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Rising Tides Live – How Do We Build Better Leaders in the AI Era?

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Interview Takeaways

  • AI Should Strengthen Leadership, Not Replace It – AI can provide information, automate tasks, and improve efficiency, but it cannot build trust or inspire a team. Strong leadership still depends on human connection, empathy, and communication.
  • Use AI to Develop Better Leaders – AI can help emerging leaders prepare for difficult conversations, learn faster, understand team members, and make more confident decisions without always relying on someone above them for answers.
  • Turn Saved Time Into Human Connection – The value of AI is not simply getting more work done faster. Leaders can use the time AI saves to coach their teams, strengthen relationships, recognize employees, and create a better workplace culture.

Iano Dovi led this Rising Tides Live conversation focused on building better leaders in the AI era, where restaurant operators, entrepreneurs, and hospitality leaders shared how technology is changing what leadership looks like. The discussion centered on using AI to make teams more efficient without losing the human connection, strengthening interpersonal skills and empathy, and giving emerging leaders the tools and confidence to make better decisions. From adapting communication to individual employees and challenging AI to push back on ideas to creating clearer goals and more personalized training, the group agreed that AI does not replace leadership. It raises the standard for how leaders show up, build trust, and connect with their teams.

Listen to the replay of the latest room where the participants discussed community service and follow Cali BBQ Media to keep up with the latest and join the rooms to tell your story and have your voice heard.

Every Wednesday and Friday at 10am PT, Shawn Walchef hosts the Rising Tides Live room streaming with StreamYard on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. Leading voices in hospitality, and otherwise, from near and far join to discuss all things business and much more.

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Digital Hospitality is an interview-based video podcast hosted by business owner Shawn P. Walchef (@shawnpwalchef) and produced by his Cali BBQ Media company. The weekly digital series explores the ways successful businesses and entrepreneurs have merged old and new with innovative digital strategies that harness the power of the Internet and social media. Shawn is the founder of Cali BBQ Media and creator of the Restaurant Influencers podcast on Entrepreneur Media.

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