How C-suite and Board Roles Are Being Reshaped around AI

For most of the past decade, discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and jobs have focused on the impact of entry-level roles. Most notably, we worry about call-center agents being replaced by chatbots, analysts displaced by algorithms or junior coders assisted into obsolescence by agentic AI and synthetic coworkers.

Yet, this framing misses a more subtle shift: AI is not only changing the bottom of the org chart, but also reshaping the top. Though the change is quieter and more structural or configural, senior leadership, executive and C-suite roles are being redefined just as profoundly.

For example, there's little risk that the CFO role disappears, but also a very small probability that the attributes, skills and behaviors that made CFOs successful or effective in the past continue to make them successful or effective in the future. The implications of this are profound, forcing organizations to hire and promote senior leaders less for what they have done in the past, and more for what they could do in the future.

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