Clarity at the Top

Thomas Anglero
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Clarity at the Top podcast is for boards, CEOs, and senior executives navigating AI, geopolitical disruption, and the redefinition of leadership itself. Hosted by Thomas Anglero — a Keynote Speaker and Strategic AI Advisor to executive leaders and boards. He has delivered 450+ keynotes on AI leadership and transformation across 30+ countries — for organizations including IBM, WHO, the World Governments Summit, and the European Commission — and advises senior leaders one-on-one through his firm MerkabaPhi AS, Oslo. New episodes weekly.

  1. Jun 25

    Leadership is Lonely and What to Do About It

    Leadership is very lonely. Everyone expects you to have the answer, to be available, and to work harder than them, but no one's taking care of you. No one's asking you anything about what you need, about your day, about your family, or about your lack of time with your family. How do you change this? How did you get there? The answer lies in prioritising you, just you: no phone, no PC, no internet, just you, the trees, some grass, and the sounds of nature. Time for you to find you.

    5 min

  2. Jun 25

    Leaders are Reducing Their AI Budget, This is Your Moment to Increase Yours

    Leaders are now announcing that their AI budgets have been blown apart internally, and their colleagues have overspent and seen almost no return on investment. This is your moment to double down and double your expenses on AI.The problems they've had are their weaknesses, and this is your moment to shine. They didn't have: a strategyproper leadershipproper trainingproper motivationThat's not how you deploy any project. You know how to deploy a project. You're the master of it. You're the best there is.You now see that your competitor is not going to invest in the technology that can solve their problems and elevate them. Your competitor is like an ostrich, putting his head in the ground. This is your moment to shine. This is your moment to embrace AI. This is it.

    4 min

  3. Jun 24

    Setting Expectations as a Leader to Drive Results and Culture

    Are you the role model for the expectations that you put on your people, or are the KPIs their role model? Are people working for KPIs, or are they working for the betterment of the company, or are they working just to look good in your eyes? You as a leader define what their end goal is, not their KPIs. Ask yourself a question. Really, what do they work for, or do they work for the weekends and work for vacations? Then they definitely don't work for you, and they definitely don't work for your client. It's time for you to become that role model. Otherwise, they're working just for a paycheck, and definitely not for you.

    3 min

  4. Jun 9

    Your Best People Are Using AI and Not Telling You | Clarity at the Top

    Your top performers are quietly accomplishing twice as much as the rest of your team. They are not working longer hours. They are using AI, and they are not sharing how. While the productivity spike looks like a win, it masks a deeper problem: the growing gap between how your organisation operates and how you believe it operates. In this episode, Thomas Anglero explores the leadership challenge hiding beneath AI adoption. Whether you are managing a team of quiet AI users or you are the executive outperforming your leadership peers, the root cause is the same. Something about the culture is not working, and the answer starts with you. If your best people do not see a culture worth staying for, they will take their capabilities elsewhere.

    5 min

  5. Jun 2

    Is Your Traditional Partner Failing You in the Age of AI?

    Are your traditional enterprise partners failing you in the age of AI? In this episode of Clarity at the Top, we dive directly into the friction between legacy corporate structures and modern AI execution. Many senior executives, enterprise sales leaders, and board members are secretly frustrated that the traditional strategies, PowerPoint frameworks, and elite consulting firms they have relied on for decades are suddenly failing to generate revenue. We expose why traditional tech consultancies keep asking for "more time and more billable hours" instead of delivering rapid AI ROI, and we tackle the hidden discomfort executives face when navigating real digital transformation. Learn what it truly means to shift from basic software usage to becoming an "AI-native" leader—leveraging cognitive, agentic workflows that push insights directly to your decision-making layer before you even have to ask. If you are trapped in back-to-back meetings and ready to reframe how you coach your sales teams and govern your organization, this episode is a mandatory reality check. Listen in to discover why legacy plays won't work on an AI-driven field, and how to step into the future of executive leadership. Interested in accelerating your organization's AI adoption? Let's take this discussion one-on-one. Contact me directly at: https://anglero.com Business Strategy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Management, Executive Leadership, Corporate Training, Sales Performance

    8 min

  6. May 24

    AI Leaders: Avoid Failure with This Strategy!

    This article from fortune magazine is a perfect example of what leaders like yourself CEO board members decision makers need to avoid when looking for advice on AI. Looking for what are the best business cases and what are other leaders doing with AI. In this article it cites in two areas that leaders should lower their KPIs lower the bars for success so that they then can report back to their leaders to their CEO or to their board that they have reached all their KPIs but never telling the board or telling their CEO leader that they lowered their KPIs. This is ridiculous and this is what's so important you need to be aware of information out there that's being produced by Fortune magazine in this specific example that you would think that you should lend credence to that you should put your career in jeopardy just because of this bad information. The way to go forward the way to do this correctly is by having a council of AI advisors. A council of AI advisors are the smartest minds the smartest advisors companies like McKinsey Accenture Boston Consulting. You've probably used them in the past they've done business analysis spreadsheets trend forecasting. They've improved their pipeline what if you can take the best minds from each one of those companies and have them available to you 24 hours a day seven days a week? That is what you create when you have an AI council. If you're interested in something like that contact me I have created AI councils for many leaders around the world. I use an AI council all the time. I actually gave this article to my AI council and we all won complete agreement this is a terrible article that you need to avoid do not trust everything you read especially when it comes from wonderful companies like Fortune magazine who have a history producing great material. This is really subpar business intelligence. Stay away from it but contact me if you want access to the best advisors 24/7 available to you. You deserve it. Message me if you wanna know more on how you can set up your own AI virtual advisory team. https://www.Anglero.com

    6 min

  7. May 20

    75% of CEOs Think a Fellow CEO Will Be Fired Over AI | Clarity at the Top

    75% of CEOs believe a fellow CEO will lose their job because of a failed AI strategy. 62% say their boards are demanding measurable AI outcomes. 56% admit their competitors are ahead of them on AI. In this episode of Clarity at the Top, Thomas Anglero breaks down why leadership teams built for the past cannot carry organisations into an AI-driven future, what happens when every employee is multiplied by twenty through AI agents, and what CEOs must do before looking at anyone else on their team. Thomas Anglero is a three-time technology pioneer (VoIP 1993, IBM Watson Lab for Cancer 2014, AI agents 2025), keynote speaker, author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence, and Strategic AI Advisor to boards and executive leaders. He has delivered more than 450 keynotes across 30 countries for organisations including WHO, IBM, the European Commission, and UNICEF. If this resonated with you, reach out at https://www.Anglero.com or email thomas@anglero.com Subscribe to the Clarity at the Top newsletter: https://newsletter.anglero.com Connect with Thomas:LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/angleroInstagram: https://instagram.com/thomasangleroX/Twitter: https://x.com/ThomasAnglero #AIStrategy #CEOPressure #AILeadership #ArtificialIntelligence #AITransformation #LeadershipDevelopment #BoardPressure #AIAgents #ClarityAtTheTop #ThomasAnglero #KeynoteSpeaker #ExecutiveLeadership #FutureOfWork #AIAdvisor #DigitalTransformation

    13 min

  8. May 12

    The Most Expensive Decision a Leader Makes (It's Not the Wrong One)

    The most expensive decision a leader makes is not the wrong decision — it's the refusal to be first. Thomas Anglero tells the story of presenting an innovation program to the leadership of the Norwegian Tax Authority — a program built with the University of Berkeley to transform public sector leadership worldwide. The answer he received changed how he understands leadership forever. This episode is for every leader who has been in a room where someone presented something unprecedented, and for every leader who has had to decide whether to say yes when there is no case study, no precedent, and no safety net. Thomas Anglero is a three-time technology pioneer, keynote speaker, author of Intro to Artificial Intelligence, and Strategic AI Advisor to executive leaders and boards. He was among the first ten people in the world to make a voice call over the internet in 1993, founded the IBM Watson Lab for Cancer in 2014, and now operates an AI-first venture using AI agents as his engineering team. He has delivered 450+ keynotes across 30 countries. Subscribe to Clarity at the Top — the newsletter and podcast for senior executives navigating AI leadership: https://www.anglero.com Book Thomas for your event: https://www.anglero.com/speaking-inquiry/ Connect with Thomas: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anglero Website: https://www.anglero.com Email: Thomas@Anglero.com #AILeadership #KeynoteSpeaker #LeadershipDecisions #Innovation #ExecutiveLeadership #ClarityAtTheTop #PublicSector #ThomasAnglero

    21 min
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Clarity at the Top podcast is for boards, CEOs, and senior executives navigating AI, geopolitical disruption, and the redefinition of leadership itself. Hosted by Thomas Anglero — a Keynote Speaker and Strategic AI Advisor to executive leaders and boards. He has delivered 450+ keynotes on AI leadership and transformation across 30+ countries — for organizations including IBM, WHO, the World Governments Summit, and the European Commission — and advises senior leaders one-on-one through his firm MerkabaPhi AS, Oslo. New episodes weekly.

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