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EPISODE · Jun 2, 2026 · 40 MIN

S01E39 - The One Shift That Separates Leaders Who Survive AI from Those Who Get Left Behind | Tom Bush | The Perfect Route

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Is your team sitting through AI training and walking out with nothing to show for it?If you are watching your organization adopt AI tool after AI tool with no real change in how people work, you are not behind. You are just missing the right conversation.In this episode, I sit down with Tom Bush, founder of Actual Reality Technologies and one of the driving forces behind the largest AI conference in the Midwest, to unpack what most leaders are getting completely wrong about AI and learning.We are talking about:Why we are still in the "DOS prompt" era of AI and what comes nextThe difference between teaching people to use AI and teaching them to thinkWhy project-based learning from 1918 is the most urgent idea in corporate L&D right nowHow a group of fourth graders publishing books on Amazon cracked the code on self-efficacyWhat happens when you give someone who has never felt confident with technology four hours and a chatbotLess checkbox training. More real capability. Actual leadership growth.Ready to stop treating AI like a module and start treating it like a leadership strategy? 

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Is your team sitting through AI training and walking out with nothing to show for it?If you are watching your organization adopt AI tool after AI tool with no real change in how people work, you are not behind. You are just missing the right conversation.In this episode, I sit down with Tom Bush, founder of Actual Reality Technologies and one of the driving forces behind the largest AI conference in the Midwest, to unpack what most leaders are getting completely wrong about AI and learning.We are talking about:Why we are still in the "DOS prompt" era of AI and what comes nextThe difference between teaching people to use AI and teaching them to thinkWhy project-based learning from 1918 is the most urgent idea in corporate L&D right nowHow a group of fourth graders publishing books on Amazon cracked the code on self-efficacyWhat happens when you give someone who has never felt confident with technology four hours and a chatbotLess checkbox training. More real capability. Actual leadership growth.Ready to stop treating AI like a module and start treating it like a leadership strategy?

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