Conquer Local Podcast 806: Every CEO Needs to Hear This About AI (Before 2026) | Brett Schklar
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🎯 Are CEOs ready for the 2026 acceleration🎯
2026 is the year AI stops being optional. It’s the year your competitors’ AI advantage becomes your business problem.
In this episode, AI adoption strategist Brett Schklar reveals the new CEO playbook for AI transformation, showing exactly how leaders can set the tone, accelerate efficiency, and prepare their organizations for what’s coming next.
In this episode, you'll learn:
🚀 AI-ifying the Pain: How to identify the daily tasks that waste your time and automate them with real AI tools you can deploy today.
📈 Return on AI (ROAI): The six lenses to measure AI’s real impact
🏗️ Creating a Safe AI Sandbox: How to set up a private AI playground for your team to experiment, fail safely, and innovate faster before going live.
🧠 Prompting as the New Leadership Skill: How the best leaders are moving beyond “prompt engineering” to “AI conversation design” and training their teams to do the same.
📞 Voice AI and ChatGPT for Business: Why customer-facing AI assistants are the new front line for customer experience and revenue.
💬 The Trust-But-Verify Rule: Why CEOs should never delegate AI blindly and how to build systems that draft, learn, and improve alongside your team.
🔥 Culture Before Code: The #1 mistake CEOs make when adopting AI, and how to unlock innovation across the company.
Key concepts in this episode:
AI transformation strategy for CEOs
AI readiness audit
Return on AI (ROAI) metrics
AI adoption roadmap 2026
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot integration
AI sandbox for business leaders
AI change management
Voice AI and customer experience
AI automation in daily operations
Leadership in the age of AI
How to build trust and safety in AI systems
How CEOs can lead AI innovation
Generative AI in business strategy
AI productivity and automation tools
If you’re a CEO preparing for 2026, this episode is your wake-up call.
The leaders who win next year will be the ones who make AI a cultural movement, not just a technical upgrade.
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