ISF Podcast16 Syys 2025

5: Dr. Sam Adeyemi - Leadership in a Changing World: Culture, People & Technology

Today, Steve sits down with leadership coach Dr. Sam Adeyemi. Sam is an expert in leadership who has coached C-suite executives for over two decades. Together, Steve and Sam explore the essence of who is a leader, and Sam explains why people should always be the first priority of a leader. They also discuss AI and how it will impact people and business in the coming years.

Key Takeaways:

Leadership is about your ability to influence, not the position you hold.
Technology has changed the nature of leading.
AI will change how we work by taking over routine tasks and giving humans more time for creative challenges.

Tune in to hear more about:

How leadership differs across cultures (4:28)
How technology is changing leadership (8:47)
How AI will change how we work (14:27)

Standout Quotes:

“We still need to leave those spaces where we actually ask, how are you doing, to be sure the parts of their lives that are important are going well. Because those parts actually influence what they do on the job.” - Dr. Sam Adeyemi
“It’s like when computers first came. They made things work faster. When I was doing mathematics in high school, we used to use log tables and things like that. It was much slower getting to work through the calculations. But with calculators these days and so on, it’s faster. AI is going to create an even bigger shift than that. The computers did not take all the jobs away. However, they changed the way that we do our work. So we humans, therefore, need to move more towards creativity, and that is tied more to our uniqueness, the unique way our minds work.” - Dr. Sam Adeyemi
“A lot of C-suite leaders find it difficult to reinvent, and it’s one of the major reasons why people get stranded, why leaders just stagnate. Change is inevitable. It happens, the world doesn’t remain the same. The conditions that facilitated our achievement of success, those conditions have changed. The context has changed. So for us to sustain our success, for us to remain relevant, for example, we also have just got to change.” Dr. Sam Adeyemi

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