The Agentic Exec
In a world where AI and automation dominate every boardroom conversation, AI & Automation: The Route to Unlocking EBIT and Cash cuts through the noise and gets straight to what matters, turning technology into measurable financial value.
Hosted by The Agentic Exec, the AI & Automation Acceleration Partner for enterprise, this series brings CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and CTOs into the same room to answer one question: how do you actually make more money with AI?
Each episode dives deep into the realities of digital transformation, from automating finance and optimising working capital, to re-engineering operations for human + agent collaboration. You’ll hear from C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who are already using AI to drive EBITDA, accelerate cashflow, and future-proof their operating models.
This isn’t hype. It’s the new enterprise playbook, how to move from pilot projects and PowerPoints to profit, resilience, and scalability.
If you’re leading growth, investment, or transformation, this podcast gives you the frameworks, stories, and strategies to turn AI into a line item on your P&L.
The Agentic Exec
Episode 3 with Marco Ryan (Author of Rewire or Retire)
The Agentic Exec returns with one of the most no-nonsense, high-impact conversations we’ve ever recorded and this time, we’re going straight at the C-suite.
Our guest is Marco, transformation veteran, AI evangelist, cyber expert, NED, leadership correspondent for the European, and author of the provocative new book Rewire or Retire - a title that perfectly sums up where enterprise leaders stand today.
In this episode, Marco dismantles the biggest myth of all: AI isn’t a technology problem — it’s a leadership problem.
And the old leadership playbook? Completely obsolete.
What Enterprise Leaders Will Learn
- Why traditional “digital transformation” habits now guarantee failure
- How AI changes the leadership equation: speed, scope, risk, governance, value
- The difference between Generative AI and Agentic AI - and why boards must understand both
- Why digital intelligence (DQ) is the new core competency of the C-suite
- The truth about leadership prevarication — and why delay is now career-ending
- How to identify your organisation’s AI whisperers (and your blockers)
- Why your board needs a standing AI agenda item - not buried under “Any Other Business”
- How to build synthetic teams: humans + agents working side-by-side
- Why judgement and accountability still belong to humans - and always will
- How to avoid the #1 cause of AI project failure: data, process, and governance rot
- Why some leaders must “rewire”… and why others should consciously “retire” into stewardship
Marco lays out a brutally honest roadmap for CEOs, COOs, CPOs, CIOs, CISOs, and Chairs who are trying to lead through the most disruptive operating-model shift since the internet — and who know their existing leadership habits won’t save them this time.
If you’re an enterprise executive wrestling with:
- AI strategy & governance
- Organisational redesign
- Board-level risk & ethics
- Culture, fear, resistance, and skill gaps
- Synthetic teams & agentic automation
- Digital intelligence and leadership readiness
- Why AI projects succeed… or catastrophically fail
…this episode hits you right between the eyes.
This isn’t another “AI is exciting” conversation — it’s a leadership reckoning.