Are You Qualified to Challenge Your Team on AI? - with Geoff Woods, Author of The AI-Driven Leader
Are You Qualified to Challenge Your Team on AI? - with Geoff Woods, Author of The AI-Driven Leader  
Podcast: Beyond The Prompt - How to use AI in your company
Published On: Wed Jul 08 2026
Description: Geoff Woods returns to Beyond the Prompt to discuss the updated edition of The AI-Driven Leader and what has changed over the past 18 months. Rather than focusing on the latest AI models, Geoff argues that leaders need to use AI themselves before asking others to, using it to think more clearly, shape strategy, and make better decisions. The conversation explores why many organizations confuse access with adoption, why strategy should come before use cases, and how AI can change the way leaders approach everything from business strategy to organizational design. Along the way, Henrik and Jeremy challenge Geoff's ideas on authorship, judgment, and whether understanding AI changes what leaders believe is possible.Key Takeaways: Leaders need to use AI themselves Using AI personally is what qualifies leaders to shape strategy and lead others from practice rather than theory. Use AI to improve your thinking The biggest opportunity isn't automating work. It's using AI to think better, solve better problems, and imagine new possibilities. Start with problems, not use cases Begin with the biggest challenges facing the business, then use AI to rethink how to solve them. AI still needs human judgment AI can generate ideas, but people are still responsible for reviewing the output and standing behind it. Focus AI on your highest-value work Use AI to amplify the small set of activities where your human strengths create the greatest impact. The AI-Driven Leader: aileadership.com Geoff's LinkedIn: linkedin/geoff-woods00:00 Are You Qualified to Lead on AI?00:35 Meet Geoff Woods00:54 The AI Slop Dilemma05:48 Putting Your Stamp of Approval09:19 What Changed in 18 Months12:13 Access Isn't Adoption15:50 Why Leaders Can't Delegate AI20:09 Strategy Before Use Cases22:02 BarkBox's AI Strategy26:23 Reinventing Strategy with AI33:11 Compressing Months into Hours37:22 Human Skills as Superpowers42:46 The Debrief   📜 Read the transcript for this episode: are-you-qualified-to-challenge-your-team-on-ai-with-geoff-woods-author-of-the-ai-driven-leader/transcript  For more prompts, tips, and AI tools. Check out our website: https://www.beyondtheprompt.ai/ or follow Jeremy or Henrik on Linkedin:Henrik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/werdelinJeremy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyutley Show edited by Emma Cecilie Jensen.