Qonversations: Wisdom for Leaders in an AI-Driven World

In this solo episode of Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work, Brian Gorman challenges a familiar way of talking about artificial intelligence: AI is making us lazy. AI is weakening critical thinking. AI is making us work longer. AI is taking meaning out of work. When we say AI is doing these things to us, we surrender human agency. AI creates possibilities and makes some choices easier. What we do with those possibilities remains ours to decide. That leads to a more consequential question. What will we d

Artificial intelligence can synthesize information, surface possibilities, and accelerate work. But some of what matters most still lives in people: experience, relationships, intuition, and an understanding of what is actually happening. In this episode of Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work, Brian Gorman speaks with Tim Lidman, co-founder and CEO of Clyde, about what it means to deliberately bring artificial intelligence and human wisdom together. Clyde is one example of a larger leadership question: w

This episode of Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work does not spend much time talking directly about artificial intelligence. That is why the conversation matters now. Brian Gorman speaks with Stephen Baer, author of Stickology, about what causes people to connect, contribute, innovate, and care about the organizations they work for and buy from. Drawing on examples from Trader Joe’s, Ritz-Carlton, Southwest Airlines, Microsoft, and Home Depot, Stephen makes a consistent point: people do their best work w

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in how work gets done, leaders face a question that goes well beyond efficiency. What kind of relationship with AI are we designing? In this episode of Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work, Brian Gorman speaks with psychotherapist and executive coach Marina Tudor about creating workplaces in which artificial intelligence serves human beings rather than quietly creating new forms of dependency, friction, and burnout. Marina argues that effective AI integration r

In this episode, Brian Gorman speaks with Jonathan Schaeffer, founder of Synsira Software Solutions, inventor of Kind, and an AI pioneer who has spent more than 40 years working at the forefront of artificial intelligence. For Jonathan, the arrival of ChatGPT was not the beginning of AI. It was the moment when decades of largely invisible development suddenly became visible to everyone. He sees enormous potential in what comes next, from advances in medicine and education to safer transportatio

AI adoption is often treated as a technology challenge. Choose the right tools, train people to use them, and improve the workflow. But resistance to AI runs deeper than the resistance that accompanies most workplace technologies. In this episode of Beyond AI: Wisdom at Work, Brian Gorman speaks with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, founder of Disaster Avoidance Experts and author of The Psychology of AI Adoption at Work: From Resistance to Results, about the psychology beneath AI resistance. Gleb identifi