AI After 50
🎙️ AI After 50 – Episode #8
A Shift for AI After 50: The Leadership Pivot
📅 Recorded: February 20, 2026
👤 Hosts: Mark Tennant & John Paganini
⏱️ Duration: ~20 Minutes
🔄 The Relaunch: Same Name. New Mission.
AI After 50 is officially evolving.
What started as a podcast teaching AI basics has transformed into something far more powerful:
🎯 A weekly leadership briefing on AI for experienced professionals.
This episode marks the pivot — away from beginner prompting tips and toward helping leaders over 50 strategically leverage AI to sharpen decision-making, compress timelines, and amplify decades of hard-earned judgment.
If you're in leadership, management, or have built deep expertise over 20+ years, this show is now built for you.
🧠 Why This Shift Matters
📊 The Leadership Gap
Recent research from McKinsey & Company reveals:
🔗 McKinsey Insights:
This isn’t about intelligence.
It’s about who the conversation is speaking to.
That changes now.
🚨 The Tipping Point
AI entrepreneur Matt Shumer published a viral article titled:
👉 Something Big Is Happening
Viewed 84+ million times on X/Twitter alone, the message was clear:
AI capabilities have accelerated overnight.
Most leaders are not ready.
But you're not too late.
🎧 Audio Overview available via NotebookLM (link in show notes)
The comparison?
AI’s moment feels like early 2020 before COVID fully hit. Quiet. Underestimated. Then suddenly… transformational.
👥 Who We Are (And Why You Should Listen)
We don’t just talk about AI.
We build with it.
Between us:
🚗 Example: Autovision Garage