What's the truth about AI?
The CEO Transformation in the Age of AI
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
3:00 PM CET
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This week I want to put a question on the table that took me twenty years to ask honestly: who in your life actually tells you the truth?
Not the polite truth. The real one. The one with no agenda behind it.
Here's the structural problem of being CEO: the higher you go, the less truth reaches you.
Your team filters it. They have a stake in you being okay with what they tell you. They report to you, and their incentive is to soften the edges.
Your investors filter it. They want the story to make sense.
Your family filters it because they love you and don't want to add to your stress.
Your friends filter it because they're not in the room.
By the time information reaches your desk, it's been polished, softened, and reframed, sometimes deliberately, more often unconsciously. And you're making decisions on that filtered version.
This is why every CEO I've coached needs the same thing: a person with no agenda. Not a friend. Not a team member. Not an investor. Someone whose only job is to help you face what's actually true and act on it.
That person isn't a luxury. They're the structural piece most CEO operating systems are missing. The decision is yours. The execution is yours. But the clarity, the unfiltered view of what's really happening, almost always comes from outside.
And here's the truth I want to put on the table today:
The biggest unspoken truth in business right now is AI.
Most CEOs are quietly anxious about it. They're pretending they have a handle on it. They're hoping the right answer will become obvious. It won't.
This is exactly the kind of truth that doesn't get faced alone. It gets faced in conversation, with people who can name what most are still avoiding.
That's why next Tuesday, May 19, I'm running The CEO Transformation in the Age of AI. Live, with other CEOs, working through the truth most are postponing.
If AI has been the unfaced truth in your business, this is the room.
Your challenge this week:
Identify the three people in your life who can tell you the truth without an agenda. Not three people you talk to, three people who will say the hard thing.
If you can't name three, that's the work.
