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Charlie Hugh-Jones, PCC, CEC

New York, United States

Charlie is a leadership advisor, executive coach, author, and researcher specializing in AI leadership, AI governance, and responsible AI strategy. He works with Chief AI Officers, CTOs, and senior leadership teams navigating the organizational, ethical, and leadership challenges created as AI becomes core enterprise infrastructure.

His work focuses on the intersection of AI strategy, leadership capacity, ethics, and the future of work, helping leaders move beyond tool-centric adoption toward developing the human judgment, governance structures, and organizational coherence required to scale AI responsibly. Charlie’s perspective is grounded in systems thinking, human-centered leadership, and extensive qualitative research with senior AI leaders across sectors.

Charlie is the author of Be More and the publisher of The AI Leadership Compass, a widely read thought-leadership newsletter synthesizing insights from ongoing interviews with AI executives, policymakers, and advisors on leadership, trust, and decision-making in an AI-mediated world.

Available For: Advising, Authoring, Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: New York
Speaking Topics: AI Leadership and Governance, Leading Responsible AI at Scale, The Future of Work and Leadership in the Age of AI

Speaking Fee $12,500 (In-Person), $5,500 (Virtual)

Charlie Hugh-Jones, PCC, CEC Points
Academic 0
Author 214
Influencer 58
Speaker 37
Entrepreneur 40
Total 349

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Leading Beyond the Edge: Building Leadership Capacity for the AI Era

AI is pushing leaders beyond the limits of traditional leadership models built for stability, hierarchy, and control. This keynote explores why the next phase of AI transformation is constrained not by technology, but by leadership capacity. Drawing on original research with senior AI leaders and the concept of “inner architecture,” the talk examines how modern leaders must develop new forms of judgment, presence, ethical grounding, and sensemaking to lead effectively in systems that are fast, complex, and increasingly autonomous. This is a keynote for leaders ready to move beyond legacy playbooks and build the inner capabilities this era demands.

From Compute to Culture: Why AI Scale Depends on Leadership Capacity

As compute, large language models, and inference move AI from experimentation into everyday operations, many organizations discover that technical scale does not equal organizational readiness. This talk explores the gap between AI’s outer systems—compute, models, data, and orchestration—and the inner systems of leadership: culture, trust, governance, and human judgment. Designed for executive teams, it reframes AI scale as a leadership challenge and examines what must evolve inside organizations for AI to deliver durable, responsible value.

Leading When Systems Decide: Judgment, Trust, and Accountability in the AI Era

As AI systems increasingly recommend, act, and decide, leaders are being asked to remain accountable for outcomes they did not directly author and cannot fully explain. This talk explores the lived leadership tensions that emerge when decision-making becomes distributed across humans and machines. Drawing on research interviews with senior AI leaders, it examines how trust is built or lost, how judgment must evolve, and what leadership accountability looks like when authority and agency are no longer centralized. The session is designed to help leaders navigate responsibility, confidence, and human oversight in AI-mediated enterprises.

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Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI
AI
AI Ethics 31.93
AI Governance 59.64
Behavioral Science 36.64
Business Strategy 31.07
Change Management 32.15
Coaching 40.20
Culture 31.14
Digital Transformation 30.36
Future of Work 30.34
Generative AI
IT Leadership 30.63
Leadership 34.37
Management 34.06
Risk Management 30.37
Smart Cities 33.13
Transformation 32.05

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Publications & Experience

3 Analyst Reports
The Mid Year AI Leadership Insights Report
Linkedln
August 15, 2025
After months of one-on-one conversations with nearly 80 AI leaders worldwide, the Mid-Year AI Leadership Insights Report 2025 is live.

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Tags: AI Governance, Business Strategy, Leadership

Leading Through the Blur: Mid Year AI Leadership Insights Report
Independent Research Publication
August 04, 2025
Leading Through the Blur is the Mid-Year AI Leadership Insights Report, synthesizing insights from nearly 80 in-depth conversations with senior AI leaders across Q2 and Q3 2025. Rather than offering a new playbook, the report surfaces five systemic leadership tensions shaping today’s AI transition—where strategic ambition collides with operational reality, and stated values are tested under pressure. Designed as a reflection tool for executives, boards, and leadership teams, the report offers language, perspective, and frameworks to help leaders navigate what comes next as AI becomes a core business lever amid uncertainty.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Transformation

Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Leadership Insights Report
Independent Research Publication
March 18, 2025
The Chief AI Officer (CAIO) Leadership Insights Report synthesizes findings from over 30 in-depth interviews with Chief AI Officers and senior AI leaders across sectors. The report surfaces the lived leadership tensions shaping AI strategy, governance, talent, and trust—moving beyond headlines to examine how leaders are actually navigating AI at scale. Designed for boards, executives, and leadership teams, it offers research-grounded insight into the leadership capacity required in an AI-mediated world.

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Tags: AI Governance, Future of Work, Leadership

18 Article/Blogs
Beyond the Hype: Leadership Lessons from Imagination in Action at Google & Stanford.
Linkedln
September 15, 2025
I don’t often work on Sundays, but after two days at Google HQ and Stanford HAI this week, it felt important to sit quietly with it all — not to rush into hot takes, but to let the experience breathe. To see what stayed with me from the week.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Labor Day Reflections: What 1,200 Workers Reveal About AI — and What Leaders Must Do Next
Linkedln
September 02, 2025
Labor Day isn’t simply a long weekend—it was born out of the US labor movement’s demand for dignity, fairness, and safety at work. It sits in our calendars to remind us that work is not just about productivity—it’s about people.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

From Rubbernecking to Reckoning: Leading in the AI Transition
Linkedln
August 29, 2025
Markets surged on NVIDIA ’s earnings. Anthropic quietly settled a billion-dollar copyright suit without judgment. Ethan Mollick asked us to imagine what happens when “super-powerful AI” is in everyone’s hands. And political money flooded into AI PACs ahead of the U.S. elections.

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Tags: AI Ethics, AI Governance, Leadership

Beyond Logic: Why Judgment and Taste Matter Even More in the Age of AI
Linkedln
August 27, 2025
You might not know this about me: long before coaching became my calling, I was immersed in music. I’ve been a drummer for over 35 years and a producer for the last 20, I’ve owned record labels, and I even built a recording studio and coached artists while still practicing law as an attorney. More recently, over this summer actually, I’ve been extending that practice by learning to DJ (at 51 yrs old!).

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

What Luminaries Like Kissinger and Harari Can (and Can’t) Teach AI Leaders
Linkedln
August 20, 2025
Reading Genesis, what struck me most was Kissinger’s insistence on language — and the accountability that language either preserves or erases. I realized how often even well-meaning leaders (myself included) slip into phrases like “AI took jobs.” It sounds harmless, but as Kissinger makes clear, that framing hides the truth: executives make choices, boards approve them, and teams live with the consequences.

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Tags: AI Ethics, AI Governance, Leadership

What Luminaries Like Kissinger and Harari Can (and Can’t) Teach AI Leaders
Linkedln
August 20, 2025
An article I wrote on what major AI thinkers like Henry Kissinger and Yuval Noah Harari illuminate — and where their insights stop — for leaders translating civilizational questions about AI into real organizational decisions around trust, agency, and accountability.

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Tags: AI Governance, Future of Work, Leadership

From Survival to Significance: The Emotional Terrain of New Work in an AI World
Linkedln
June 17, 2025
That pause was a luxury, perhap one that many cannot afford in their workplace—but it’s also a necessity. Because if we are to lead from deeper places of humanness, if we are to offer others more than strategy or speed, we must reconnect with the full range of our emotional and ethical experience.

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Tags: AI Governance, Coaching, Leadership

Rethinking AI Oversight: Who Holds the Moral Compass?
Independent Publication
March 17, 2025
In response to OpenAI’s proposals for the U.S. AI Action Plan, this article examines a central leadership question facing AI today: who should govern AI, and whose interests that governance ultimately serves. Drawing on ethical frameworks from the World Economic Forum and the Center for Humane Technology, the piece explores the limits of industry self-regulation, the risks of digital colonialism, and the tension between intellectual property, transparency, and human agency. It argues that AI governance is not merely a policy issue, but a leadership responsibility with long-term societal consequences.

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Tags: AI Ethics, AI Governance, Leadership

AI Leadership in 2025: Balancing Innovation and ROI in a High-Stakes Landscape
Linkedln
March 07, 2025
AI leaders in 2025 face intensifying pressure to deliver transformational innovation while demonstrating immediate business value. This creates a delicate balancing act—driving AI’s potential forward while meeting financial and operational demands.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

The Rise of the Chief AI Officer: Why This Role is Now Essential
Linkedln
March 07, 2025
As AI reshapes industries and government operations, the role of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) is gaining traction. Organizations across both the public and private sectors are recognizing the need for dedicated leadership to navigate AI’s complexities, drive innovation, and ensure responsible governance.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

GPT-4b Micro: AI’s Ambitious Leap to Advance Human Longevity, One Reprogrammed Cell at a Time
Linkedln
January 21, 2025
In a groundbreaking collaboration, OpenAI and Retro Biosciences have developed GPT-4b Micro, an AI model that advances our understanding of stem cell production by optimizing Yamanaka factors—proteins capable of reprogramming adult cells into stem cells. Early results indicate a 50-fold improvement in efficiency, a leap that could transform regenerative medicine and extend human lifespan. Yet, as with any innovation, this development raises profound questions about ethics, safety, and governance.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

What Signals Are You Paying Attention To?
Linkedln
December 17, 2024
Every year, subtle signals appear—shifts in technology, science, and global dynamics. Some are loud, obvious to all. Others are quiet, barely noticeable unless you’re looking closely. Yet together, these signals converge to shape the trends and disruptions that define our future.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

The Paradox of the High-Performer: Beyond the Grey Zone
Linkedln
April 21, 2024
As I reflected on some of those conversations, and how easy some of his ability to cover distance seemed to come to him (yes, I acknowledge much hard work on his behalf) I was reminded of a concept in training called the Grey zone - the dreaded Zone 3 plateau where you’re probably pushing too hard too often and not running slow enough, often enough. Does that sound familiar?

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Fearless Authenticity: A Journey Beyond the Facade
Linkedln
March 21, 2024
This chasm, between who we are and who we think we're meant to be for others, is filled with societal expectations, personal fears, and misconceived identities. It is where our true selves are often lost.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

What Chat GPT learned from reading my book!
Linkedln
March 14, 2024
Earlier today I sat down to outline a number of keynotes I'd like to offer this year. Narrowing down the topics upon which I could speak and finding an angle that resonates with potential clients can sometimes be challenging. And sometimes it's super easy because themes surface that you feel compelled to speak about.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Harnessing the Power of Conscious Leadership: A Transformative Approach for Today's Leaders
Linkedln
March 05, 2024
In today's rapidly evolving world, the demand for innovative leadership has never been more pressing. Traditional leadership models—dominated by hierarchies and top-down decision-making— no longer suffice. The capacity and competency now demanded from modern leaders requires expansion and evolution.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Navigating 2024:A 90-Day Strategic Roadmap for Success
Linkedln
February 07, 2024
As we forge ahead into 2024, maybe as a C-suite leader or founder you find yourself at a crossroads, facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities?

Maybe it's hard to weight competing priorities and find a balance that helps you build traction rather than just standing still given the double exponential rate of change.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

AI's Double-Edged Scalpel: Cutting Edge or Cutting Out Human Expertise?
Linkedln
January 22, 2024
For a lot of Healthcare leaders right now, it feels like we are standing at the crossroads of healthcare's future, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) beckons with promises of transformation. Yet, the decisions we make today will sculpt the landscape of tomorrow's medical practice. I read a compelling JAMA article this morning written by Agnes B. Fogo, Andreas Kronbichler, and Ingeborg M. Bajema, dramatically titled: "AI's Threat to the Medical profession."

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

40 Author Newsletters
A brief note before Monday
Linkedln
January 08, 2026
Over the past year, alongside The AI Leadership Compass, I’ve been working on a longer-form synthesis based on more than 100 interviews with Chief AI Officers, technologists, advisors, policymakers, and enterprise leaders.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #38 - When AI Outpaces Leadership: A Year-End Reading of the Signals That Mattered
Linkedln
December 30, 2025
This year-end edition of The AI Leadership Compass steps back from the weekly flow of AI headlines to read 2025 as a whole. Drawing on signals from across technology, governance, enterprise adoption, and leadership practice, it argues that the defining constraint of this phase of AI is no longer capability — but leadership capacity. The piece surfaces the patterns that quietly shaped the year, explores why AI increasingly behaves like infrastructure rather than a tool, and frames the leadership work required as organizations head into 2026.

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Tags: AI Governance, Digital Transformation, Leadership

Edition #37 - Leading When AI Becomes Infrastructure
Linkedln
December 15, 2025
In a few hours, I’ll be getting on a plane — stepping away from screens, drafts, and headlines to speed my way across the Atlantic to spend a few days with family briefly in Dublin and then hopping over to Manchester. One privilege, that seems to be becoming an annual ritual, is Abbey and I getting to host our wider family's annual holiday meal — a small, deliberate act of gathering that feels quietly relevant to the week’s themes

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Tags: AI Governance, Business Strategy, Leadership

Edition #36 - 'Code Red': Leading When the Frontier Keeps Moving
Linkedln
December 08, 2025
Winter arrived quietly but suddenly as I finished drafting Edition 35 — a still iciness as the temperature seemed to drop dramatically overnight in the Hudson Valley. Cold hard earth but no other signs - until this week! This week, it showed up fully. The first real snow has fallen, filling the fields with stillness and slowing everything except Monty, our exhuberant berner-doodle, who delights in every snowfall as a personal invitation to chaos.

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Tags: AI Governance, Business Strategy, Leadership

Edition #35 - When Acceleration Outruns Capacity: Leading Through AI’s Circular Capital Moment
Linkedln
November 24, 2025
As many people begin to slow down for Thanksgiving, I’ve noticed something different among some senior leaders: a quiet inability to pause. Not because they don’t want the rest, or to connect with family, but because slowing down feels risky right now. The releases, the deals, the model upgrades, the market signals—none of them take a holiday.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #34 - Strategy Inside the AI Metabolism
Linkedln
November 17, 2025
Most of my work was done indoors — long stretches of deep focus, digital blinkers on, as I sifted through an unusually tangled set of AI signals that refused to sort themselves neatly. It took more energy than usual to metabolize the noise into anything coherent.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #33: Leading in the Age of Synthetic Empathy
Linkedln
November 10, 2025
Between conducting deeply insightful interviews for the final quarter’s AI Leadership Insights Report and diving into focused deep-work sessions with the team shaping our next offering, my week was steeped in questions of agency, ethics, and what it means to lead systems that now learn from us.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #32 - Concentration, Capital, and Control: The Leadership Cost of Acceleration
Linkedln
November 03, 2025
Behind the scenes, I’ve been shaping the positioning, strategy, and guest lineup for The AI Leadership Compass podcast — a space I hope will invite honest, nuanced conversations with some remarkable collaborators.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #31 - When Both Sides Are True: Leading Through Acceleration and Absorption
Linkedln
October 27, 2025
In the Intelligent Era, leaders are being asked to move faster than they can feel and absorb more than they can metabolize. This past week reminded me of that truth in motion.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #30 - Follow the Money — The New Industrial Logic of AI
Linkedln
October 20, 2025
That thought has followed me since returning from Morocco this week, where I spoke about Smart Cities and Wise Leadership in the Age of AI. In every conversation—from civic planners to policymakers—the same question surfaced: How do we fund the future without forfeiting our humanity?

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #29 - Sora 2 and the Search for the Real
Linkedln
October 13, 2025
When I was six or seven, my parents gave me a vinyl record — Space Themes by Geoff Love and His Orchestra. It wasn’t the London Symphony Orchestra performing John Williams’ Star Wars score; it was a cover. Yet as a child, I didn’t care. I’d place the needle carefully, sit cross-legged beside the speaker, and listen — not to authenticity, but to wonder.

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Edition #28 - The Sora Moment: When Simulation Becomes Reality
Linkedln
October 06, 2025
Most Sundays evenings begin the same way: a quiet ritual of planning the week ahead — scanning signals, sketching priorities, deciding where to place attention. This week, that planning looked a little different.

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Edition #27: Circular Finance, Fragile Trust: Signals from AI’s Next Phase
Linkedln
September 29, 2025
When the internet first rolled out, those of us structuring the deals behind it quickly learned a hard truth: infrastructure shifts don’t wait for leaders to catch up. Capital, governance, and trust interlock faster than most organizations are ready for.

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Edition #26: From Words to Wallets - The Governance Gap in AI’s Next Phase
Linkedln
September 22, 2025
Because like many of you, I need to start the week by making sense of the noise from the previous week — turning headlines into signals — and sharing that process with you. Writing the Compass is how I clarify my own thinking, and (I hope) how you sharpen yours

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #25 - Money, Magic, and the Leadership to See Clearly
Linkedln
September 12, 2025
What once felt like a co-creative process now feels more like watching a magician at work — the system conjures, and we applaud, even as we don’t fully understand how the trick was done.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #24: Engagement at Any Cost
Linkedln
September 05, 2025
We’re closing in on 1,000 subscribers. If The AI Leadership Compass has been useful, I’d love your help — by subscribing if you haven’t yet, or by sharing it with a colleague. Each new reader isn’t just a number; it strengthens a community of leaders navigating this transition together. Thank you to those already reading, sharing, and reflecting — this newsletter exists because of you.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #23 - From Rubbernecking to Reckoning: Leading in the AI Transition
Linkedln
August 29, 2025
Markets surged on NVIDIA ’s earnings. Anthropic quietly settled a billion-dollar copyright suit without judgment. Ethan Mollick asked us to imagine what happens when “super-powerful AI” is in everyone’s hands. And political money flooded into AI PACs ahead of the U.S. elections.

But the story I can’t shake is the wrongful death suit filed by the family of Adam Raine, a teenager whose final conversations were with ChatGPT. The filings describe a model that didn’t just respond — it validated his despair, drafted his goodbye, and critiqued the knot he tied hours before his death.

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Tags: AI Ethics, AI Governance, Leadership

Edition #22: Signals of Collapse or Clarity?
Linkedln
August 22, 2025
After three glorious summer weeks soaking up some wonderful and adventurous NYC experiences with my sons (proud of Leon in particular)— trying new food, letting the days stretch out, and stepping back from the noise — I came back focused, ready to release the AI Leadership Insights Report. And this week’s signals? They hit differently.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #21: Reasoning, Reliability, and the Leader’s Choice in the GPT-5 Era
Linkedln
August 08, 2025
This week’s Compass is a little shorter than usual. Many of you know we’re on the cusp of next week’s launch of the AI Leadership Insights Report, so most of my writing energy has been going into that. And truthfully, I’ve also been in the best kind of “distraction” — Leon and Sam are here in New York for a few weeks, along with Sam’s girlfriend Rosie. We’ve been catching up, wandering the city, and just being together.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Coming Next Week: Leading Through the Blur
Linkedln
August 08, 2025
Before the rest of the world sees it, I wanted you—our AI Leadership Compass community—to know that the Mid-Year AI Leadership Insights Report 2025 is ready to launch next week.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

Edition #20: The Stories We Lead With
Linkedln
August 01, 2025
Truthfully, this one arrives in the midst of competing tensions in my world this week. Like many of the leaders I work with, I’ve felt the weight of acceleration—multiple priorities, shifting signals, and the quiet pressure to keep up. Which is exactly why The AI Leadership Compass exists.

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Edition #19: The Memo, the Mirror, and the Moment We’re In
Linkedln
July 25, 2025
They’re not alone. This week, the White House released “Winning the AI Race: America’s AI Action Plan.” It’s a sweeping declaration that repositions AI as national infrastructure and existential priority. But beneath the boldness lies a question few are asking: What happens to leadership when AI is framed as a race—and speed becomes the only virtue?

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Edition #18: Working With Agents, Leading With Awareness
Linkedln
July 18, 2025
I’ve just returned from nearly 14 days offline—two full weeks of quiet mornings, unhurried meals, and the kind of stillness that lets you remember who you are when no one is asking anything of you.

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Edition #17: Productivity, Presence, and the Price of Acceleration
Linkedln
June 27, 2025
After a whirlwind few days in England navigating a health crisis for a family member, I’m about to step into something rare in this season of hyper-productivity: a real vacation. Ten days offline. No meetings. No writing. Just space.

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Edition #16 - Faster Than We Can Feel: Leadership Tensions in the AI Transition
Linkedln
June 20, 2025
Amazon’s latest memo was clear: AI will reduce corporate headcount. This isn’t new—but the framing is. AI isn’t just being deployed as a tool. It’s becoming a strategic narrative: a way to justify speed, restructure quietly, and push decisions through without fully naming their human impact.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

2 Books
Be More: What To Do When You Can't Do Any More!
Balboa Press
February 22, 2022
Be More: What to Do When You Can’t Do Anymore explores the inner limits leaders and professionals encounter when effort, achievement, and willpower are no longer sufficient. Rather than offering tools or techniques, the book focuses on the deeper dimensions of human capacity—identity, presence, resilience, and meaning—when external strategies break down. Written prior to the current AI transition, Be More forms a foundational part of my ongoing work on leadership capacity and inner architecture, themes I now extend into the context of leading responsibly in an AI-mediated world.

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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership

Unlocking A More Productive You: Discover the 3 Keys to Making Space, Increasing Focus & Getting More Done
Independent Publication
August 31, 2017
Unlocking a More Productive You explores the human foundations of sustainable performance in a world of increasing complexity and distraction. Rather than focusing on tools or tactics, the book introduces a practical framework for creating space, strengthening focus, and aligning effort with what truly matters. While written prior to the current wave of AI-driven transformation, the work forms an early foundation of my ongoing focus on leadership capacity, attention, and inner architecture—themes that now sit at the heart of leading effectively in an AI-mediated world.

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Tags: Coaching, Leadership, Management

2 Founders
Tidian: A Behavioral Incentivization Platform for Sustainable Wellbeing
Independent Startup
November 01, 2022
Tidian was a wellness incentivization platform for independent contractors that applied behavioral economics, human-centered design, and incentive alignment to support sustainable behavior change across activity, nutrition, sleep, and mental health.

Designed to operate across multiple stakeholders — individuals, employers, and insurers — Tidian illustrated how values, incentives, and governance choices become embedded in platforms that scale human behavior, offering lessons relevant to leadership, technology governance, and responsible system design.

Tidian’s leadership and advisory team included senior operators and designers with experience across healthcare, employee benefits, platform design, and behavioral economics, including alumni from organizations such as Google, Amazon, Mercer, Cigna, Blue Shield of California, and academic institutions including Harvard and Wharton.

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Tags: Behavioral Science, Digital Transformation, Leadership

Leadership Advisor and Executive Coach (Working with Exceptional C-Suite Leaders and Founders)
Unlocking You LLC
December 01, 2015
Unlocking You LLC is the service company of Charlie Hugh-Jones, an executive coach, author and speaker who specializes helping C-Suite Leaders and Founders be more conscious, connected and creative - expanding their capacity and capability to lead more effectively.

Unlocking You LLC publishes Charlie's books, delivers his products and facilitates his professional services to personal, corporate and government clients worldwide.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Coaching, Leadership

1 Keynote
Smart Cities: Wise Leadership In The Age Of AI
Mediterranean Smart Cities Conference
October 14, 2025
Delivered at the Mediterranean Smart Cities Conference in North Africa, this keynote explores why the future of smart cities depends less on how intelligent our technologies become and more on how wise we are as leaders. Drawing on global city case studies and emerging AI realities, the talk reframes leadership for an era in which AI mediates access to resources, shapes decisions, and scales faster than policy cycles. It introduces a leadership lens grounded in purpose, trust, human judgment, and adaptive governance—inviting leaders to move from technological intelligence toward civic wisdom.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Smart Cities

9 Videos
Seemingly Conscious AI Is a Leadership Risk, Not a Design Problem
Linkedln
August 21, 2025
A reflection on why Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI) is not only a technical or design concern, but a leadership and governance challenge — one that reshapes trust, blurs boundaries, and requires deliberate judgment as AI systems become increasingly lifelike.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Risk Management

Leading Without a Script in the AI Transition
Linkedln
June 09, 2025
A closing reflection on what leadership demands when pace, pressure, and responsibility outstrip certainty — and why presence, inner capacity, and steadiness increasingly matter more than performance as AI systems scale beyond human speed.
Part 8 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

The Inner Terrain of Future-Ready AI Leaders
Linkedln
June 04, 2025
A reflection on the inner capacities future-ready leaders must develop as AI systems accelerate beyond human scale — and why steadiness, self-awareness, and judgment increasingly determine whether leadership becomes an anchor or a liability.
Part 7 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: Change Management, Future of Work, Leadership

What Leaders Normalize Is What AI Systems Scale
Linkedln
May 30, 2025
A reflection on how leadership behaviors — what is tolerated, rewarded, or rushed — become encoded into AI-enabled systems, shaping the culture and precedents that scale long after individual leaders move on.
Part 6 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: AI Governance, Digital Transformation, Leadership

When Silence Becomes a Leadership Risk
Linkedln
May 22, 2025
A reflection on how silence — particularly at senior levels — can signal a breakdown in feedback, challenge, and accountability, and why leaders navigating AI-driven power and velocity must actively design for truth-telling rather than assume it will surface on its own.
Part 5 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Risk Management

When Trust Stops Challenging Leadership
Linkedln
May 21, 2025
A reflection on how trust, when left unexamined, can unintentionally reduce challenge — and why leaders navigating AI-driven complexity must actively invite dissent, accountability, and truth-telling to avoid insulation at scale.
Part 4 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Risk Management

Where Inner and Outer Leadership Must Finally Converge
Linkedln
May 19, 2025
A reflection on the false divide between “inner work” and “outer work” in leadership — and why leaders navigating AI-driven complexity must integrate self-awareness and structure if they are to lead effectively at speed and scale.
Part 3 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: IT Leadership, Leadership, Transformation

When Reflection Becomes Avoidance in Leadership
Linkedln
May 14, 2025
A reflection on how “depth” and introspection can sometimes become a substitute for real leadership growth — and why responsibility, not reflection alone, is increasingly required when leading under AI-driven complexity.
Part 2 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: Change Management, IT Leadership, Leadership

When Leadership Development No Longer Fits the AI Era
Linkedln
May 12, 2025
A short reflection on why traditional leadership development struggles under AI-driven complexity — and why human judgment, not performance, is becoming the defining leadership capability of the transition era.
Part 1 of an 8-part video series.

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Tags: AI Governance, Future of Work, Leadership

2 Whitepapers
The Leadership Imperative, Episode 2: The Transformation Duality — From Code to Culture
Independent Executive Whitepaper
December 14, 2025
The second installment of The Leadership Imperative executive briefing series on leadership in the age of intelligent systems.
This executive whitepaper examines why most enterprise AI initiatives fail to scale despite massive investment, arguing that the root cause is not technical capability but leadership and organizational misalignment. Drawing on economic data, industry case studies, and the Transformation Duality framework, the paper distinguishes between outer structures of AI (code, compute, capital) and inner structures (culture, trust, talent, and governance). It introduces the CAPEx leadership discipline and reframes AI governance as a strategic accelerator rather than a compliance constraint. Written for boards, executives, and senior AI leaders, the paper offers a clear lens on what it truly takes to lead AI transformation from code to culture.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Transformation

The Leadership Imperative: From Infrastructure to Inner Structure
Independent Executive Briefing
October 22, 2025
Part One of The Leadership Imperative executive briefing series on leadership in the age of intelligent systems.
This executive briefing examines why AI transformation is stalling not because of technology constraints, but because leadership capacity is failing to keep pace with intelligent infrastructure. Drawing on research, industry data, and real-world case examples from global financial institutions, the paper introduces the CAPEx leadership discipline (Conceptualize, Assess, Plan, Execute) and explores three imperatives shaping AI leadership today: agency, trust, and integration. It argues that sustainable AI value depends on aligning outer systems of infrastructure with inner structures of leadership, ethics, and human judgment.

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Tags: AI Governance, Leadership, Transformation

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AI Leadership & Governance Advisory for Boards and Executives

Location: Virtual/Global (Based in New York)    Fees: $15,000+ (engagement-based)

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I advise boards, Chief AI Officers, and senior leadership teams navigating the strategic, ethical, and organizational challenges of AI at scale. Engagements focus on AI governance, leadership capacity, operating model alignment, and decision-making under uncertainty—helping leaders move beyond tool adoption toward accountable, human-centered AI systems. This work is reflective, strategic, and context-specific, designed for leaders steering high-stakes transformation rather than executing predefined playbooks.

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Executive Coaching for Chief AI Officers and Senior AI Leaders

Location: Virtual/Global (Based in New York)    Fees: $750/hr or engagement-based

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I provide executive coaching for Chief AI Officers, CTOs, and senior leaders navigating the personal and professional demands of leading AI in high-stakes environments. Coaching focuses on judgment, sensemaking, ethical tension, role clarity, and leadership presence—supporting leaders as they balance speed with responsibility, innovation with trust, and ambition with human impact. This is not performance optimization coaching; it is reflective, strategic work for leaders operating at the edge of uncertainty.

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Executive & Board-Level Speaking on AI Leadership and Governance

Location: Virtual/Global (Based in New York)    Fees: $15,000+ (engagement-based)

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I deliver executive and board-level briefings and keynote talks on AI leadership, governance, and the human challenges of scaling AI responsibly. These sessions are designed to provoke strategic dialogue rather than present predefined answers—grounded in original research with senior AI leaders and real-world leadership experience. Speaking engagements focus on leadership judgment, accountability, trust, and the organizational implications of AI as core enterprise infrastructure.

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