AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™

AI for the C Suite with Chad Harvey™ is the middle market leader’s guide to navigating the world of Artificial Intelligence. Join host Chad Harvey for engaging discussions and actionable insight to help you thrive during this exciting era.

AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™ is a business podcast hosted by Chad Harvey, with 78 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Chad Harvey hosts AI For the C Suite with Chad Harvey™, a business show with 78 episodes published.

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  Episode #77

  Fossils in the Language: What AI Vocabulary Tells You That Your Dashboard Won't | AI For The C-Suite EP 77

  Aug 17, 202615 min

  Every general purpose technology rewrites the dictionary on its way to becoming invisible. Steam gave us "let off steam" and "sidetracked." Electricity reshaped how we talk about power. AI is doing the same thing right now, and if you know what to listen for, the vocabulary is one of the most honest signals you have about where this technology actually stands. This episode is built around a three-part framework. First, how language rewriting works: the difference between lexical creation (a new word for a new thing) and semantic reallocation (stretching an old word over something new), and why that distinction has strategic value. Second, why borrowed words are dangerous: when "hallucination" frames a design characteristic as a medical defect, when "cloud" sounds weightless and ambient while describing a contract with an egress fee nobody reads, and when "fine tuning" makes a costly, time-intensive ML process sound like tightening a carburetor, you get decisions shaped by the wrong mental model. Third, what your own hallways are telling you: the language your team invents organically for AI work is one of the most reliable adoption metrics available, and unlike a commissioned survey, you can take that reading yourself this week for free. Chad closes with three moves you can run on a Monday: take the reading, press the borrowed words for numbers, and build a ten-word internal glossary. If nobody on your team has coined any AI shorthand after two weeks, that's your adoption number, and it's probably more accurate than whatever is on the dashboard. For middle market leaders running 50 to 500 people, this is a practical lens that costs nothing and pays off in sharper AI conversations immediately. AI For the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. Join the AI for the C Suite community today: https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

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  Episode #76

  Why Developers Are AI's Canary in the Coal Mine | AI For The C-Suite EP 76

  Aug 10, 20261h 14m

  Chad Harvey sits down with Sean Campbell, CEO of Cascade Insights and AI integration lead for the George Fox University MBA program, to explore what three decades of watching technology adoption teaches us about AI today. They cover why Sean started teaching AI because he doesn't want students to get "run over," why developers are an early warning sign for every analytical profession, why judgment and delegation skills are so hard to teach, AI's unresolved "original sin" around copyright, and why the next generation of entrepreneurs might build companies solo — with AI as their only teammate. Sean Campbell on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seancampbell/ Cascade Insights: https://www.cascadeinsights.com/ Full episode: https://youtu.be/BLbolFXOqSA AI For The C-Suite: https://aiforthecsuite.com/

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  Episode #75

  McGruberland: When AI-Enabled Stretch Work Outpaces Your Review Structure | AI For The C-Suite EP 75

  Aug 3, 202611 min

  OpenAI's Work at the Frontier report analyzed over 800,000 work-related messages from U.S. business users and found that 43% of occupation-specific AI tasks were performed by someone outside that occupation. For customer experience teams, that number hit 77%. For HR, 69%. For legal, 56%. The data tells a direction worth paying attention to. Three categories of work travel the furthest: money, systems, and messaging. Your salespeople are running margin math. Your service manager is debugging an integration at 6 AM. Your operations lead is building a business case without a finance review. None of this is new behavior in a mid-market organization. What is new is that the output no longer looks like a draft. It comes back formatted, confident, and ready to paste into a board deck. That's the problem. A draft that looks finished and a draft that's actually correct are two very different things. The constraint didn't go away. It stopped being visible. In this episode, Chad unpacks the research, connects it directly to how middle-market companies are organized, and lays out three practical moves any operator can make this week: run a ten-minute discovery session with your functional heads, put a name on your two highest-consequence review gaps, and rewrite one job description to match what that person actually does. No policy document required. Every executive is being told AI changes everything. Fewer are being given a place to work out what that actually means for their organization. AI for the C Suite® is a continuous learning and application experience that unites, elevates, and equips leaders navigating the Exponential Age. Join us: https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #ai4cs

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  Episode #74

  Single-Player vs. Multiplayer AI: Why Most Companies Are Getting AI Wrong | AI For The C-Suite EP 74

  Jul 27, 20261h 2m

  Justin Watt, co-founder of Switchboard, joins Chad Harvey to explore why most AI initiatives fail — not because of the AI, but because of messy data, undocumented processes, and single-player thinking applied to multiplayer business problems. Justin shares his path from IBM to Metalab (Slack's design studio) to building custom internal AI systems for growing companies, and lays out a clear framework for what AI-readiness actually requires: culture before technology. Switchboard — https://www.withswitchboard.com/ AI for the C-Suite — https://aiforthecsuite.com/

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  Episode #73

  Train Procedure, Not Perception: Three Controls for AI-Enabled Fraud | AI For The C-Suite EP 73

  Jul 20, 202611 min

  The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center logged more than one million complaints in 2025 for the first time in the program's 25-year history. Reported losses came in just under $21 billion, up roughly 25% year over year. Business email compromise alone accounted for over $3 billion — making it the most financially destructive threat category aimed specifically at organizations. And for the first time, the IC3 report carved out a dedicated section for AI-related crime. This isn't a story about Fortune 500 targets. A large company has a fraud team, a security operations center, and dedicated identity verification vendors. Your 150-person company has a controller, an office manager who also handles HR, and an outside IT provider you call when something breaks. The attackers are the same. The tools are the same. The asymmetry is the point. In this episode, Chad walks through three operational controls built for the middle market: verifying any payment or account-change request outside the channel it arrived on, replacing one-time authentication codes with passkeys and FIDO2 authentication, and shifting your team's training from spotting a fake to following a procedure — regardless of how convincing the request looks. The third control is the one most organizations skip, and it's the one that matters most now that AI has made every signal your team was trained to trust trivially easy to fake. You'll leave with three concrete actions you can assign tomorrow afternoon: a one-page callback rule, one question for your IT provider, and a call to your bank's fraud desk before you ever need it. AI for the C Suite™ podcast keeps C-Suite leaders informed and engaged in the world of AI for business. If you're a CEO, President, Owner, or C-suite leader looking to understand how AI will impact your organization, you've found the right podcast. https://aiforthecsuite.com/ #chadharvey #aiforthecsuite #aic

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