738: How to Partner Well with AI, with Faisal Hoque
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Faisal Hoque is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator and founder of SHADOKA and NextChapter. He is a three-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the books: Reinvent, Everything Connects, and Lift. He has just released his newest book: Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI*.
The most compelling use cases for AI aren’t people OR AI – it’s both. Leaders who learn how to partner with AI will almost certainly open doors that many others don’t. In this episode, Faisal and I explore (a few steps on) how to get started.
Key Points
While we think about working with AI as very different than working with people, similar mindsets and skillsets help us with both.
Partnering will with AI means asking better questions and being genuinely interested in the answers.
Experts are limited by their perspective. Beginners are open to possibilities. We should approach AI with a beginner’s mindset.
Using AI well means getting more comfortable with uncertainty. We need to own our ignorance.
Playful discovery helps with our intrinsic motivation to keep going. When using AI, find the fun that keeps you engaged.
This technology will do the logical work far better than any human. To partner well, work to increase your emotional intelligence.
Resources Mentioned
Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI by Faisal Hoque
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| 0:00.0 | The most compelling use cases for AI aren't people or AI. It's both. |
| 0:08.2 | Leaders who learn how to partner with AI will almost certainly open doors that many others don't. |
| 0:14.7 | In this episode, a few steps on how to get started. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Coaching for Leaders, Episode 738. |
| 0:23.2 | Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:31.5 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahofiak. Leaders aren't |
| 0:40.8 | born. They're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful |
| 0:46.9 | conversations. Boy, a conversation that I've been having a lot with folks, and I know that you have, too, |
| 0:53.4 | is a conversation about AI, many |
| 0:55.8 | conversations about AI. |
| 0:57.7 | How do we use it well? |
| 0:59.8 | How do we partner with AI? |
| 1:01.6 | How do we bring the new technology into organizations? |
| 1:04.5 | And perhaps most importantly, how do we think about it in new ways? |
| 1:10.5 | The technology is changing faster than I think any of us can keep track of. |
| 1:15.3 | And the mindset, the principles for how we work with AI are going to shape so much of our work as leaders going forward. |
| 1:22.4 | Today, I'm so pleased to welcome a guest expert who's going to help us to be able to think about partnering well |
| 1:28.6 | with AI as we move forward as the technology changes. I'm so pleased to welcome Faisal Hawk to the |
| 1:35.8 | show. He is an award-winning entrepreneur and innovator and founder of Shodoka and Next Chapter. |
| 1:41.6 | He is a three-time Wall Street Journal best-selling author of the books, Reinvent, Everything |
| 1:47.5 | Connects, and Lift. |
| 1:49.4 | He has just released his newest book, Transcend, Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI. |
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