Open your AI Authenticity Loop - with Allison Shapira

About this episode

In this episode, Dan Nestle and Allison Shapira discuss the meaning of authenticity in the age of AI and its impact on communication and leadership.

Authenticity might be the most abused word in business today. Every AI tool promises to preserve it. Every leadership guru sells it as a brand pillar. And the more it gets thrown around, the less it actually means. In this episode of The Trending Communicator, host Dan Nestle sits down with Allison Shapira — founder and CEO of Global Public Speaking, Harvard Kennedy School lecturer, regular HBR contributor, and author of AI for the Authentic Leader: How to Communicate More Effectively Without Losing Your Humanity. Allison went from the opera stage to the corridors of diplomacy, eventually building a global communication training company that now coaches prime ministers, cabinet members, and Fortune 100 executives in their highest-stakes moments. Allison and Dan dig into what authenticity actually means when AI can draft your speech in seconds, why generic AI output is quietly eroding trust between leaders and the teams they lead, and how the AI Authenticity Loop gives communicators a practical way to use these tools without flattening their voice. Along the way, they explore why live speaking might be the last place left to be certain a human is being human — and why the choices…

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Nestle

Guest: Allison Shapira

Topics covered

• authenticity
• AI communication
• leadership
• public speaking
• trust in teams
• communication training

Keywords

• authenticity
• AI tools
• communication
• leadership
• trust
• public speaking
• ACE model

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Global Public Speaking, Harvard Kennedy School, HBR

Books & works: AI for the Authentic Leader: How to Communicate More Effectively Without Losing Your Humanity

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