LEAD WITH AI: How Executives Like You Own the Next Decade What if the leaders pulling ahead of you aren't working harder - they're just thinking differently? The intelligence era is already here. The executives who thrive in it won't be the most technical people in the room. They'll be the ones who learned to think with AI - using it to make sharper decisions, communicate at greater scale, and operate at a level their competition simply cannot match. LEAD WITH AI is the executive playbook for that shift. Written by a sixteen-time Emmy Award-winning television executive turned AI builder and implementation coach, this is not a book about tools or trends. It's a thinking framework for senior leaders who are done watching AI happen to their industries and ready to use it as the strategic multiplier it actually is. You'll learn how to escape the RAT Trap - the pattern that keeps most executives stuck as either skeptics or casual tool users - and develop the genuine fluency that compounds over time. You'll master the BRIEF framework for turning AI into a real thought partner, the 4A Pre-Mortem for pressure-testing high-stakes decisions before they cost you, and the AMP method for finding the three areas where AI gives leaders disproportionate leverage in analysis, messaging, and positioning.

The book closes with the LEAD framework - the organizing philosophy that ties everything together - and a concrete 90-day action plan you can start today. This is AI leadership strategy for CEOs, presidents, owners, and senior executives who actually have to run something. Not a theoretical overview. Not a glossary of technical terms. A practitioner's guide from someone who has built AI products from scratch, coached hundreds of leaders, and seen firsthand what separates the executives who get this right from the ones who get left behind. The authority gap is opening right now, quietly, in organizations everywhere. The leaders on the right side of it aren't waiting for better conditions. Neither should you.