What Happens to Leadership When AI Becomes a Teammate?

What happens when your best teammate isn't human? Learn how to evolve your leadership from command and control to orchestration in the age of AI.

#1about 4 minutes

Addressing employee anxiety when introducing AI to teams

Leaders should start AI implementation by focusing on employee enablement and showing vulnerability to reduce fear and anxiety.

#2about 2 minutes

Moving from command and control to orchestration

Leaders must unlearn command-and-control habits and instead orchestrate human-AI collaboration by first understanding and fixing underlying processes.

#3about 5 minutes

Involving your team in the AI transformation journey

An open and honest dialogue with teams about how AI will change roles can lead to upskilling opportunities rather than layoffs.

#4about 8 minutes

Fostering curiosity and trust for AI adoption

Overcome resistance to AI by rebuilding trust through transparent leadership and sparking curiosity with low-barrier, hands-on workshops and hackathons.

#5about 4 minutes

Rethinking leadership roles and organizational structures

AI integration requires moving away from traditional hierarchies, redefining team swim lanes, and positioning managers as central network connectors.

#6about 3 minutes

Cultivating essential leadership skills for the AI era

In an AI-driven workplace, leaders must excel at storytelling for context, showing empathy, and applying deep functional judgment to guide decisions.

#7about 3 minutes

Redefining motivation from productivity to quality and experience

As AI agents take over productivity tasks, human motivation and performance metrics should shift to focus on quality, experience, and strategic impact.

#8about 3 minutes

Understanding the ethical dimensions of implementing AI

Leaders are responsible for creating ethical guardrails, auditing AI for bias, and involving diverse groups like ERGs in testing new systems.

#9about 4 minutes

Making key leadership choices in the age of AI

A rapid-fire summary of leadership priorities reveals a preference for using AI as an advisor, valuing wisdom over speed, and focusing on meaning.

Notes and resources

In this episode, Rudi Bauer talks with Manjuri Sinha, VP HR and Global Head of GTM Org Success at Miro, about leading organizations through the age of AI and reimagining work in an increasingly automated world.

They discuss how AI is becoming a new kind of team member, why the biggest barriers are often cultural rather than technical, and what organizations must unlearn to truly integrate AI into their structures. Manjuri shares insights on shifting roles instead of replacing them, fostering curiosity over fear, redefining productivity and success, and the leadership skills that will matter most in the future.