# Naïm Bentaleb – AI Strategy & Operating Model Advisor

> I help CEOs move AI from pilots to production – with the operating model to scale it.

## About

Naïm Bentaleb is an AI strategy and operating model advisor helping CEOs and boards capture measurable value from AI. With 18+ years of cross-border operational experience as CEO of Xpertize Group, he brings an operator's perspective to AI adoption – identifying high-value workflows to redesign, quantifying ROI, and building the operating model that turns experiments into production. Governance is built in, not bolted on. Europe and Africa.

- **Education:** MIT Applied AI Program, Wharton Executive Education, Solvay Brussels School
- **Background:** 18+ years as CEO building cross-border talent businesses (Morocco, Belgium, France)
- **Focus:** AI value capture, workflow redesign, and operating models for CEOs and boards
- **Markets:** Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Morocco

## Core Services

### AI Value & Governance Sprint
A 2–3 week diagnostic for executive teams: identifies where AI creates the most value, maps workflows to redesign, quantifies ROI potential, and delivers a 90-day execution roadmap with governance guardrails built in. Board-ready brief included.

### Executive AI Operating Model
A 4–8 week engagement to design the operating model that scales AI: decision rights, workflow redesign, intake pipeline, governance charter, and workforce adoption plan.

### AI Oversight Retainer
Monthly board-grade strategic counsel: AI portfolio review, ROI tracking, risk oversight, board preparation, and CEO coaching. Governance reports and dashboards included.

### Augmented HR Sprint
AI diagnostic for People & Talent functions: tool inventory, workflow redesign opportunities, risk mapping, decision rights, GDPR/CNDP compliance check, and 90-day adoption roadmap.

### Governance-Aware AI Adoption for HR Teams
10-module AI adoption program for HR & Talent teams. Ethics, GDPR, and governance built into every module. Focuses on practical value capture. Works without LLM access.

## Frameworks

- **AI Autonomy Levels Model:** Four-level classification – Assisted, Supervised, Delegated, Autonomous – mapping AI agent capabilities to operating model and governance requirements.
- **Decision Rights Matrix:** Structured accountability model for AI-augmented decisions – who proposes, who approves, who overrides, who audits.
- **Governance Stack Diagram:** Architecture framework for enterprise AI operating models (coming soon).
- **Risk Tiering Framework:** Risk classification model for AI deployments (coming soon).

## Key Principles

1. Value first, governance built in. Every engagement starts by identifying where AI creates the most business value – then designs the operating model to capture it.
2. Evidence over assertion. All recommendations cite credible sources (McKinsey, Gartner, EU AI Act, NIST, ISO 42001).
3. Board register, always. Content and advice are aimed at the person who reports to a board.
4. AI is an operating discipline – not a destination.
5. The operating model is the competitive moat – not the algorithm. Models commoditize. How you structure decisions, authority, and execution is the differentiator.

## Blog

Naïm publishes daily articles on AI strategy, HR transformation, and business in Africa. Practical, evidence-based, written from an operator's perspective.

- [Blog (EN)](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/blog/)
- [Blog (FR)](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/fr/blog/)

Topics: AI in HR, AI change management, AI strategy for leaders, Africa business & tech, CEO decision-making.

## Contact

- Website: https://www.naimbentaleb.com
- Email: naim@naimbentaleb.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naimbentaleb/
- Based: Casablanca, Morocco
- Markets: Morocco, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg

## Links

- [Blog](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/blog)
- [Services](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/services)
- [About](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/about)
- [Augmented HR](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/augmented-hr)
- [Insights](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/insights)
- [Contact](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/contact)
- [Services (FR)](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/fr/services)
- [Services (NL)](https://www.naimbentaleb.com/nl/services)