Arete Coach 1218 Severin Sorensen "Reimagining and Bridge Building"

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode of the Arete Coach Podcast, host Severin Sorensen—executive coach, bestselling author of The AI Whisperer series, and curator of the Arete Coach Podcast—presents a solo discussion on the accelerating rise of artificial intelligence and its implications for leaders, workers, and society at large. Recorded on September 28, 2025, via Zoom, the episode titled “Reimagining and Bridge Building” explores the frameworks behind Sorensen’s two newest books: The Great Reimagining and Building Tomorrow.

With decades of leadership coaching experience and a reputation as a forward-thinking strategist, Severin Sorensen brings deep perspective and actionable vision to this pivotal moment in history through two new books:

The Great Reimagining: A blueprint for navigating AI-driven disruption through balanced taxation of AI profits, Workfare 2.0 income supports, sovereign AI investment funds, and “The Solomon Solution”—a surplus-sharing framework designed to prevent the polarization of “makers vs. takers.”
Building Tomorrow: A guide for youth, parents, and educators that frames 30 enduring “hard problems” in areas such as water scarcity, cybersecurity, quantum computing, and environmental stewardship. Written for STEAM-oriented learners, the book encourages the next generation to become problem-solvers in an AI-augmented future.
Thought leadership: Sorensen has recently published academic work on agentic AI, led large-scale workshops with executives and Vistage Chairs, and integrated the latest generative AI applications into business strategy and executive coaching practices.

Key Insights for Executive-Level Coaches

AI acceleration and agency: 2025 has seen the dawn of agentic AI—models capable of recursive self-improvement and behaviors that mimic consciousness, raising new opportunities and responsibilities for leaders.
Bridging disruption with design: The “bridge model” reframes AI disruption not as inevitable collapse, but as a design challenge requiring intentional policy, economic, and community-building responses.
Work with purpose: Sorensen stresses that while paychecks matter, meaning, identity, and community remain paramount. Coaches must help clients navigate grief, displacement, and reinvention with dignity.
No one crosses alone: Communities of reinvention—peer circles, guilds, and city hubs—are vital in turning disruption into belonging and shared growth.
The builder’s mindset: The future is not something that happens to us but something we co-create. Leaders, policymakers, and coaches must “grab a plank” and build the bridge toward flourishing.

The Arete Coach Podcast continues to explore the art and science of executive coaching at the highest levels. You can find more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.

This episode was recorded on September 28, 2025.

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0:00.0	the Artycoach podcast with Severin Soren Soren Sorensson, the host of the articoach podcast and author of
0:05.6	the bestselling, the AI Whisper series and two new books, The Great Reimagining and Building Tomorrow.
0:13.0	Reimagining our future and building bridges are the themes for this episode.
0:18.0	This episode is recorded on September 28, 2025 via Zoom video. You are listening to
0:24.9	Severin Soren Sorensson, executive coaching curator of the Art of Coach podcast, where we explore
0:30.2	excellence in the art and science of executive coaching. Today is a special episode. Think of it
0:36.2	as a brainstorm and pondering session where we focus on what's happening today, the great changes afoot with AI, and the fear and doom loop that is spinning now in society.
0:47.3	Yes, AI is accelerating, but this is a good thing that does not pretend the end of the world, but perhaps the end of the world as we know it,
0:55.7	to borrow a line from a favorite song. I'm your host, Severin Soren Sorenson, and I'll be the
1:01.1	discussion for this podcast episode, as I have much to catch you up on. Looking back at my history
1:07.5	and things going on, it's been a while since we've published our episode. Our last
1:12.3	episode of the podcast was on July 5th, and that was episode 1217 with Stephen, Brian Longer,
1:19.1	designing your future, a blueprint for life. We're going to be talking about how we designed
1:24.5	blueprints for our own life as we move forward.
1:28.3	I've been quite busy this summer, and that's why I've pushed off creation of an episode or two.
1:35.3	I've got half a dozen that are ready to go, but I've been focused on what's happening right now in our society.
1:42.3	What I see happening, several things. AI has progressed
1:47.1	many times over since the time that I began looking at AI. What was the AI that I started with back in
1:56.2	December of 2022 changed by April of 23 into 40. Then 40 was actually retired. Beyond thinking about AI,
2:08.1	this notion that what we have right now is a time of great change. AI has accelerated. In January of this year, January of 2025, I had just finished
2:21.6	writing what was my latest book at that time, which was the AI Whisper Frameworks. I viewed that
2:26.8	as basically AI Tool One, how to really go deep with your work once you've had an opportunity
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