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The Opportunity of AI for Leaders

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For the past two years, the conversation about AI has been dominated by fear.
Fear of replacement. Fear of disruption. Fear of losing control.

But while the headlines warned that AI would wipe out millions of jobs, something very different is happening inside the best organizations in the world: a hiring boom.

Companies are rapidly expanding their teams to include new AI-related roles—prompt engineers, AI ethicists, operations leads, strategists, and data translators. Instead of eliminating work, AI is reshaping it.

And that’s where the opportunity of AI for leaders lies.

AI Isn’t Just a Tool—It’s a Catalyst for Human Potential

The real story of AI isn’t automation—it’s augmentation, a force multiplier for human potential.

When leaders embrace AI thoughtfully:

  • Managers become coaches, using real-time insights to personalize development through tools like Marlee.
  • Teams become innovators, testing ideas faster and executing smarter thanks to AI collaboration partners like ChatGPT.
  • Employees become creators, focusing on higher-value, more meaningful work with programs like Jasper.

AI isn’t replacing people—it’s redefining how people create value. That’s the opportunity of AI for leaders: to use technology to unlock deeper levels of performance, creativity, and connection across every layer of the organization.

The Leadership Shift

Every technological revolution demands a leadership revolution.
The leaders who thrive in the AI era will be those who:

  1. See AI as a teammate, not a threat.
  2. Invest in learning and curiosity, making growth a daily habit.
  3. Build culture systems, not perks—where trust, adaptability, and experimentation are the norm.

Because technology doesn’t transform organizations.

Leaders do.

The Next Generation of Work

We’re entering a new age of leadership where your ability to connect, coach, and create meaning defines your success far more than your ability to control.

AI isn’t taking over—it’s handing us an opportunity.
An opportunity to reimagine how we lead, how we grow, and how we unlock the full potential of our people.

That’s the real opportunity of AI for leaders—to transform fear into fuel, uncertainty into innovation, and data into deeper human connection.

Ready to Lead the Future?

Through my keynotes and coaching work, I show leaders and teams how to use AI to enhance coaching, drive human connection, and build culture systems that scale performance.

Let’s talk about how I can help your organization lead the way.

AI is the Next Leap for Leadership

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Every leap in technology has reshaped how we work.

The printing press scaled knowledge.

Electricity powered industry.

The internet connected the world.

Now, AI is here—and it’s the next leap for leadership.

But this time, the leap isn’t just about how we work.

It’s about what we’re capable of.

The Mistake Leaders Make About AI

Most leaders are still framing AI as a productivity play.

A way to automate tasks.
A way to reduce labor costs.
A way to get more output, faster.

That’s the first mistake.

Because AI isn’t just about efficiency, AI is the new operating system for leadership.

What AI Actually Unlocks

When leaders embrace AI the right way, it doesn’t replace them—it amplifies them.

Here’s what that next leap for leadership looks like:

  • Clarity at Scale
    AI surfaces insights leaders would never have the time to uncover on their own. Patterns in performance. Blind spots in culture. Opportunities for growth.
  • Real-Time Coaching
    With AI-powered tools like Marlee, feedback becomes immediate and personalized. Managers can coach in the moment, rather than just once a year.
  • Deeper Human Connection
    Counterintuitive, but true: AI frees leaders from repetitive tasks, allowing them to spend more time leading—asking better questions, building trust, and developing people.
  • Capability Expansion
    AI doesn’t just help us work faster. It helps us think bigger, create smarter, and solve problems we couldn’t touch before.

Why This Matters for Human Potential

The leaders who thrive in this new era won’t just squeeze out more productivity. They’ll be the ones who use AI to unlock incredible creativity, connection, and capability across their teams.

That’s the leap in front of us. The only question is: will you take it?

Book me to speak on The Leader’s AI Playbook, and let’s build the future together.

Humans (People) Really Really Matter: The Workplace of the Future Needs Humans (Real People) Now More Than Ever

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“Humans (People) are underrated.” Elon Musk tweeted those words back in 2018, but they still ring just as true in 2020. Humans (People) ARE underrated. Especially in the workplace. In the keynotes and workshops we’ve delivered for organizations around the world who want to get a handle on what the future of work will be, we posited that all these discussions about the future overlook most important person: the worker, yes the People.

Back in 2016, the World Economic Forum predicted that Emotional Intelligence would be one of the top 10 skills people needed to cultivate in order to thrive in 2020. Well, it’s 2020 and guess what? In the midst of a global pandemic, remote work, and social distancing, we need People more than ever. But when the threat of COVID-19 is gone, we won’t stop needing People. The need for human skills (emotional intelligence, creativity, people management, etc.) will only continue to grow as our workplaces become increasingly automated.

Machines Don’t Erase the Need for Human Workers – They Create a New Need

A new article from MIT Sloan Management Review (Brynjolfsson and Beane) looked at the role of robots in our workplaces and made some surprising conclusions for our post-pandemic world. Chief among them is the idea that the workplace of the future will more than likely involve humans working alongside machines, rather than machines putting humans out of a job. In their interview with CNN, the researchers remarked that “there is a whole spectrum of having humans and machines work together. You can choose different points on the range in this division of labor, but in almost every case, you want humans doing some of the task.”

To summarize their findings, machines are great at doing certain things for us. Things that are repetitive and don’t require creative problem-solving. But that’s not all that happens inside our workplaces. We’re constantly challenged by unique problems, situations, and team dynamics. Things happen every single day that no machine could ever be programmed to deal with. But we humans are uniquely suited to solving the unpredictable. So rather than replacing our jobs, machines instead create a new need for humans in the workplace of the future – alongside new career opportunities.

New Jobs Will Emerge

Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum released a new report analyzing the workplace of the future to make predictions about the jobs of tomorrow. They identified seven emerging professional clusters and the necessary skills we should be cultivating for careers in each. In the summary of their report, they made the following remark: “While disruptive technology skills such as data science and AI skills will certainly be critical to the future of work, so will caregiving, leadership, and the ability to provide learning and development. In other words, the transition to the new world of work will be both human- and tech-centric.”

Machines aren’t going to replace us. Instead, they are paving the way for us to assume new roles – roles best suited to our own very human talents and skills. Our Strengths and Story. The most successful managers of tomorrow will be able to effectively integrate and leverage the best of both worlds inside their organizations. Yes, that means investing in your people, reskilling them, and ensuring they have a pathway to learn and grow. But we know how to help organizations do that. We’ve been doing it for years with our clients in all kinds of industries – and we can help you, too.

We’ll Have to Learn New Skills

We are living through what’s been called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The McKinsey Global Institute predicts that as many as 375 million people will need to change their occupation by 2030 – just ten years from now! Which means there’s going to be a lot of people in the world who’ll need to go back to school, get retrained, reskill, level up, or otherwise dramatically alter the work they’re doing today.

Increased investment in automation and technology means we’ll have to lean harder on those things machines can’t take from us. Those soft skills we’ve been talking about for years – emotional intelligence, relationship building, connection, communication, trust. All things that you can’t program into a robot. They don’t come easy to some of us and they can be hard to teach. But nothing is impossible when you have a proven system that works. We have that system plus tips and tools to help you and your organization succeed and help you find your relevance.

We’ve been saying it for years and we believe it still: People matter now more than ever and they’re going to matter even more in the workplace of the future. If you want your company to grow and thrive for years to come, you need to put your focus on people right now. Use our 3-hack system to help: turn your workplace upside down to ask your people what they want and need from you, help them find meaning and purpose in their work, and reskill them for what’s to come. People are the heart of an organization and no amount of technology is going to change that.

If you need help equipping your people and your organization to succeed in the workplace of the future, reach out to us to learn how we can help through our customized workshops, personalized, on-demand coaching, keynotes, and more.