Deeply Human Leading with Lee Ann Del Carpio & Gretchen Terry-Leonard

DESCRIPTION: A strategy memo goes to Claude, the summary goes to ChatGPT, Perplexity checks the facts, and a final pass makes it all sound human. Lee Ann and Gretchen open Episode 014 inside that meeting, then ask the question underneath it: with all this saved time, where are the hours going? Along the way: a ninety-minute punch list that could have taken three, a grocery-store shopper consulting...

When AI starts learning mostly from itself, where does anything genuinely new come from? Anthropic reported that more than 80 percent of Claude's code is now written by Claude, and a premier model vanished from the team's plans overnight. Lee Ann and Gretchen use the humble banana to explain AI monoculture and model collapse: almost every banana we eat is a Cavendish, a near genetic clone that one...

Everyone is racing to use AI faster. Almost no one is asking what the speed is doing to the people doing the thinking. Lee Ann Del Carpio and Gretchen Terry-Leonard name the cognitive exhaustion that builds when leaders absorb too much, decide too often, and leave no margin for the thinking the moment requires. Not burnout.. Brain fry. Inside: the neuroscience of depletion, the move from generic t...

We ask AI before we ask ourselves, and somewhere in all that speed, we stop hearing what our own bodies are trying to tell us. In this episode of Deeply Human Leading, Lee Ann Del Carpio talks with Shannon Gomez, a licensed acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner with more than two decades of experience, about what it means to stay human and embodied in an age where answers are...

The technology is accelerating faster than our leadership institutions know how to steward it. That is the signal underneath a week of AI headlines, and it is the question Lee Ann and Gretchen sit with here. Three stories crossed the feed that looked unrelated: a Pope calling for guardrails, a wave of layoffs framed as inevitable, and the head of Google DeepMind describing today's AI agents as a "...

If technology is moving at a breathless pace and most organizations aren’t changing how they work, what does that mean for the humans inside them? In this episode, Lee Ann Del Carpio and Gretchen Terry-Leonard explore what it takes to see clearly when the ground is shifting beneath every leader, every team, and every family trying to make sense of AI’s acceleration. Drawing on Ethan Mollick’s upda...

The seven most in-demand skills in the AI economy aren't coding or machine learning. They're asking the right question. Sensing when something is about to go wrong. Knowing what to leave out.   Tech strategist Nate B. Jones recently studied what AI jobs are actually paying top dollar for, and the answer might surprise you. The skills he identified — like specification precision, evaluation and qua...

Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank investor, says if you're a CEO just pushing the button on AI, you're generating garbage. He's naming what a lot of leaders feel but haven't said out loud yet: the technical models or corollary tech skills are not enough. The human underneath the technology is what determines whether AI creates value or erodes trust. In this episode, Lee Ann Del Carpio and Gretchen Terry-L...

What happens when an AI gold rush mentality drives boards and senior leaders to drive for cost savings and efficiency at a breathless pace? Klarna replaced 700 customer service employees with AI. Month one: 2.3 million conversations handled. Resolution time cut to two minutes. $60 million in projected savings. Every metric on the dashboard was green. Then customer satisfaction collapsed, complaint...

Jensen Huang just told podcaster Lex Friedman that AGI is here. But while the media debates what that means, a different conversation is happening among founders: What will I build with it? In this episode of Deeply Human Leading, Lee Ann Del Carpio and Gretchen Terry-Leonard explore what the coming of artificial general intelligence means for people with ideas, purpose, and the courage to create...

A powerful new AI documentary is leaving audiences shaken. Lee Ann saw it opening week and Gretchen has been studying the debate from the outside. Together they unpack what it means for leaders who are trying to hold both the promise and the peril of AI without collapsing into either hyper optimism or panic. This is not another episode about AI tools or productivity hacks. This is about the deeper...

Something is changing faster than your brain can clock. You already feel it… at the dinner table, in school conversations, in the quiet worry about what your children will actually be equipped for. This episode doesn't add to the noise. It helps you find your footing.   Lee Ann Del Carpio and Gretchen Terry-Leonard, both parents and leaders, sit down to have the conversation most people are having...

“I'm only human." We say it like an apology… for forgetting, for falling short, for being imperfect. But what if being human isn't the limitation? What if it's the thing we haven't invested in deeply enough? In Episode 002 of the Deeply Human Leading podcast, Gretchen and Lee Ann unpack the difference between being "only human" — what Lee Ann calls our "default human" mode, the fight-flight-freeze...

What happens to your identity, your expertise, and your leadership when AI can do parts of what you've spent your career building?  In the first episode of the Deeply Human Leading Podcast, hosts Lee Ann Del Carpio and Gretchen Terry-Leonard explore the question no one is asking loudly enough: as AI becomes embedded in how we work, decide, and lead, what happens to the humans inside the system?  T...