Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Training the Executive Brain to Hear the Truth with AI Thought Partnership

In high-stakes leadership, the most expensive tax you will ever pay is the "Fear Tax." When a team feels it is unsafe to bring bad news to the C-suite, they begin to filter, polish, and eventually hide the truth. By the time a "Red Flag" finally reaches your desk, it has often grown from a manageable spark into a four-alarm fire. The root cause? Often, it’s a leader’s reaction to bad news six months prior. The Biology of the "Amygdala Hijack" Psychological safety is a biologi

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How Leaders Will Use AI as a Strategic Peer in 2026

For the past few years, we’ve treated AI like a high-speed encyclopedia or a glorified intern, useful for answering questions, drafting emails, or summarizing long PDFs. We called it "Prompt Engineering," but in reality, it was just a more sophisticated form of Q&A. In 2026, we predict the end of the 'Ask and Receive' era. Forward-thinking leaders will move beyond AI as a high-speed utility and will instead engage it as a strategic adversary. This shift is a direct response t

Jan 24 min read

15 Lessons from a Transformative Year

In 2025, artificial intelligence evolved from a promising experiment into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As execution gained incredible momentum and information became more accessible than ever, traditional leadership roles underwent a powerful transformation. Rather than sticking to old scripts, leaders embraced a new era of agility and insight, discovering fresh patterns through real-world experience. Here are 15 lessons from this year that empower leaders to thrive

Dec 26, 20254 min read

The Two Waves AI Transformation

The conversation around AI often stalls at a simple question: "Will it replace us?" Research by Severin Sorensen suggests this binary is misleading. Instead, we are entering a two-wave transformation that moves from the digital desk to the physical world. For business leaders and executive coaches, understanding these waves is the difference between proactive growth and sudden obsolescence. Wave 1: The Cognitive Evolution (2024–2030) We are currently in the first wave, drive

Dec 23, 20254 min read

Bloom’s Taxonomy for AI Capability

Your customer service team wants to “use AI.” But what does that actually mean? Do they need a system that can recall product specifications? Interpret customer sentiment across thousands of interactions? Or, generate tailored resolution strategies in real time? \Without a shared framework to describe levels of AI capability, organizations struggle to match business needs with the right technical solutions. The result is often misalignment: either investing in systems more so

Dec 17, 20254 min read

50 AI Use Cases To Architect for Advantage in 2026

The companies pulling ahead aren't running more AI projects. They're running different ones. They've moved from isolated point solutions to integrated systems where AI agents decide, execute, and learn. Consider a supply chain disruption. The lagging approach: AI flags the risk, sends an alert, waits for human intervention. The leading approach: AI detects the anomaly, assesses alternative suppliers, recalculates routes, simulates financial impacts, drafts stakeholder communi

Dec 12, 20254 min read

The Three AI Frontiers of Strategic Investment That Define the Next Decade

In 2014, Max Tegmark showed Googlers a landscape of AI challenges illustrated through towering mountains labeled Art, Programming, and Book Writing that seemed far beyond reach. His warning was that the sea level will eventually rise and submerge everything. A decade later, those once-impossible peaks are now fully underwater. This is the very challenge illuminated by our "2025 Update" (shown below) to Tegmark’s evolving landscape of AI. The waters keep rising, but the highe

Dec 2, 20252 min read

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