The AI-Driven Leader
Welcome to The AI-Driven Leader, the podcast dedicated to helping you harness AI to build better leaders, better businesses, and better lives. Hosted byGeoff Woods, author of the #1 international bestseller The AI-Driven Leader.
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14. Season One Finale — From Curiosity to Courage
<p>What does it take to move from <em>“I don’t know where to start”</em> to <em>“I’m going to lead this”</em>?</p> <p>That’s the journey we’ve taken together in Season One of <em>The AI-Driven Leader.</em> Across 12 episodes, you’ve heard from six executives who began where so many leaders are today — curious, cautious, even skeptical. And you’ve witnessed their transformation: from hesitation to bold action.</p> <p>In every interview, they shared the doubts, turning points, and decisions that changed everything. And in every CRIT™ session, you saw what happens when AI stops being a gimmick and starts acting as a true Thought Partner — surfacing non-obvious solutions in minutes, not months.</p> <p>The lesson is clear: you don’t have to be an AI expert to lead in this new era. You just have to become an AI-driven leader. Someone willing to think differently, cast a vision, and lead change with the courage to act before the playbook is written.</p> <p>As Season One closes, keep the momentum going:</p> <ul> <li>Subscribe to our newsletter at<a href="https://aileadership.com" rel="nofollow"> AILeadership.com</a> for weekly case studies and prompts.</li> <li>Read <em>The AI-Driven Leader</em> and put it in your executives’ hands.</li> <li>Explore how we help C-level leaders train their teams, join the Collective™, and tie AI strategy directly to enterprise value creation.</li> </ul> <br> <p>Because here’s the truth: the future doesn’t wait, and neither should you.</p>13. CRIT™: Harnessing Abraham Lincoln to Write Your AI Manifesto
<p>In our last episode, he showed how vulnerability and courage turned skepticism into company-wide adoption. But in this CRIT™ session, the challenge was different: how do you keep excitement from stalling out in confusion?</p> <p>Through CRIT™, AI acted as a strategic advisor to his executive team. It surfaced the need for structured listening, a weekly AI narrative, and clear success gates. It pushed him to elevate a “big bet” team into a startup studio — not just to use AI, but to sell with AI.</p> <p>And then came the extraordinary moment: Abraham Lincoln, on his AI board, challenged him to write a <em>human constitution for AI</em>: <em>“Man shall not be replaced, but released into his greatest potential.”</em></p> <p>The clarity that emerged in minutes would’ve taken months of consultants. His reaction said it all: <em>“Outstanding, mind blowing at times.”</em></p> <p>Today’s AI-Driven Leader is <strong>Geoff Gilmore, President, CEO, and Director of Worthington Steel</strong>.</p>12. Shifting the Mindset of an Enterprise Workforce with Geoff Gilmore
<p>Imagine going from saying, <em>“AI has no place in steel manufacturing”</em>… to declaring, <em>“It is my expectation that you use AI”</em> across 6,000 employees — all in under six months.</p> <p>That’s exactly what happened when one leader flipped the switch. At first skeptical, he was convinced AI couldn’t touch a 65-year-old steel company. But a persistent senior leader put the right books in his hands — <em>Co-Intelligence</em> and <em>The AI-Driven Leader</em> — and suddenly, curiosity turned into conviction.</p> <p>Within months, he vulnerably admitted, <em>“I wasn’t an expert, but I led anyway.”</em> That courage gave his people permission to act. Pilots surged: predictive inventory, machine reliability, contract analyzers, and more — initiatives powerful enough to potentially move stock price. And through it all, he kept a people-first philosophy: <em>“Work-life balance matters as much as stock price.”</em></p> <p>Today’s AI-Driven Leader is <strong>Geoff Gilmore, President, CEO, and Director of Worthington Steel</strong>.</p>11. CRIT™: How to Reinvent Your Business Model with AI
<p>In our last episode, they showed how AI liberated their team to focus on presence and strategy. But in this CRIT™ session, the stakes were higher: what happens when AI threatens to disrupt the very business model itself?</p> <p>Together, we put HireBetter’s flagship Strategic Talent Planning service under the microscope. Today, it’s a full-day, whiteboard-heavy, manual process. But through CRIT™, AI reimagined it as a real-time, AI-augmented copilot — powered by live financials, KPIs, and org charts.</p> <p>The result: strategy that updates continuously, while leaders provide the irreplaceable human trust and safe space for execution.</p> <p>Velveth captured the moment best: “Wake up. Do you know what we could do? This changes everything.”</p> <p>This is what happens when leaders stop fearing disruption and start using AI to redefine their value.</p>