Trainer | Coach | Author | Thought Leader
Emanuela Giangregorio
Emanuela began her career in governance as an internal auditor before moving into management consulting and project management, where she has practised for over two decades. Based in the UK, she works internationally as a trainer, coach and author.
Her work spans the private, public and third sectors across industries including Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Logistics, Media, Manufacturing and Telecommunications. Clients range from small UK businesses to large international corporations and influential NGOs.
Emanuela has trained thousands of professionals worldwide. She brings direct practical experience to every engagement, combined with a consistent focus on what works in the field, and is an External Verifier for the triple-accredited Em Normandie Business School.
Her published works include the AI Project Governance Framework, offered as a two-tier Foundation and Practitioner certification through APMG International. She is a member of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI and is passionate about ethical, effective human-AI collaboration.
Her 2025 novel, The Last Barista of Norwich, explores speculative topics such as artificial superintelligence, the future of work, human-AI augmentation, AI consciousness and the evolving relationship between humans and intelligent machines.
Emanuela designed the AI Project Governance Framework (AIPGF) during 2024, and first published it on January 2nd, 2025.
The Framework is designed to run alongside – or integrate with – existing project management methodologies and approaches such as Agile, PRINCE2Ò, PMBOKÒ and hybrid methodologies. As a result of applying the Framework, project teams can use AI ethically efficiently and effecitvely. Additionally, organisation governance functions and roles like the Chief AI Officer can provide assurance to their Board that AI is being used resposibly in projects.
"Success hinges on our ability to masterfully blend our wonderful human expertise, experience and wisdom with AI capabilities. The key isn't to be driven by AI, but to drive success with AI as an assistant."
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The AI Project Governance Framework (AIPGF) offers a sensible methodology for facilitating ethical, efficient and effective human-AI project collaboration.
- Can be integrated with a chosen project management methodology or approach, such as Agile, PRINCE2, PMBOK or hybrid approaches.
- Provides structured and scalable AI governance, supporting projects and programmes of varying size, complexity, risk and AI adoption maturity.
- Facilitates and encourages a high standard of ethical, efficient and effective use of AI in projects and programmes.
By implementing the Framework, organisations can systematically govern AI use across their portfolio of projects and programmes, as their AI adoption scales and as AI tools evolve. The accompanying AI Project Governance Capability Maturity Model (AIPG-CMM) can be used to establish maturity benchmarks and actions towards continuous improvement.
Disclaimer
The AIPGF is intended to provide practical guidance for governing the use of AI in projects and programmes. The author (Emanuela Giangregorio) expressly disclaims all liability to any person or organisation arising directly or indirectly from the use of, or for any errors or omissions in, the AIPGF guidance. The adoption and application of the guidance is at organisation discretion and is their sole responsibility.
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