AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™

AI isn’t the question anymore. Execution is. In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with Chris Happ, CEO of Virtuous AI, to break down why most companies are stuck between knowing AI matters and actually making it work. 98% of CEOs say AI matters. Only 7% have a strategy. So what’s going wrong? This conversation goes beyond tools and hype. It focuses on what’s actually happen...

Three articles dropped within a single week. A viral blog post viewed over 85 million times, a major Atlantic Monthly feature, and a forward-looking research piece written from the vantage point of 2028. All three pointed in the same direction: AI is reshaping organizations faster than most leaders realize, and nobody is coming to help you figure it out.   In this episode, recorded live at the Tec...

In this episode, I sat down with Arya Bolurfrushan, founder and CEO of Applied AI, to talk about what most companies are getting wrong about AI. Instead of asking where AI fits into existing workflows, Arya flips the question entirely — where do humans belong in an AI-driven system? We get into: Why most AI pilots fail The real bottleneck in AI adoption How companies are unlocking 10x productivity...

The pressure on mid-market CTOs is about to ratchet up... and most are still running a playbook that can't keep pace. Your owners are reading the same headlines you are. Their peers are talking about five-person shops punching above their weight class. And the first place they're going to look with questions is you. In this episode, Chad breaks down a conversation from a recent CTO roundtable with...

In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, Chad Harvey talks with Dr. Sam Zolfagharian, president and co-founder of Yegatech, about how leaders should actually approach AI inside their organizations. Dr. Sam has worked with AI since 2015, long before the recent surge in attention around it. In this conversation, she shares why many companies get stuck experimenting with AI tools, what it takes to move...

For 90 years, the boundary of your firm has been set by coordination costs. Agentic AI is rewriting that equation - not incrementally, but structurally - and the implications land hardest on organizations sitting in the broad middle of the firm-size distribution. Chad walks through a recent research paper called The Headless Firm and translates its core argument into operator language. When AI age...

AI is changing the nature of work faster than most leaders realize. In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with Brent Orrell, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to explore what AI is actually doing to organizations right now. Brent explains why we are moving from an economy of doing to one of judging, why curiosity may be the most important skill of the futur...

AI is expanding your team's cognitive reach but it may also be quietly eroding their cognitive depth. A landmark study from the Quarterly Journal of Economics reveals that the capacity to sustain deep, effortful thinking is trainable, transferable across domains, and can't be replaced by incentives. The implications for AI-enabled organizations are significant. Chad unpacks the research and connec...

AI is becoming incredibly good at giving answers... but that may be exactly what limits creativity. In this episode of AI For The C-Suite, Pip Bingemann breaks down why most language models push people toward the same outputs, why accuracy and creativity are fundamentally different goals, and how frameworks, curiosity, and time play a bigger role in great work than tools alone. We talk about: Why...

New research from Virtuous AI and Chief Executive Group surveyed over 300 mid-market CEOs and one number demands attention: 78% say their primary AI objective is efficiency and cost reduction. Only 19% are treating AI as a transformational opportunity. Chad unpacks what he's calling "the 10% trap"—using AI to make your current business incrementally faster or cheaper while competitors reimagine wh...

In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey is joined by executive coach and change management expert Amanda Greenwood to explore why AI adoption so often stalls after training. Drawing on neuroscience organizational psychology and decades of experience leading complex transformations Amanda explains why AI change feels existential for people why traditional change playbooks break down and...

The students navigating AI in classrooms right now will be on your teams in two, three, maybe four years. What assumptions are they bringing? What do they understand instinctively that we might be missing? In this episode, Chad sits down with his son Gavin—a freshman studying IT—for a ground-level conversation about how the AI native generation actually uses these tools. You'll hear how Gavin leve...

Artificial intelligence is transforming how digital advertising works. From how ads are targeted to how content is monetized in an AI-driven world. In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with Brendan Norman, co-founder and CEO of Classify, to break down how AI agents, contextual targeting, and new protocols like Ad Context Protocol are reshaping the advertising ecosystem. Bre...

Anti-AI sentiment is crossing from background noise to foreground reality. 2026 may be the year that cultural and political headwinds make your AI initiatives significantly harder to execute - not because of the technology, but because of forces entirely outside your control. In this episode, Chad examines three converging dynamics every middle market leader needs to understand: the political legi...

In this episode of AI for the C Suite, we explore vibe coding, AI powered prototyping, and what it means for product teams, engineers, and enterprise leaders. From security concerns to faster experimentation, this conversation breaks down how AI is reshaping who can build software, how quickly ideas can be validated, and where leaders should start. Full Podcast: https://youtu.be/x70nmmtGrIk Connec...

This isn't a predictions episode or a year-end recap. It's a distillation of what 2025 actually revealed about AI leadership along with a framework you can carry into next year. Chad breaks down three shifts that separated leaders who made progress from those who stalled: treating AI as a systems problem rather than a tools problem, embracing strategy as a living discipline with an 18-month shelf...

In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with David Ebner, President and Founder of Content Workshop, for a powerful conversation about how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, workflows, and the future of brand storytelling. David opens up about his early identity crisis as AI entered the content world and explains how he shifted from skepticism to building custom...

Critical decisions get made in your meetings. Strategic context gets shared. Institutional knowledge gets created. And most of it evaporates the moment everyone walks out of the room. In this episode, Chad walks through the exact workflow he uses to turn any meeting into structured, searchable, actionable output—no additional headcount required. The three-move framework is straightforward: capture...

In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, host Chad Harvey sits down with Egor Olteanu, COO & Co-Founder of Volt AI, a mission-driven company reinventing physical security with artificial intelligence. Igor shares his remarkable journey from emigrating to the U.S., to serving in the Army, to helping launch Google X’s Project Loon, to founding Volt AI after the 2018 YouTube headquarters shooting....

If you created an AI policy in 2023 or 2024, there's a decent chance it needs updating. The regulatory environment has shifted from theoretical to enforcement-ready, technical capabilities have accelerated beyond what most policies anticipated, and the gap between leading organizations and everyone else has widened dramatically. Chad breaks down what's actually changed in the AI policy landscape a...

Non-technical execs are being told “AI agents will change everything” but no one tells them how to keep those agents from breaking things. In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, Chad Harvey talks with Oren Michels, co-founder & CEO of Barn Door AI (and founder of Mashery), about: Why agents are like enthusiastic interns with no fear of consequences What an AI control plane actually does How MC...

The web your business relies on - the one built for human clicks and browsing - is giving way to an agentic internet built for autonomous software that negotiates, transacts, and decides without human intervention. This isn't happening in five years. It's happening right now. Fresh from MIT's EmTech 2025 conference, Chad breaks down what researchers and founders are building behind the scenes: a d...

In this episode, Nick Damoulakis breaks down the reality behind today’s AI revolution. Beyond the hype, the TikTok tutorials, and the “overnight experts.” He shares his journey through rapid prototyping, vibe coding, and the limits of no-code tools, explaining why true innovation still requires understanding, experimentation, and failure. Nick also unpacks complex AI concepts like vector databases...

A new Fortune AIQ survey of 119 business leaders published September 2025 reveals a striking contradiction: 99% use AI chatbots regularly, 90% are satisfied with results, but 98% refuse to trust these tools with important decisions. That gap between daily reliance and deep skepticism tells you everything about where we actually are with Gen AI adoption. Chad unpacks three patterns from the data th...

Rohit Patel is the Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs. He's at the forefront of building next-generation AI models that will shape how businesses interact with AI. What makes Rohit unique in the AI landscape is his rare combination of deep technical expertise and real-world business strategy experience.  Rohit also founded QuickAI, a research lab focused on building innovative small AI models...