AI Café Conversations | AI for Executives: Leadership Insights | Transforming with AI
What Creates Shadow AI? It's Not Bad Employees, It's Leadership Hesitation| AI for executives
20 Nov 2025
Send us a textShadow AI isn't caused by rebellious employees or bad policies. It's caused by the Conviction Lag—the gap between what AI can do and what your organization believes it can do.In this conversational episode, I walk through how leadership hesitation creates the exact behavior leaders are trying to prevent. When executives freeze, employees hide. When leaders demand control, teams go underground. When organizations wait for certainty, Shadow AI fills the vacuum.I connect the Three Executive Brain Blocks (Competency Freeze, Control Spiral, Certainty Trap) to specific Shadow AI behaviors in your organization. Then I show you how to close the Conviction Lag through transparent AI use, Conviction Rituals, and guardrails instead of gates.This episode builds on Episode 28 (why employees hide AI) and Episode 29 (what that hiding costs you). Now we get to the root cause: leadership conviction. My book "The Coach's Brain Meets AI" is available on Amazon,Subscribe now If you have any questions Email me at [email protected] with me on LinkedinConnect with me on IG: @saharthereinventcoach #AI #Artificialintelligence #learningpodcast #DailyAI #leadershipcoach #executivepresence #BrainvsAI #neuroleadership #neuroscienceinleadership #Futureofwork #techtalk #innovation #AIpodcast #AIconversations #AIforeveryone #AIInsights #AItrends #AICaféConversations #ChatGPT #NewWaveAI #AIExplained #TechSimplified #AInotechrequired #HumancenteredAI #AIForEveryone #OptimizeAI #AIChatbot #TechPodcast #UnderstandingAI #AIInteraction #PersonalizedAI #neuroscience #AIforexecutives #humancenteredai #notechrequired #AItoolsforexecutives #AIandleadership #executivecoachingwithAI #AIcoachingtoolsforexecutives #ExecutiveLeadership #NeuroscienceLeadership #ExecutiveTraining #ShadowAI #AILeadership #ExecutiveAITraining #PsychologicalSafety #NeuroscienceOfLeadership #AIAdoption #ChangeManagement #AIEthics #LeadershipDevelopment #AIForExecutives #OrganizationalTrust #AIPolicy #AIGovernance #ExecutiveCoaching #UnapprovedAITools #EmployeeAIUse #AIRiskManagement #BrandRiskAI #AIComplianceForLeaders #AIRegulations #LeadershipResponsibility #AICompliance #ExecutiveDecisionMaking #ProactiveLeadership #AIAccountability #WaitingForAIRegulations #ShadowAIInOrganizations #HowToGovernAIWithoutRegulations #ExecutivesAndAICompliance #LeadingAIWithoutRules #AIGovernanceFrameworks #Organizationalchange #AIStrategy #aistrategyforexecutives #executiveaiinsights #aileadershiptransformation #progressillusion #convictionlag #decisionvelocity #AITransformation #shadowAIrootcause #convictionlag #leadershipaccountabilityAISupport the show--- AI Cafe Conversations: Neuroscience-based AI leadership for executives. Hosted by Sahar (The AI Whisperer) | New episodes Wed & Fri 🔗 Connect: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saharandradespeaker/ 📧 Work with me: [email protected] 🌐 Website: https://www.saharconsulting.com/ 📧 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saharthereinventcoach
No persons identified in this episode.
This episode hasn't been transcribed yet
Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.
Popular episodes get transcribed faster
Other recent transcribed episodes
Transcribed and ready to explore now
Eric Larsen on the emergence and potential of AI in healthcare
10 Dec 2025
McKinsey on Healthcare
Reducing Burnout and Boosting Revenue in ASCs
10 Dec 2025
Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast
Dr. Erich G. Anderer, Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery and Surgical Director of Perioperative Services at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn
09 Dec 2025
Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast
Dr. Nolan Wessell, Assistant Professor and Well-being Co-Director, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Spine Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine
08 Dec 2025
Becker’s Healthcare -- Spine and Orthopedic Podcast
NPR News: 12-08-2025 2AM EST
08 Dec 2025
NPR News Now
NPR News: 12-08-2025 1AM EST
08 Dec 2025
NPR News Now