Episode 29: From Instinct to AI to Insight: The New Rules of Modern Leadership, with Roger Quinlan
From The Roz Usheroff Podcast by Roz Usheroff
November 18, 2025 · 32 min
About this episode
Roger Quinlan discusses how AI is transforming leadership and the essential traits for future-ready leaders.
In this powerful conversation, Roger Quinlan, SVP of Sales at Coherent, explores how AI is reshaping leadership, from decision-making to designing decision systems. He champions emotional intelligence, radical transparency, and a culture of curiosity as essential traits for future-ready leaders. Roger emphasizes that AI should elevate human potential, not replace it, and that leaders must bridge machine precision with human depth. He shares actionable insights on reskilling, personalized growth, and redefining productivity through value creation. With wisdom, clarity, and drawing on his decades of leadership experience, Roger urges leaders to embrace ambiguity, empower teams, and stay relentlessly curious. This episode is a masterclass in leading with empathy, adaptability, and purpose in the age of AI.
People in this episode
Host: Roz Usheroff
Guest: Roger Quinlan
Topics covered
- AI in leadership
- emotional intelligence
- decision-making
- curiosity in leadership
- reskilling
- productivity
- human potential
Keywords
- AI
- leadership
- emotional intelligence
- transparency
- curiosity
- reskilling
- productivity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Coherent
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