The Frontier Leader Show is a podcast for senior leaders, advisors, and operators navigating AI adoption, business transformation, and the future of work. Hosted by Martin Wheatley, founder of The AI Leader Lab and an AI strategy advisor with 20+ years in financial services and operations leadership, each episode explores how executives are actually using AI, generative AI, and emerging technology to make better decisions, lead their teams, and run sharper organisations. This isn't theory or hype. It's honest, practical conversation with the people doing the work: experienced leaders, AI practitioners, technologists, educators, and platform builders sharing what's working inside real businesses right now. Each episode covers: How AI is reshaping leadership, strategy, and operations Practical and ethical AI adoption for senior teams What human leadership looks like in an AI-augmented environment How the right tools create space for better thinking and better outcomes Frameworks for AI maturity, judgement, and decision-making If you lead a team or growing business and you're working out what AI means for your organisation, your role, and your judgement, this is your show. New episodes weekly. Subscribe wherever you listen.
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Recent episodes include "Eleven Years in Three Weeks: AI-Ready Data Without a Faster Mess" (20 October 2026, 36 minutes), "Four Years to Four Minutes: Leading at AI Speed, with Steve Rowbotham" (13 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "Will AI Take Your Job or Hand You a Second Act, with Jay Samit" (6 October 2026, 50 minutes).
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Eleven Years in Three Weeks: AI-Ready Data Without a Faster Mess
Oct 20, 202636 min
Eleven and a half years. That was one council’s estimate for sorting 800,000 legacy property files by hand, assuming they could find some poor soul willing to do it. Sarah Heal, CEO of Information Leadership, helped...
Four Years to Four Minutes: Leading at AI Speed, with Steve Rowbotham
Oct 13, 202637 min
What happens when an Olympic rower who measured progress in four-year cycles ends up running a tech company where it feels more like four minutes? Steve Rowbotham, Team GB bronze medallist and CEO of Navigator, joins me...
Will AI Take Your Job or Hand You a Second Act, with Jay Samit
Oct 6, 202650 min
Jay Samit has spoken about AI in dozens of countries, and he says the mood in the room changed about six months ago. People stopped asking what AI can do and started asking what happens to their job. In this episode...
Augmented, Not Artificial Intelligence, with Dr Jonathan Schaeffer
Sep 29, 202645 min
He holds two Guinness World Records for artificial intelligence. So why won't he put his own medical records anywhere near it? In this episode, I'm joined by Dr Jonathan Schaeffer, the AI researcher whose checkers...
Rebuilding an 18 Year Agency Around AI and Remote Work, with Andy Firth
Sep 15, 202646 min
If you're weighing up whether hybrid working is worth the hassle, or how far you can actually push AI into your own operations, this episode was made for you. Andy Firth, owner of Leeds digital agency Ascensor, joins...
How AI Is Quietly Reclassifying Work, with Amanda Daering
Aug 25, 202644 min
One person in your business builds twenty AI agents and is accountable for everything they produce. Proud, or terrified? Amanda spent two decades in workforce advisory, built and sold Newance, a US recruitment and...
Dubai's Two Year Deadline for Agentic AI, with Jeff Ross
Aug 18, 202639 min
Dubai has given its entire private sector a two year deadline to adopt agentic AI. No pilot phase. Meanwhile, the honest answer to "what does your AI tool actually do for you" can often be a shrug, or three minutes of...
Every Company Needs Someone With AI in Their Job Title, with Jim Spignardo
Aug 11, 202633 min
Ask most businesses who actually owns AI and you get a pause, followed by a name and a caveat about how it isn't really that person's job. Jim Spignardo reckons that has about twelve months left to run. Jim's the...
Open Weight, Closed Weight or Open Source: What Every Leader Actually Needs to Know
Aug 4, 202614 min
What happens to your AI-powered workflows if the model you built them on disappears overnight? I'm on my own this week, catching leaders up on what actually happened in AI through July, because it was a genuinely packed...
AI Can't Write Your Story, But It Can Find It, with Rob D. Willis
Jul 28, 202634 min
AI can generate a thousand polished slides that say absolutely nothing. So what actually makes a leader worth listening to now? Rob D. Willis went from producing top 10 records in Germany to coaching executives on...
In this solo episode, I break down how AI token pricing actually works, and why it's about to matter for a lot more people than it used to. I get into: ✳️ Why input tokens and output tokens are priced completely...
AI Multiplies Whatever Environment It Lands In, with Greg Hoffman
Jul 13, 202642 min
Everyone's reading the same headline... Billions poured into AI, and most CEOs still can't point to the productivity gains. Greg Hoffman reads it differently. In this episode, Greg Hoffman (Chief Legal Officer turned...
Why AI Adoption Lives or Dies on the People, Not the Tech, with Paula Carter
Jul 6, 202645 min
When Paula Carter took over one national rollout, adoption was sitting at 42%. By the time she left, it was 98%. The technology never changed. Paula has spent over two decades leading change at scale, from digitalising...
"Where do you see yourself in five years?" used to be an easy interview question. With the AI job-apocalypse headlines flying around, it's a much harder one to answer now. This week is a solo one. No guest. I'm sharing...
Your AI Resume Is Already Written. Did You Write It? With Jason Barnard
Jun 22, 202643 min
There's already an AI resume written about you. The only question is whether you wrote it, or the machine guessed. Jason Barnard has spent 25 years studying how algorithms decide what to say about people and brands. He...
What AI Actually Demands From Leaders, with Cristina Gurguta
Jun 15, 202639 min
AI doesn't remove the need for leadership. It just raises the standard required." This week I sat down with Cristina Gurguta. Director of Research and Innovation and Associate Partner at INSUS Industrial Sustainable...
The ROI of a Lightbulb: Rethinking AI and Leadership, with Mark Schaefer
Jun 8, 202642 min
Strip the humanity out of your business to cut costs and you don't get a leaner company. You get a worse one. Mark Schaefer, marketing futurist, author of 12 books and the man behind the blog GROW, joins Martin Wheatley...
Connection Intelligence: Leading Across Generations and AI, with Jenny Ainsworth
Jun 1, 202638 minS0
<p>When AI can outpace what you know, what's actually left for a leader to do? Jenny Ainsworth has a stark answer, and a useful one.</p><p> </p><p>Jenny is a bestselling author and founder of the Connection Intelligence...
Leaders Aren't Ready for What AI Is Bringing, with Pierre Naggar
May 25, 202644 minS0
<p>"Leaders are not ready for what AI is going to bring." That's how Pierre Naggar opens this conversation. And it lands hard.</p><p> </p><p>Pierre Naggar is the founder of BrightPro and spent almost 30 years in digital...
AI Agents in Business: Inside Bentley Lewis with Lewis Maleh
May 18, 202644 minS0
<p>Most teams are using AI now. Nothing in the actual business has changed.</p><p></p><p>If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you.</p><p></p><p>Lewis Maleh runs Bentley Lewis, a global executive...
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