Why Great Leaders Embrace AI - April Sabral on Curiosity, Adaptability & Trust

S2E1- How to Empower Your Leadership Skills with AIIn this Season 2 premiere of Blade to Greatness, hosts Ricardo Belmar & Casey Golden sit down with renowned leadership coach and author April Sabral to explore how AI is transforming leadership in retail. Far from replacing leaders, AI is exposing poor leadership behaviors while empowering those who lead with curiosity, adaptability, and transparency. April shares insights from her new book Positive Accountability for Teams and explains why the future isn’t AI vs. people — it’s AI plus people.What You’ll Learn in This Episode:Why AI is exposing leadership failures, not just process gapsWhy curiosity will replace control as the defining leadership traitThe three essential leadership skills for the AI era: curiosity, ideation, and agencyHow to train humans and machines together for better outcomesWhy adaptability and transparency are non-negotiable for future leadersHow small retail businesses can use AI to compete with enterprise brandsThe role of positive accountability in driving change managementSubscribe to the Retail Razor Podcast Network: https://retailrazor.com/Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://retailrazor.substack.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel: https://go.retailrazor.com/utubeGuest Spotlight:April Sabral — Leadership coach, author of Positive Accountability for Teams, and founder of RetailU and Ask April AI. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilsabral/Learn more at www.AskApril.ai. & www.aprilsabral.comChapters: 00:00 Previews 00:53 Show Intro 02:57 Welcome April Sabral - AI Gives Leaders the Edge 03:39 The Role of AI in Leadership 04:41 Identifying Leadership vs. Process Gaps with AI 05:46 Training Humans and Machines Together 08:08 Essential Skills for Future Leaders 09:16 Positive Accountability and Change Management 10:42 AI's Impact on Small vs. Large Retail Businesses 12:20 Show CloseIncludes music provided by imunobeats.com, featuring Swag, Tag and Brag from the album Beat Hype, written by Heston Mimms, published by Imuno.