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This episode explores how AI can transform leadership by analysing real conversational behaviour, reducing bias and giving leaders immediate insight into their communication style. The discussion covers how leadership differs from management, why early‑career support is often missing, and how continuous feedback can shorten the development gap for new leaders. Listeners gain a practical view of how leadership intelligence works and what it means for team clarity, alignment and growth.

👉 Full Show Notes
https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/794    

🎙️ What you’ll learn  

• How AI analyses everyday conversations to reveal leadership patterns 
• How to identify gaps between perceived and actual leadership behaviour 
• How real‑time feedback improves clarity, alignment and team dynamics 
• How to shorten the long development gap for early‑career leaders 
• How psycholinguistics and trend data support better leadership decisions 

✅ Highlights 

• “We explore real‑world AI applications, share practical insights, and discuss how businesses are implementing responsible, ethical, and trustworthy AI.” 
• “Parafoil analyses how you lead in the work.” 
• “By measuring pronouns and prepositions you can work out all sorts of things.” 
• “It gives you an analysis of how each conversation’s gone after the fact.” 
• “You don’t have to recount what happened to a chatbot.” 
• “A problem never gets better with time.” 
• “Leadership can only really be learned through the doing of the do.” 
• “Most managers consider themselves to be accidental.” 
• “How do we help people earlier in their career and not have a ten year delta” 
• “His communication style really shifted over the course of the next two to three weeks.” 

🧰 Mentioned 

• Parafoil - https://parafoil.co/  
• Microsoft AI - https://microsoft.ai/  
• Google – www.google.com  

✅Keywords 
ai, leadership, management, psycholinguistics, feedback, teams, communication, alignment, leadership development, leadership intelligence, product, coaching 

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