AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™

Drew Falkman | Vibe Coding AI and Prototyping | AI For the C Suite EP 44

In this episode of AI for the C Suite, we explore vibe coding, AI powered prototyping, and what it means for product teams, engineers, and enterprise leaders. From security concerns to faster experimentation, this conversation breaks down how AI is reshaping who can build software, how quickly ideas can be validated, and where leaders should start.
Full Podcast: https://youtu.be/x70nmmtGrIkConnect with Drew Falkman: https://linkedin.com/in/drewfalkman

What 2025 Actually Taught Us About AI Leadership | AI For The C Suite EP 43

This isn't a predictions episode or a year-end recap. It's a distillation of what 2025 actually revealed about AI leadership along with a framework you can carry into next year.
Chad breaks down three shifts that separated leaders who made progress from those who stalled: treating AI as a systems problem rather than a tools problem, embracing strategy as a living discipline with an 18-month shelf life, and reframing governance as architecture instead of a brake pedal. The hidden pattern? Companies struggling with AI are trying to manage uncertainty. The ones succeeding are building the capacity to operate inside it.
The episode closes with a three-part framework: sense faster, decide with constraints and adapt continuously. This framework is designed to help you answer one critical question: Is your leadership model built for certainty or for learning?
AI For the C Suite™ is the podcast that 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.
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Dave Ebner | How AI Is Rewriting Brand Storytelling | AI For The C-Suite EP 42

In this episode of AI for the C Suite, Chad Harvey sits down with David Ebner, President and Founder of Content Workshop, for a powerful conversation about how artificial intelligence is reshaping creativity, workflows, and the future of brand storytelling. David opens up about his early identity crisis as AI entered the content world and explains how he shifted from skepticism to building custom AI agents that support high quality human led creative work.
The discussion explores how to document and refine processes, how to keep empathy and lived experience at the center of storytelling, how to avoid deskilling teams through over automation, and how brands can maintain their voice in an era of rapidly advancing tools. David also introduces Chatter, the first AI agent created by Content Workshop, designed to help teams discover meaningful ideas and stay ahead of emerging conversations.
This episode is for leaders who want a clear and practical view of how AI can strengthen both creativity and operational excellence inside their organizations.
Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/feZeoYu8jEgConnect with David: linkedin.com/in/davidjebnerExplore Content Workshop: contentworkshop.com

Capture, Clean, Convert: Turn Meetings Into Actionable Intelligence | AI For The C Suite EP 41

Critical decisions get made in your meetings. Strategic context gets shared. Institutional knowledge gets created. And most of it evaporates the moment everyone walks out of the room.
In this episode, Chad walks through the exact workflow he uses to turn any meeting into structured, searchable, actionable output—no additional headcount required. The three-move framework is straightforward: capture quality audio, clean the transcript before processing, and convert using purpose-built AI prompts tailored to your meeting type. You'll get specific tool recommendations, tactical tips that save significant backend time, and an operationalized implementation plan you can start this week.
For mid-market companies competing against larger players with bigger support teams, this is operational leverage waiting to be claimed. The tools are accessible, the process is straightforward, and the value compounds every time you use 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. 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.
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Egor Olteanu | How Volt AI Is Transforming Safety in the Real World | AI For The C-Suite EP 40

In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, host Chad Harvey sits down with Egor Olteanu, COO & Co-Founder of Volt AI, a mission-driven company reinventing physical security with artificial intelligence. Igor shares his remarkable journey from emigrating to the U.S., to serving in the Army, to helping launch Google X’s Project Loon, to founding Volt AI after the 2018 YouTube headquarters shooting.
 
Together, they explore:
 
The limits of traditional security systems and why camera monitoring fails.
How Volt connects thousands of cameras into one AI-driven “brain”.
Why simplicity, intuitiveness, and real-time detection matter.
The human failure modes that cause security breakdowns.
How AI can reduce violence in schools, improve safety, and support overworked security teams.
The philosophy behind building a mission-driven tech company.
How to recruit smarter people, combat burnout, and stay sane as a founder.
 
Igor also offers candid insight on risk, purpose, investors, and why “the best security is the security you don’t see.”
A must-listen conversation for anyone leading organizations through the exponential age.

From Exposed to Protected: AI Policy & Three Governance Moves That Scale AI Responsibly | AI For The C-Suite EP 39

If you created an AI policy in 2023 or 2024, there's a decent chance it needs updating. The regulatory environment has shifted from theoretical to enforcement-ready, technical capabilities have accelerated beyond what most policies anticipated, and the gap between leading organizations and everyone else has widened dramatically.
Chad breaks down what's actually changed in the AI policy landscape and gives you three governance moves that get you from exposed to protected without stalling operations. You'll understand why federal regulation is happening through agency action rather than comprehensive legislation, what the FTC's Operation AI Comply means for your organization, and why 72% of companies still can't see what AI tools their teams are using.
The framework remains valid: data classification, vendor risk assessment, human oversight for high-stakes decisions, and incident response protocols. What's changed is the urgency and specificity required. This episode gives you a realistic 90-day implementation timeline and the four elements that cover 80% of your exposure—data controls, training, vendor risk, and incident response.
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. 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 who disregard its existence. 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.
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Oren Michels | Control Planes, Agentic AI & the Next API Moment | AI For The C-Suite EP 38

Non-technical execs are being told “AI agents will change everything” but no one tells them how to keep those agents from breaking things.
In this episode of AI for the C-Suite, Chad Harvey talks with Oren Michels, co-founder & CEO of Barn Door AI (and founder of Mashery), about:
Why agents are like enthusiastic interns with no fear of consequences
What an AI control plane actually does
How MCP is becoming essential infrastructure
Real, early ROI use cases and where most companies are still stuck in “science experiment” mode
If you’re a middle-market leader trying to move beyond chatbots and copilots into real automation with guardrails then this conversation is a must listen.

The Internet's Being Rebuilt: Why Your Digital Strategy Has an 18-Month Shelf Life | AI For The C Suite EP 37

The web your business relies on - the one built for human clicks and browsing - is giving way to an agentic internet built for autonomous software that negotiates, transacts, and decides without human intervention. This isn't happening in five years. It's happening right now.
Fresh from MIT's EmTech 2025 conference, Chad breaks down what researchers and founders are building behind the scenes: a dual-track internet where AI agents query structured data, evaluate dozens of competitors simultaneously, and execute transactions in milliseconds. If you're planning website redesigns or investing in traditional SEO right now, you're designing for a world that's already fading. The window to adapt is 18 months from now - putting us at April 2027.
This episode covers three concrete moves middle market leaders can make: auditing digital touchpoints for agent-readiness, rethinking customer acquisition costs when agents become buyers, and ensuring your systems can expose pricing and inventory programmatically. You'll also learn why protocols like MCP and A2A matter, what Amazon banning Perplexity's shopping bot signals, and why networked AI will be more lucrative than centralized platforms.
The shift isn't a question about whether the shift happens. Instead, it's whether you'll be positioned to compete when it matures, or whether you'll look up in 18 months and realize the game changed while you were waiting for perfect information.
AI For the C Suite™ 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. 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 who disregard its existence. 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.
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Nick Damoulakis | The AI Hype Cycle: Truth, Tools, and the Digital Twin | AI For The C-Suite EP 36

In this episode, Nick Damoulakis breaks down the reality behind today’s AI revolution. Beyond the hype, the TikTok tutorials, and the “overnight experts.” He shares his journey through rapid prototyping, vibe coding, and the limits of no-code tools, explaining why true innovation still requires understanding, experimentation, and failure. Nick also unpacks complex AI concepts like vector databases and digital twins in simple, practical terms. Nick reveals how creativity and curiosity drive real progress in a world obsessed with productivity.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s real, what’s noise, and what’s next in the AI era, this conversation is a masterclass in grounded insight and future vision.

High Adoption, Low Trust: What 119 AI Leaders Reveal About Gen AI in 2025 | AI For The C Suite EP 35

A new Fortune AIQ survey of 119 business leaders published September 2025 reveals a striking contradiction: 99% use AI chatbots regularly, 90% are satisfied with results, but 98% refuse to trust these tools with important decisions. That gap between daily reliance and deep skepticism tells you everything about where we actually are with Gen AI adoption.
Chad unpacks three patterns from the data that matter for middle market leaders. First, high-frequency, low-stakes usage has become standard as 82% of leaders use AI multiple times daily for research, drafting, and brainstorming. Second, the accuracy challenge remains real. Only 77% trust Gen AI outputs with human oversight. Third, leaders want task-focused tools that show transparency, behave consistently, and integrate with existing workflows - not digital colleagues with personality quirks.
If your team is already using AI like it's email but you're still treating it like an experimental project, this episode gives you three concrete moves: audit your shadow IT reality, define validation checkpoints for decision-critical work, and optimize tool selection for what leaders actually want.
AI For the C Suite™ 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. 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 who disregard its existence. 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/
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