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-scope consulting that comes out of that combination.
The frameworks draw on Dynamic Capabilities (Teece, UC Berkeley), Organizational Ambidexterity (O’Reilly and Tushman, Stanford and Harvard), and Sensing and Responding (Burnard and Bhamra). They are applied and refined through transformation work across Fortune 100 enterprises and public sector organizations, with measurable outcomes throughout.
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.
The consulting does not produce reports for review. Every engagement ends with decisions made and a plan someone owns. Every recommendation is specific, traceable, and owned. The standard is the same standard applied when the work was being done from the inside, with a P&L attached.
Tom Delaporte founded TDcatalyst after building and running transformation programs at the intersection of AI product, enterprise consulting, and operator-side transformation — three domains that rarely meet in a single practitioner.
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.
My career spans three areas that rarely meet: AI product, global change consulting, and HR strategy and operations. Leading an AI transformation means working the seams between them.
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.
The combination is not common. Most advisors have worked one side. I’ve worked three, with commercial accountability throughout. 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.