Why Your Next Leadership Training Might Include "How to Care"

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Welcome to the part of the AI transformation no one puts in the pitch deck. While everyone else is busy deploying agents and optimizing workflows, a leadership expert just launched a movement with a wild premise: what if the most valuable thing leaders can do in the age of AI is become more human, not less?

Stay with me, because this connects directly to why 95% of your enterprise AI pilots are failing (spoiler: it's not the technology).

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The Leadership Paradox No One's Talking About

Scott Doggett, founder of the National Academy of Leadership Development, just launched The Priceless Leadership Movement with a thesis that sounds obvious, but requires reminders: AI can process information faster than humans, but it cannot provide care, create belonging, or model compassion.

His timing is impeccable. Right as Salesforce, Oracle, and every other enterprise vendor floods your inbox with AI agent demos, Doggett is asking the uncomfortable question: what happens to organizational culture when leaders start managing through algorithms instead of actual relationships?

The Priceless Leadership Model operates on three dimensions.

1. Head (wisdom, vision, discernment)

2. Heart (empathy, humility, integrity)

3. Hands (service, empowerment, action).

The model helps leaders blend strategy with humanity by using technology to elevate people rather than replace them.

Here's where this gets practical. Your organization is probably spending millions on AI infrastructure right now. Data centers, model licenses, agent platforms, the works. But if your leadership team can't articulate why you're doing this beyond "efficiency gains" and "cost reduction," you're setting yourself up for spectacular failure.

Skills like empathy, discernment, humility, and creativity are becoming the new leadership currency as technology takes over more transactional work.

Translation: as AI handles the tactical stuff, leaders must grow in the transformational work of seeing people, building trust, and helping others flourish.

The movement isn't anti-technology. Doggett demonstrated how AI coaching tools can help leaders reflect and grow in real time, showing how technology and humanity can collaborate rather than compete. He partnered with iLX Studios to build an AI coach live on stage that prompts leaders to examine their tone, timing, and empathy after tough meetings. That's the kind of AI implementation that actually complements human leadership rather than replacing it.

The enterprise implication here is stark. You can't automate culture. You can't agent your way to employee engagement. And you definitely can't dashboard your way to the kind of organizational resilience that actually matters during disruption.

So while you're evaluating which agentic AI platform to deploy, maybe also ask: are we building leaders who can navigate the very human challenges that come with massive technological change? Because your AI strategy will only be as good as the leadership team implementing it.

AI Headlines

1. Salesforce Goes All-In on Agents (Again)
   Salesforce unveiled Agentforce 360 ahead of its Dreamforce conference, featuring a new Agent Script tool for flexible programming, Agentforce Builder for testing and deployment, and deeper Slack integration. The company claims 12,000 customers, significantly more than competitors.
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2. Bloomberg Tech Sounds the Bubble Alarm
   The October 14 Bloomberg Tech episode highlighted growing AI bubble concerns according to a Bank of America survey, alongside rising trade tensions between China, the US, and Europe. When mainstream financial media starts using the B-word, procurement teams tend to get nervous.
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3. Oracle Brings Quantum-Proofing to the Database
   Oracle announced AI Database 26ai, which architects AI into the core of data management and implements quantum-resistant encryption algorithms for data-in-flight, combined with existing quantum-resistant encryption for data-at-rest. The release includes agentic AI built into the database with a no-code visual platform featuring pre-built agents.
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TL;DR:

• The Priceless Leadership Movement argues that empathy, discernment, and creativity become more valuable as AI handles transactional work.

• Salesforce's Agentforce 360 adds flexible agent programming and deeper Slack integration, but customer success depends on leadership execution.

• Oracle's quantum-resistant encryption addresses a threat most enterprises aren't even thinking about yet.

• The best AI implementations augment human capability rather than attempting to replace human judgment and connection.

The Bottom Line

Here's the uncomfortable truth: your AI strategy is only as strong as your leadership team's ability to manage the very human consequences of automation. You can deploy all the agents you want, but if your leaders can't articulate why people matter more than metrics, you're just automating your way to a culture crisis.

The technology is the easy part. The hard part is building organizations where humans feel valued enough to do their best work alongside the machines. That requires leaders who can see people as priceless, not just as resources to optimize.

Stay sharp,

Cat Valverde
Founder, Enterprise AI Solutions
Navigating Tomorrow's Tech Landscape Together