Consistency Isn't the Model's Job
AI models are built to vary. When you need the same result every time, have an agent build the script that does the work, and keep the model for the work that needs judgment
Read the field note →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.
More about the show →Field Notes
Field notes from the actual work — what holds up, and what breaks, when a large organization takes on AI.
Shirked, Narrow, Shared: Where Your Culture Puts the Risk
When a dependency slips, who is exposed? Westrum's responsibilities row, from shirked to narrow to shared risk, and the measurement move that puts the owner's name next to the waiting team's date
Read the field note →When the Standard Moves
When agents do the work, your standard moves. How to tell which standards were priced by scarcity and can move, which were priced by consequence and must hold, and how to write the standard where the work runs
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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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