The Leadership Part of AI: Five Challenges, Five Tools, One Next Step

Join Women in AI Colorado on Thursday, November 19 for a working session with Ina Winterle.

Ina spent the summer interviewing 13 senior executives about how AI is showing up inside their organizations. The technology came up least. What came up constantly was leadership: how decisions get made, how expertise is shifting, how to bring people along, and how to lead when the ground keeps moving. Five challenges surfaced again and again, and Ina built practical solutions for each one.

We are starting with the solutions.
Ina will introduce all five. Then the room votes anonymously on which challenges land closest to home, and we take the top two or three and work them live. You will use worksheets, talk in pairs and small groups, and apply each tool to your own organization. The question we keep in front of us is what this looks like where you work, and what you could do differently right away.

The five challenges

Strategy and execution moving at different speeds
Expertise becoming a commodity
Human and social change lagging behind the technical change
The weight leaders carry when they are the ones deciding
Culture and belonging under strain

One tool, as a preview
Inverted apprenticeship pairs an AI-fluent person with a deep domain expert for a week or two on one concrete project. The AI-fluent person brings speed. The expert brings judgment about the work itself. Neither one reports to the other, and both come out of it changed. Ina has tested the tools with leadership teams.
What you will leave with

A clear name for your biggest AI leadership challenge, one tool matched to it, and one step you can take this week. The worksheets go home with you.

Who this is for
Anyone making decisions about AI at work, and anyone living with decisions someone else made. Executives, team leads, founders, consultants, and people in transition who want something concrete to carry into the next role. You do not need a technical background. You do need your curiosity.

About Ina Winterle
Ina Winterle is an executive coach and leadership researcher focused on the social side of the AI shift and sustainable high performance. Before founding Keys2Success-Coaching, she spent sixteen years at Google in Strategy & Operations, helping senior leaders turn direction into coordinated execution across complex, fast-moving organizations. Her current research, based on interviews with 13 senior executives, looks at the part of AI no one gets a manual for: how to lead the organization around the technology. Her style is practical, direct, and human.

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