Episode 146: Kylie Gleeson | Curiosity Over Credentials: What AI-Era Leadership Actually Demands

Send us Fan MailOn this episode of Your Future in Sales and Marketing, Andrew sits down with Kylie Gleeson, Global Group Executive & CEO - Consumer and Retail at Quantium, who has built her career across some of the most demanding commercial environments in the world, from graduate rotations at Coca-Cola and Nestlé, to strategy consulting at Kantar, to leading commercial teams across Asia, Africa and the Middle East at FrieslandCampina, to the sharp end of AI and advanced analytics at dunnhumby and now Quantium.Kylie knows what the top job looks like and what it takes to get there. In this conversation she talks about why curiosity has overtaken academic pedigree as the trait that separates the people accelerating fastest inside AI-driven organisations. Why 3 and 5 year strategies are losing their usefulness. What CEOs who are actually getting ROI from AI are doing differently from those who aren't. And why the competitive threat to your career isn't AI — it's the person next to you who's using it better.There's also a sharper conversation in here about leadership: what authentic leadership actually means across cultures and contexts, how to build commercial acumen early, and the leadership lesson that took the longest to earn.