Nikita Gusev
Associated Partner → Abu-Dhabi
- Nikita Gusev is an Associated Partner at ORTALEX and a Senior Expert at the ORGANISATIONAL HEALTH (OR) practice, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Mr Gusev specialises in Human & AI Transformation and Change Management. He works across the full transformation cycle: advising executive teams, strategising change and delivering it hands-on. He helps organisations adopt AI by aligning technology with people, leadership, culture, roles and ways of working, so that new capabilities are embraced by the workforce and translate into measurable business results.
- Mr Gusev has had a successful international career with a leading global enterprise software vendor and in senior Change Management roles at leading international consulting organisations. Currently, he works with executive teams on large-scale transformation programmes in an independent consultant capacity.
- Through this experience, he acquired in-depth knowledge and extensive international experience in leading the human side of Digital and Business Transformation. Mr Gusev has a proven track record of 10+ global and regional transformation programmes in asset-intensive industries such as Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Pharma, Manufacturing, Logistics and Construction. Today his focus is the human side of AI: preparing leaders and employees to work alongside AI, redesigning roles and ways of working for human–AI collaboration, building trust in AI solutions and developing the skills the workforce needs in an AI-enabled organisation. Mr Gusev uses Change Management to move AI from isolated pilots to scaled adoption, and Value Management to convert that adoption into measurable Efficiency gains, freeing capacity for Innovation.
- He has broad cross-cultural exposure and working experience across many regions, including the Middle East, Europe, Russia & CIS, and Asia.
- Mr Gusev is accredited in Change Management by Prosci Inc. He graduated from the Financial University (Moscow, Russia) with a Masters degree in Finance and Credit and later received a Masters degree in Business Economics from Bayes Business School (London, UK).