Episode 14 – Leadership in the AI Era with Ruby Agarwal (VP Cloud Platform & Operations @ Avaya)

The game has permanently changed. AI isn’t coming for your job tomorrow; it’s already rewriting the operating system of every security and technology organization today. In this no-BS episode, Tony UV sits down with Ruby Agarwal to separate leadership theater from what actually works when LLMs, automation, and agentic workflows are collapsing timelines that used to take years into weeks.

We get real about:

• Why the old “I’ve got all the answers” CISO/CIO playbook is now a liability
• Moving from control-freak management to radical curiosity and productive discomfort
• How to build actual AI fluency in your teams without turning everyone into a prompt engineer
• Redefining performance when AI eats 70% of the repetitive work SecOps used to own
• Why ethical guardrails aren’t a “nice-to-have” compliance checkbox; they’re your last line of defense against career-ending mistakes
• The hard conversations leaders must have when roles inevitably morph or disappear
• Three dead-simple moves you can execute this week to stop lagging and start leading the AI wave

If you’re a security leader who’s tired of generic “embrace change” platitudes and wants battle-tested tactics for thriving in the chaos, this is the episode you’ve been waiting for.

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