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Podcast: Leadership Article Review Podcast
Episode: Reclaiming Human Leadership in the Age of AI: Evidence-Based Strategies for Navigating Disruption and Rediscovering Purpose, by Jonathan H. Westover PhD
Description: Abstract: Artificial intelligence is fundamentally disrupting traditional leadership paradigms, forcing organizations to reconsider what leadership means when machines can process information faster, generate competent outputs, and automate decisions at scale. This disruption manifests across four interconnected domains: meaning-making, identity, organizational systems, and leader development. Rather than rendering human leadership obsolete, AI clarifies what leadership has always been for—stewarding purpose, creating connection, and exercising judgment in contexts machines cannot comprehend. Drawing on organizational behavior research, developmental psychology, and case studies across technology, healthcare, and financial services sectors, this article examines how leading organizations are responding to AI-driven leadership disruption. Ev...