See what's coming. Then change how you work.
Lightleap is an innovation consultancy for the energy sector, run by James Daniel. It helps energy companies find the real problem and the advances that could change the answer, then change how they operate, rather than just deploying shiny tools.
What Lightleap does
How I work
Three stages, used together or on their own, whether you're starting from a problem or a new possibility.
- Workshops that start from the problem or the possibility. Short, focused sessions on a stubborn problem or new capability worth testing, with the people closest to it agreeing what to look at.
- Discovery. I spend time finding the real problem before anyone commits to a solution, so the money goes on the right thing.
- Delivery that sticks. I stay through the change, so new ways of working still hold once the project team has gone.
What I work on
The three areas where energy organisations most often need to change how they run.
- Digital and data that earn their keep. Systems and data people trust and use, chosen for the problem in front of you rather than the latest platform.
- Future operating models. A practical method for working out how an organisation should run once new technology is in place, not just how to install it.
- AI in practice, not AI theatre. Where AI genuinely helps, I make it work day to day. Where it doesn't, I say so.
I bring more than 20 years in technology and digital transformation, including leading workplace technology at ITV and earlier work at Towers Watson.
Energy Frontier
One grid idea a week, already working or taking shape somewhere in the world, tested for what it could mean in Great Britain.
Energy Frontier is an independent weekly show and newsletter. I talk to the engineers, founders and researchers behind energy ideas that are working or emerging in the US, Europe, Australia, Japan, South Korea or China, and ask a simple question: what would it take to use this here?
Let's talk
Working on a change in how your energy business operates, or building something at the energy frontier? I'd be glad to hear about it.
- Email: hello@lightleap.co.uk
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/james--daniel