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5 Lessons from ‘Lead like a Human in the Age of AI’

By |2026-04-01T03:23:49+13:00March 24th, 2026|Articles, Blog, Business, Excellence, GenAI, Productivity|

Last week I was invited by Rita Cincotta onto the Deliberate Leader Podcast. If you don't know Rita, she is a is a leadership coach and who helps leaders grow through strengths-based practice, reflection, and deliberate action.   She's also a trusted colleague and an old friend. We were able to quickly get into deep conversation about the overlap [...]

Context Engineering: Frame Everything Prior to the Prompt

By |2026-03-20T03:46:43+13:00March 10th, 2026|Articles, Business, Excellence, GenAI, Hacks|

Last week at AgentCamp in Christchurch, hosted by Steve Knutson at Stratos Technology Partners, I spoke about a shift that is quietly transforming how people work with AI.     Most people still think the secret to good AI output is writing a clever prompt, but the deeper truth is that prompting is only a small part of the equation. [...]

New Years Resolutions 2026

By |2026-01-01T16:54:20+13:00January 1st, 2026|Excellence|

For 2026, my word is Teach. The focus of my year will be teaching. Last year's pivot into Ai helped my identify my Ikigai.It's what I love doing (performing)That the world needs (education about Ai)And the world will pay for (experience using it)That I do well (creating a synthesis of complex information)Teaching people how to [...]

Context Engineering prepares everything prior to the prompt.

By |2025-12-31T16:22:47+13:00December 9th, 2025|Articles, Business, Excellence, GenAI|

䷿ "Context engineering is the systematic discipline of designing, constructing, and delivering a complete informational environment to an AI model prior to generation." - Antonio Gulli Even the best prompts will fail without the right context. Giving AI backstory and reference material will create a landscape that is suitable to your scenario. The art of [...]

AI isn’t replacing you — it’s upgrading you.

By |2025-12-31T16:23:08+13:00November 2nd, 2025|Articles, Blog, Business, Events, Excellence, GenAI|

🤖 “There will be two types of companies in the future: those who are leading with AI, and those who are irrelevant.” - Jeetu Patel, Cisco There’s a growing difference between people who use AI and people who think with it. That’s the difference between overwhelm and opportunity. Between playing catch-up and setting the pace. The AI F.A.S.T. Class Series is [...]

ChatGPT’s New Image Generator & The Ghibli-fication Controversy

By |2025-12-31T16:28:13+13:00April 2nd, 2025|Articles, Content Marketing, Excellence, GenAI, Productivity|

💡Creativity Is Shifting from Craft to Concept Have you tried ChatGPT's new Image Generator? It is miles beyond DALL-E. Some of the things it can do include: Consistent character generation across prompts Simple edits without revising the whole picture Text rendering without misspellings and warps (finally!) And, of course, you can upload any photo with [...]

The Role of Humans with GenAI

By |2025-12-31T16:28:39+13:00March 3rd, 2025|Articles, Balance, Business, Excellence, GenAI|

✨ Humans are the magic in the last 5%. AI can handle 95% of the grind work - even for an S-1 IPO Prospectus. According to Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, this massive document used to take a six-person team multiple weeks to produce. Now, Generative AI can draft 95% of an S-1 IPO prospectus [...]

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