Viewing AI as just another tool to be handled by IT or consultants is a mistake. Like leadership or sales, using AI as a strategic thought partner is a core skill that leaders must personally master to stay relevant and drive significant growth in their careers and businesses.

When each employee has a personal AI agent, the agents naturally adopt the specializations of their human counterparts. The head of growth's agent becomes the go-to expert on growth metrics, creating a parallel organization of specialized bots that mirrors the human org chart.

Effective leadership AI shouldn't force conformity. Instead of producing 'AI soup,' specialized tools should act as intelligence engines that help leaders identify their unique, authentic style and provide recommendations on how to turn their differences into their greatest strengths.

To avoid redundant work, Sendbird created a marketplace where employees can publish and download reusable AI 'skills' (e.g., a 'MedPic Advisor' for sales). This allows expertise from one team to be programmatically encoded and applied across the entire organization.

A powerful, practical application of AI for leaders is to treat it as a multidisciplinary advisor or "Co-CEO." This framing allows for high-level collaboration on strategic planning, tapping into AI's expertise across finance, legal, HR, and operations.

Build a skill that simulates your executive team based on their known goals and priorities stored in your AI's intelligence layer. This allows you to get critical feedback and find holes in your thinking before presenting, increasing your chances of success.

Use AI agent platforms to build a digital chief of staff that manages priorities, filters messages, and tracks projects. This automates the administrative and strategic legwork traditionally handled by a human assistant, freeing up executive time for high-value decisions.

To rapidly onboard new AEs amid hypergrowth, Anthropic identified the patterns of its best reps and encoded them into AI-powered "skills." These tools, like a "Morning Briefing" or "Call Prep" assistant, are given to every rep, instantly democratizing elite performance and bypassing the need for slow, manual training.

Leading an AI transformation requires more than just delegation. Leaders must personally engage by building their own compounding AI 'stack'—a collection of skills, context files, and workflows. This hands-on experience is essential for developing intuition, understanding the technology's potential, and leading from the front.