The Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness!

Why Great Leaders Embrace AI: April Sabral on Curiosity, Adaptability & Trust


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S2E1- How to Empower Your Leadership Skills with AI

In this Season 2 premiere of Blade to Greatness, hosts Ricardo Belmar & Casey Golden sit down with renowned leadership coach and author April Sabral to explore how AI is transforming leadership in retail. Far from replacing leaders, AI is exposing poor leadership behaviors while empowering those who lead with curiosity, adaptability, and transparency. April shares insights from her new book Positive Accountability for Teams and explains why the future isn’t AI vs. people — it’s AI plus people.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • Why AI is exposing leadership failures, not just process gaps
  • Why curiosity will replace control as the defining leadership trait
  • The three essential leadership skills for the AI era: curiosity, ideation, and agency
  • How to train humans and machines together for better outcomes
  • Why adaptability and transparency are non-negotiable for future leaders
  • How small retail businesses can use AI to compete with enterprise brands
  • The role of positive accountability in driving change management

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Guest Spotlight:

April Sabral — Leadership coach, author of Positive Accountability for Teams, and founder of RetailU and Ask April AI. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilsabral/

Learn more at www.AskApril.ai. & www.aprilsabral.com

Chapters:

00:00 Previews

00:53 Show Intro

02:57 Welcome April Sabral - AI Gives Leaders the Edge

03:39 The Role of AI in Leadership

04:41 Identifying Leadership vs. Process Gaps with AI

05:46 Training Humans and Machines Together

08:08 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

09:16 Positive Accountability and Change Management

10:42 AI's Impact on Small vs. Large Retail Businesses

12:20 Show Close

Includes music provided by imunobeats.com, featuring Swag, Tag and Brag from the album Beat Hype, written by Heston Mimms, published by Imuno.

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