C-suite judgment, AI in governance, bias
AI is helping make companies more efficient, and the short-term gains are real. Tallying the consequences of those efficiencies will take longer. When you remove friction from how work gets done, you remove more than inefficiency. You’re also removing the conditions under which people develop. Judgment doesn’t come from having the right answer a click…
Leading with data requires judgment. This April, I’ll be speaking at the 2026 Women in Hospitality Leadership Conference at Wynn Las Vegas about what leading with data really means. In my experience, analytics are rarely the constraint. Interpretation is. Strong leaders don’t react to persuasive metrics at face value. They examine context, surface assumptions, understand…
When Alignment Masks Risk Some of the most expensive strategic mistakes aren’t made in chaos. They happen in rooms that feel aligned. When an executive team reaches agreement quickly, it feels like certainty and momentum. Speed and unanimity create energy. They can also create blind spots. Strong internal consensus is often where risk takes root….
As it becomes more embedded in executive workflows, I’m doing a lot of thinking about AI decision-making in governance. As part of that, I’ve been experimenting with a new tool called Critical Thinking Bot. What caught my attention about it wasn’t speed or output quality. It was the premise: it’s explicitly designed to s l…
A LinkedIn post by Carolene Meli this week imagined helping Celine Dumont, the impeccably ruthless executive from The Morning Show, reshape her public image. Carolene’s idea was elegant and powerful: help a leader tell her story through consistent writing and speaking that reveals her dimension and credibility. Done well, it benefits both the leader and…
The Strategist’s Edge This is an occasional series about how to lead with intent, nuance, and purpose, whether you’re building brands, guiding teams, or making decisions that matter. Check out the rest of the series here. When was the last time you cut through complexity so effectively that everyone in the room understood what to…
Somewhere along the way, “networking” became a dirty word. It started to conjure images of working a room, collecting business cards, or adding people on LinkedIn you’d never actually met. At its best, though, networking has never been about card stacks or contact lists. It’s about relationships: think of it more like networking as a…
The Strategist’s Edge This is an occasional series about how to lead with intent, nuance, and purpose, whether you’re building brands, guiding teams, or making decisions that matter. Check out the rest of the series here. Whether or not “strategist” is your title, a core part of leading smart, effective agency work is helping ideas…
An article I published a decade ago about business words that start with “C” has been getting some recent traction. It gave me pause to reflect on how relevant it remains today, and whether there were additional “C words” beyond the original eight that might be worth adding to the mix based on the same…