484. The Future Solving Mindset: How to Escape AI Pilot Purgatory and Lead with Vision

In this episode, Brad Hairston talks with Brian Evergreen, AI expert/advisor and the author of the book Autonomous Transformation. Brian was named by Forbes as one of the Top 30 Thinkers Redefining Leadership in 2025 and by Edelman as one of the Top 50 AI Creators to know. Brian explains how leaders who stop trying to solve today's problems and start designing tomorrow's future will be the ones who unlock AI's true transformative potential..What we talked with Brian about:* The analog → digital → autonomous transformation continuum * Reformation vs. transformation — improving without changing structure vs. fundamentally rethinking value delivery * Future solving vs. problem solving — high-agency vision building vs. elimination-focused thinking * Pilot purgatory — why AI initiatives stall and the "steamroller" solution * The role of leadership alignment in overcoming organizational friction * Vision-first vs. use case-first AI strategy * The ROI pressure trap and the Netflix/Blockbuster paradigm shift analogy * Profitable good — the spectrum between greed and altruism and AI's role in enabling it * The screenless future and human-based services with AI as middleware .Visit us on our socials:🦾 Get started with SS&C Blue Prism: https://okt.to/JcMLdU🧑‍💻LinkedIn: https://okt.to/k8zIdp✖️Twitter: https://okt.to/fHyd9G🙋‍♀️Facebook: https://okt.to/Vyjfiz📸Instagram: https://okt.to/5nYvIf💭Blog: https://okt.to/QuGqVP🤩Case studies: https://okt.to/ft1AMX.To ensure that you never miss an episode of Transform NOW, be sure to subscribe!