Leadership in the Age of AI

Some leaders claim to want to make decisions based on data. But then they do what they 'feel' is right anyway. In this episode, I'll show you how to combine facts and intuition, numbers and conversations, and analysis and action. It's easy to say 'rely on data'. It's harder to recognise when we're doing it wrong. Despite having charts, reports and presentations full...

In this episode, I will talk about something that may seem unpopular to you, especially when most people are talking about automation, efficiency, and artificial intelligence. I will discuss the millions of employees who hide their illnesses, disabilities, and struggles from their colleagues and bosses every day because revealing the truth about their challenges seems too risky for them. As many a...

How do you stop looking back and move forward? In this episode, we unpack negativity bias — why the brain clings to negatives — and turn it into practical tools for leaders and beyond. From the “pillar of salt” metaphor and Adler vs. Freud, to simple CBT‑based techniques, you’ll learn how to turn hard moments into data and decisions. I also share a personal perspective of living with haemophilia a...

Have you ever agreed to a solution knowing deep down that it was a bad idea? Have you watched your team unanimously adopt a strategy, only to have everyone admit later over coffee that they never supported it? In this episode, I'm going to show you one of the most destructive yet underrated organizational mechanisms: the Abilene Paradox. It's a phenomenon that causes intelligent teams to m...

"Man can be deprived of everything but one thing, the last of human freedoms - the choice of one's own attitude in given circumstances, the choice of one's own path." - Viktor E. In moments of greatest adversity, questions arise about the meaning of suffering. Can suffering teach me something? Can the limitations imposed on me by life become the seed of positive change? Suffering makes us start lo...

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the next episode of the Leadership in the Age of AI podcast, where we will explore the fundamental leadership competency - self-awareness. This is where other critically important skills such as communication and building trust come from. When metrics, business goals, and efficiency discussions dominate our meetings, self-awareness often takes a back seat....

Learn how to use the latest research in artificial intelligence to be an effective leader and strengthen your leadership skills. Discover four thinking strategies (revision, backtracking, goal decomposition, and backward reasoning) that support leadership development at every stage of your career. All in the context of neuroscience discoveries that suggest a properly trained mind stays sharp for m...

Unpopular opinion: your team doesn't need another “positive leader” It needs someone REAL. The modern world glorifies constant joy and positive thinking. Sadness, on the other hand, is often seen as a sign of weakness or lack of professionalism. But does this really mean that there is no right to more difficult emotions in the business world? Can sadness actually be a source of strength, refle...

Over the course of seven months, I conducted more than 50 interviews with top-level managers, mainly CEO (chief executive officer), CTO (chief technology officer), CFO (chief financial officer), COO (chief operating officer) and CIO (chief innovation/IT officer), from countries such as Poland, the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Sweden. These meetings gave me the opportunity to hear...

When I attended a class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on building organizational resilience, one of the topics covered was an analysis of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, which ended in the tragic deaths of seven astronauts. The classes at MIT and the analysis of the disaster taught me with very valuable lessons about managing complexity and crisis in organizations. I lear...

7 Ways to Build Trust in a Team - A Guide to Strategies and My Own Experiences Trust is the invisible glue that binds people together and allows them to achieve more together than they could individually. Building it is a process that doesn't happen overnight. It is a long-term effort that requires patience, consistency, and commitment. Trust is a very important, but rarely addressed and underesti...