Arete Coach 1206 Severin Sorensen "The Business Leader's Guide to AI: Framework-Driven Strategy for the Digital Age"

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Business, How To, Entrepreneurship, Education, Management

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Arete Coach Podcast, hosted by Severin Sorensen. In this episode, titled, "The Business Leader's Guide to AI: Framework-Driven Strategy for the Digital Age," recorded on January 26, 2025, Sorensen shares insights from his groundbreaking presentation at Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education programme where he discussed his innovative approach to integrating AI with traditional business frameworks. As the author of "The AI Whisperer Frameworks" and several other best selling books on AI implementation for business, Sorensen has developed a unique methodology that bridges the gap between established business strategy and emerging AI capabilities, making complex AI applications accessible to non-technical business leaders.

In this compelling episode, Sorensen reveals how his layered prompt journey approach transforms traditional business analysis through AI integration. Using a real-world example of Frank Pepe's Pizzeria, he demonstrates how combining multiple frameworks - from company wikis to Blue Ocean Strategy - creates a comprehensive business analysis system. His layered prompt journey with strategic business frameworks, along with his successful books and AI-generated music ventures, showcases the versatility of his framework-based approach. What sets Sorensen's methodology apart is not just the use of AI or traditional business frameworks, but the innovative way he structures these elements into an educational journey that business leaders can follow to enhance their strategic thinking.

Strategic Framework Integration: The episode illuminates how coaches can help clients move beyond basic AI implementation to strategic integration. Sorensen's layered approach demonstrates that effective AI usage isn't just about good prompts - it's about building a comprehensive strategic thinking process that combines traditional business frameworks with AI capabilities. This provides coaches with a structured method for helping clients develop more sophisticated AI strategies.

Educational Leadership Development: Sorensen's framework-based methodology offers coaches a new paradigm for developing leaders in the AI era. By breaking down complex AI implementations into structured, framework-based approaches, coaches can help their clients build confidence in using AI while maintaining focus on strategic business objectives. This educational component is crucial for helping leaders bridge the gap between traditional business strategy and AI implementation.

Process Innovation and Change Management: The discussion of agentic AI and the insurance industry example highlights how coaches can guide clients through transformational change. By showing how AI can reduce a two-week process to three hours while improving accuracy, coaches can help clients understand both the potential and limitations of AI implementation. This balanced approach helps leaders maintain perspective on AI as a tool for enhancement rather than replacement of human judgment.

The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.

This episode was recorded on January 26, 2025.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Severn Swartson, and I thought this week for the RRT-Coach podcast I would share with you some musings and journeys of things that I've been doing recently.
0:10.0	It's been a pretty wild ride. During the last 30 days, I've released the next of my books, the AI Whisperer Framework.
0:19.0	I have released some 30 songs on Spotify,
0:25.6	which has been kind of fun to think that you can do all sorts of music and other things with that.
0:30.6	I have also started to present again presentations for Vistas groups, I've done keynotes,
0:35.6	I got a number of workshops and something fun I did this last week.
0:40.3	It's the third participation I've had now with the Cambridge Judd School of Business.
0:46.3	In October of 2024, I got to speak to the Executive MBA program. And then on the 1st of November,
0:56.2	I got to spend three hour teaching and training
0:58.5	the students of the MBA program, a full-time program.
1:02.4	And then just this week, on Thursday,
1:04.9	I was able to do a one-hour program
1:07.1	with Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education Program.
1:11.6	They had just had a seminar in the fall on generative AI, something called Generative
1:18.6	Artificial Intelligence from Hight to Business Impact.
1:22.6	And they were pulling the group together for a post-seminar booster, a follow-up session, and they invited me to present to
1:29.8	the group. And it was really fun. And I thought since I had written the book, I would share with you
1:34.9	some insights from that as part of today's R-T-A coach. One of fun things about having a podcast,
1:42.8	you can talk about different topics, things that interest you.
1:46.0	Sometimes it's a coach, a chair, a book author, and other times you've got a forum to relate information.
1:52.0	And I think what I'm going to relate today is highly important, and hopefully it resonates with some of you.
1:57.0	So let me just crosswalk you through what I did for the group in Cambridge.
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