The AI leadership reckoning is here

C-suite turnover hit record highs in 2025. 

It wasn’t because of a bad quarter or a dip in the market. It’s because after three years of shoveling millions into AI, most organizations haven’t actually changed. They’ve just become faster versions of their old, clunky selves. And for the leaders at the top, it’s a brutal sink-or-swim moment.

I’ve spent the last few years in the trenches with enterprise leaders – in dozens of boardrooms and on Zooms at all hours of the night – as they wrestle with this reality.