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After 20 years of building, leading, and delivering:  so many senior professionals are sitting on a goldmine they've never learned to articulate. AI didn't suddenly make your experience obsolete. It made context one of the most valuable currencies in the economy. And context is the one thing a 20+-year career gives you that no algorithm can manufacture. See the carousel on how to build brand authority and leverage your moat. Here's what I see happening in the market right now: - Companies are drowning in AI-generated content. Boards are overwhelmed with AI-generated strategy decks. Leaders are exhausted by AI-generated everything. What are they desperately searching for? Just a human. A human who has seen this before. Who has navigated recessions, pivots, failed launches, entering new categories, industry shifts and winning streaks. Someone who can say: "I know what this actually looks like on the ground." And that's brand authority. The professionals winning in this AI economy aren't the ones who learned to use the tools fastest. They're the ones who got clear on what only they can bring to the room. Your 20+ years is the moat. Start treating it like one. ♻️ Know a senior leader sitting on a goldmine they haven't learned to articulate yet? Repost this for them.

AI adoption gets messy when companies start with possibility instead of operating design. Agentic AI is not a feature… It is an execution layer. The advantage comes from embedding it into how work already happens at your company: Here are 20 Ways to add Agentic AI to your organization: (Incrementally) 1. Customer service resolution agents 2. Sales research assistants 3. Proposal & RFP automation agents 4. Customer success monitoring agents 5. Supply chain forecasting agents 6. Procurement negotiation assistants 7. Logistics coordination agents 8. Production planning agents 9. Executive “chief of staff” agents 10. Knowledge retrieval agents 11. Meeting summarization agents 12. Internal workflow automation agents 13. Developer coding agents 14. Documentation agents 15. QA testing agents 16. DevOps monitoring agents 17. Financial reporting agents 18. Compliance monitoring agents 19. Fraud detection agents 20. Decision-support agents TLDR Embed AI where decisions and workflows already exist, or it remains in the experimentation category. Which one have you tried so far? ♻️ Repost to shift from experimenting with AI to actually operating with it. source: McKinsey article: Rethinking enterprise architecture for the agentic era (March 2026)

Most personal brands are built by default. Your coworkers say something about you. It might be positive or not... That's life by default. The top 5% achievers design a deliberate brand. If you've spent 20+ years building expertise... This experience is the moat. But a moat will only protect you if people can see it. Here are a few ways to be more deliberate on Linkedin: 1. Talk about what failed. Not just what worked. 2. Name the patterns only you can see. 3. Say the thing no one else will say. 4. Don't wait to be discovered. Show up. 5. Narrow your lane to sharpen it. 6. Adjust your experience to today's language. 7. Build a point of view, not just a profile. 8. Mentor publicly, not just privately.. 9. Let your biography do some work. 10. Stop summarizing. Start declaring. and most importantly, 11. decide that YOU are the authority. Then act accordingly. The professionals leading the next decade have understood what AI can not replace, and built their entire presence on it. That's how brand authority gets built: by sending deliberate signals. 🎯 Join me at the link in my bio to learn exactly how. ♻️ Repost if someone in your network needs to hear this today. ___________________________________________________________________ Hello 👋🏾 , if you're new here, I'm Katheline Jean-Pierre MSc a I led Billion Dollar Sales at Google for 10 years, then helped financial services Executives elevate their brand authority at Linkedin.

Meta is about to layoff 15,000 workers. Last year, in the US, there were 1.1 million layoffs. Tech, government and consulting experts have been looking for jobs. Opportunities for white collar workers will belong to experts who are also VISIBLE. Not just the qualified ones; but the ones who take the time to educate and share their knowledge. Because companies have been laying off their employees in the name of the making "strategic shifts, "efficiency", "restructuring", and to "offset" AI costs. Also because the internet has changed how credibility works. Today your reputation is built through: • Your ideas • Your network • Your perspective • Your public voice And LinkedIn is the stage where the highest net worth individuals get in contact with YOU. If you want to build real brand authority, join us for the Personal Brand Authority masterclass. I’ll show you how to position your expertise so the right people find you. Register here: => Comment "BRAND" for the code to get in for free: https://luma.com/dot4eegs

The most underleveraged asset in your career is not your résumé. It is not your network either. It is all the thoughts you don't articulate. When coaching senior professionals, here is what I see: They're not plateauing because they lack experience, but because their insight is locked inside their head. It is invisible to everyone who needs to see it. That thing that feels "basic" to you? The pattern you spot in 30 seconds that takes others months to name? That's your unclaimed thought leadership authority. I spent 10 years at Google managing $1B portfolios, and 3 years at LinkedIn sitting in rooms with some of the sharpest minds in the industry. The people I saw moved the fastest are the ones who made their thinking legible. They said the quiet part out loud. They named the pattern.  They owned the insight, Publicly. The market doesn't promote who knows the most. It promotes who shows what they know. Every time you hold back what you see clearly…  Every time you think "someone already said this" or "this is too basic to post"...  You are reinforcing your own invisibility at the exact level you're trying to exit. This isn't about posting more content. It's about converting your 20+ years of lived experience into a strategic signal. One insight. Clearly articulated. Publicly owned. That's how trajectories shift,  yours and the people you're meant to lead. C'est beau la vie. 🌺 (when you tap into your brand authority on Linkedin to unlock new opportunities) _____ 🎯Join the next masterclass to learn more: https://luma.com/ftqxcpl7 🔁 Repost to inspire others to step into their brand authority now.

Every organization wants AI agents. But few know where to start. On my weekly coffee chats with mid-size organizations and boutique AI implementation firms alike, one statement kept surfacing almost word for word. "Everybody wants their AI agent, and AI agents to babysit their agents too. But nobody knows how best to get started." It's the tension of this moment. The ambition is there. The budget conversations are happening. And the path forward? Foggy. So let's cut through it. "You don't have to blow up what works to build what's next." Smart organizations start Incrementally. The organizations getting this right aren't the ones making the biggest bets. They're the ones making the smartest first moves. Incremental adoption works because it's paced and strategic.  When agents augment existing systems rather than replace them, organizations modernize their architecture gradually while keeping risk contained. McKinsey said it best, and I'll build on it: 1. Start with high-value workflows. Don't automate for the sake of it. Target areas with clear, measurable ROI: customer service, demand forecasting, revenue operations. If you can't articulate the before and after, you're not ready to deploy. 2. Build an orchestration layer. This is where most organizations skip a step. As your agent ecosystem grows, you need a coordination platform — an agentic mesh — to manage how agents interact and prevent conflicting decisions. Without this, you don't have intelligence. You have chaos. 3. Learn and scale gradually. Each deployment is a data point. Every agent you ship should generate knowledge that informs the next phase of modernization. Treat it like a compounding investment, not a one-time launch. The question isn't whether AI agents will reshape how your organization operates. They already are… for your competitors. The question is whether you'll start with intention or scramble to catch up. C'est beau la vie, but strategy makes it better. 🌿 🔁 Repost to help others get started on the right foot. 📣 Follow me Katheline Jean-Pierre MSc for daily business, leadership & AI tips.

As a sales leader, I made sure everybody was happy... Except for one person: me. But in reality, Leadership ≠  emotional caretaking. Early in my leadership career, I optimized for 2 metrics: Everyone’s happiness and productivity at work. Stakeholders felt heard. The team felt supported. Conflict stayed at the lowish level. From the outside, it looked like effective leadership. But internally, a storm was brewing... I was the only person not being taken care of. Many leaders fall into this trap: They confuse approval management and productivity with leadership. Here are 7 lessons that reshaped how I operate: ↳ Boundaries signal authority. ↳ Leadership ≠  emotional caretaking. ↳ Influence matters more than likeability. ↳ Alignment matters more than harmony. ↳Respect compounds faster than likability. ↳ “Yes”, without follow-through degrades your influence.  ↳ You teach people how to treat you by what you tolerate. ↳ A neglected leader eventually becomes an ineffective one. ↳ Sustainable leadership requires protecting your own capacity. The reminder I keep close: Don’t change yourself just to make someone happy. Water your own garden, tend to your own grass…  Because the leader who burns out trying to please everyone…. eventually leads no one. ♻️ Repost to help the leader who quietly carries everyone else, and is finally ready to stop neglecting their own garden. ➕ Follow me Katheline for leadership tips in an AI-powered world.

Every organization wants AI agents. But few know where to start. On my weekly coffee chats with mid-size organizations and boutique AI implementation firms alike, one statement kept surfacing almost word for word. "Everybody wants their AI agent, and AI agents to babysit their agents too. But nobody knows how best to get started." It's the tension of this moment. The ambition is there. The budget conversations are happening. And the path forward? Foggy. So let's cut through it. "You don't have to blow up what works to build what's next." Smart organizations start Incrementally. The organizations getting this right aren't the ones making the biggest bets. They're the ones making the smartest first moves. Incremental adoption works because it's paced and strategic.  When agents augment existing systems rather than replace them, organizations modernize their architecture gradually while keeping risk contained. McKinsey said it best, and I'll build on it: 1. Start with high-value workflows. Don't automate for the sake of it. Target areas with clear, measurable ROI: customer service, demand forecasting, revenue operations. If you can't articulate the before and after, you're not ready to deploy. 2. Build an orchestration layer. This is where most organizations skip a step. As your agent ecosystem grows, you need a coordination platform — an agentic mesh — to manage how agents interact and prevent conflicting decisions. Without this, you don't have intelligence. You have chaos. 3. Learn and scale gradually. Each deployment is a data point. Every agent you ship should generate knowledge that informs the next phase of modernization. Treat it like a compounding investment, not a one-time launch. The question isn't whether AI agents will reshape how your organization operates. They already are… for your competitors. The question is whether you'll start with intention or scramble to catch up. C'est beau la vie, but strategy makes it better. 🌿 🔁 Repost to help others get started on the right foot. 📣 Follow me Katheline Jean-Pierre MSc for daily business, leadership & AI tips.

The deals you are losing are trying to tell you something. The problems your competitors solve that you don’t. I have started using Granola’s notepad to get more contextual data from my team’s calls. It helps answer a top of mind question for me as a Founder and Sales leader: "WHY are we losing deals this quarter?" Leading sales and growth teams since 2008, instead of poking through 100 pipeline reports, I do this 👇🏾 I use Granola across all my calls and my team's calls. In the PAST: •⁠ We used to lose context between meetings. NOW: •⁠ We ask AI questions across all of Granola Spaces for Teams: an easy way to organize and share notes with your team. •⁠  We organize our notes in folders, and leverage the AI chat across all our team's notes to spot patterns. My whole team gets smarter, not just me! TLDR: Your CRM tracks what happens. Granola tells you why. P.S.: Granola has been growing so fast! They are now valued at $1.5B and have raised a Series C to expand into the enterprise market. Read the announcement in the comments, and celebrate with them! 🎉 ♻️ Repost to help other business leaders gain the right contextual insights. #GranolaPartner #Sponsorship #Ad

People love to study AI agents, create prompts, but never build anything. It's like going to wedding rehearsals, but never getting married 💍 . Here is a simple progression approach to go from 'Prompting' to actually building and shipping AI agents: Level 1 — Set the Foundations Understand how GenAI systems operate Work with LLM behavior, prompting, and parameters Structure data for retrieval (RAG) Use vector databases and orchestration tools Enable models to access tools and APIs Level 2 — Build your Agents Shift from response generation to task execution Build agents that plan, act, and iterate Design workflows, memory, and multi-step reasoning Evaluate performance and refine weak points Coordinate multiple agents where needed Level 3 — Get into the Production Phase Integrate into real environments (Slack, Notion, Gmail) Introduce autonomy and execution loops Optimize for cost, latency, and reliability Deploy for actual users Most stop at understanding. A small group builds. Fewer ship. The difference is not knowledge. It’s actually completing the process. In summary, there are three types of people in the AI agent space: Those who understand it. Those who build it. Those who ship it. Only one of these has a production system. Now, off to you: What's the first agent you'll build? A big thank you to Luís Rodrigues for the graph. Check his profile out. ♻️ Repost to help people from prompting to shipping AI agents.

The most strategic professionals are no longer blindly focused on career progression. They are serious about building personal brand authority assets. Intellectual capital that compounds beyond a single employer. They negotiate speaking invitations, consulting engagements, advisory work, and long-term market influence in their industry and beyond. Their expertise does not remain trapped inside a role or a single company. They are quietly converting it into intellectual property and reputation capital that continues to create opportunity long after the work itself is done. They are deliberate in their positioning because they've understood something early: A job pays for your expertise once. Authority assets can last for decades when done right.

You’ve watched entire market cycles play out. You’ve developed decades of irreplaceable intelligence. But externally, it’s barely visible... probably because your expertise has not yet been translated into your own brand authority. And the keyword is 'Not Yet'. And at the senior level, visible influence is about positioning your thinking and the logic behind it, such that the right rooms recognize it. 📣 I’m hosting a Masterclass on how to convert deep experience into strategic authority without becoming a 'content operator' or a 'content creator'. This is for leaders who are no longer trying to prove they are competent. They are ready to shape perception and own their authority. 🔗 Click the link in my bio to start making your work as visible as it is valuable.

If they don't remember you, they won't buy from you. And suddenly, your branding problem becomes a revenue problem. Because the market will not reward your decades of experience. I will reward your perceived authority. The type that has been built in the trenches,  through hard earned wins, and breakthroughs. You've done the work. You’ve led the teams.  You’ve delivered the results.  But if your thinking is not visible,   it doesn't exist at the decision-making level. The beauty of it all is that you can start sending the right signals now. Through a thoughtfully crafted authority,  based on your decades of experience. Try it this week, let me know how it goes. 🎯 Want to start building your authority. Join the next masterclass: https://luma.com/ftqxcpl7 ♻️ Repost if someone in your network needs to hear this today.

Top performers don’t optimize for marginal gains. They optimize for how work fits into their life. Whether it is in the podcast studio in Los Angeles, or in a high stake meeting with my executive clients. That’s the filter I use for every tool I adopt. It has to fit into my life and my workflow. Granola has earned a permanent place in my stack. I operate in high-performance environments. Executive clients. Complex conversations. Constant context switching. Maybe you do too. And the cost of fragmented attention is way too high. Granola solves for that in a way most tools don’t: 🚫 No bots performance theater or ghosts on the screen taking space. ✅ It enhances raw thinking instead of replacing it. ✅ It structures them after. ✅ It captures audio directly, across every platform I use, and keeps everything in one place. The leverage comes from how it extends the work beyond the meeting: ↳ Pre-built and custom recipes that prepare you before, during, and after conversations. ↳ A chat layer that turns notes into decisions, actions, and insight. ↳ Automation that connects directly into how your business already runs. ↳Follow-ups, CRM updates, content, internal alignment. Handled. ↳ And when needed, it integrates seamlessly into broader AI workflows without friction. What matters most is that it keeps me present IN THE ROOM. With the people who matter in the MOMENT. If you’re building at a level where attention and context are assets… This is worth trying out. Try it at the link in the comments. #granola #sponsorship ♻️ repost to help leaders have calmer meetings.

AI adoption gets messy when companies start with possibility instead of operating design. Agentic AI is not a feature… It is an execution layer. The advantage comes from embedding it into how work already happens at your company: Here are 20 Ways to add Agentic AI to your organization: (Incrementally) 1. Customer service resolution agents 2. Sales research assistants 3. Proposal & RFP automation agents 4. Customer success monitoring agents 5. Supply chain forecasting agents 6. Procurement negotiation assistants 7. Logistics coordination agents 8. Production planning agents 9. Executive “chief of staff” agents 10. Knowledge retrieval agents 11. Meeting summarization agents 12. Internal workflow automation agents 13. Developer coding agents 14. Documentation agents 15. QA testing agents 16. DevOps monitoring agents 17. Financial reporting agents 18. Compliance monitoring agents 19. Fraud detection agents 20. Decision-support agents TLDR Embed AI where decisions and workflows already exist, or it remains in the experimentation category. Which one have you tried so far? ♻️ Repost to shift from experimenting with AI to actually operating with it. source: McKinsey article: Rethinking enterprise architecture for the agentic era (March 2026)

Look at this image. Same painting. Different outcomes. The Mona Lisa exists in two versions. One hangs in the Louvre. Crowds gather... The world calls it a masterpiece. The second collects cobwebs in a closet. Spiders nest in the frame. Nobody knows it's there. Same painting. Same brushstrokes. Same genius. Different positioning and fate. Your career works exactly the same way. The market doesn't reward what it cannot see. It never has. And it never will. Strong work, poorly surfaced, is indistinguishable from average work. Let that sink in. If your impact is buried in execution, you are operating below your strategic level… and you might have a positioning problem. At senior levels, your portfolio is not a record of what you've done. It is THE entry point that determines how you are valued. Top 5% operators do not just deliver results. They architect how those results are seen, framed, and remembered before they enter the consideration set.  That is the difference between being recognized and being overlooked at the exact same level of output. A hidden career portfolio is a masterpiece locked in a closet with limited to no optionality. A chef-d'oeuvre type of career is when you create brand authority and optionality.  The world gets to witness and benefit from your precious thoughts. Each block building on top of the other.  If you have been doing exceptional work and still feel you don’t have many options, your approach needs to change. You have a gap that I can help you fix. Follow me or send me a message. Let's make your work as visible as it is valuable. ♻️ repost to help exceptional professionals be seen and valued.

Here is what nobody in leadership tells you: Quiet habits build more trust than loud ones. Here are 10 quiet habits of respected leaders (that no one teaches you): 1. They pause before answering. → Thoughtfulness builds credibility more than speed. 2. They give credit publicly—and privately. → Recognition fuels trust, not just morale. 3. They ask for feedback from everyone. → Great leadership is curious, not just confident. 4. They keep their calendars boring. → Time to think = time to lead. 5. They take responsibility before results. → Accountability speaks louder than outcomes. 6. They repeat the vision—constantly. → What feels obvious to you isn’t obvious to everyone else. 7. They model boundaries without apology. → “I’m offline” is a leadership move. 8. They over-communicate during uncertainty. → Silence breeds fear. Transparency builds calm. 9. They talk less in meetings. → Listening signals power. Talking isn’t leading. 10. They invest in people who aren’t the loudest. → Quiet top performers are easy to overlook, and often your best bet. Leadership isn’t about volume. It’s about vision, trust, and presence. These nuggets of wisdom are from my friend Mary Sheehan. Give her a follow. ♻️ Repost to remind someone that quiet can be powerful. ➕ Follow me Katheline Jean-Pierre MSc for leadership tips — in the AI Economy, especially for Women in Tech.

I don’t have many regrets. Except this one. I really wish I had started building my brand authority on LinkedIn earlier. I remember sitting in the Empire State Building back in 2022, working at LinkedIn, educating C-suite executives on how to show up, be seen, and lead with their voice… thinking: They're rushing to do this. Why didn't I start sooner? Because early Kat was heads-down, locked in on a $1B sales target. Minding her business. Invisible to the world. My brand was non-existent. I wasn't making it a priority. I was the best-kept secret in the room. The irony is that I studied journalism, and my childhood dream was to travel the world, write, and interview people. I published a trilogy of poems. Short stories. Won writing contests as a young adult. TLDR: Words were always my gift. I just stopped using them for myself... If any of this is resonating, I created something for you. I'm hosting a Brand Authority Masterclass, and it's exactly what early Kat needed. You'll learn how to: → Go from best-kept secret to recognized authority → Grow your brand inside and outside your company → Build a LinkedIn presence that attracts the right opportunities → Position yourself like the top 5%promoted, visible, in control. 🎯 Register here → lu.ma/ftqxcpl7 (Session recorded) If you're reading this: Don't be like early Kat. Don't sell yourself out. Don't be the ostrich with their head in the sand. Start now. 12 months from now you'll have built something real: More leads for your brilliance. New revenue opportunities. Stronger connections. A clear path forward. Because... we are still in the early stages of the biggest shift in history. The AI economy is here and your brand authority is the asset that travels with you through every layoff, every pivot, every leap. I walked this path. I learned it from the inside. Now I'm sharing everything. La vie est belle. 🌺 (when you have a brand) 🎯 register for the LinkedIn Masterclass here → lu.ma/ftqxcpl7 🔁 repost to inspire others to step into their brand voice and authority.

The underpaid pro stays underpaid for one simple reason. She built skills. Not authority. I had the honor of breaking this down live at Tal Navarro's Social Ladies Club: where business, AI, and bold women meet. We chatted about: How to turn your expertise into a Paid Brand Authority on LinkedIn. What this means is Get paid for what you know. What I covered: 01 — Authority is not discovered. It is engineered. 02 — Known for many things? Remembered for nothing. 03 — Before visibility comes narrative. Define your value or the market will… at a discount. 04 — Posting more is not a strategy. Being seen by decision-makers is. 05 — Information is everywhere. Insight is rare. 06 — Authority is built in patterns, not moments. 07 — Saying you're good is weak. How you think is what builds trust. 08 — Your network is not support. It is leverage. 09 — Scattered content. Diluted authority. 10 — People don't pay for knowledge. They pay for speed, clarity, access, and leverage. That is what authority converts into. 💜 Tal, thank you for building a room where bold women come to grow. This community is something special. Which of these hits closest to home? Tell me below. ♻️ Repost to help more pros get paid for their expertise.

The life you’re expected to live, and the life you’re meant to live are rarely the same. The world will reward you for pushing through: a) a career chosen by expectation, b) a lifestyle shaped by pressure, c) and a path designed by someone else’s definition of success. But when you choose instead: to create a life of your own making, on your own terms, to build a business that serves a specific need and audience, and make money no one can take away from you... When you decide not to be as vulnerable to constant “reorgs,” "productivity pushes", or a lack of “culture fit” (yes, that happens too), you can begin building something of your own. Outside looking in, building your own path might look glamorous... But it is not always easy. It is hard work in the dark. Uncertainty in the trenches. Doubt creeping in, and it demands a lot from your body, your mind, and your soul to keep going. In the end, what matters most is that you will have chosen a life that is uniquely yours. You will have learned to make money no one can take away from you. Food for thought as we navigate the complexities of the world today. There's a big shift happening, and you can take control of your life now. Become more secure in your career. Increase your bouncebackability, and generate other streams of income. Thank me later. A bientot, xox — Katheline ______ ✍🏼 Start learning at my next masterclass: https://luma.com/ftqxcpl7 🚀 Apply to the career accelerator for brand & business builders: https://lnkd.in/dfk8B-WT 📣 Comment PATH to chat more about this.

You think you're leading the AI revolution. You're not. You're just stuck on Stage 1. Agentic AI implementation can get really exciting for organizations looking to evolve their approach. The harsh reality is that many companies are not mature enough for the type of work they are trying to do. But there's a path from new to 'agentic AI' enabled company. Here's an Agentic Organization Maturity Model, a framework for knowing exactly where your company stands in the shift to agent-driven work: Stage 1 — AI Assistants (Productivity Layer) What this means: Copilots. Chatbots. Meeting summarizers. AI helps individuals work faster. Result: 10–20% productivity gains. Minimal org change. Stage 2 — Workflow Automation with Agents Agents automate defined processes across your CRM, ERP, and ticketing systems. Result: Lower operational costs. Faster execution. Stage 3 — Multi-Agent Collaboration Teams of agents coordinate: A research agent, copy agent, design agent, and analytics agent run an entire marketing campaign together. Result: Whole departments start operating differently. Stage 4 — Autonomous Business Operations Agents own entire processes. Humans supervise strategy. Dynamic pricing. Supply chain optimization. Autonomous product development. Result: Continuous operational improvement. Faster innovation. Stage 5 — Fully Agentic Enterprise The organization becomes a network of intelligent agents. Humans shift from operators → strategists and supervisors. Result: Near real-time adaptation to change. What I'm seeing: → Most companies are still between Stage 1 and Stage 2. → Very few have reached Stage 3: where multi-agent systems actually orchestrate real business processes. → The real shift is not adopting more AI tools. It ss redesigning your organization around agent-driven work. The question is not "does your team use AI?" It is "what stage is your organization actually operating at, and do you have a roadmap to the next one?" This is the conversation I'm having with enterprise leaders right now. It's an important one to help these leaders gain clarity. Where does your organization land? 🔁 Repost to help others gain clarity into how AI ready they are. 📣 Follow me Katheline Jean-Pierre MSc for daily business growth insights.

You’ve watched entire market cycles play out. You’ve developed decades of irreplaceable intelligence. But externally, it’s barely visible... probably because your expertise has not yet been translated into your own brand authority. And the keyword is 'Not Yet'. And at the senior level, visible influence is about positioning your thinking and the logic behind it, such that the right rooms recognize it. 📣 I’m hosting a Masterclass on how to convert deep experience into strategic authority without becoming a 'content operator' or a 'content creator'. This is for leaders who are no longer trying to prove they are competent. They are ready to shape perception and own their authority. 🔗 Click the link in my bio to start making your work as visible as it is valuable.

Bad AI company ideas are getting funded right now. If that’s not a warning sign... That’s what the current cycles looks like.. and previous ones too! Many are misreading the AI moment. They’re analyzing valuations. Bezos is analyzing transformation layers. This is not a financial bubble. It’s an industrial one. And industrial bubbles don’t just create winners; they rebuild entire systems. The internet did it. Biotech did it. AI is doing it at a horizontal level across every industry. What this means: The real opportunity is not in predicting which AI company wins. It’s in understanding how AI reshapes the companies that already exist. This is where experienced operators often will fall behind. They evaluate the noise instead of repositioning for the shift underneath it... What you need to know is that when infrastructure changes, advantage doesn’t go to early adopters. It goes to those who translate the shift into decision-making power, influence, and relevance. Most will watch the cycle. A few will reposition within it. That’s where YOUR authority is built. You can start now. 🎯 Join the next masterclass to learn more: https://luma.com/ftqxcpl7 🔁 Repost to inspire others to step into their brand authority now.

The deals you are losing are trying to tell you something. The problems your competitors solve that you don’t. I have started using Granola’s notepad to get more contextual data from my team’s calls. It helps answer a top of mind question for me as a Founder and Sales leader: "WHY are we losing deals this quarter?" Leading sales and growth teams since 2008, instead of poking through 100 pipeline reports, I do this 👇🏾 I use Granola across all my calls and my team's calls. In the PAST: •⁠ We used to lose context between meetings. NOW: •⁠ We ask AI questions across all of Granola Spaces for Teams: an easy way to organize and share notes with your team. •⁠  We organize our notes in folders, and leverage the AI chat across all our team's notes to spot patterns. My whole team gets smarter, not just me! TLDR: Your CRM tracks what happens. Granola tells you why. P.S.: Granola has been growing so fast! They are now valued at $1.5B and have raised a Series C to expand into the enterprise market. Read the announcement in the comments, and celebrate with them! 🎉 ♻️ Repost to help other business leaders gain the right contextual insights. #GranolaPartner #Sponsorship #Ad

Top performers don’t optimize for marginal gains. They optimize for how work fits into their life. Whether it is in the podcast studio in Los Angeles, or in a high stake meeting with my executive clients. That’s the filter I use for every tool I adopt. It has to fit into my life and my workflow. Granola has earned a permanent place in my stack. I operate in high-performance environments. Executive clients. Complex conversations. Constant context switching. Maybe you do too. And the cost of fragmented attention is way too high. Granola solves for that in a way most tools don’t: 🚫 No bots performance theater or ghosts on the screen taking space. ✅ It enhances raw thinking instead of replacing it. ✅ It structures them after. ✅ It captures audio directly, across every platform I use, and keeps everything in one place. The leverage comes from how it extends the work beyond the meeting: ↳ Pre-built and custom recipes that prepare you before, during, and after conversations. ↳ A chat layer that turns notes into decisions, actions, and insight. ↳ Automation that connects directly into how your business already runs. ↳Follow-ups, CRM updates, content, internal alignment. Handled. ↳ And when needed, it integrates seamlessly into broader AI workflows without friction. What matters most is that it keeps me present IN THE ROOM. With the people who matter in the MOMENT. If you’re building at a level where attention and context are assets… This is worth trying out. Try it at the link in the comments. #granola #sponsorship ♻️ repost to help leaders have calmer meetings.