Who we are

You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ about 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us.

We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

Overview:

As the Director of Business Transformation – AI Enablement, you will report into the Chief Business Transformation Officer and be at the forefront of shaping and building the future of our Firm.

Your role will be pivotal in leading our AI Center of Enablement, championing the implementation and sustainable adoption of AI tools that augment our work and elevate the experiences we deliver to clients and colleagues. We are seeking a visionary and results-driven Director of Business Transformation – AI Enablement to help lead this exciting journey.

This role sits within the Business Transformation team and partners closely with Firm Leadership, People & Culture, Technology, and practice leaders to ensure AI initiatives are prioritized, governed, adopted, and scaled in ways that meaningfully improve how the firm operates and serves clients.

This is a Business Transformation Leadership role, accountable for readiness, adoption, governance frameworks, and value realization— not an AI technology role.

As a Director, Business Transformation - AI Enablement, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading Transformation Strategy & Execution: Bringing the Firm’s Fueled by Purpose strategy to life though the execution of transformation initiatives. Defining key milestones and performance metrics to track progress and success.
• AI Transformation Leadership: Partner with executive leadership to shape and execute the AI transformation roadmap, sequencing initiatives based on value, risk, and capacity. Own the enterprise portfolio of AI adoption initiatives, including intake, prioritization, tracking, governance alignment, and value realization.
• Develop Tools: Create toolkits, playbooks, and best practices for AI adoption.
• Market Insights & Emerging Trends: Monitor emerging AI tools, market trends, and enablement models relevant to the Firm. Translate insight into practical recommendations on experimentation, implementation framework design, and partnership opportunities.
• AI Driven Business Impact: Create and operationalize frameworks to identify, prioritize and measure high-impact use cases across all functions and departments. Partner with cross‑functional teams to enable and scale AI solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• AI Enablement & Change Leadership: Lead organization readiness planning and enablement frameworks to ensure AI initiatives can deliver firm-wide value. Guide cross-functional coordination with business units, IT, Legal, Risk, Privacy, HR, and Communications.
• AI Capability Building: Working closely with cross-functional partners, drive adoption of AI tools, improvements in AI literacy, and support structured experimentation.
• Adoption & Reporting: Track and report AI adoption and usage metrics, training progress, and business impact.
• Process & Implementation Framework Redesign: Reimagine processes to sustainably embed AI and improve productivity, quality, and decision making.
• Executive Partnership & Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, facilitating structured discussions and trade off decisions. D