AI, Leadership & The Future of Human-Centered Learning | Amanda C. Chambers | AI Accelerator Podcast

AI is transforming the workplace faster than most organizations are prepared for but according to Amanda C. Chambers, the future belongs to leaders who empower people to learn, adapt, and grow alongside technology.

In this episode of the AI Accelerator Podcast, host Matt Zembruski sits down with Amanda C. Chambers, CEO of The Institute for Organizational Leadership (IOL Global), to explore how AI is reshaping leadership, learning and development, project management, marketing operations, and organizational growth.

With more than 25 years of experience in executive operations, instructional design, leadership development, podcast production, and business strategy, Amanda shares practical insights on how organizations can responsibly integrate AI while keeping people at the center of transformation.

From AI-powered marketing systems and content workflows to leadership coaching and workforce development, Amanda explains why the companies that thrive in the AI era will be the ones that invest in both technology and human capability.

At the heart of Amanda’s message is a powerful leadership principle:

“Let your people learn.”

In this episode, Amanda reveals:

◼️ Why organizations must train employees to use AI responsibly
◼️ How AI enhances human creativity instead of replacing people
◼️ The role of leadership in guiding AI adoption across teams
◼️ Why learning and development will become more important in the AI era
◼️ How IOL Global manages AI-powered marketing and YouTube operations
◼️ The practical ways Amanda’s team uses Claude, ChatGPT, and AI workflows
◼️ Why executives must personally learn AI—not just delegate it
◼️ The importance of strategic partnerships in navigating AI transformation
◼️ How AI is accelerating instructional design and content creation
◼️ Why organizations that refuse AI adoption risk falling behind
◼️ The future of AI-powered project management and leadership operations
◼️ How companies can maintain the human element while automating workflows
◼️ Why ethical AI adoption and workforce training matter more than ever
◼️ How curiosity, adaptability, and learning culture drive long-term success
◼️ Amanda’s core philosophy: “AI should help people do better work.”

Key Learnings

✔ AI should enhance people—not replace them
✔ Organizations must actively train teams to use AI responsibly
✔ Learning and development are becoming even more valuable in the AI era
✔ Leaders must personally understand AI to guide transformation effectively
✔ AI creates more time for creativity, strategy, and relationship building
✔ Human oversight remains essential in AI-powered workflows
✔ Strategic partnerships accelerate AI learning and implementation
✔ Ethical AI adoption requires intentional leadership
✔ Marketing, content creation, and project management are rapidly evolving with AI
✔ Curiosity and adaptability are becoming core leadership skills

💬 Amanda’s Most Powerful Quotes

“Let your people learn.”
“AI is helping people do better work.”
“You need to train your teams to use these tools responsibly.”
“Learning is not going away—it’s changing.”
“It’s not about replacing people. It’s about enhancing what we can do.”

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Website: http://www.iolglobal.com/

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Welcome back to the AI Accelerator Podcast, where we explore how AI is transforming the way professionals and organizations work, lead, and compete. I'm your host, Matt Sembruski, founder and CEO of AI Agility. And today I have a guest who brings a rare combination of operational precision and forward-thinking leadership to everything that she does. Amanda Chambers serves as Chief of Executive Operations at Corbo Tech and is a driving force behind Project Success Academy, where she works alongside a team committed of very talented individuals to helping project leaders thrive in this rapidly changing world that we're living in. Amanda, we've had a chance to connect on a recent episode for your team series. And I walked away thinking I need to get her on my show. We had such a good conversation. So I'm so glad you're here. Welcome to the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Thank you, Matt. Thank you for having me. Yeah, we've had we've had a couple recordings now. Um, yeah, so I am serving in a role with Corbeau Tech, which is an incredible company, uh EPMO company, um, a big corporation. Um, they they do things that I don't even quite understand what they're doing, uh, but that's okay. Um, and then I own my own company, um IOL Global, and um I have staff through that company, um, and we do some pretty wild things. So you've been on our podcast, which I don't think is released yet, because we just did that recently. Um, and then we've done some recordings um with you and Benjamin Rubeski, um, who is the CEO and founder of Corbo Tech, who is then so this the story goes that I found you, Matt, on on LinkedIn. Um, and I was like, who is this guy? What is he doing? He's really cool. And so I reached out to you and and you know, figured out what you were doing with all the AI stuff. And Ben is very, very deep into the AI stuff, and I thought these two guys could be really good friends. And so I kind of set you guys up together. And then um we've just I don't know, we've just been really blessed to just do a whole lot of stuff together, so it's been a lot of fun. So thank you for inviting me on. Um, we were talking before, I think this is my first invite. I think I have some other schedule, but I think this is my first invite um to or my actual first appearance, it's not on my own podcast, so it's kind of strange being on the other side.

SPEAKER_01 2:17

It's great. Well, I appreciate your honesty and your openness with our audience to express your vulnerability there. So hopefully our audience will go easy on you today. We're we're we're doing this with the comments that show up on LinkedIn and Facebook and everywhere. Um and and for the people who don't know you yet, because we're we're talking about the companies you're involved with and all the activities that you do and and things, walk us through your world a little bit. Like how do you connect Corbo Tech to Project Success Academy, IOL Global? What is what does IOL stand for? How do the pieces fit together? Sort of tell us a little bit about your world.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Yeah, it's it can get a little messy, can't it? It gets a little messy for me sometimes. Um, so iOL Global, it stands for the Institute for Organizational Leadership. Um, this is a legacy company. It was my mom and dad's company. Um, I grew up in it um when they were just starting it. Um, they had had it for about 30 years. Um, my mom got sick with cancer, and um we closed the company um back around 2019-ish, I think. Um, and we closed down the company. It was a 501c3, so it was a nonprofit company. Um, I reopened it after um much prompting um from several people, especially my dad, um, to reopen the company, but I opened it as a woman-owned for-profit company. Um, and so it's a little bit different. Um, there's some things that we're doing that are the same, um, and some things that we're doing a little different. My dad is retired, but he is the founder of the company. And so um we uh kind of steal him sometimes to help us out with some stuff. And I'm trying really hard um to get him to like record. Um, he did a lot of teaching over the years. He has a doctorate in education, so to record some of those um modules and things of his information. One for the legacy of it and two, um, because it's good information. And then um, excuse me, um for Corbotech um and Project Success Academy and the other strategic partners that we have. Um, basically what that means is that I have come on board on a contract basis um through IOL. Um, and I work with these companies, I do a few different things, do some executive coaching style stuff. Um, and then I our team does we do a lot of marketing um and disbursement of marketing material, creation of marketing material. Um we also um manage multiple, I think we're up to eight or nine YouTube channels on the back end. Um, and so that when I say manage, that means managing the channel uh from all aspects, creating the material, um, you know, editing the material, putting it up um with all the content, and then getting it out on social media. So um we do that for quite a few different people, but on a high level for Corbeau. Um, Tanya Boyd, who you had on the show, she um she amazing friend of mine. Um so blessed to know her. Um, she and I connected on another project a couple years ago, and she, when I was kind of looking around and kind of opening up IOL, she was like, Oh, you got to come on and and do some stuff with us. And so um, same with Project Success. So their sister companies, I guess that's how you could call it. Corbo Tech's the main company, and then Project Success Academy. Um, Project Success Academy does more training, um, teaching through different um credentials, like the PMP um for PMI and and then the RMP and things like that. And so um we our team does a lot of marketing for for uh Project Success Academy and works with their teams, and they're just such a fun team. We have such a great time. So that's kind of where that is. Then we have some other strategic partners um that we work with as well, um, that we're doing different projects with. And so to answer your question, um, we do a lot of different things. Uh a lot of people like to ask me, like, what is it exactly that you do? And I'm like, I don't know. We I do whatever we're doing. I don't know. Um, it's kind of whatever God leads us to with that particular client. Um, I would say my heart is in the instructional design, um, learning and development. And that's what I thought I was gonna, you know, walk into with this. And then God's like, no, you're gonna go do this, and you're gonna go do this. And and so I'm just kind of following the lead right now. A lot of we do a lot of back end marketing, a lot. Um, a lot. And I'm so grateful for my team that they helped me so well. Um, so yeah, I don't know if I I I completely answered that or not.

SPEAKER_01 6:45

But you answered that perfectly. That that's excellent. And now I want to now I want to switch gears to to uh what you mentioned AI a little bit. Like let's talk about AI. When did AI first start showing up for you? We're in 2026 now. When did it first start showing up for you in your in your daily work in a real way? Not when you first heard about it, but like when did you get your office?

SPEAKER_00 7:05

Truthfully, probably back when we, you know, started using different tools like Grammarly and stuff that are AI centered, you know. Um, I would say if I had to answer honestly, like what was the first? That's probably probably things like that. Um, because I do a lot of proofing and editing and and copy editing and stuff. So that's probably one of the first things. Um, I don't even know honestly if this is still around anymore. I'm trying to, there was a uh I would have to think of the name, I can't think of it right now.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Jasper.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

No, it was like an email, like you could create um like templates and it would just pop them in. Um, and it had a name and then it changed names. I'm trying to look and see. Um, I'll probably have to get back to you, and I can't think of what it was now.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

It was an A AI tool back in the room.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

It was, yeah. And it was really, really early. It was like you had to go inside of it and you had to type up like what would you want this template to say, but then it would import for you, just like clicked a button. So that was kind of a lot of fun. That was like quite a few years ago. Um, and now um, you know, I I was very our team was very blessed to be able to um employ with you guys and do some of your AA coaching and teaching and training. Um, I'm I'm getting so much better at Claude. You'd be so proud of me. Um, in fact, this week I used Claude uh for some real I can't I can't disclose what exactly it was yet um because it's for a client, but I use Claude for a really, really important big project to kind of finish it up. Um it didn't do the project, it just helped me walk through like some kind of prompting and like um is this exactly where it's supposed to be and so on and so forth. And it was beautiful and it did great. You would have been so proud. We'll have to talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

So now we use um we use Chat GPT, which I know it's not your favorite, but we do use that. Um we use Claude a lot now. Um we have it on all the computers news and Claude Co-work um and and a few others. Um, I would say those are probably right now our team's primary. And then we also use some other AI tools um for marketing purposes. Um, so we use some AI scheduling tools like metrical and things like that. Um, and then when I run my podcasts like yours, I have AI tools that um that's probably one of the biggest lifts for me right now is that they generate the videos. Um and I know a lot of people know that, but I know a lot of people don't know um that a lot of this stuff we just push a button and it gives us what we need for the most part. And so um there's still proofing involved with it and stuff like that, but oh my gosh, as a video editor, like take my money, like I don't care.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

You you you mentioned so you let's dive right into it even deeper. You mentioned Claude Cowork. So I'm curious, you know, what are what there's so many different applications, right? You know, Claude, ChatGPT, and we use them all, we're always playing with them all. Um, and uh, but you know, like give an example of uh like you mentioned video editing, there's tools out there. What are you using Claude Cowork for that relates to your your your businesses right now? Like what was an example?

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Yeah, for me personally, it's a lot of um, you know, implementing like running through emails and things like that because I'm kind of over inundated at this point. Um, I have two great ladies who work for me. They're just phenomenal. I don't know what I'll ever do without them. Um, I think I have to keep them forever. Um, and I didn't, I I was the EA for a long time, right? And so I didn't, you know, I see the value in them. And so now I'm just like, oh my gosh, how did I ever do anything? Um, but what you know, I I want to I want to be transparent too that I'm I'm really big on and you know this. Um the people can't go away from it. What's really important for me is that we train our people to use it well. Um, and then they train me to use it well, um, which is really great. But I think for me, the automation of things, um, and and that doesn't mean taking away the human element of me being a part of it because I do want to know what's going on. I want to know who's trying to reach out um and things like that, but it does kind of help get through the weeds of things. Um, and then I know um Sloane is gonna be on your show too, and she can speak more to that, but she is using it for a lot of different marketing applications to create um some marketing. Uh, I'm not gonna say like to create the ads themselves, although we do use some AIs for that, but Claude has really helped her to be able to, I would say not turn her her job in half, but to really, really help her one, do it better. Um, not that she wasn't good, but um to do it better and faster. Um, and she's implemented that quite a bit too. I would say for me, I I would I don't really know if I what I use, I want to tell you what I use it for this week, but I really don't know that I can.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

Um, so exciting though.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

It was so good.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Speaking, speaking in generalities is fine too, like what you've just shared about like all right, you're so video editing uh for podcasts, moving it into clips, uh uh preparing ads, like preparing sort of the yeah, uh maybe the text or the scripts or the different things that you will use for ads. So you have quad co-work running. Do you have it as a like a scheduled process or it runs like in the background and for the emails, yeah, and and working on work?

SPEAKER_00 12:20

I'm I'm learning.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

That's good. That's good.

SPEAKER_00 12:23

I'm still in a learning process with it, but I do for the emails, um, and to kind of just streamline that for me, give me, you know, the information that I need, which is really, really nice. It's been a breath of fresh air. Um, I think it's really important again that we keep the human element of things, but I can, I am able and my team is able to do so much more than we could have ever conceived to do. Um I think that the AI tools are such a blessing. I think we have to use them well and responsibly. And we've talked about that too on some other shows. But um, and I I don't, I don't at any point think it's going to replace these ladies that work for me. Um, in fact, I foresee um through IOL that we'll hire more people in the future, but we'll also train them to use these these processes and these tools to the best of their ability. And I talked on, I don't remember which which podcast we were on or which we were on, but um, you know, I'm old enough to know like when when we were learning how to use Word and Excel and you know, all these different things. And to me, it's no different. It's like we're we're learning these things. They're a tool, they're something to use. Um, we just have to use them responsibly. We have to learn. Um, you know, I am very big on learning. Um, I I think you could dive into any one of them and go, oh, it'll do this or that, but that's not all that it can do. And I I'm transparent enough to say I don't know all that Claude can do yet. I don't know that all that these different tools can do yet. Um, it takes some time um to really figure it out. I think I'm uh I'm just really big on the learning. Um, and so I think you really got to dive in and learn about things, but I also think you got to play with it a little bit and figure it out too.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

So yeah, a hundred percent. Let's let's talk about how it applies to the world of uh project leaders, project management. Because I know you do you do a lot of work with your your companies on uh working with project leaders, execution teams, some of the executives at companies. In your experience, what's the biggest mistake that organizations make when they try to bring AI into project management?

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Yeah, I think there's two. I think, in my opinion, two biggest mistakes. One is that I think that there's from both sides, from the employee side and from you know the founder, CEO, um, high level, um, is that it's going again to replace the people that we have. I don't think that it is. Um, have we seen some big you know layoffs and stuff and it's attributed to AI? Sure. Um, and I'm sure we're gonna see more of that. I don't know what all of that is truth and what it isn't. Um, it's not my job to decipher that right now. Um, but for for what I see um with the people that we work with, um, it's not replacing anyone, it's enhancing what we can do. Um, it's giving us an opportunity. Excuse me, I'm so sorry. It's giving us an opportunity um to do better work um in and again the learning curve. And so that would be my second answer to that is that you have to train um your team to use these tools uh well and responsibly and give them the opportunity. I think that's one thing that some people really miss. I think it's gotten better over the years, but some people really miss that it's very, very important that you give your teams the autonomy to learn, the time to learn, pay them to learn. Um, it's very, very important. Um, and if you don't, one, they're either gonna go somewhere else and learn these tools. Um, and it might not be what you want them to learn, or they may go to another company that's that's assisting people in learning and growing. Um, learning and development is really, really important. And I don't think it's gonna go away. I think I think that's the question we have, but I think it's gonna change. It is changing. Um, but train your teams, train them to use it responsibly and wisely and well in the way that it should be used. That's my answer to that.

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Yeah, that's that's a really, really, really good answer. And you're you're exactly right. You're talking about, you know, uh AI is not here, and I know you and I align on a lot of this. So AI is not here to replace people. And as you're working with good people, you know, and you expand your your company and what you're doing, there's more human work to do as well. Plus, AI is doing more work. So you're your whole company is doing more, you're making a bigger impact. What are what are some of the um what what are some of the things that are more human-centric? Just to give some examples of that, where you feel like you say, I want to bring more people on my team and keep expanding. So as you and your team are doing more with AI and you're getting getting more accomplished in the marketplace and just making a bigger impact, a bigger splash, you know, what are the human side of the activities and tasks and responsibilities that you and your team uh and your partners do? Like where do you get more time to do?

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Yeah, I I think that's one of the unique, beautiful things about it is because I think we get to we get an opportunity to be more creative. Um, I my my specific team with IOL, I'll talk about that a little bit and then I'll talk about a kind of bigger, bigger, broader scope. But our specific team at IOL, we I I see us spending a little bit more time on proofing um things that are coming from the AI just to make sure, you know, just double checking, triple checking, making sure before we put something out that it's one, the tone um that we want to put out, it's the information that we want to put out and so on and so forth. And and that would be more in like the marketing kind of realm of things. Um but it also gives us an opportunity just to be honest, to just kind of play and have fun. So anybody who's been in marketing for any any length of time um over the last decade, you know that you're using tools like Canva and stuff like that to create ads, um graphics and things like that. But the AI, multiple of them give us the opportunity to like create something and then better it in a million, you know, a million times that we wouldn't even. We don't, we can do that. Um now, are there graphic designers and stuff that have massive programs that could have, you know, probably done this? Sure, I have no doubt. Um, but this gives the average company like us, you know, the opportunity to really pump out some really cool stuff um to make changes um, you know, on websites and back ends of things that we wouldn't have previously been able to do. Um, I've been able to do a lot of that just because I've had a unique opportunity over a long time to just kind of learn and evolve into that. Um, and I think I've just kind of came from that generation where it's like, oh, here's the new thing and the new thing and the new thing. So it doesn't really bother me. Um, I'm more like, hey, I just want to jump in and figure it out. Um, and I I I'm kind of the opposite. Like I have to stop myself and say, hey, I need to learn this really well instead of just, you know, like figuring it out. Um, and so, but at the same time, I'm a huge proponent of of our team and the other teams learning. Um, with Corbeau, oh my gosh, what a blessing. Ben is incredible. Um, he wants us to know all the things, um, probably a little too much, a little too fast sometimes, because we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. Um, but he's so great about just being a huge proponent for our team of like, hey, this is the new thing. Go watch this video, go learn about this. Do you want to learn about this? Do you want this program? Um, and he's really amazing. Like, I cannot speak highly enough about he is just so incredible about encouraging us to learn. And and I endeavor to be the same with my team. Um, that hey, and and if if somebody comes to him and is like, hey, what about this new thing? For instance, um, there's there's a program that we use um to create shorts um of like any video. We can take a uh, and I some people know this, so this is like, oh yeah, well, um, some people don't. Um, like we could take a meeting, we could take anything and we could throw it in there and it will just give us these shorts videos, which obviously are very popular right now. Um, and I had a while back when I had first started working with him, I was like, hey, I found this new program. Like, what do you think about it? He's like, let's get it. Um, and so he's like figured out, you know, whatever you need to do. And he gave me the time and opportunity to do it. And now I'm not only using it for him, but I'm using it with like three other clients. And he, you know, he loves that. He's great with that and and he supports that. Um, so I think it's it's really amazing to kind of work across those different platforms, but to be in in in the weeds with people who are supportive of like we know we're all learning this, right? It's new, and so we're gonna have to take the time to to figure it out. And and I think that's probably one of the bigger, I think I lost the question. I do that. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Perfect. That's perfect. Yeah, you want to take the time and you're investing the time, yeah, energy. And and Ben gives you the opportunity to do that, and you give yourself the opportunity. And that's um, yeah, you covered a lot in that answer. I want to talk about IOL IOL global a little bit more. So there it's built, it sounds like IOL is built around uh strategic partnerships, right? How do you see AI reshaping the way organizations uh build and maintain partnerships? Are there any any shifts about that that you're watching closely? Like from a a leader of IOL IOL global today, if I can say that.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

That's a good question. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

How does AI factor into your delivering on your vision?

SPEAKER_00 21:40

Um, well, so so what a strategic partnership means for us is a couple of different things. Um, it isn't taken lightly. Um, I'm very, very careful, very, very selective. Um, we brought you guys on recently. Um, and and part of that is that we're working together, we're collaborating together, we're learning together and growing together. Part of that is that we're, you know, we We're contracting together for different things. Um, and so you know, again, it's a selective process. But what it means in the age of AI, I think, is are we all learning forward on these things? Are we all in in the same um kind of mind space that this is something that we want to learn and we can learn from one another? Um, I can message you or or send a shout-out to you, hey, what about this? And same with um the other partners that we have. Um, because it's important, I think, that we not just like put this all in a little box and say, this is mine, I want to keep it for me. Um I don't think that there's gonna be any advantage to that. I think the advantage is that I'm able to learn from you. You are an expert in this field. Um, you know, Ben, I would consider an expert in this field. And I look, I'm over here just like riding coattails, loving it, um, learning what I can. I don't think you guys are brilliant. Um, both of you are just incredibly brilliant. Some of the other people that we have on board are just brilliant. And so I think what the point is, if if there was just one main point, um, the point is to collaborate with each other and to learn from one another. Um, there's things I think maybe that I know that you know you guys could learn from me. Um, I know that um through the Corbeau team, we do a lot. I I have done quite a bit of executive coaching with with several of the higher-ups in in that team. And that's not a bad thing. Sometimes I walk away from it learning more, you know. Um, and when we say executive coaching, sometimes it's just like this things have just been really crazy. We just need to talk about it for a little bit, right? Um, and so it's not really a therapy session, but it is just kind of like, oh, well, you didn't see this side of it, or oh, maybe we need to bring in somebody like Matt and we need to train um and we need to get our team up to par. Um, and so the strategic partnerships are more just about that. It's just kind of a values-based um alignment and collaboration on um doing things, what whatever projects we're working on. Some of them we're working on um behind the scenes coursework um that we haven't put out yet. Um, we are building a learning platform. Um, that is a big process. It has been very, very, very big. Um, and so we are that's you know, that's something that'll happen in God's timing and it'll be done. Um, but then um we are working on several different projects, some book projects and things like that, some course projects. Um, and that's a lot of fun. Um, we we're having a really good time with those. And then um, like I said, uh we have a podcast. I don't know why we have a podcast, but we have a podcast. So um that was just you know uh a God thing that you know I felt led to do and just kind of the same as you, just bring people on and talk about what they're doing and leadership and stuff. And so it's been a blast. I think we um we released episode 17 yesterday, uh, but we have, I don't know, I think I think 25 or so already recorded, and then um we're booked into July, which is just blows my mind. I have no idea how that happens.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

Well, you both you're you're both excellent hosts on the podcast. And and uh it's just it's it's it's a it's um there's there's there's a lot that you cover, there's a lot that you open up with your guests, and that's what's important, just to share. Yeah, it's so let's let's say that um one of the people listening to this to this uh podcast right now is the CEO of a mid-sized company, all right? They're doing maybe $50 million a year or $100 million a year um uh across their company. And they've been sitting on the sidelines with AI. They're like, oh, it's out there, it's a technology. I I got bigger fish to fry right now. I can't really get into that. You know, what's the one thing that you would tell them?

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Hire Matt. No, seriously, um, I would I would say you need to employ um some intelligent people, um, preferably Matt, um, to come in and to train your team. You need to train your team. Um, I think I think what's gonna happen, Matt, is that either we're gonna come in as the the C level, which is weird that I even like, oh, you're like it doesn't make any sense. But anyways, um I think we're either gonna come in like that and we're gonna and be smart about it, right, on the front end and say, I'm gonna train my team, I'm gonna train myself, right? Um, I'm gonna learn. Uh I think we could easily, especially in big corporations, right? Where there's like, you know, yeah, that like we envision it, this guy sitting up in an office like high-rise, right? And sometimes it is. Um, but I think like it would be easy to go, okay, well, you know, have the team take, take the class, take the courses, and learn how to do it. You need to learn how to do it. You need to know what your team is doing, you need to know how to use these things, and it's gonna make your life so much easier. Um, it's so much better. So that'd be my answer is hire you guys to come in and train them. Um, I've took training from you guys. You guys are incredible, you did an amazing job. Um, in that it I'm happy to plug you. I wouldn't be on if I didn't believe in what you guys were doing. And I think that's the answer to that is get in, get somebody to train you that knows what they're doing. Um, because it you could you could pull up any of these, right? And and you could do a free trial or whatever. I mean, there's so many of them now. Um, you but you're not going to understand really. I did not really understand um the whole process um until we really got to listen to your expertise and the reasons why and things like that. So that'll be my answer to that. Higher Matt.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

Good. That's that's awesome. Well, thank you. Thank you, man. I appreciate the endorsement. And there's uh yeah, there's a lot there, there's a lot of nuance to it because it's about it's not about the tool, it's not about technology, it's about the people.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:42

How does it how does the how do the people adopt it? Like, how does it really make the the CEO's life better, right? And these are the things that yeah, we care about and we focus on.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Yeah, and I mean, like in transparency, like I was talking about, we were using a lot of tools, right? And this is not a paid advertisement or anything, but we were using a lot, I've been over the years, right, progressively using this tool and this tool and this tool. Um, but to really dive deep and to really understand we can do more, we can do this, we can do that, and our teams can. Um, so yeah, it would be it would be to train your teams, train them well, train them ethically, um, allow them to use. I think there's a lot of people that aren't even allowing um still their teams to use AI. And I think you're that's probably not the best idea.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

That's a rabbit hole we won't go down, but all right.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

So let's talk about the future, just as we as we uh as we get ready to wrap up. What are you most excited about over the next 12 months? Like what with all the things we talked about, you're in the middle of a lot of a lot of exciting uh projects and companies and partners. What what excites you most over the next 12 months?

SPEAKER_00 28:48

Oh my gosh. Um it's just that well, um gosh, that's a hard question. I didn't I don't think that was on the sheet, Matt.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

It wasn't on the sheet. I'm going off the script.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Um, what am I excited about the most? I'm excited about seeing um our team, what God has in plan in place for our team and to grow and and then throughout that with the collaborations that we have with the partners that we have, um, to see um how well we traverse what's coming. Um, I don't, I am not a doomsday person, so I don't like I'm like, oh no, we shouldn't do that, or we shouldn't, you know, this is gonna be horrible, or you know, I I don't live in that realm. And so for me, um, I'm I more look at the positivity of it, like what are we gonna be able to accomplish together um in the next 12 months or even to the end of the year? And we've already looked it's May and we've already accomplished so much. Um, and so, and I mean that like collectively, all of us, um, not just me and not just my immediate team, but collectively just coming together and having good conversations. Um, I think that's probably what I look forward to, is just like having more of these conversations, learning from one another. Um, you know, what are you guys doing? Um, what's the newest, latest, and greatest? Um, and and having what a blessing I have to like be it, it is not lost on me. I'm like, I don't even know like how I'm so blessed to be able to like be in contact with you guys and learn um and grow. And I think probably that's the most exciting thing. I I just I love learning our well, my dad's gonna see this and he's gonna laugh so hard because when I was bringing home C's in in high school and he was like, just get a C, Amanda. And now I'm like, I just love learning. So yeah, shout out to my dad. He's yeah, um, there you go, bless his heart. All those years, now it's worth it. Um, but yeah, I think that's probably the excitement in it is just like having the opportunity. Let your teams learn. That's what I want to scream from. The rooftops is let them learn.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

Let them learn. I love it. So, so Amanda, where can people learn more about you, your companies, what you're doing? What's the best way? We can put it, we'll put it in our show notes, but for people listening in the in the car, so they can start to wow, this woman's smart. She's got a lot of going on. I want to I want to know more about her. Where can I where can I connect with her?

SPEAKER_00 31:11

So we have a pretty decent website. I'm not gonna say it's the best in the world. We're still kind of working through it. We we we're making some changes, but you can visit us at iol uh global.com. It's easy. Um, but I'm also big on LinkedIn. Um, you can pretty much get to me on LinkedIn, um, unless you look like a spammer and then I'm gonna spam. Um, but I'm I I'm big on LinkedIn. Um, I my team is an incredible marketing team and they have me just about everywhere. But I'm be honest, if you want the actual me, those are the two places you're gonna get me. Um the other stuff I I I'm not gonna speak bad about any of them. It's just they're not they're not my little space. So um, yeah, those are probably the best places to get me, is my LinkedIn and and the website. Um, but yeah, I'm it I'm I'm always happy for people to reach out and if they want to be on my show too. And um, it's there's I had somebody ask me a while ago, like that's how you make your money. No, it's not how I make my money. Um, but I'm I'm happy to plug other people's businesses too as well. And um, I'm grateful for you have beyond. And yeah, I think that people should train their teams, and I think they should train them with Matt's company. Um, but that's just my I love it.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

My two and and and your message that were that struck a chord with me is like let your people learn, like let them learn. And by the way, AI is a great way to supercharge their learning. So it is, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

And it's so learning's not going away, it's not disappearing, right? It's changing. Um, and I, you know, there are so many things in life I have such a hard time with with change. I've always been like that. Um, but this has been a really pretty easy adoption for me as far as like in the learning development space. I mean, there's a lot changing, right? Because I can go learn anything I want right now. Um, I mean, I can pull up any one of these AIs and I can just learn stuff. Now, is it the right stuff? I don't know, maybe. Um, you know, I can ask it anything, it'll tell me, you know, but is it the right thing? I think we're still gonna lean on learning development. Um, I think that companies like yours are doing amazing things. I don't think that that that's going away. In fact, I think that that's going to increase. Um, and I think there's other learning and development um that's going to it's all about how we adopt these processes, right? And these tools and and how we bring them in and how we teach our people to use them. Um, and so yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

Exactly. No, that's fantastic. Thank you so much for your your time and being on the show and coming on as uh as your first time on a podcast as a guest, even though you've done like that on your own. Um, but just your great insights, you know, your your time, your energy, your your uh your passion shines through in what you're communicating. So I thank you.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Thank you for for all that you guys have done for us and for our team and for the Corbow team and the Project Success Academy team, and and shout out to all them too. Go go check them out as well. Um, but yeah, um huge shout out to you and your team. You guys are amazing. Um, you've got it uh got it going on, and we're so grateful um that we've had the opportunity just to learn and kind of you know have these conversations together. I'm really, really grateful to you, honored.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Thank you so much, Amanda. It means so much to hear that from you. And there's this is just the beginning, there's so much more to come. You and I both know that it's just we're we're on this learning journey, this growth journey together. There's a lot of things happening, and um, it's um it's it's a wonderful opportunity we have in in front of us.

SPEAKER_00 34:38

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 34:39

For those for those of you listening, we appreciate your time and attention listening to our podcast. And it's time to make your workforce superhuman, and it starts with you. So thank you very much for your time.