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Srini Koushik

Founder and CEO at Right Brain Labs

Ohio, United States

Top 50 AI Leader, 2x Entrepreneur, CIO Hall of Fame Inductee, 3x CIO CIO of the Year, 2015 Startup CEO of the Year, 2x CTO of the Year, Board Member, and Lifelong Learner

Available For: Advising, Consulting, Speaking
Travels From: Columbus, OH
Speaking Topics: AI Fluency, Leading AI Fluent Organizations, Human Intuition in the Age of AI

Speaking Fee $12,000 (In-Person), $5,000 (Virtual)

Srini Koushik Points
Academic 1
Author 158
Influencer 163
Speaker 45
Entrepreneur 165
Total 532

Points based upon Thinkers360 patent-pending algorithm.

Thought Leader Profile

Portfolio Mix

Company Information

Company Type: Company
Business Unit: Right Brain Labs
Theatre: North America
Minimum Project Size: $50,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $300+
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: 2025
Media Experience: 25 years
Last Media Interview: 02/03/2026

Areas of Expertise

Agentic AI 45.90
AGI 81.52
Agile
AI 34.91
AI Ethics 30.41
AI Governance 34.92
AI Infrastructure 45.56
AI Orchestration
Architecture
Digital Transformation 30.77
Future of Work
Generative AI
Healthcare 33.37
Innovation
IT Leadership 41.14
IT Strategy
Leadership 30.09
Lean Startup
Mental Health
Quantum Computing
Startups
Sustainability 30.70

Industry Experience

Financial Services & Banking
Healthcare
High Tech & Electronics
Insurance
Manufacturing
Professional Services

Publications & Experience

1 Academic Course
AI JUMPSTART FOR EXECUTIVES
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
February 13, 2025
Thoughts on Driving Outcomes Using AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

18 Article/Blogs
The Cognitive Rust Belt is Here
Substack
April 17, 2026
Using the easy button with AI results in Cognitive Atrophy

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Ethics

Two Frameworks Walk Into the Same Room
Import from substack.com
April 05, 2026
On AI coordination, the Toyota production system, and the argument Sangeet Paul Choudary almost completes

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Ethics

Two AI Frameworks Walk Into the Same Room
Srini Koushik
April 02, 2026
Deriving value from AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

Building my AI team at Right Brain Labs
Import from substack.com
March 01, 2026
Out of clutter, find simplicity.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

How do leaders avoid the Automation Trap (Detroit Trap)
Right Brain
February 08, 2026
The plan was simple: place a robot exactly where a human worker once stood. GM preserved the old workflows, the same job classifications, and the same assembly line pacing. They treated machines as compliant substitutes for labor rather than catalysts for a new way of working.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

The Unknown Unknowns of AI
Srini Koushik
February 03, 2026
Deriving value from AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

Flight Lessons - It's about the Pilot not the Aircraft
Import from substack.com
January 23, 2026
Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of Autopilot

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Flight Lessons: Mastering the Art of Human-AI Collaboration
Import from substack.com
January 16, 2026
This week, I stepped into a classroom at The Ohio State University to deliver the first lecture of my undergraduate course on AI.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

AI Is the New Business Mandate. So why Do Most Leaders Get It Wrong?
Import from substack.com
November 29, 2025
For the last seventy years, the global economy has been built on a single, exclusionary premise: Humans must learn to speak the language of the machine.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

The Unknown Unknowns of AI
Import from substack.com
November 26, 2025
Why “Fluency” is Your Only Defense

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Onboarding the AI Employee
Import from substack.com
November 21, 2025
An Operating Model for C-Suite Partnership

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

What is Right Brained AI?
Import from substack.com
November 21, 2025
Where Human Ingenuity meets Artificial Intelligence

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Beyond the Buy or Build Debate
Import from substack.com
November 12, 2024
In the age of AI, success isn’t about choosing to buy or build—it’s about embedding AI into your organization’s fabric and empowering both AI and human teams to work together effectively.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Why do we need a Product Centric model for IT
Linkedin
May 20, 2021
Why do we need a Product Centric model for IT
By some estimates, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by almost a decade.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

Adapt To Survive: Why Lifelong Learning Is The Secret To Enduring Professional Success
Linkedin
March 26, 2021
When was the last time you learned something new? In college? In a recent e-learning course? While scrolling through your social media this morning?

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

5 lessons learned from my first decade in the Cloud
Linkedin
March 21, 2021
As a CIO, my Cloud Computing journey started in 2010 and has continued for the past decade as through two other Cloud native efforts and advising and learning from several IT leaders with their transformations.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

Automating IT in Exponential Organizations
Linkedin
May 09, 2018
Exponential Organizations (ExOs) deliver outcomes (or impact) that are disproportionally (10x) greater than their traditional competitors through the use of innovative business models, organizational techniques and digital technologies.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

The future of work is not what it used to be (and it is already here)
Linkedin
February 20, 2018
On one of my many cross-country flights, I started to think about how the concept of employment has changed dramatically over the course of my thirty-year career in the US.

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

2 Books
CxO Playbook for Artificial Intelligence
Foundry for AI by Rackspace
February 03, 2025
Visual Playbook for Enterprise AI from the Foundry for AI by Rackspace

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

Patterns for e-business
IBM Press
September 03, 2001
Book that documents Patterns in e-business and Digital Solutions. The content in this book earned two patents and was used as a textbook in 6 universities across the world

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Digital Transformation

2 eBooks
Thinking with AI
Right Brain Labs
April 06, 2026
The Right Brain Labs approach to moving from just using AI to Thinking with it

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

The CxO Playbook for Industrializing AI
Foundry for AI by Rackspace
March 03, 2025
12 Plays CIOs need to use to scale AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

1 Executive
CXO of The Future
Mayfield Ventures
May 20, 2022
Advice for CTOs in the Age of AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

3 Founders
The Cognitive Rustbelt is Here
OhioX
April 17, 2026
AI Fluency needs anti-stagnation infrastructure

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

The Unknown Unknowns of AI
OhioX
February 27, 2026
AI Fluency is the only defense

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

AI is the new business Mandate
OhioX
February 27, 2026
AI is the new business mandate. Why do most leaders get it wrong

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

3 Industry Awards
2025 Top 50 AI Leader
Channel Insider
May 10, 2025
2025 Award Winner

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Tags: AI

2023 CIO Hall of Fame Inductee
CIO.com
May 10, 2023
2023 Award Winner

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Tags: AI

CIO ORBIE Award Winner
Inspire Network
April 10, 2023
2023 Award Winner

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Tags: AI

4 Media Interviews
AI in Insurance
AM Best
August 14, 2025
AI in Insurance

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

Introducing FAIR
The Cube
May 14, 2025
Sema4

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Introducing FaIR
Aim media house
May 17, 2024
Podcast with Neil Hughes

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Leadership

Navigating GenAI
Neil Hughes
April 09, 2024
Podcast with Neil Hughes

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

2 Patents
Kubernetes Cluster Management
6/13/2022
December 02, 2025

Patent Number US20230401077A1

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Infrastructure

Patterns for e-business
8/9/2001
May 27, 2008

Patent Number US 7379882

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

6 Speaking Engagements
Leading When We've Stopped Thinking - AI's Red Flag
Innovating Leadership
December 25, 2025
Innovating Leadership Podcast with Maureen Metcalf

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

Responsible and Sustainable AI
Two Impulse
December 25, 2025
AI and Sustainability conversation with Paulo Nunnes

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Sustainability

Epic's Growing Ecosystem in AI
This Week Health
May 01, 2025
Healthcare, Epic and AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Healthcare

What Makes a Sustainable Business
CIO Exchange Podcast
December 12, 2023
Building Sustaomanle AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Sustainability

Seize the Lead over AI's Speed
Lead the Team with Ben Fanning
July 26, 2023
Leading in the Age of AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

A FAIR Approach to Generative AI
c2c
June 01, 2023
AI FAIR Approach to Generative AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Healthcare

9 Videos
How Leaders Should Think About AI
Leading Minds Revealed
February 04, 2026
Conversation with Mike Apollo

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

Sustainability, AI, and Growth
MSP Revealed
February 04, 2026
Sustainability and AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Sustainability

CxO of the Future
Mayfield Ventures
February 04, 2026
Conversation with Gamiel Gran

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Leadership

Leading when we've stopped thinking
Innovative Leadership Institute
January 22, 2026
AI Red Flags

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

From Pilots to Teammates - AI at Work
Big Data LDN
September 28, 2025
AI as Teammates

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Harnessing the Power of GenAI
This Week Health
May 22, 2025
Epic and AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, Healthcare

AI Integration Into the Business
Silicon Heartland
April 01, 2025
Thoughts on Driving Outcomes Using AI

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, AI Governance

Leading when we've stopped thinking
Two Impulse
June 20, 2024
GenAI is not Sustainable

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Tags: Agentic AI, AI, IT Leadership

Harnessing the Power of GenAI
Nasdaq Tradetalks
April 22, 2024
Nasdaq TradeTalks

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Tags: Agentic AI, AGI, AI

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