AI-Powered Psychometrics and Team Optimization with Russell Mikowski

www.gtmaiacademy.com www.aibusinessnetwork.ai

https://www.surepeople.com/

Russell-> https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-mikowski-a349903/

GTM AI Podcast Episode: Russell Mikowski on AI-Powered Psychometrics and the Human Advantage

In this episode, Jonathan Kvarfordt interviews Russell Mikowski, CEO of SurePeople, about revolutionizing workplace psychometrics through AI integration. Russell shares his unconventional journey from DJ and poker player to CEO, and reveals why personality-driven collaboration becomes MORE critical as AI automates routine tasks. The conversation explores how organizations can optimize human interactions, the "desk drawer problem" with traditional assessments, and the future of AI agents that understand personality psychology.

Russell explains how traditional psychometric assessments fail to deliver ongoing value.

Key Quote: "The results of those assessments are often metaphorically stuffed into our desk drawers, sometimes literally in Manila folders and kind of die there. Right? So sure people is looking to completely disrupt the traditional psychometric world by democratizing access to psychometrics across organizations."

Discussion of SurePeople's approach to personality measurement and real-time application.

Key Quote: "Prism is the most accurate psychometric on the market today. So we're comfortable that our tool is the appropriate vehicle for powering interactions that matter in moments that matter on platforms that you already use."

Russell explains how personality insights drive tangible business outcomes.

Key Quote: "Should they be leading with the why? Because the group leans towards Big picture thinking... Or should they get straight to the details and the data? Because this group doesn't care at all about how your kids are, or even why the company has made this decision."

Key Quote: "Culture begets performance right. If people feel seen, heard, and understood, they're less likely to be flight risks, they're less likely to be quiet quitting, they're less likely to be negatively impacted by a slack message that they took the wrong way."

Exploring how personality data could enhance AI communications and reduce "robot speak."

Key Quote: "What if your personality, as determined by a psychometric, could be essentially fed into an agent to make the language that it uses sound more like you. And then there would be consistency, perhaps, between that initial automated outreach, and how you actually act when you get on a demo with someone."

Russell's core thesis on why human interactions become more valuable, not less, as AI advances.

Key Quote: "The expected output, and you know, in a related manner, the value of each human individual on teams is rising right?... So the optimization of the interaction, the communication, the collaboration between more valuable than ever human resources."

Key Quote: "As a big picture thinker... I'm bad with details. I'm horrible with lists... But where AI can stay on top of those for me make reminders and keep me informed... That's freeing up my time to think creatively about what the next great product might be."

Russell shares surprising findings about who adopts AI-powered personality tools.

Key Quote: "A pattern is starting to form that would show people who have more what we would call precise personality types. So those are like your architects, your scientists, your research... are more likely to use our tools more often."

Information on accessing the PRISM assessment and company contact details.

Key Quote: "Any company that wants to deploy the assessment between 50 and a thousand employees just simply schedule a demo via our site, and we'll give you the option to roll it out for free forever to all of your employees."