AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
Kanaal Besonderhede
AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs
"AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs", with host Susan Diaz, helps you integrate artificial intelligence into your business operations. We'll help you understand and apply AI generative in a way that is accessible and actionable for entrepreneurs at all levels. With each episode, you'll gain practical ins...
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273 episodes
EP 274 The Human OS - AI Adoption With Curiosity, Safety, and Monday Ease ft. Melissa Penton
In the final episode of the Podcast-to-Book series, host Susan Diaz sits down with change leader and AI education lead Melissa Penton (Sun Life) for a...
273 - Future-proofing your organization through continuing AI literacy
Most companies do a few AI trainings, run some pilots, and then stall. In this episode, host Susan Diaz argues the only real future-proofing strategy...
EP 272 - Mindset, Sales, and AI That Actually Helps with Gazzy Amin
Host Susan Diaz sits down with sales strategist Gazzy Amin, founder of Sales Beyond Scripts, to talk about the real ways AI is changing revenue, plann...
EP 271 - How to Quantify AI ROI Beyond 'Time Saved'
If you're measuring AI success by "hours saved" you're playing the easiest game in the room. In this episode, Host Susan Diaz explains why time saved...
EP 270 - From AI Awareness → AI Readiness → AI Adoption with Jennifer Hufnagel
Host Susan Diaz sits down with Jennifer Hufnagel (Hufnagel Consulting), an AI educator and AI readiness consultant who's trained 4K+ people. They brea...
EP 269 - Why One-Off AI Training Fails (and What to Do Instead)
If your organization ran an "AI 101" lunch-and-learn… and nothing changed after, this episode is for you. Host Susan Diaz explains why one-off worksho...
EP 268 Women, AI, and 'Hold the Door' Leadership with Chris McMartin
Host Susan Diaz is joined by Chris McMartin, National Lead for the Scotiabank Women Initiative (Business Banking), for a real-world conversation about...
EP 267 Does AI Make you More or Less Creative? (Paintbrush vs Photocopier)
AI can feel like a creativity cheat code… or like the death of originality. In this short, punchy solo episode, Susan argues the truth is simpler: AI...
EP 266 - Literacy, Leadership, and the 'AI for the Sake of AI' Trap with Shona Boyd
Host Susan Diaz is joined by Shona Boyd, a product manager at Mitratech, a SaaS company, and a proudly AI-curious early adopter, for a grounded conver...
265 Buying AI vs Building AI - A Leader's Decision Guide
Most teams are stuck in tool obsession: "Should we build agents?" "Should we buy this AI platform?" In this solo, workshop-style episode, host Susan D...
EP 264 How AI Changed Marketing with Suzanne Huber
Host Susan Diaz sits down with her business buddy and go-to-market consultant Suzanne Huber to talk about what AI has actually changed in marketing. T...
EP 263 AI is the App. Culture is the OS.
AI doesn't fail in organizations because the tools are bad. It fails because culture is glitchy. In this solo episode, host Susan Diaz explains why AI...
EP 262 Women, AI, and the Invisible Load (with Heather Cannings)
Why are women adopting AI at lower rates than men - and what's really going on underneath the stats? In this episode, host Susan Diaz and Heather Cann...
EP 261 The Four AI Cliff Archetypes
Some AI projects in your organization feel weirdly easy. Others feel impossible. In this solo workshop-style episode, host Susan Diaz introduces the F...
EP 260 Human-First in an AI-Forward World with Helen Patterson
What does it really mean to build an AI-forward company that is still deeply human-first? In this episode, host Susan Diaz and senior HR leader and me...
EP 259 What Is an AI Flywheel? (And Why your Pilots Stall)
Most leaders talk about AI in terms of pilots, projects, and one-off tools. In this solo episode, host Susan Diaz explains why that mindset stalls ado...
EP 258 AI, Scale, and Outcome-Over-Output Leadership (with Kirsten Schmidtke)
What does modern sales leadership look like when AI is in the mix? In this episode, host Susan Diaz and sales leadership coach Kirsten Schmidtke unpac...
EP 257 What My 30-Episode Sprint Is Teaching Me About AI, Energy, and Experimenting in Public
Midway through a 30-episodes-in-30-days podcast-to-book sprint, host Susan Diaz gets honest about what's working, what's hard, and how she's actually...
EP 256 From Secret Power Users to Visible AI Champions
In every organization there's at least one person quietly doing wild things with AI - working faster, thinking bigger, and building their own personal...
EP 255 How to Run an AI Audit in your Organization (Without Boiling the Ocean)
Most leaders have no clear, single picture of how AI is actually being used inside their organization. In this solo episode, host Susan Diaz walks thr...
EP254 Should You Build Custom GPTs or Just Prompt Better
Should you build custom GPTs, agents, digital interns, Gems, and artefacts… or just learn to prompt better? In this roundtable, Susan, social media +...
EP 253 Swan Dive Backwards (The Story and Framework Behind the Book)
You may have heard host Susan Diaz say she "swan dove backwards off the cliff into AI". In this episode, she unpacks what that actually means, how it...
EP252 Turning Prompts into Real AI Workflows with Jason Dea
Many teams have a Notion page full of prompts. Very few have real, repeatable AI workflows. In this episode, host Susan Diaz and product/go-to-market...
EP251 The AI Literacy Divide is Why your AI Adoption is Stalling
Most enterprises don't have an AI problem. They have a literacy problem. In this episode, host Susan Diaz breaks down the "AI literacy divide" inside...
EP 250 - The Hidden Cost of Experiment-Only AI Literacy
Lots of teams are playing with AI. Few are documenting, sharing, or governing what actually happens. In this episode, Susan unpacks the hidden cost of...
EP249 The Podcast-to-Book with AI Challenge (Day 1 of 30)
What if you didn't have to disappear into a cabin for a year to write a meaningful book on AI? In this episode, host Susan Diaz kicks off a 30-day pod...
EP248 AI for Sales Enablement at Founder Scale (without sounding robotic)
Founder-led teams can use AI to run effective, specific outreach - without sounding robotic. In this episode of 'AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs', I sha...
EP247 Data, Docs, and your AI Knowledge Base - the 4-Folder System that Makes AI Work
"AI can't use what you haven't organized." In this solo teaching episode, host Susan Diaz lays out a lightweight, repeatable structure for an internal...
EP246 From AI Literacy To Implementation That Ships (Introducing Northlight)
Episode summary
Three different leaders told me the same thing last quarter: "We tried AI. It felt cool. It didn't change any results." Northlig...
EP 245 AI Meets DEI - Building Inclusive Workplaces in the Age of Automation with Gabby Zuniga
How do diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) goals evolve in a world being rapidly reshaped by AI?
In this episode, I sit down with Gabby Zunig...
EP244 Getting Found on AI (and Why SEO Foundations Still Matter) with Andrew Jenkins
AI search is here. People are using ChatGPT and other tools to discover businesses - but my guest today on the podcast, Andrew Jenkins shows why the f...
EP243 Canva, AI, and the Future of Design for Non-Designers with Emily Baillie
In this episode of AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs, I sit down with Emily Baillie, founder of Compass Content Marketing and longtime digital marketing s...
EP242 Prototype > Perfection - Deborah Carraro on Learning AI by Doing
This episode dives into the evolving space where entrepreneurship, education, and AI collide. Host Susan Diaz sits down with Deborah Carraro, an educa...
EP241 Winning Mindset in the Age of AI with Melissa Lloyd
In this episode, Melissa Lloyd, founder of Aigility Hub, joins host Susan Diaz to explore the mindset-first approach to adopting AI. We unpack why too...
EP240 Why your Custom GPT Won’t Work (and the 48-Hour Rescue Mission)
Ready to stop cursing at that under-performing GPT (that you lovingly built - only to watch it spit out meh)? In this short episode, host Susan Diaz b...
EP 239 How 3 founders use AI to think 100x
In this week's 'AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs' I tap three founders who turned very human skill-sets - strategy, street-level video, personal style -...
EP238 Success, Space and Systems-Rebel Energy (with Bárbara Daroca)
'AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs' gets a role-reversal this week: host Susan is in the hot-seat, guesting on Bárbara Daroca's Hello, Success! Podcast a...
EP237 AI for Impact - Jesse Clarke on Grant Writing, Equity and Smarter Funding
In this episode of 'AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs', Susan Diaz chats with Jesse Clarke - founder of JN Clarke Consulting and a strategic advisor to no...
EP237 AI for Impact - Jesse Clarke on Grant Writing, Equity and Smarter Funding
In this episode of 'AI Literacy for Entrepreneurs', Susan Diaz chats with Jesse Clarke - founder of JN Clarke Consulting and a strategic advisor to no...
EP236 The Soul of Strategy - Human-Centered Growth in a Tech-Driven World with Liat Horovitz
In this heartfelt and thought-provoking conversation, host Susan Diaz sits down with Liat Horovitz - results coach, founder of Revival Retreats, and h...