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. 5h ago

    Fossils in the Language: What AI Vocabulary Tells You That Your Dashboard Won't | AI For The C-Suite EP 77

    Every general purpose technology rewrites the dictionary on its way to becoming invisible. Steam gave us "let off steam" and "sidetracked." Electricity reshaped how we talk about power. AI is doing the same thing right now, and if you know what to listen for, the vocabulary is one of the most honest signals you have about where this technology actually stands. This episode is built around a three-part framework. First, how language rewriting works: the difference between lexical creation (a new word for a new thing) and semantic reallocation (stretching an old word over something new), and why that distinction has strategic value. Second, why borrowed words are dangerous: when "hallucination" frames a design characteristic as a medical defect, when "cloud" sounds weightless and ambient while describing a contract with an egress fee nobody reads, and when "fine tuning" makes a costly, time-intensive ML process sound like tightening a carburetor, you get decisions shaped by the wrong mental model. Third, what your own hallways are telling you: the language your team invents organically for AI work is one of the most reliable adoption metrics available, and unlike a commissioned survey, you can take that reading yourself this week for free. Chad closes with three moves you can run on a Monday: take the reading, press the borrowed words for numbers, and build a ten-word internal glossary. If nobody on your team has coined any AI shorthand after two weeks, that's your adoption number, and it's probably more accurate than whatever is on the dashboard. For middle market leaders running 50 to 500 people, this is a practical lens that costs nothing and pays off in sharper AI conversations immediately. 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. Join the AI for the C Suite community today: https://aiforthecsuite.com/#chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

  2. Aug 10

    Why Developers Are AI's Canary in the Coal Mine | AI For The C-Suite EP 76

    Chad Harvey sits down with Sean Campbell, CEO of Cascade Insights and AI integration lead for the George Fox University MBA program, to explore what three decades of watching technology adoption teaches us about AI today. They cover why Sean started teaching AI because he doesn't want students to get "run over," why developers are an early warning sign for every analytical profession, why judgment and delegation skills are so hard to teach, AI's unresolved "original sin" around copyright, and why the next generation of entrepreneurs might build companies solo — with AI as their only teammate. Sean Campbell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seancampbell/ Cascade Insights: https://www.cascadeinsights.com/  Full episode: https://youtu.be/BLbolFXOqSA AI For The C-Suite: https://aiforthecsuite.com/

  3. Aug 3

    McGruberland: When AI-Enabled Stretch Work Outpaces Your Review Structure | AI For The C-Suite EP 75

    OpenAI's Work at the Frontier report analyzed over 800,000 work-related messages from U.S. business users and found that 43% of occupation-specific AI tasks were performed by someone outside that occupation. For customer experience teams, that number hit 77%. For HR, 69%. For legal, 56%. The data tells a direction worth paying attention to. Three categories of work travel the furthest: money, systems, and messaging. Your salespeople are running margin math. Your service manager is debugging an integration at 6 AM. Your operations lead is building a business case without a finance review. None of this is new behavior in a mid-market organization. What is new is that the output no longer looks like a draft. It comes back formatted, confident, and ready to paste into a board deck. That's the problem. A draft that looks finished and a draft that's actually correct are two very different things. The constraint didn't go away. It stopped being visible. In this episode, Chad unpacks the research, connects it directly to how middle-market companies are organized, and lays out three practical moves any operator can make this week: run a ten-minute discovery session with your functional heads, put a name on your two highest-consequence review gaps, and rewrite one job description to match what that person actually does. No policy document required. Every executive is being told AI changes everything. Fewer are being given a place to work out what that actually means for their organization. AI for the C Suite® is a continuous learning and application experience that unites, elevates, and equips leaders navigating the Exponential Age. Join us: https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #ai4cs

  4. Jul 27

    Single-Player vs. Multiplayer AI: Why Most Companies Are Getting AI Wrong | AI For The C-Suite EP 74

    Justin Watt, co-founder of Switchboard, joins Chad Harvey to explore why most AI initiatives fail — not because of the AI, but because of messy data, undocumented processes, and single-player thinking applied to multiplayer business problems. Justin shares his path from IBM to Metalab (Slack's design studio) to building custom internal AI systems for growing companies, and lays out a clear framework for what AI-readiness actually requires: culture before technology. Switchboard — https://www.withswitchboard.com/  AI for the C-Suite — https://aiforthecsuite.com/

  5. Jul 20

    Train Procedure, Not Perception: Three Controls for AI-Enabled Fraud | AI For The C-Suite EP 73

    The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center logged more than one million complaints in 2025 for the first time in the program's 25-year history. Reported losses came in just under $21 billion, up roughly 25% year over year. Business email compromise alone accounted for over $3 billion — making it the most financially destructive threat category aimed specifically at organizations. And for the first time, the IC3 report carved out a dedicated section for AI-related crime. This isn't a story about Fortune 500 targets. A large company has a fraud team, a security operations center, and dedicated identity verification vendors. Your 150-person company has a controller, an office manager who also handles HR, and an outside IT provider you call when something breaks. The attackers are the same. The tools are the same. The asymmetry is the point. In this episode, Chad walks through three operational controls built for the middle market: verifying any payment or account-change request outside the channel it arrived on, replacing one-time authentication codes with passkeys and FIDO2 authentication, and shifting your team's training from spotting a fake to following a procedure — regardless of how convincing the request looks. The third control is the one most organizations skip, and it's the one that matters most now that AI has made every signal your team was trained to trust trivially easy to fake. You'll leave with three concrete actions you can assign tomorrow afternoon: a one-page callback rule, one question for your IT provider, and a call to your bank's fraud desk before you ever need it. 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. https://aiforthecsuite.com/#chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

  6. Jul 13

    Your Personal Brand in the Age of AI | AI for the C-Suite EP 72

    What happens to your personal brand when AI can write it better — and faster — than you can? In Episode 1 of AI for the C-Suite, I sat down with Elizabeth Rosenberg, founder of The Good Advice Company and former Global Communications lead for Apple's creative agency and 72andSunny, to dig into one of the most pressing questions for senior leaders right now: how do you stay unmistakably you in a world where AI is flattening every voice into the same optimized, agreeable, forgettable noise? We covered a lot of ground — here are a few things that stuck with me: 🔹 AI is building brands where everyone sounds like each other. The posts that break through right now are the ones that say what everyone's thinking but nobody is posting. 🔹 The old playbook for executive brand-building doesn't work anymore. Vulnerability and authentic storytelling aren't optional extras — they're the thing. 🔹 AI will tell founders their plan is brilliant and they're going to the Today Show. A good strategist will tell them the truth. 🔹 Crisis comms has never mattered more — and the lag between the news cycle and LLM crawls is a contradiction nobody's solved yet. 🔹 Intuitive intelligence, EQ, and critical thinking are the skills that will define the next generation of leaders. We need to start teaching them now. Elizabeth is equal parts strategist and straight talker, and this conversation went places I didn't expect. Worth your time. Watch Here: https://youtu.be/Fg6-qQAYMOg   🌐 The Good Advice Company: https://www.thegoodadvicecompany.com  🔗 Elizabeth Rosenberg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethrosenberg    🌐 AI for the C-Suite: https://www.aiforthecsuite.com  🌐 Chad Harvey: https://www.chadharvey.com 🔗 Chad Harvey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadcharvey

  7. Jul 6

    Waking Up Is Not Getting Good: The AI Competence Gap Every Leader Needs to Close | AI For The C-Suite EP 71

    Most leaders in middle-market organizations have already been exposed to AI. They've read the articles, seen the product launches, and typed something into a chatbot. The information has been there, night after night. The gap is not awareness. It's the refusal to turn that awareness on yourself and your organization specifically. In this episode, Chad uses the premise of a family film — a flock of sheep who understand death intellectually but have built a comfortable story to keep it at arm's length — to name the exact mechanism by which capable, informed leaders stay stuck on AI. The sheep believe they will simply turn into clouds. You may be doing something similar. Chad calls this "the cloud story," and he argues that the most dangerous version of it is not ignorance — it is exposure without application. Yet the more important argument comes after the wake-up. Chad draws a sharp distinction between two separate events that organizations routinely conflate: the moment of recognition (finally seeing that AI is real, relevant, and already affecting your field) and the work of becoming competent (following clues, getting it wrong, building actual capability over time). One is a moment. The other is a disciplined practice. Confusing them is where most AI initiatives stall. This episode gives you a framework for two honest questions: Where are you still treating AI as someone else's story? And where have you mistaken waking up for getting good? Those two questions are a starting point for leaders who are ready to close the gap between awareness and execution in their organizations. 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

  8. Jun 29

    The 2-Year Window: How Mid-Market Companies Can Win the AI Search Race | AI For The C-Suite EP 70

    Alan Rambam, founder of EO4.AI, breaks down one of the biggest shifts in digital marketing right now — the rise of AI-driven search and what it means for your business visibility. Mid-market companies have a rare, time-sensitive opportunity to become the go-to source AI models cite in their category. The window is closing. We cover: - Why Google's shift from "10 blue links" to AI-synthesized answers changes everything - How AI agents are already making purchases on behalf of consumers - The Anthropic experiment that revealed how smarter AI models find better prices - Why your website may be completely invisible to AI — and how to fix it - Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and why a16z is betting big on it - The most common mistakes companies are making right now - Why Reddit dominates AI results — and what that tells us about how AI learns - How to structure content so AI can see it, trust it, and cite you If you're a business owner, marketer, or founder trying to understand where search is going — this episode is essential listening.   Connect with Alan: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alanrambam Website: EO4.AI   Full episode: https://youtu.be/_XCaZPyC_FE

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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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