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Pronunciation
FA-HID BI-ZAH-REE
Bios
Short
Fahed Bizzari equips leaders to close the AI Empowerment Gap. His book, AI Empowerment for Business Leaders, sets out the method, and his consultancy, Bellamy Alden, helps organisations apply it.
Medium
Fahed Bizzari’s work is dedicated to understanding and closing the AI Empowerment Gap that sits between using AI and harnessing its power. By February 2023 he was running in-person ChatGPT training. He founded Bellamy Alden, the AI Empowerment Company, which equips organisations to build their own AI Empowerment Programmes. His book, AI Empowerment for Business Leaders, turns that work into a seven-step method for closing the Gap. He gives keynotes across the Middle East, Europe and Asia and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur UK, The National, Gulf News and Khaleej Times. He is based in Dubai.
Long
Fahed Bizzari’s work is dedicated to one problem: understanding and closing the AI Empowerment Gap that sits between using AI and harnessing its power. He coined the term and developed the definitions and principles that give AI empowerment a shared language.
Fahed’s relationship with AI began six months before ChatGPT was released. By February 2023 he was running in-person ChatGPT training, teaching hundreds of professionals to collaborate with it as a general-purpose intelligence rather than a search engine or writing assistant. That training and the consulting that followed showed him where the real problem lay: people and organisations were using AI without learning how to harness its power. His central argument is that AI is a people challenge with an IT component, not the other way round.
By 2024 he had founded Bellamy Alden, the AI Empowerment Company, which equips organisations to build AI Empowerment Programmes with their own people. His book, AI Empowerment for Business Leaders (Rethink Press, November 2026), draws on that work to set out a seven-step method that turns scattered AI use into lasting organisational strength.
Based in Dubai, Fahed gives keynotes and talks on AI across the Middle East, Europe and Asia, to audiences that have included prime ministers and government ministers. He runs workshops for leadership communities including the Young Presidents' Organization, CorporateConnections and the American Chamber of Commerce. He has appeared on podcasts, radio and television, and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur UK, The National, Gulf News and Khaleej Times.
Key facts
- Coined the AI Empowerment Gap and wrote the AI Empowerment Canon.
- Author of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders (Rethink Press, November 2026).
- Founder of Bellamy Alden, the AI Empowerment Company.
- Entrepreneur since 2002 and a self-taught software developer.
- Over a decade helping businesses systemise, digitise and automate how they work.
- Using general-purpose AI in his own business six months before ChatGPT was released.
- Running in-person ChatGPT training by February 2023.
- Has trained hundreds of professionals in applied AI, from banking, government, professional services and consumer brands.
- Has given keynotes and talks on AI across the Middle East, Europe and Asia, to audiences including prime ministers and government ministers.
- Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur UK, The National, Gulf News and Khaleej Times.
- Based in Dubai (GST).
The book
AI Empowerment for Business Leaders: How to Turn Scattered AI Use into a Lasting Organisational Strength. Rethink Press, November 2026.
Short description. AI may be in use throughout an organisation while its people still struggle to get work they can rely on. AI Empowerment for Business Leaders gives leaders the clarity, confidence and direction to change that, through a seven-step method that develops their people’s capability and builds it into lasting organisational strength.
One line. The method for closing the AI Empowerment Gap.
Review copies are available for journalists, editors and producers.
The on-air introduction
A twenty-second read.
My guest today is Fahed Bizzari, author of AI Empowerment for Business Leaders. He helps leaders close what he calls the AI Empowerment Gap. That’s the gap between using AI and harnessing its power. Fahed, welcome.
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What he speaks on
From his talks
Why AI hasn’t changed most organisations. Why people’s everyday AI use so often falls short of what the technology could help them achieve and what leaders need to do to close the gap.
Staying safe with AI. Why AI's speed and fluency let mistakes slip past capable people, and what leaders need in place before something goes wrong.
Why AI gives average answers. Why capable AI keeps missing the mark on an organisation’s own work, why changing the model may leave the problem unresolved and what teams getting better work do differently.
AI carrying recurring work. How traditional subject matter experts shape how AI carries out their recurring work, so people can take on more while keeping the judgement in their hands.
Managers and AI. Why using AI every day can still leave managers struggling to get work they can rely on and how developing their capability helps the whole company move forward.
The cost of the obvious response. Why platforms, policies, training and mandates leave organisations where they started, despite the money and effort behind them.
In the news
The rush to agentic AI. Why organisations should climb to agentic AI rather than leap, and what gets skipped when they jump straight to agents.
Shadow AI. What leaders miss when they treat unapproved AI use only as a policing problem and how to respond to both the need and the risk.
Junior roles. Why cutting junior roles could be one of the most costly AI decisions an organisation makes.
Who owns AI. Why leaders cannot hand responsibility for AI to IT, a vendor or a training provider and what taking charge actually requires.
Definitions
These are the exact wordings. Please quote them word for word.
AI access means having AI available to use.
AI adoption means using AI, regardless of how often, how well, how safely or for what purpose.
AI empowerment means harnessing AI’s power to expand what you can do.
The AI Empowerment Gap is the gap between using AI and harnessing its power.
Harnessing AI means taking command of AI’s power and putting it to work.
An AI harness is a setup that helps you systematically take command of AI’s power and put it to work.
Suggested questions
Most companies say they have adopted AI. What are they actually reporting?
Why does so much AI training fail to change how a company works?
Why does AI give average answers on a company's own work?
Many employees use AI at work without telling anyone. What should a leader do with that?
What do the AI mistakes that make the headlines have in common?
Everyone is talking about agents. What is being skipped?
What happens to a company that keeps cutting junior roles?
Who should be responsible for AI in a company?
Isn't AI empowerment just change management with new words?
You've been training people to use AI since early 2023. What has changed in that time, and what hasn't?
What does a company that has got this right actually look like from the inside?
What is the most useful thing a leader can do in the next month?
When you say “harnessing AI”, what does that mean in practice?
What he does not comment on
- Model comparisons and benchmarks.
- Technical AI research, architecture and hardware.
- AGI timelines and existential risk.
- Vendor endorsements.
- Predictions about what AI will do and when.
- Deepfakes and AI-art controversies, unless there is a clear organisational angle.
- Politics, including government AI spending and national AI strategies.
- Legal liability for AI-assisted work, as opposed to organisational accountability.