12. Interview: Shifting the Mindset of an Enterprise Workforce with Geoff Gilmore
Imagine going from saying, “AI has no place in steel manufacturing”… to declaring, “It is my expectation that you use AI” across 6,000 employees — all in under six months.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 — Co-Intelligence and The AI-Driven Leader — and suddenly, curiosity turned into conviction.Within months, he vulnerably admitted, “I wasn’t an expert, but I led anyway.” 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: “Work-life balance matters as much as stock price.”Today’s AI-Driven Leader is Geoff Gilmore, President, CEO, and Director of Worthington Steel.
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11. CRIT™ Session: How to Reinvent Your Business Model with AI
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?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.The result: strategy that updates continuously, while leaders provide the irreplaceable human trust and safe space for execution.Velveth captured the moment best: “Wake up. Do you know what we could do? This changes everything.”This is what happens when leaders stop fearing disruption and start using AI to redefine their value.
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10. Building an AI-Driven Culture at HireBetter with Velveth Schmitz & Amy Ancira
Imagine collapsing hours of client-note consolidation into a single minute — and freeing your team to focus on what only humans can do.That’s exactly what happened when two leaders decided to experiment with AI, not as a side project, but as a cultural transformation. One led with fearless curiosity, modeling adoption before asking her team to follow. The other paired process-driven creativity with custom GPTs that unlocked efficiency, strategy, and presence.The result? A recruiting firm that turned skepticism into advocacy, wrote its own AI policy, redesigned training with predictive data, and built a culture where automation handles the busywork — so people can show up more human, more connected, and more strategic.Today’s AI-Driven Leaders are Velveth Schmitz, CEO of HireBetter, and Amy Ancira, Chief Experience Officer.
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9. CRIT™: Building Your Leadership Playbook for Growth
In our last episode, he showed how AI doubled capacity, built new product lines, and reshaped his leadership at work and at home. But behind the success was a deeper challenge: how do you scale leadership itself, so growth doesn’t bottleneck around one person?That’s the question he brought into CRIT™. In this live session, AI stepped in as a strategic operator — taking the context of his leadership challenge and building a playbook to systematize what had only lived in his head. The outcome? Blind spots revealed, dashboards built, and a roadmap that made his leadership scalable across the company.The takeaway? With the right framework, AI doesn’t just design processes — it amplifies leaders, turning instinct into systems and vision into execution.Today’s AI-Driven Leader is Brian Lang, CEO of UpsideCFO.
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8. Scaling Your Leadership Team Using AI with Brian Lang
What if you could add ten senior-level teammates for just $20 a month?That's exactly what one CEO did. His breakthrough came after realizing AI wasn't just for emails and edits — it could be a thought partner. He built an internal suite of AI personas: a virtual CRO that recovered lost deals, a business coach tailored to his style, and a system called the "Clarity File" that transformed an 80-hour process into a 4-hour playbook.The result? Hundreds of thousands of dollars in marketing collateral generated, operations scaled without new headcount, and a new way of showing up as a father. His lesson is clear: AI isn't just a tool — it's a compounding force multiplier for leadership, business, and life.Today's AI-Driven Leader is Brian Lang, CEO of UpsideCFO.
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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