Brakten Consulting Frameworks
AI governance frameworks are genuinely useful. NIST, ISO 42001, Australia’s new national guidance all provide structure. I work with boards on what comes after the checklist: the organisational values, culture, and oversight capability to govern AI systems that learn, adapt, and make decisions no policy document fully anticipates.
It is important to be honest about the nature of the uncertainty. Boards are navigating a genuine frontier. The frameworks mentioned are new and sometimes contradictory. The regulatory environment is shifting rapidly. Boards that appear passive are often simply uncertain about what good looks like, and appropriately cautious about claims that any single framework has the answer.
Phil Volkofsky
Founder of Brakten Consulting
With over twenty five years working with boards and executive teams of organisations with national and multinational scope building governance practice, risk and ethics culture, and now applied directly to the AI governance challenge that existing frameworks do not fully address.
I am currently completing the BABL AI Algorithm Auditor Certificate and building an AI Ethics Governance Framework for PreEmpt.Life, an AI-driven strategic foresight platform. This is live work, not theoretical positioning.
Who I work with
Boards and executive teams who are deploying AI and need governance capability that goes beyond the checklist. Organisations that want to understand not just whether their AI systems are compliant, but whether they are producing outcomes that align with the organisation’s values.
Research now confirms what practitioners are discovering in practice: AI governance often fails not because the frameworks are wrong but because the failures are psychological, cultural, and systemic. And substantive legal risk accumulates quietly behind procedural compliance.
If the question your board is asking is “did management follow the process?”, I can help you ask the question that matters more: “are our systems making decisions we would endorse?”