AI is getting smarter. The question nobody’s asking loudly enough is whether we’re keeping up.
Leaders are adopting AI at speed, automating workflows, and quietly hoping the strategy will reveal itself along the way. It won’t. And the gap between executives who understand what’s actually happening and those who just have a Copilot subscription is growing fast.
In this episode, Dave Birss is joined by Andrew Grill – Actionable Futurist, former IBM Global Managing Partner, and one of the few people on the keynote circuit who’s actually built and deployed the stuff he talks about.
Together we’ll dig into what good AI leadership looks like in practice. Not the conference version. The Monday morning version. Why most boardroom AI education is close to useless, whether human-centred AI is a genuine philosophy or just a comfort blanket for nervous executives, and what it means to stay sharp when the machine is doing more of the thinking.
If you run a team, sit on a board, or you’re just trying to figure out where humans fit in all of this – this one’s for you.
This was broadcast live on LinkedIn, and you can see all the comments generated during the broadcast here.

