This episode tackles the ultimate leadership challenge: achieving next-level performance across profit, people, AND purpose without trading one off against the others. How do you turn AI vision into daily execution? What's the minimum viable AI roadmap that delivers value in 90 days? And how do you coach teams through transformation while maintaining speed and accountability?

Guest:

Greg Mester, co-author of "The Change, Vol. 20" and upcoming author of "Get to the Next Level" (2025/26). As an experienced Agile Coach and Program Manager, Greg helps companies break through blockers and accelerate performance using proven PMP, Scrum, and Agile frameworks across IT, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and finance.

Key Takeaways:

• The minimum viable AI roadmap that produces value in 90 days

• Leadership behaviors that compound profit, people, and purpose

• Proven frameworks for stakeholder alignment and team coaching

• Weekly leading indicators that actually predict AI success

• Governance guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety

• Growth metrics that drive action and resist gaming

• SMB-specific strategies for rapid AI adoption and margin improvement

Perfect for:

Executive leaders driving AI transformation, mid-market and SMB owners, product leaders, marketers, operations professionals, and anyone ready to move from AI hype to measurable results.

Season 2 delivers battle-tested strategies from leaders getting real results. Subscribe for practical, implementation-focused frameworks you can apply immediately.

Join hosts Mac and Sam for an exciting season finale as they explore the cutting-edge intersection of AI and robotics with Daniel Ritchie, veteran technologist and founding member of Brain Wave Collective.

🤖 What You'll Discover:

• How AI is revolutionizing robotics across industries—from disaster zones to space exploration
• Real-world insights from AI hackathons with Hugging Face, NVIDIA, and Meta
• The role of reinforcement learning and computer vision in modern robotic control
• Strategies for ensuring ethical, safe, and interpretable autonomous systems
• Future trends that will reshape the AI-robotics landscape over the next 5 years
• Practical advice for AI enthusiasts entering the robotics space

About Our Guest: Daniel Ritchie brings 15+ years of experience in DevOps, software integration, and system design, with hands-on expertise in networked robotics and agentic video frameworks. His unique perspective spans enterprise environments and rapid prototyping, making him the perfect guide for understanding how to evaluate technical feasibility and iterate toward breakthrough innovations.

Connect with Daniel:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielritchie123/

BrainWave Collective: https://brainwavecollective.ai/

This marks the conclusion of Inside Asemble AI's first season—thank you for joining our journey through AI's transformative impact across industries. Stay tuned for Season 2!

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In this episode of Inside Assemble AI, hosts Mac and Sam sit down with Claude Jones to explore how artificial intelligence is being democratized through community-driven education and strategic implementation. This episode addresses the critical question of how to turn AI access into opportunity and create meaningful change through inclusive AI education.

Claude, a veteran tech leader with over 20 years of experience at companies like Yahoo, Walmart, Strava, and Centr, is the founder of San Diego Tech Hub and Do It With AI—a platform offering free AI training, certification, and consulting to help people and businesses learn faster, build smarter, and create real-world results. What makes Claude's perspective unique is his passion for turning access into opportunity and using technology to drive meaningful change through community-building.

Key insights from Claude Jones include: • The mission and vision behind democratizing AI education • How AI has shifted strategic priorities across different organizations • The role of community in successful AI transformation • Surprising patterns about who adopts AI fastest • Frameworks for deciding where to integrate AI in business operations • Building AI fluency in executive teams without technical backgrounds • Overcoming internal resistance to AI adoption • Emerging trends in AI education and community building

🎙️ Runtime: ~1 hour