Field notes from the AI front lines.

New Data: AI Adopters Are Growing Headcount, Not Cutting It

The dominant narrative says AI is coming for the jobs. But a new Ramp study — backed by independent research from PwC, LinkedIn, and economists at Yale, Northwestern, and MIT — tells a different story: the companies investing seriously in AI are hiring more, not fewer.

The Smarter AI Gets, the More This Skill Is Worth

No kid dreams of becoming a keynote speaker and AI trainer — I certainly didn't. Here's the actual story of how I ended up in the tiny sliver between technical depth and human connection, and why that overlap is exactly where to future-proof your career as AI gets smarter.

AI Isn't Just Changing Your Tools — It's Rewriting Your Org Chart

The one-person unicorn made headlines — then got messy. But the underlying shift is real: AI is showing up as actual entries on the org chart, not just tools people use. Here are three ways it's landing, and why it's HR's whole job description changing.

AI Accountability Framework: How to Assign Ownership of AI Outcomes Across a Senior Leadership Team

AI Fluency Assessment: How to Score Every Member of Your Leadership Team in 30 Days

Your Agents Could Work All Night. Most Aren't.

A new OpenAI paper on Codex usage is the clearest data yet on where agentic AI is heading — and the gap between what the tools can do and how most teams actually use them is staggering.

AI Certification for Executives: Does a Certificate Actually Signal Anything to a Board?

MIT xPRO AI Course Review: What Participants Say and How It Compares for Executive Teams

Executive Education in AI: University Programs vs. Applied Enterprise Programs Compared

How to Measure AI ROI: The Framework Every CFO and COO Needs Before the Next Board Meeting

What Happens When Your AI Rollout Fails: A Recovery Playbook for Enterprise Leaders

AI Performance Lab vs. MIT xPRO: Which AI Executive Education Program Is Right for Your Leadership Team?

Your Beliefs About AI Are Showing Up in Your P&L

Same technology, same access, radically different outcomes. A new Harvard Business School and University of Oregon study of 199 startup founders found that what separates the AI winners isn't better beliefs about the tech — it's a willingness to experiment and redesign work around it. Mindset, quantified.

What Is an AI Fluency Diagnostic and How Should Your Enterprise Use One?

The 3 Performance Guarantees Every Enterprise AI Training Program Should Offer (And Most Don't)

AI Facilitated Workshop vs. Self-Paced AI Training: Which Format Builds Lasting Executive Fluency?

What Is an AI Readiness Assessment and Should Your Leadership Team Take One?

7 Questions to Ask Before Buying an Enterprise AI Training Program in 2026

Fable Is Back — and Work Just Changed Again

Anthropic's Claude Fable is back online after a brief pause — and early benchmarks say it's a stair-step, not an increment. It can now run autonomously for a full day on a single task. Here's why we're living inside the exponential, and why the gap between what the tools can do and what most people do with them keeps widening.

Board Pressure on AI: How to Show Your Directors Measurable Progress in 2026

How AI Performance Lab Helped Doma's Leadership Team Go From AI-Curious to AI-Fluent

How AI Performance Lab Helped PetLab Build AI Fluency Across Its Senior Leadership Team

Why Your AI Rollout Stalled — and What to Do About It in the Next 30 Days

AI Corporate Workshops That Actually Change How Executives Think: What to Look For in 2026

How AI-Ready Is Your Team? The Honest Answer in 2 Minutes

Nearly every senior leader thinks they have a handle on where their organization stands on AI. Very few actually do. A free, 2-minute AI Readiness Assessment scores your leadership team across the 5 dimensions that predict whether AI actually sticks.

How the AI Advantage Sprint Works: A 30-Day Diagnostic That Scores Every Senior Leader on AI Fluency

AI Consulting Lab vs. Full-Scale AI Leadership Program: Which One Does Your Enterprise Actually Need?

AI Enablement Consulting for Senior Leaders: How to Fix the Fluency Gap Before It Costs You

AI Leadership Transformation Consulting: What It Is and Why Your Executive Team Needs It in 2026

How a Zap replaced my morning AI news routine

I haven't read an AI news article on its own website in months — and I'm catching more, not less. Here's the three-bot Zapier setup that reads the internet for me, filtered through my own book and my own voice.

How a Pharma Enterprise Built AI Fluency Across Its C-Suite: A Case Study

AI Adoption Among Enterprise Leaders Is Slow and Uneven — Here's Why Your Leaders Are the Problem

Treating Your AI Like a Colleague, Not a Tool

We don't interact with AI the way we use a calculator — we collaborate with it the way we work with a colleague. And that means giving our agents three very human things: memory, personality, and culture. What I learned building House Party.

The Most Human Thing I've Done All Year (+ the Audiobook is Live!)

Where should AI lead, and where should it follow? The two most humbling creative decisions I made this year — scrapping an AI-first draft of my book, and recording the audiobook myself in a closet — and why staying human was worth it.

AI Adoption is a Fitness Journey. Not a One-Night Stand.

Everyone's chasing an "AI-first culture." But culture is the outcome, not the input — you build it through reps, not memos. Why AI adoption is a fitness journey, not a one-night stand.

Your People Won't Adopt AI. That's a You Problem.

A CEO leans in after a keynote: "My people just aren't leaning into AI." Then I ask what their own AI practice looks like — and the room goes quiet. Adoption isn't a tooling problem. It's a leadership one.

Technology Is Easy. People Are Hard.

Enterprises poured $30–40 billion into generative AI in 2025 — and only 5% are seeing measurable returns. The gap isn't strategy; it's people. Why successful adoption comes down to mindset, skillset, and toolset working together.

Claude Design Is Bonkers

A panicked Wednesday, a forgotten flyer, and an hour of "directing" an AI designer like a junior creative. The result: a finished asset I never could've built myself, and a reminder that the barrier to entry just got obliterated.

What Should My Recent College Grad Do???

By far the most common question after every talk isn't about neural networks. It's about somebody's kid. Here's the two-part answer I now give every parent staring down an entry-level hiring freeze.

From Zero to Prototype in 90 Minutes

Inside the UT Exec Ed AI workshop with ESCP and IPADE: how MBA cohorts compressed a 6-month, $100K product process into 90 minutes, and how an "AI Shark Tank" gave them the brutal feedback no human investor would.

Immigrants Won't Take Your Job. AI Will.

My first political keynote, for Senator Ruben Gallego. The data: 22% of voters rank immigration as their top issue, but you're 14x more likely to lose your role to an AI agent. We're arguing about the border while the labor market shifts underfoot.

How an Investment Fund 'AI-ified' and Stayed Lean

My friend Josh had the budget and the plan to hire a whole research team for his new ETF. He hired no one. Instead he built an agentic system that pressure-tests his thesis better than any junior analyst could: a live case study in every framework from Future Proof.

Future Proof Is Officially Live

Launch day. Plus an excerpt on the math that changes everything: why a 1% completion rate isn't slow, why "the perfect wave" usually means the missed wave, and why "exponential" is the only number that matters now.

15 Years of AI Insights, Finally on Paper

Why I went heads-down for a year to write Future Proof, and the opening case from the book: how PetLab went from 40 minutes per campaign to 5, from 500 ad creatives a month to 2,200, and from "fast-growing brand" to acquired.