Something is converging on your enterprise: data platforms, artificial intelligence, classical computing, and (on a timeline no one can know) quantum capability, fusing into one system that will determine competitive position. Most books on quantum computing explain the technology. Almost none explain how an enterprise should prepare for it under genuine uncertainty.

This book refuses to predict when quantum computing will matter. No one can. Instead, it asks a sharper question: what should you do when the timeline is unknowable but the cost of waiting is not? Quantum Computing and the Future of Leadership holds three distinct futures in view at once (Quiet Advantage, Security Shock, and Stall‑and‑Misallocation) and identifies the actions that remain sound across all three.

One deadline, however, is not ambiguous. NIST has scheduled today's public-key encryption for deprecation by 2030 and disallowance by 2035. Whatever you believe about quantum timelines, the regulatory calendar has already been set.

Written from an active operating seat inside one of the world's most heavily regulated financial institutions, and tested against the discipline of Oxford scholarship, this is a book for operators: leaders who must act before certainty arrives.

Dr. Kristin Milchanowski is a force in global AI and Quantum leadership and serves as the Chief AI and Quantum Officer at BMO Financial Group and Founding Director of the BMO Institute of Applied AI and Quantum. With a PhD in decision sciences and postgraduate AI studies from the University of Oxford, she now teaches AI as an Associate Fellow within the Saïd Business School. She has architected AI strategies that fight illicit finance, elevate digital ecosystems, and redefine innovation. Milchanowski previously held roles at EY, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan, and served on Automobili Lamborghini's advisory board. She recently authored Return on Intelligence: A Strategic Enterprise Playbook for Scalable AI Agents.

Dr. Felipe Thomaz is a leading voice at the intersection of marketing, advanced technologies, and quantum information theory and serves as Associate Professor of Marketing and Advanced Technologies at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. With peer-reviewed research spanning Marketing, Mathematics, and Conservation Science, his work on illicit digital marketplaces has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council. Thomaz is a frequent keynote speaker at SXSW, Cannes Lions, and the Financial Times, and a regular expert voice for Google, Meta, and WPP.