Most advisors on AI workforce transformation have worked one side of the problem. Tom Delaporte has worked three: AI product, enterprise consulting, and operator-side transformation, with commercial accountability throughout. Grow is the fixed-fee consulting that comes out of that combination.
The portfolio discipline comes from running vendor and FDE relationship calls inside a live enterprise AI account, from the side of the table that makes the credit ask. The adoption discipline comes from moving measurement past training completion into behavior change, workshop by workshop. The reorg discipline comes from leading organizational design and M&A integration engagements for global companies. Each one was tested on real accounts before it became a Grow offer.
Grow is delivered personally by someone who built a customer practice from a standing start into an eight-figure ARR business at an enterprise AI company, on consulting foundations from a global firm. The portfolio decisions, adoption systems, and org redesign in these engagements are the same ones run from the inside, at scale.
Engagements end with decisions made and a plan someone owns. Recommendations carry their sources and their reasoning. The standard is the one that applied when the work was being done from the inside, with a P&L attached.
Programs run operator-side in five of them, including Country HR head and executive committee member in Vietnam at 27. French and English bilingual, working Spanish.
Workforce and AI programs for state labor departments and the Department of Defense’s innovation arm.
On site as executive sponsor for Carnival in Miami, Meijer in Grand Rapids, Domino’s in Ann Arbor, and Sanofi in Boston, with Bay Area accounts across pharma, biotech, industrial, and high tech.
All delivery in prior roles.
Tom Delaporte founded TDcatalyst to bring that combined vantage into a single advisory practice.
The typical Grow client is a transformation, AI, or workforce leader at a mid-to-large enterprise or public-sector organization, with accountability for how AI enters the operating model: the portfolio, the adoption, and the org structure that follows.
Leading an AI transformation means working the seams between AI product, change consulting, and HR operations.
I led Talent Transformation, Talent Intelligence Platform, and Agentic Scale programs at an enterprise AI company, where I built a customer practice from a standing start into an eight-figure ARR business across Fortune 100 and public sector clients.
Before that, as an Engagement Manager at a global consulting firm in San Francisco, I led organizational design, change, and M&A integration engagements for global companies. And before consulting, I ran HR and transformation programs on the operator side, across France, Vietnam, the Philippines, China, and India.
I’m bilingual in French and English with a working knowledge of Spanish, and have lived and worked on most continents. The ability to work well with people across cultures is how impact and outcomes materialize.
TDcatalyst is an independent advisory practice operated by Tom Delaporte in a personal capacity. Not affiliated with any previous employer.