AI Ambition: Balancing Innovation with Trust, Connection and Human Relationships w/McKinsey NA CHRO Wendy Miller

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Send us Fan Mail Here’s the deal - AI promises a lot. Efficiency, productivity, transformation. Every week, something new. But work also runs on things like trust, connection, and human relationships. So the real question isn’t just how fast we adopt AI - it’s how we balance ambition with reality, timelines, people, and humanity. In this episode, we sit down with Wendy Miller , Chief HR Officer for North America at McKinsey & Company , to talk about what balancing AI ambition and reality actually looks like on the ground. Wendy gets candid about the chaos, the learning curves, and what it really takes for leaders and teams to adapt without losing their footing - or their people. We dig into the rewiring of organizations, the blind spots most execs miss, and why the real edge in the AI era isn’t speed - it’s humanity.

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