Combining research, frameworks, and digital systems to drive AI transformation for enterprises and individual leaders.
Three decades guiding transformation at Fortune 500 enterprises and government institutions. Today, that work lives in three places — SHADOKA, NextChapter, and IMD Business School — each addressing a different facet of the same question: how do leaders and organizations stay human as AI reshapes everything?
01
Expert-led programs, frameworks, and transformation systems for Fortune 500 enterprises and U.S. government agencies. Proven where it counts: hundreds of millions saved, enterprise-wide transformation, and governance that turns tech spend into sustained value.
A repeatable system for AI transformation—research and proven frameworks, packaged as modular apps and delivered with AI assistance, built on the OPEN and CARE frameworks published in Harvard Business Review.
03
Faisal is the Executive Fellow and North America Program Co-Director for AI leadership, innovation, and human-centric transformation at IMD Business School in Lausanne, one of the world's top ranked business education institutions.
5%
have achieved significant returns from AI investments
scrapped most of their AI projects this year
stall — not because the technology fails, but because the organization and its people aren’t ready
say their workforce lacks the human skills needed to thrive alongside AI
Recurring annual savings — PepsiCo
Capability transformation — Northrop Grumman
Strategic partnership — CACI / DoD
SHADOKA was built on a single conviction: the organizations capable of sustaining transformation are not those with the best technology — they are those with the best leadership, the clearest governance, and the deepest human commitment to change.
Our work spans Fortune 500 enterprises, government agencies in the United States and Europe, and organizations navigating the most complex transformations in their history. The ideas behind our success have been published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Data Science Review, and developed across twelve books.
Faisal Hoque — Founder, SHADOKA & NextChapter
NextChapter delivers two self-paced programs and a purpose-built digital platform. The programs emerge from three decades leading transformation at some of the world’s largest organizations — and from the frameworks published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Begin with the module where the need is sharpest. Every module stands alone — and every module connects to the whole.
Custom executive education — FT 2025
European business schools — Bloomberg
Nationalities in each cohort
At IMD, Faisal helps CEOs and boards translate human-centric AI, innovation, and strategy into practical decisions that drive measurable impact — drawing on three decades of enterprise transformation experience and applying his OPEN and CARE frameworks to the hardest leadership challenges of the AI era.
IMD is consistently ranked among the world’s top institutions for executive education: #1 globally for custom executive education (Financial Times 2025) and #2 among European business schools (Bloomberg Businessweek 2025–26).
REINVENT (#1) · Everything Connects (#2) · LIFT (#1)
TRANSCEND
FT Book of the Month · Next Big Idea Club Must-Read
Deloitte
Technology Fast 50 & Fast 500™
Thinkers50
Strategy 2023 · Digital Thinking 2025
Thinkers360 — 2025
Top 25 Innovation & AI · Top 50 Leadership
Ziff-Davis Enterprise
in Technology
American Management Association
Distinguished alumni recognition
CIO Quarterly
For pioneering work on enterprise integration
Start with a 10-minute self-assessment. You’ll see exactly where your organization stands — and where the gap really is.
