AI Is the Ultimate Leadership Test

For years, CEOs were expected to project certainty; clear answers, steady forecasts, a consistent story for markets and teams. That expectation hasn’t disappeared. But in today’s environment, shaped by AI-driven speed and complexity, how leaders sustain trust has never been more important.

In her latest piece in the Financial Times Agenda, our Taylor Griffin argues that AI is less a technology challenge than a leadership one. As decision cycles compress and ambiguity increases, trust is built through clarity of judgment: setting guardrails, making learning visible, and anchoring decisions in principles that hold as conditions shift.