Mastering AI with the experts
Mastering AI with the experts
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Welcome to "Mastering AI with the Experts," a comprehensive series where we delve into the vast and evolving world of artificial intelligence. This playlist brings together thought leaders, innovators, and top experts from various fields to explore the impact of AI across industries. From cutting-edge technologies to practical applications, we cover the past, present, and future of AI, providing you with insights and knowledge to stay ahead in this rapidly changing landscape.
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The podcast focuses on the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, with episodes covering AI maturity assessment, customer service enhancements through AI, and the impact of AI on sales processes, emphasizing practical applications and expert experiences.
AI Frontier Playbook exists because the real conversations about enterprise AI deserve to be heard. The guests here are the practitioners, researchers, and executives actually making decisions inside organizations, not summarizing trends from the sidelines. Every episode is a front-row seat to how AI is reshaping work, leadership, and business strategy in real time.
Whether you are leading an AI initiative, advising your organization, or just trying to cut through the noise, this is your space to think clearly, lead confidently, and stay ahead.
Why does AI adoption fail in business? In this episode of The AI Frontier Playbook, an AI podcast for enterprise leaders, I sit down with Stacey Mulcahy, Senior Director of the Microsoft Garage, to break down the real AI adoption challenges companies face and how Microsoft solves them with curiosity, hackathons, and hands-on AI skilling.
Stacey leads the team behind the Microsoft Global Hackathon and the Skill Up AI program, engaging over 70,000 employees in grassroots AI learning and employee enablement across the company.
We go deep on why formal learning paths are not enough, why curiosity and exploration drive real behavior change, and what Stacey calls the grok moment: the point where AI stops being a search engine and starts changing how you work. She also shares why leadership modeling makes or breaks adoption, how she runs learning in the open by streaming her own experiments, and why the GitHub Copilot CLI has completely changed her daily workflow.
You’ll learn:
- Why AI adoption gets stuck even when the tools and programs are good
- How to create the grok moment that turns skeptics into adopters
- Why leadership modeling matters more than any champion program
- What community skilling looks like and why learning with others beats learning alone
- How creativity and play outperform productivity use cases as an entry point to AI
- Why durable skills like adaptability, delegation, and taste matter more than tool knowledge
- How Stacey uses the GitHub Copilot CLI, custom agents, and MCP integrations to run her day
- What the future of work looks like when everyone manages a team of agents
Whether you are a leader driving AI transformation in your organization or an individual contributor trying to build AI literacy on your team, this episode gives you a practical playbook for making adoption actually stick.
📌 Resources & Links
Stacey Mulcahy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceymakes/
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