Strong technology leadership is essential to navigate today information landscape.  Next Generation Strategy (NGS) collaborates with organizations via fractional time, project-based, speaking engagements, or integrated within committees.

Brian Blodgett
Founder | Strategic Technology Advisor | Transformation Speaker

Brian has over 25 years of rolling up his sleeves in tech, strategy, and leadership. He kicked things off as a Physics teacher, so making the complicated feel practical is second nature. Since then, he’s built and grown tech companies, wrangled high schoolers, led fire crews as chief, and sat on boards for banks, schools, and nonprofits. From handling classroom chaos to managing crises, he’s learned that leadership and process come first.

And when it comes to AI or automation, Brian’s blunt:

“Technology amplifies process quality . . . good or bad.”

His work and stories are filled with real-world strategy, hard-earned leadership lessons, humor, and naturally, updates on the never-ending epic battle between the passive aggressive golden retriever he never asked for, the autonomous AI lawnmower committed to its mission regardless of consequences, and Brian himself . . . serving as part engineer, part referee, and part hostage negotiator in the ongoing struggle between K-9 intimidation, silicon persistence, and a continued escalation that has raised deeply philosophical questions about what truly qualifies as an “obstacle.”

Beyond the stories and lessons, Brian is in the trenches with these companies, helping them not just adopt AI, but build real strategies around it.  Strategies that grow what they’re doing, But I always bring them back to the basics: people, process, and technology. You can’t skip the training or the people element. Brian makes sure leadership teams get that because if they don’t align those three, all the tech in the world won’t save you. That’s how we create sustainable growth, not just quick fixes.

In the end, Brian helps organizations see that if you get your processes right first, the tech will take you even further.  If you get the people onboard and trained the technology will become a force multiplier.

NGS - Technology with Purpose. Strategy with Vision.

Next Generation Strategy
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