Someone has to go first. Then mark the route.

AI is the newest test of a question every organization already faces: how work actually changes under pressure.

What I do

Coaching

I work one-on-one with the executive steering their organization through what AI is doing to how the work gets done.

Strategic Facilitation

I design and run the conversations where a leader's hardest decisions actually get made.

Organizational Change

I help an organization change how it actually works, even when the pressure to move fast makes shortcuts tempting.

Podcast

Leadership Explored

A biweekly conversation about leadership, change, and what AI is doing to both. I create and host it, with co-host Andy Siegmund.

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Field Notes

Field notes from the actual work — what holds up, and what breaks, when a large organization takes on AI.

Field note

Who Is Watching Your Agents?

The human oversight capacity gap is the distance between the oversight your agents now require and the oversight your organization can actually supply, and closing it starts with mapping where that gap is thinnest.

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Ed Schaefer

I'm Ed — executive coach and strategic advisor to enterprise tech leaders. More about me →

For the leader who already knows AI is coming for how their organization works, and wants a coach who already works that way.

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