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.
The five 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.
The Aramai band of the Ramaytush Ohlone people read the Pacifica coastline as a continuous source of strategic information for over three millennia. TDcatalyst operates on their ancestral territory and uses that landscape as the setting for every field engagement. Embodied reflection in that landscape produces the cognitive posture that generates breakthroughs.
Engagements end with a written diagnostic and a starting roadmap, with a named owner on each move. 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 client is a transformation, AI, or workforce leader at a mid-to-large enterprise, with accountability for how AI enters the operating model. Founders seeking enterprise readiness are welcome and often find the diagnostic engagement a fit.
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.
The engagements begin on the Pacifica coast because the setting changes the conversation. Mori Point, Pedro Point Headlands, Pedro Point Valley, Calera Creek, and the nearby redwood stands on Skyline ridge sit at the edge of the continent, and at the edge of how people usually talk about their work. Leaders say things on a trail they would not say in a conference room. That is part of the method.
The Aramai band of the Ramaytush Ohlone people have stewarded this land for thousands of years. TDcatalyst operates on their ancestral territory and pays an annual Yunakin Land Tax in acknowledgment.
TDcatalyst is an independent advisory practice operated by Tom Delaporte in a personal capacity. Not affiliated with any previous employer.