Alex Issakova

Alex Issakova is an ethical AI advisor whose work helps leaders understand the societal forces that shape intelligent systems, with her most significant achievement being her role in guiding CEOs and boards on responsible AI strategy and governance. She brings a calm, incisive voice to a field marked by rapid change, drawing on fifteen years of experience across Silicon Valley and Europe. Her talks are known for their clarity and grounded perspective, offering audiences both insight and practical direction at a moment when organisations are redefining their relationship with AI.

Her career began during the early wave of applied AI in Silicon Valley, where she worked alongside founders building products that would later transform the mobile ecosystem. She studied economics at the University of Essex, spending a year abroad at Trent University in Canada, before completing an MBA at Warwick Business School where she focused on leadership and ethical AI. She later expanded her thinking with a short intensive programme in the Ethics of AI at the London School of Economics, exploring how technology influences power structures, productivity and social interaction. These experiences shaped her belief that AI should enhance human potential rather than distort it.

Alex went on to build a career that spans strategy, operations and AI adoption. At Liftoff Mobile she became Sales Chief of Staff, driving major operational clarity during periods of transition and supporting a commercial organisation of more than 250 people. Before that she served as Head of Customer Success EMEA, scaling a team from five to twenty and delivering close to one hundred workshops that made complex AI accessible for non-technical audiences. Earlier roles at Fiksu saw her step into Director of Account Management EMEA, working on high value accounts and completing strategic secondments in Japan and Barcelona. Today she balances her work as a Fractional Chief of Staff at The Portfolio Collective with advising on ethical AI and running The Career Creator, a platform she founded to help executives grow portfolio careers through LinkedIn. Her writing on AI governance and digital sovereignty reaches more than 15,000 readers who value her measured, human centred perspective.

People hire Alex because she helps organisations cut through noise and face the real forces shaping AI adoption. She speaks on responsible AI, AI governance, digital sovereignty and the power dynamics behind emerging technologies, often using real examples to illustrate how teams can build governance that supports innovation without slowing progress. She also delivers sessions on personal branding and the future of work, drawing on her own shift from corporate burnout to a successful portfolio career.