Mike Schubert | Technology Executive & AI Impact Leader

CTO Unfiltered | Digital Transformation & AI Impact

Business EN ↓ 4 episodes

If you're on the CTO track, you already know the technology isn't the hard part. CTO Unfiltered is for technology leaders navigating AI transformation, organizational complexity, and the gap between what technology promises and what companies can actually absorb. Hosted by Mike Schubert — VP of Technology, 30-year practitioner, and someone who's still doing the job. No hype. No punditry. Just the practitioner lens.

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Mike Schubert | Technology Executive & AI Impact Leader

Episodes

Ep. 4 – When Agents Build the App, Who Builds the Engineer? 28.06.2026

EP. 3 – Building Systems that Build People 20.04.2026

Elite performance in engineering organizations isn’t about finding rock stars — it’s about building the systems that produce them. In this episode, Mike Schubert breaks down two Harvard Business Review research pieces that share a single underlying thesis: team performance is a design problem, not a talent problem. From the three levers that produce organizational...

Ep. 2 – Agents are Everywhere. Now What? 30.03.2026

What does it mean to lead through uncertainty when the technology underneath you is moving faster than your governance, your metrics, and your comfort level? Mike Schubert digs into four things: Harvard research on why sharing uncertainty builds trust; Microsoft Agent 365 and the shadow agent problem; IBM Bob 1.0 for the COBOL/RPG world; and...

Episode 1 – You Don’t Need Another Tech Podcast. Here’s Why I Made One Anyway 26.03.2026

Most tech podcasts talk about technology. This one talks about what actually makes or breaks a technology leader: people, change, and the gap between what organizations want and what they can absorb. In this opening episode, Mike lays out his case — who he is, what this show is, and why the conversation he wanted...