How AI is transforming leadership: worker voice, skills, and long-term growth

AI leadership is not just about moving faster. It’s about balancing AI adoption with worker voice, training, job design, and long-term workforce planning. In this episode of Intelligence: Real & Imagined from the Work AI Institute at Glean, co-host Rebecca Hinds, Head of the Work AI Institute at Glean, speaks with Job for the Future’s Lauren Pasquarella Daley, Employer Mobilization Practice, and Tiffany Hsieh, Senior Director to explore what effective AI leadership looks like today, including how leaders can balance speed with long-term workforce planning, incorporate worker voice, and measure success beyond productivity alone. What you’ll learn: • How to avoid short-term AI adoption decisions that can damage your long-term talent pipeline • How worker voice, training, and feedback loops can improve AI change management • How the AI Ready Workforce framework helps leaders rethink jobs as bundles of tasks and skills • Why productivity metrics alone miss job satisfaction, sentiment, and better use of time Resources: • AI Transformation 100: https://www.glean.com/work-ai-institute?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=intelligence-real-and-imagined-podcast • See the latest from the Work AI Institute at Glean: https://www.glean.com/work-ai-institute?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=intelligence-real-and-imagined-podcast Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/@gleanwork Follow us: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gleanwork/ • Twitter/X: https://x.com/glean • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gleanwork/ Timestamps: 00:22 – What AI leadership looks like right now 03:46 – Why the AI Ready Workforce framework matters 06:38 – Democratization, inequality, and worker voice 11:47 – Practical ways to involve employees in AI adoption 15:56 – How to analyze jobs as tasks, not fixed roles 29:13 – Why early career hiring still matters in the AI era