323: He Advises Fortune 1000 Companies: Why Your AI Rollout Isn't Producing Results | Dr. Soren Kaplan

Release Date: 

August 18, 2026

Release Date: Aug 18

8 in 10 AI rollouts go the same way: high hopes and minimal results.

Dr. Soren Kaplan, organizational psychologist and author of 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, has advised more than 30 Fortune 1000 companies and seen why AI adoption fails — it starts with people, not the technology.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Where most companies go wrong with AI adoption
  • What experiential intelligence is and why it matters
  • How to rebuild the strategic skills AI is quietly eroding
  • Why even good AI experiments don't scale
  • How to turn experimentation into real results
  • The three abilities that separate leaders in an AI world

In This Episode:

  • (00:00) Introduction
  • (00:49) Impact on Future Leaders
  • (02:43) Experiential Intelligence
  • (04:19) Innovation Outside AI
  • (06:05) Why You're Losing Skills
  • (08:33) Build Skills Through Real Work
  • (11:20) The Ford Keynote
  • (18:05) Why Companies Don’t Get Results
  • (19:47) AI Adoption & Innovation
  • (21:46) Fractured Adoption
  • (24:27) What Leaders Can Do
  • (28:52) The Three Abilities
  • (31:20) What to Hand Off & What to Keep
  • (33:07) Develop Experiential Intelligence
  • (38:21) Using It to Your Advantage
  • (42:38) Vulnerability, Risk & Failure
  • (47:15) Your Challenge

About Dr. Soren Kaplan:

Dr. Soren Kaplan helps leaders make sense of disruption. And act on it.

A Wall Street Journal bestselling author, organizational psychologist, and innovation expert, he translates fast-moving shifts in business, technology, and society into clear strategic insight and practical action. He doesn’t just explain what’s changing. He shows leaders exactly what to do next.

Soren brings three decades of work with organizations across industries — including Disney, JPMorganChase, PepsiCo, Colgate, Visa, Medtronic, Nucor, and Ascension — and leads executive education programs at USC’s Center for Effective Organizations. He has written multiple award-winning books, contributes to Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, and Psychology Today, and has built numerous AI-powered businesses including SmartCoach365.com.

Thinkers50 and Business Insider recognize him as one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants. He speaks on leadership, innovation, AI, organizational culture, and strategic change, always through the lens of what’s happening right now and what it means for the people and organizations navigating it.

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