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In this episode, Dan Nestle discusses the leadership challenges of AI transformation with Bo Breuklander, emphasizing the importance of change management over strategy.

AI transformation isn't a strategy problem. It's a leadership problem. And until CEOs and boards stop asking for an AI strategy and start asking for a change management strategy, most organizations are going to keep spinning their wheels. In this episode of The Trending Communicator, host Dan Nestle sits down with Bo Breuklander, founder of Breuklander Communications, ProSci-certified change practitioner, and professor of PR and media writing at the University of Tampa. Bo spent 16 years in corporate communications, led digital communications at Jabil, moved into VP-level transformation work, and now runs People First AI workshops that document 100% confidence increases among participants. Dan and Bo get into why the comfortability gap matters more than the skills gap, what happens when people in the room are too afraid to admit they're already using AI, and why communicators are uniquely positioned to lead organizational AI transformation rather than waiting for IT to hand them a playbook. Listen in and hear about... Why random acts of AI are the new random acts of content and equally ineffective The explainability problem and why it connects directly to critical thinking in the…

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Host: Dan Nestle

Guest: Bo Breuklander

Topics covered

• AI transformation
• leadership
• change management
• organizational communication
• digital communications
• critical thinking
• entrepreneurial thinking

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Organizations: Breuklander Communications, ProSci, University of Tampa, Jabil

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