Why Today’s Leadership Playbook Breaks in the Age of AI
About this episode
The episode discusses the need for a new leadership approach in the age of AI, emphasizing the importance of courage and adaptive organizational design.
The leadership playbooks that built today’s successful organizations were designed for a different world. In this episode of The Parallel Entrepreneur – Innovation Series, hosts Mark Cleveland and Johnny Anderson sit down with Amalia Goodwin, Global Managing Director of Adaptive Organizations at Slalom, to confront a reality most executives quietly avoid: Incremental change is no longer safe. It’s organizational suicide. Amalia works with C-suite leaders and boards who understand that AI transformation isn’t about tools, it’s about redesigning how organizations sense, decide, and evolve at scale. This conversation goes far beyond technology and into the deeper work of leadership courage, organizational design, and the role companies play as architects of society’s future. We explore what it actually means to build an adaptive organization, one capable of continuous reinvention rather than reactive survival. In this episode, we discuss: - Why AI transformation fails without leadership courage - The danger of applying yesterday’s playbooks to tomorrow’s problems - What “innovation metabolism” really means inside organizations - How leaders can balance quarterly performance with…
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