Is Your Leadership Team Ready for AI? A Live Audit

Disciplined leaders keep the bridges standing. But what happens to that strength when AI starts changing the work?

Christopher Skinner and Chris Wessling return to the Business Roundtable Podcast for a live leadership audit. Christopher, who spent his career building search algorithms and creating new variables to describe business reality, walks through an AI simulation of how an organizational psychologist might read public statements from more than 275 leaders at a large engineering firm. It is a conversation starter, not a formal assessment of any company or person.

Chris Wessling of Solomon Group, the process guy and a Baldrige examiner, adds where big organizations lose time and knowledge: coordination, communication, and a pile of apps that do not talk to each other. Together with David they explore what happens when experienced people retire and take the knowledge with them, and why mentorship still matters.

What you'll learn:

- How an AI leadership audit is built from public statements, and what it can and cannot tell you

- Why strong discipline and planning can become a risk when the work changes

- How app sprawl and manual spreadsheet work hide time you could win back

- Why knowledge transfer from retiring experts is a leadership issue

- Why asking "is this who we want to be?" beats treating an audit as a verdict

Note for listeners: the charts are shown on screen, and the guests describe them as they go. The video version shows them.

Christopher Skinner: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherjskinner

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