Josh Tyson works at the intersection of AI and UX (user experience), specialising in high-level content design and storytelling. He’s also an author and podcaster (broadcasting ‘from the future’!) with extensive experience in the practical application of artificial intelligence, in particular chat-based interfaces. Josh sees possibilities everywhere he looks, but is highly pragmatic about the capacity of organisations and leaders to break through the fear of the unknown and embrace emerging technologies to improve their businesses. Passionate about liberating creativity through technology, he holds the hands of those willing to experiment and, in Josh’s words, first fall on their faces. It’s both a lightning fast and long leadership journey and in this episode Josh shares how we can navigate it with optimism.
The leadership mindset you need now: Open and flexible
Why you should listen: AI asks for tough leadership decisions to be made at speed
Watch and wait is not a leadership strategy
We explore rethinking leadership skills for an AI future
Collaboration is key - involve your team in AI design
Set-up, test, fail - repeat. A new leadership mantra
Use your leadership empathy to figure out how AI can improve life and work for your people.
If your vision of the future includes leveraging your people's talent and building their strategic capability, join me for my Fit for the Future leadership event in May.
Key moments
3:00 The biggest leadership insight: being open and flexible
4:50 First, fall on your face
6:00 The investment (and trauma) of AI
8:15 Any industry can use AI to its advantage
12:00 What AI is - and isn’t
16:20 The broader tech ecosystem
18:30 Be fit for the future with Amplifiers Academy
19:00 Getting started with AI
25:00 DAOs explained
30:00 AI as an ally
34:00 Rethinking everything about work
37:00 Increasing accessibility and future potential
40:10 The leadership implications of AI
About Josh Tyson
JOSH TYSON is an author and producer who’s held leadership roles with a variety of organisations, including TEDxMileHigh and UX Magazine. Josh co-hosts N9K, a podcast from the future, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times and Thrasher. He is the co-author of Age of Invisible Machines: A Practical Guide to Creating a Hyperautomated Ecosystem of Intelligent Digital Workers and is Director of Creative Content at OneReach.ai
Josh’s book recommendation is: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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About your host, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Zoë Routh is a leadership futurist, podcaster, and multiple award-winning author. She works with leaders and teams to navigate future horizons.
She has worked with individuals and teams internationally and in Australia since 1987. From wild Canadian rivers to the Australian Outback, and the Boardroom jungles, Zoë is an adventurist! She facilitates strategy and culture sessions with audacious teams.
Zoë's fourth leadership book, People Stuff - Beyond Personality Problems: An advanced handbook for leadership, won the Book of the Year at the Australian Business Book Awards in 2020. Her fifth book is a near future science fiction dystopian novel, The Olympus Project.
Zoë is the producer of the Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast, dedicated to asking “What if…?” and sharing Big Ideas on the Future of Leadership.
Zoë is an outdoor adventurist and enjoys telemark skiing, has run six marathons, is a one-time belly-dancer, has survived cancer, and loves hiking in the high country. She is married to a gorgeous Aussie and is a self-confessed dark chocolate addict.