ADAPT or die
When disruption hits, average leaders freeze—great ones adapt.
Former tech-CEO–turned-leadership-coach Andreas Pettersson sits down with C-suite executives, founders, and change-makers to dissect the exact moment they faced a make-or-break challenge, the mindset pivot that unlocked progress, and the measurable success that followed.
Every episode delivers:
- Challenge → Adaptation → Success — a tight, three-act story you can steal.
- A 60-second “Hot-Seat” mini-coaching segment that turns insight into action.
- Concrete metrics, battle-tested tactics, and candid reflections you won’t hear on the PR circuit.
If you’re scaling a team, steering a turnaround, or future-proofing your career, this show equips you to adapt and thrive—because in leadership, the alternative is extinction.
ADAPT or die
AI at Bat: Jeff Kunzelman on 10× Disruption
Serial entrepreneur and technologist Jeff Kunzelman (3 exits out of 6 startups) joins Andreas to unpack why today’s AI wave is “10 × bigger—and faster—than the original internet boom.”
They cover:
- Challenge - Spotting market-shifting tech before it’s obvious—and the risk of waiting even 12 months.
- Adaptation - Using generative-AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Notebook LM) to collapse weeks of research and prototyping into minutes—and the culture shift CEOs need to spark that curiosity.
- Success - Building leaner, higher-impact teams, saving 2–3 hours per day, and turning interns into instant thought partners.
Lightning Round highlights: Jeff’s current AI tool stack, one use-case most execs miss, and his two-year prediction for “hyper-personalized apps that won’t even be called apps.”
“If you’re not running company-wide AI experiments today, you’ll be ‘too far behind to catch up’ in 12 months.” —Jeff Kunzelman
Stick around to the end for a 60-second Hot-Seat Coaching segment and Andreas’s signature closing:N “Remember, in leadership we adapt and thrive, or we don’t survive.”
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