If any of these three questions don't have a clear, shared answer across your People Leadership Team, that's the work:
1. What consequential work or changing condition actually requires your attention right now? Not everything AI touches needs a leadership decision. The hard part is knowing which changes do — before they've already been decided by others or default.
2. Who owns each consequential choice, and can that person actually act on it? Ownership that isn't matched with real authority isn't ownership. Plenty of organizations can name who's "responsible" for an AI decision without being able to say who can actually make the call.
3. What's permitted, and for whom — across the AI your company provides, the AI already embedded in your systems, and the AI people are using on their own? Most policy conversations only address the first of these three. The gap is usually in the other two.
This isn't for everyone, on purpose. If your organization is already further along than this and has hardened its assumptions, we're likely the wrong fit — you need activation, not a Point of View. And if what you actually want is a policy template or a compliance answer, that's a real need, just not this one.
Who's in the room. The primary conversation is with you and your People Leadership Team. As the work requires it, Technology, Legal, Risk, Finance, and business leaders join where their authority or evidence is needed. HRBPs, L&D, Talent Acquisition, and People Analytics are brought in to carry the position into practice once it's set, and to steward it through changes to technology and work.
If these questions don't have easy answers in your organization right now, let's have a confidential conversation.
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