The Breathing Room — Laura Chattington and Tara-Lee Baohm

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The Breathing Room

Practical, honest conversations about embedding AI into the way your team and organisation actually works.

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Latest — Episode 20
Don’t Wait for Winter to Expose the Gaps. You Have 50 Days Until 1 October — After That, Every Manual Workaround Is a Risk to Delivery, Assurance, and Your People.
14 Minutes
From 1 October, winter mode hits — demand rises, capacity drops, and the manual workarounds your team lives with stop being inefficient. They become a risk to delivery, assurance, and your people.
Why 1 October changes the risk profile for every manual workaround
What spikes in winter — meetings, papers, reporting, complaints
Why waiting until winter to fix AI workflows is the wrong call
What to fix in the next 50 days so winter doesn’t expose the gaps
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Episode 19
WARNING: The "Messy Data" Excuse Is Hiding A Massive Potential Time Bomb In Your Back Office
14 Minutes
"Our data is a mess." It's the reality for almost every organisation. But when data lives across five different systems, your exhausted team is manually cross-referencing it under pressure—and mistakes are slipping through.
Why manual data integration is a legal and assurance time bomb
How many mistakes are hiding in your board papers right now
Why AI is the solution to messy data, not the victim of it
How to catch errors before they hit the board
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Episode 18
The Board Paper Took 3 Days. The Next Committee Needs It Rewritten by Friday. This Is Happening Every Month.
14 Minutes
Every board, committee paper or report your organisation produces has the same hidden problem. It took three times longer than it should have — because good information lives in five different systems, then gets rewritten for every committee.
The governance time drain — finding evidence across five systems
Rewriting the same information four times for four different committees
Why better templates don't fix a manual evidence triangulation problem
How AI synthesises evidence and reframes it for each audience automatically
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Episode 17
Right Now, Someone in Your Organisation Just Put Confidential Data Into an AI Tool Nobody Approved. You Won't Know Until It's Too Late.
14 Minutes
Someone in your organisation is using an AI tool you didn't approve, with data you didn't clear, and no policy to protect you. Shadow AI is already inside every organisation that doesn't have a clear AI framework — and the answer isn't banning it.
What shadow AI is — and why it's already happening in your organisation
The real risks: data, IP, GDPR, regulatory and reputational exposure
Why banning AI tools doesn't work — it just drives the behaviour underground
The leadership move that gets it under control: policy, approved tools, governance framework
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Episode 16
Your Best People Are Burning Out. Some Are Already Looking for the Door. Here's What That's Actually Costing — and the Leadership Decision That Stops It.
12 Minutes
When a team burns out, you don't just lose productivity. You lose people — and everything they took with them. The institutional knowledge. The relationships. The experience that took years to build. Laura and Tara-Lee talk about the burnout and turnover cycle, what it's actually costing your organisation, and the leadership moves that break it.
Why burnout leads to turnover — and what leaves with your people
The true cost of the cycle: six months hiring, onboarding, and rebuilding
Why asking more without changing how work gets done makes it worse
The leadership decision that breaks the cycle — top-down AI embedding
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Episode 15
Urgent Care Organisations: How to Deliver More Without Burning Out Your Team
14 Minutes
Rising demand. Frozen budgets. The same headcount being asked to absorb more — month after month. Asking more of your stretched teams isn't a strategy. It's a burnout plan. Laura and Tara-Lee talk about the leadership decision that actually changes what your organisation can deliver — without breaking the people who make it run.
Why asking more of stretched teams isn't a strategy — it's a burnout plan
How AI embedding creates 2x, 3x, 5x output without adding pressure
The difference between AI available and AI embedded — and what that gap costs
The leadership decision that changes what your organisation can deliver
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Episode 14
Every Day Without an AI Strategy, the Gap Gets Wider.
12 Minutes
Your team has the tools. Some people are using them. Nobody has a strategy. Every day that continues is a day your team is making decisions you don't know about, with data you haven't protected, using tools you haven't approved. That's not a future risk — it's happening right now.
Your team has the tools but not the foundation — the times tables problem
Adding tools isn't building a strategy — where the investment disappears
People are already using AI without guidelines, governance, or oversight
What taking control of this actually looks like — and why now
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Episode 13
No Large Budget. No Specialist Team. Florence Zakari Started Anyway.
21 Minutes
"Honestly — it just blew my mind." Florence Zakari, Head of Finance & Resources at PELC, on what happened when Partnerships of East London Cooperative started applying AI with no big budget, no specialist team, and no perfect setup. Not a large organisation. Not a digitally mature team. Just people — using what was already available — differently.
Why "we're not ready yet" is rarely the real barrier — and what actually is
How PELC started applying AI with no specialist resource or transformation budget
The mindset shift from "we're not quite there yet" to "what can we do now?"
What's possible for organisations of any size that decide to start
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Episode 12
Why Are Organisations With AI Tools Still Getting Left Behind — and How Much Longer Can Yours Afford to Wait?
11 Minutes
Your organisation has the AI tools. Your teams have access. So why isn't anything really changing? Because access isn't the problem. Training your leadership and teams to actually use it — properly, consistently, in the way your organisation works — is where most organisations are stuck right now. And every week that doesn't happen, the organisations that have done it are pulling further ahead.
Why access to AI tools isn't the same as value from AI tools
Where most organisations are actually stuck — and what it's costing them
The compounding advantage of organisations that have trained their teams properly
What the cost of waiting actually looks like — and what getting it right means
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Episode 11
IC24 Is One of the UK's Biggest Urgent Care Organisations. Here's How They Embedded AI — and What Changed.
30 Minutes
What does it actually look like when an organisation grabs the AI opportunity and runs with it? Not a pilot. Not a taskforce. Not a strategy document gathering dust. IC24 — one of the UK's biggest urgent care providers — did it for real. Laura and Tara-Lee sit down with Deputy CEO Katherine Pitts to hear what happened, how the team responded, and what every leader sitting on the fence needs to hear.
How IC24 approached AI as a leadership decision — not a tech rollout
Bringing the team on the journey — what helped build confidence and engagement
What changed in practice — the outcomes that followed
Why Katherine says: "We don't want to wait for another COVID"
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Episode 10
Unsigned. Seven Days. Three KPI Breaches — and It Was All in the Register the Whole Time.
12 Minutes
You already have a contract register. Filters. Dates. Owners. Maybe a dashboard nobody opens until something catches fire. The problem isn't missing data. It's no capacity to synthesise — renewal pressure, unsigned positions, KPI breaches, compliance drift — across suppliers and time — fast enough for governance to act before the crisis meeting. Live demo: how AI turns the same register into prioritised risk narrative, forward horizon, and committee-ready language.
Why a contract register isn't contract intelligence — the synthesis gap
Renewal pressure, unsigned positions, KPI breaches — seeing the pattern before the crisis
Live demo: Contract Intelligence OS — from register to prioritised risk narrative
Human judgment, audit trails, and accountability in regulated environments
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Episode 09
5 Key Leadership Shifts That Can Make or Break Whether AI Value Lands
12 Minutes
Most organisations are leading AI like a tech rollout — tools, training, access — and then wondering why nothing really changes. AI isn't a tech shift. It's a leadership one. Laura and Tara-Lee walk through five leadership shifts that decide whether your AI investment actually creates value — or stalls at another abandoned pilot.
Why a tools-first rollout rarely changes how the organisation actually works
Training and access aren't outcomes — what leaders need to measure instead
The shift from "we bought AI" to "we changed how we lead with AI"
Five leadership moves that make or break whether AI value lands
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Episode 08
[LIVE DEMO] How Advanced Post-Meeting Prompts Save Your Team Hours
16 Minutes
Most organisations don't lose time in meetings — they lose it before and after: turning discussion into actions, chasing who agreed what, rediscovering risks three weeks later when it's urgent. You already have the recording, the notes, or the transcript — what you don't have is hours to mine them properly. Live demo: advanced post-meeting prompts that pull out actions, decisions, risks, owners, and deadlines — so your team stays prepared, aligned, and productive using AI on the tools you already have. Laura and Tara-Lee walk through how this compounds into hours saved every week for everyone who depends on clear follow-through.
The hidden tax — before and after meetings, not in the room
From recording or transcript to clarity — without burning leadership hours
Structured prompts: actions, decisions, risks, owners, and deadlines
Weekly compound effect — productivity for the whole team, not just the chair
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Episode 07
[LIVE DEMO] The £100k+ Sitting in Your Spreadsheet (That Nobody Has Time to Find)
11 Minutes
Most organisations already hold the data — procurement, supplier lists, contracts scattered across the business. The problem isn't access — it's that nobody has time to interrogate it properly. Savings get missed, risks stay buried in contracts, and decisions are made on partial visibility. This episode is a live-style walkthrough of how Laura and Tara-Lee use AI on real business process to surface savings and risk in seconds — with the tools you already have.
Why data doesn't become savings without capacity to interrogate it
Missed savings, buried contract risk, and partial visibility — what breaks in practice
AI applied to process: finding £100k+ signals in spreadsheets and supplier data
What leaders can do next with procurement and supplier intelligence
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Episode 06
Making Change Stick: Why Culture Decides Whether Your AI Investment Actually Lands
12 Minutes
You can buy the tools, train the team, and run a brilliant workshop — and six months later, nothing has really shifted. Not because AI doesn't work, but because change that doesn't land in the culture doesn't stick. 71% of AI tool integrations fail within 6 months. This week: how to align AI with the way your organisation actually works — so you get impact and outcomes, not another abandoned pilot. Culture, resistance, and what "making it stick" looks like in practice.
Why culture decides whether your AI investment actually lands
The 71% stat — and what it tells us about adoption
Aligning AI with how your organisation works, not bolting it on
Resistance, leadership signals, and practical moves that make change stick
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About Laura & Tara-Lee

Between them, decades of experience in AI strategy, health and social care, and leading transformational change in complex organisations.

Laura Chattington
Laura Chattington
AI STRATEGIST & IMPLEMENTATION
Laura has run multi-million dollar global accounts for billion-dollar companies, working with both individuals and teams in organisations like Oracle, Deloitte, EY, Puma Energy, Social Finance, IC24 and Facebook. She's trained and advised top founders and leadership teams around the world across technology, finance, energy, healthcare and marketing. She's been mentored by and works with the top 1% of coaches and consultants in business and AI globally.

Today, Laura partners with entrepreneurs and corporate teams to embed key workstreams & service delivery into AI-integrated business-first systems, so they can unlock more profit, reclaim time and fully leverage AI to scale — without sacrificing their sanity.
Tara-Lee Baohm
Tara-Lee Baohm
Change Leadership & Organisational Culture
Tara-Lee is an accomplished Director with over 20 years of experience in health, social care and work with the third sector. With a background in commissioning of over £550 million, she specialises in change management, organisational culture and development, and service and process improvement.

Her strong skills in leadership and coaching enable her to create collaborative and empowering working relationships and lead successful transformation — with systems, organisations, services, teams, and individuals.
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The AI Executive Workshop
For senior leaders and teams who want to go beyond the hype and actually embed AI into the way they work.
For your executives, managers and team

What if AI was embedded into how your team works — supporting decisions, streamlining workflows, and increasing capacity across your organisation? In this workshop, we'll show you and your team how to apply AI within the systems and tools you already use, so you can get everything done faster, reduce operational pressure, and improve decision-making day-to-day.

A practical, hands-on programme, delivered in your organisation, built around how you actually work. Delivered to organisations including IC24, UHUK, and PELC — working with HR leaders, senior directors, and operational teams across health, social care, and professional services. Senior coaches, consultants, directors and executives — including partners from EY, Oracle leaders, and founders of 7+ figure consultancies — have also joined the AI Executive experience.

AI Skills & Practical Tools
We go beyond prompts. Your team learns to embed AI into real workflows — meetings, decisions, reporting, and service delivery — using tools they already have. Skills they use the next day, not slides they forget by Friday.
Safety, Risk & Governance
We cover what your team needs to know to use AI safely — data protection, hallucinations, IP, GDPR, and organisational policy. Your people leave knowing exactly what's safe, what isn't, and how to protect your organisation.
Culture & Adoption
Technology alone doesn't change how organisations work — people do. We build the cultural foundation for AI adoption: trust, critical thinking, and a "trust but verify" mindset that makes the change stick.
"Working with Laura on the AI Executive Workshop has been genuinely transformational for me and for IC24. I went into the programme curious but cautious, and I've come out of it a complete convert. The training has fundamentally changed how I work — AI is now saving me significant amounts of time, and it has given me a far greater sense of control and clarity in a role where the pace is relentless.
"Our meetings are now AI-supported, which has made them sharper, more focused, and far more efficient. What I valued most was Laura's approach — supportive, practical, and strategically insightful. As I've said to others: this isn't 'cheating'; it's enhancing the work, not replacing it. Life will never look the same again. If anyone is considering whether this training is worth the investment, I can say without hesitation — it absolutely is."
Katherine Pitts — Deputy CEO, IC24
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"Absolutely outstanding. Clear, precise, very practical. It did for me things I didn't even imagine were possible."
"You're just way ahead — people aren't even thinking like this yet."
"The way it joined dots about working patterns was fascinating — things we'd never have linked before."
"It's going to save so much time and headspace and add so much more value to our work."
"I was in a room with CEOs this week and they were only using AI to write emails — they're missing so much more. This showed me what's actually possible."
"This has given me the confidence to go and play with AI with a real idea of the breadth of what it can achieve."
"My mind is open. We've covered a huge amount, and it's an iterative, compounding experience."
"It's such a good opportunity right now to go and leverage this stuff — I'm excited to start integrating it into my work."
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The AI Foundation Sprint
AI embedded in your organisation. With your ROI measured.

We work with you to find your highest-leverage AI opportunities, then build the first working system together — designed around your workflow, running on your data, governed for safe use, and built with the cultural change your team needs to actually adopt it. ROI benchmarked before we build and tracked at 90 days.

High Leverage AI-Growth Diagnostic
A private session where we map your workflows, identify your highest-leverage AI opportunities, and build your step-by-step AI-Growth Plan — with the cost of each bottleneck calculated in time and money. We also assess where cultural and adoption barriers exist so the build is set up to succeed.
AI ROI Tracking
The ROI benchmark is set before we build, tracked as the system goes live, and tracked at 90 days with real numbers. In most cases, a single AI-embedded workflow returns the investment within the first 4–8 weeks.
AI Foundation Build
We build the first working AI system in 28 days — designed around the highest-leverage opportunity we identify together, built to your workflow, running on your data. Safe, governed, and built for your team to actually use.
Eileen Wilder
Multiple 8-Figure Entrepreneur — High Ticket Offers & Closed Million-Dollar Days
One of the top online business owners who has spoken in front of 10,000 people and closed million-dollar days. Eileen has a thriving online community, high-ticket offers, a YouTube channel, published books, and speaks on stages. Here's what happened when we worked together.
"I've had the privilege not only to coach and mentor her, but now I am learning from her and paying her money. Your mind's going to be blown."
What People Are Saying
"You're genuinely ahead of the curve, most people aren't even thinking about AI this way yet."
"This feels like the start of something huge, not just a session, but a shift in how I'll run my business."
"I was in a room with CEOs this week and they were still talking about ChatGPT for just copywriting and social posts. This showed me what's actually possible when you connect AI to delivery and profit."
"It's given me confidence to experiment with AI in my own systems — now I know the breadth of what it can really do."
"My mind's open. In three hours we covered more strategic ground than I have in months, and it keeps compounding."
"I can already see how much time and headspace this will free up and how much more value I can add to clients."
"I didn't realise how powerful this could be until now. It's practical, strategic, and already changing how I work."
"The way it joined the dots in my own business was fascinating — things I'd never connected before."
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We focus on the real value for embedding AI within your existing teams, systems, and operational workstreams, using tools you already have, to reduce operational pressure, free up capacity, and increase your impact, with the cultural change to make it stick.

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