260: How AI Can Boost Leadership Charisma, Connection & Engagement

Are you struggling to sell your ideas effectively, or are you focusing on generating more ideas instead?

As a highly-conscientious, high-performing leader, you're likely facing the challenge of communicating your ideas persuasively to drive innovation and impact. In a world where innovation is key to success, understanding how to generate and sell ideas effectively can make all the difference.

Today’s episode guest is Stanford University AI expert and VC investor Jeremy Utley.

We talk all about using genAI to your advantage when it comes to communicating at work:

🧠 Gain insights into the importance of generating a high volume of ideas rather than fixating on the quality of individual ideas.

🪝Discover how AI can serve as a powerful tool to augment your creative process and provide valuable feedback to enhance your communication skills.

💰Learn practical strategies for collaborating with AI to refine your presentations, speeches, and pitches, ultimately improving your executive presence and ability to establish meaningful connections with your audience.

Tune in to this episode to unlock the secrets of idea generation, effective communication, and leveraging AI as your creative partner. Don't miss out on the opportunity to revolutionize your approach to innovation and communication.

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ABOUT THIS WEEK’S GUEST:

Jeremy Utley is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University, and co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, for which he was named a Thinkers50 Top Innovation Leader in 2023. His work has been featured by Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, Inc, Fast Company, McKinsey & Co, and many others. His teaching has reached over a million students of innovation around the world.

For over a dozen years, Jeremy co-led the Stanford d.school’s Executive Education programs, and co-taught a number of celebrated courses at Stanford, including Leading Disruptive Innovation and LaunchPad — which focus on creating real-world impact with the tools of design. He currently teaches Transformative Design, a course that turns those same tools of design onto the most important project of all: his students’ lives.

Jeremy has earned multiple “favorite professor” distinctions from graduate programs at Stanford, and makes venture investments as a General Partner at Freespin Capital.

FOR YOU:

Convinced about your executive presence when you walk into that meeting? Are you crushing your presentations? Do you use good metaphors? Such are the executive micro skills!!!

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In Speak Up communication training, teams and individuals learn to enhance their influence and confidence, refining their communication style to increase visibility and effectiveness in promotion opportunities. By honing communication skills and fostering a trusted advisor mindset, aspiring executives cultivate mastery in public speaking and beat imposter syndrome.