckoning it forces on the executives who adopt it.This is not a conversation about which model to choose, or about agentic architectures, or about productivity benchmarks—though all three surface in the course of it. It is a conversation about what AI cannot do for you, about the leaders who are quietly hoping no one notices they have never logged in, and about the discipline of distinguishing what a client says they want from what they are actually asking.Clare's argument, developed across more than a decade in global consulting and now refined in the unsentimental…