Illustration by Eliot Wyatt
Emmett, the chief information officer, had just finished presenting the company’s new AI roadmap to the executive team. It was technically sound, carefully sequenced, and entirely his. Sara, the company’s CHRO, learned about it in the meeting—along with everyone else. She raised immediate questions for Emmett about workforce impact, reskilling timelines, and how HR would absorb the changes. He had answers, but she didn’t agree with some of them, and others seemed completely out of touch with how talent development really worked.
