Leveraging AI to Go from Doer to Leader, w/ Miri Rodriguez, former Storyteller at Microsoft and CEO of Empressa.AI
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Could AI help you lead—not just do—especially if you’re thinking about building something entrepreneurial? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Miri Rodriguez, formerly a “storyteller” at Microsoft, now the CEO of Empressa.AI, about what it means to go from Doer to Leader in an AI era—and how an AI-first operating style can give a small team outsized leverage. Miri shares how storytelling functioned as a practical tool inside Microsoft (not fluffy marketing), why she decided to leave C...
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