The Real Barriers to Scaling AI: Why Leadership, Not Algorithms, Drives Success
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Guest: Dr. Justin Trombold, President and Founder of Anderson Advisors
Host: Susan Caesar, Founder of humain.org and Director of AI for ICF
What truly holds organizations back from realizing value with AI? It's not the algorithms, the data, or the tech stack, it's the alignment, ethics, and organizational clarity that makes AI work for humans.
In this candid conversation, Dr. Justin Trombold , founder of Anderson Advisors, diagnoses the gap between AI pilots and sustained performance, arguing that the biggest risk with AI is organizational self-deception, not hallucination.
We dive into:
- The Alignment Gap: Why less than one-third of organizations align their GenAI strategy with enterprise goals.
- Organizational Debt: The challenge to hierarchical, command-and-control structures posed by dynamic AI and human components.
- The 5 Principles of AI Readiness: Assessing your organization's capability across strategy, cross-functional execution, end-user proficiency, scalability/adaptability, and regulatory/ethical compliance.
- "Win Where You Are Today": The pragmatic approach to AI investment that starts with an honest look at your current capabilities.
- Freedom Within a Framework: How adaptive leadership and a culture of "confident humility" can foster trust, agency, and creativity.
If you're a leader struggling to move past pilot programs, tune in to discover why success depends as much on the internal ethics and structure of your firm as it does on the technology.
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