We talk a lot about the future of work. We talk a lot about where things are headed from a reactive perspective.

When you talk about it that way, you're resigning and saying, I hope that whoever builds that future,

that there's a good place for me and my organization in it. So instead I say, no, we're at a moment in time

where we all know there's this inflection point where we need to make some

strategic decisions. So what is the future that you want to be and what future of work do you

want to build for yourself in your organization or your department? And then what would have

to be true for you to be able to do that? Hello and welcome to the Geekwire podcast.

I am Geekwire co-founder, Todd Bishop, and we are coming to you this week from El

Goucho Restaurant in Bellevue,

Washington. This is Geekwire's Agents of Transformation Series. We're hosting it in partnership

with Accenture, and I'm very pleased to welcome here for this dinner audience of Exensure and Microsoft

executives, Brian Evergreen. Brian, it's great to have you here.

Thank you.

It's great to be here.

Brian Evergreen is a strategist, author, and technology executive who spent his career at the intersection of AI and organizational leadership,

including stints at Accenture and AWS and Microsoft.

I want to talk about your experiences at those companies later on, Brian.

Microsoft, you served as USAI Strategy Lead and later ran Autonomous AI Co-Innovation in Microsoft Research.

He wrote the book, Autonomous Transformation, Creating a More Human Future in the Era of AI, which will form

the basis for much of our conversation tonight.

And the thing that makes his perspective in the book especially interesting right now is

that you actually wrote this before ChatGPT launched.

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