AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™

Chad Harvey

AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™ interviews industry expert guests to keep you informed and entertained in the world of AI for Business. If you’re a C Suite member looking to learn more about how AI will impact your business, you’ve found the right podcast. Generative AI is the most disruptive General Purpose Technology we have seen in the last 45 years. It holds tremendous promise when leveraged properly and tremendous peril for those that disregard its existence. AI for the C-Suite with Chad Harvey™ is a continuous learning and application experience which exists to unite, elevate and equip CEO’s, Presidents, Owners and C-suite leaders to navigate the Exponential Age.

  1. 3D AGO

    Strategic Slowness: The Competitive Advantage Coming After Speed | AI For The C-Suite EP 59

    Speed is the operating obsession right now, and for good reason. Across industries and company sizes, the leaders moving fastest with AI are opening a real gap on everyone else. If your competitor is qualifying a customer inquiry in four minutes and you're still taking two days, that is a structural disadvantage. Speed compounds, and right now, pressing it is the right move. But speed is on a curve. It starts as an edge, becomes a race, and eventually becomes table stakes. Electricity went through this curve. Cloud computing went through it. AI-powered speed is early on that same arc, which means the leaders who are only building for speed are building for a moment, not a position. In this episode, Chad introduces the concept of strategic slowness: the capacity to hold position under pressure, defer irreversible decisions, and deploy judgment when the whole market is screaming at you to act. It is not a philosophy of moving slowly. Think of it as a reserve, held in tension with speed, the way a disciplined investor holds cash. Chad walks through three practical moves for building this capacity into your organization: a decision cadence that separates reversible from irreversible calls, calendar discipline that protects thinking time as a capital expenditure, and a tenure audit that identifies the pattern memory people your organization is likely undervaluing right now. That last one carries a reframe worth sitting with: in a world where institutional facts are queryable but institutional judgment is not, your long-tenured people are carrying an asset that didn't exist five years ago. This episode gives you a framework for thinking past the current era of speed, and a concrete starting point for building the reserve that will matter when speed alone stops winning. AI For the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. AI for the C-Suite™ is a continuous learning and application experience that exists to unite, elevate, and equip leaders to navigate the Exponential Age. Join the AI for the C Suite community today: https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

    16 min

  2. APR 6

    Chris Happ | Why 98% of CEOs Know AI Matters but Only 7% Have a Strategy | AI For The C-Suite EP 58

    AI isn’t the question anymore. Execution is. In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with Chris Happ, CEO of Virtuous AI, to break down why most companies are stuck between knowing AI matters and actually making it work. 98% of CEOs say AI matters. Only 7% have a strategy. So what’s going wrong? This conversation goes beyond tools and hype. It focuses on what’s actually happening inside organizations and why so many AI efforts stall before they ever scale. We cover: • Why most AI pilots fail • The gap between strategy and execution • Why buying AI tools doesn’t create an advantage • The role of trust in AI adoption • How companies should rethink workflows instead of optimizing broken ones • A real example of freeing up millions in cash through better decision making If you’re a CEO or business leader trying to figure out how to move from experimentation to real impact with AI, this is a practical place to start. Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/sUcoylSLSzE Learn more about Virtuous AI: https://www.virtuousai.com/

    1h 2m

  3. MAR 30

    Nobody's Coming: Why Mid-Market Leaders Must Lead Their Own AI Transformation | AI For The C-Suite EP 57

    Three articles dropped within a single week. A viral blog post viewed over 85 million times, a major Atlantic Monthly feature, and a forward-looking research piece written from the vantage point of 2028. All three pointed in the same direction: AI is reshaping organizations faster than most leaders realize, and nobody is coming to help you figure it out.   In this episode, recorded live at the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania, Chad lays out five premises every leader needs to internalize about AI as a general purpose technology, unpacks what those three articles reveal about this particular moment, and delivers a practical readiness playbook built on systems, people, and processes. He also addresses the failure patterns that sink most AI initiatives (pilot purgatory, strategy theater, IT silos, and tool obsession) and walks through a five-step activation sequence you can start this week: audit your friction points, focus on three initiatives instead of thirty, build a cross-functional team, set guardrails, and establish a cadence that matches the pace of change.   Chad makes the case that reskilling the C-suite matters more than reskilling the operational layer and maps out how each executive role needs to evolve. The CEO becomes the chief storyteller. The CFO shifts from historical reporting to contingency modeling. The COO moves from running processes to reinventing them. And every leader needs to expand from holding one to three scenarios over five years to holding three to five scenarios over one to three years, preserving optionality at every turn. If your organization is still dabbling, still posturing, or still waiting for someone else to lead the way, this is where you start building the leadership capacity to match an exponentially advancing technology.   AI For the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. AI for the C-Suite™ is a continuous learning and application experience that exists to unite, elevate, and equip leaders to navigate an era of unprecedented change.   Join the AI for the C Suite community today: https://aiforthecsuite.com/

    39 min

  4. MAR 23

    Ayra Bolurfrushan | Most Companies Are Thinking About AI Completely Wrong | AI For The C-Suite EP 56

    In this episode, I sat down with Arya Bolurfrushan, founder and CEO of Applied AI, to talk about what most companies are getting wrong about AI. Instead of asking where AI fits into existing workflows, Arya flips the question entirely — where do humans belong in an AI-driven system? We get into: Why most AI pilots fail The real bottleneck in AI adoption How companies are unlocking 10x productivity Why legacy workflows are built around human limitations What leaders need to do right now to stay competitive This is a practical and honest look at what it actually takes to implement AI inside real organizations. Full episode: https://youtu.be/BYjN58XyJKQ Learn more about Arya’s work: https://opus.com

    57 min

  5. MAR 16

    Hire Process Mappers, Not AI Engineers: A CTO's Highest-Leverage Play | AI For The C-Suite EP 55

    The pressure on mid-market CTOs is about to ratchet up... and most are still running a playbook that can't keep pace. Your owners are reading the same headlines you are. Their peers are talking about five-person shops punching above their weight class. And the first place they're going to look with questions is you. In this episode, Chad breaks down a conversation from a recent CTO roundtable with mid-market tech leaders running teams at companies between 100 and 700 employees across construction, manufacturing, distribution, education, and property management and distills it into three moves you should be executing between now and Q3. First, solve for speed, because the window where fast AI deployment is a differentiator is closing. Second, hire process mappers (not AI engineers) because your teams can't see the friction in their own workflows, and that's where the real ROI lives. Third, stop being a gatekeeper and become a platform enabler, because the people inside your four walls are already building things and your job is to channel that energy, not crush it. If your AI strategy still runs on a six-to-nine-month evaluation cycle and everything flows through IT for approval, this episode gives you a concrete framework to compress that timeline, identify your highest-leverage hire, and reposition your team as the accelerator — not the bottleneck. AI For the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. AI for the C-Suite™ is a continuous learning and application experience that exists to unite, elevate, and equip leaders to navigate the Exponential Age. Join the AI for the C Suite community today: https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

    16 min

  6. MAR 9

    Dr. Sam Zolfagharian | How Leaders Should Actually Approach AI | AI For The C-Suite EP 54

    In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, Chad Harvey talks with Dr. Sam Zolfagharian, president and co-founder of Yegatech, about how leaders should actually approach AI inside their organizations. Dr. Sam has worked with AI since 2015, long before the recent surge in attention around it. In this conversation, she shares why many companies get stuck experimenting with AI tools, what it takes to move toward real strategy, and why culture and employee buy-in matter more than most leaders think. She also shares the one question every CEO should ask when thinking about AI adoption. Learn more about Yegatech https://yegatech.com Watch the full episode https://youtu.be/TObfIEiiXlc

    1h 3m

  7. MAR 2

    The Disappearing Middle: Where AI Is Pushing Firms and What to Do About It | AI For The C Suite EP 53

    For 90 years, the boundary of your firm has been set by coordination costs. Agentic AI is rewriting that equation - not incrementally, but structurally - and the implications land hardest on organizations sitting in the broad middle of the firm-size distribution. Chad walks through a recent research paper called The Headless Firm and translates its core argument into operator language. When AI agents coordinate through standardized protocols, the cost of adding a new capability becomes roughly constant rather than compounding. That shift produces what the researchers call an hourglass architecture: deep domain expertise at the edges, a thin coordination layer in the middle, and a squeeze on firms that aren't clearly positioned at either pole. For knowledge-intensive sectors, the math favors hyper-specialized, high-leverage teams over broad internal capability - the "scalable boutique" model where small firms generate outsized revenue per employee. Three concrete moves to test this in your organization: run a coordination cost audit on your top workflows, identify whether your durable advantage lives at the top of the hourglass (customer intent) or the bottom (domain expertise), and pilot a vertical agent replacement within 90 days to see whether integration costs stay constant or balloon. That pilot is your empirical proof point before committing to a broader shift. AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™ keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Episode based upon Klein & Wieczorek, "The Headless Firm: How AI Reshapes Enterprise Boundaries," arXiv:2602.21401v1, February 24, 2026. Cross-references Professor Anton Korinek's research on knowledge work cost de-escalation. See also https://chadharvey.com/inspiration/friday-february-27-2026/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Join the AI for the C Suite community today: https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

    15 min

  8. FEB 23

    Brent Orrell - AI Is Not Optional The Shift From Doing to Judging - AI For The C-Suite EP 52

    AI is changing the nature of work faster than most leaders realize. In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with Brent Orrell, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to explore what AI is actually doing to organizations right now. Brent explains why we are moving from an economy of doing to one of judging, why curiosity may be the most important skill of the future, and why imposter syndrome might actually be a sign that you are growing. They also discuss: • Why AI is not optional for leaders • How AI is shrinking entry level knowledge work • What calibration really means in the AI age • Why AI rips hierarchies apart • How to prepare your workforce without panic This conversation is practical, thoughtful, and grounded in what companies are already experiencing. Connect with Brent Orrell on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brent-orrell-b503617 Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/KbeJ8--09ic Subscribe for more conversations on how AI is reshaping leadership, strategy, and the future of work.

    1h 8m
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AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™ interviews industry expert guests to keep you informed and entertained in the world of AI for Business. If you’re a C Suite member looking to learn more about how AI will impact your business, you’ve found the right podcast. Generative AI is the most disruptive General Purpose Technology we have seen in the last 45 years. It holds tremendous promise when leveraged properly and tremendous peril for those that disregard its existence. AI for the C-Suite with Chad Harvey™ is a continuous learning and application experience which exists to unite, elevate and equip CEO’s, Presidents, Owners and C-suite leaders to navigate the Exponential Age.

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