Sue Cunningham

AI is the defining leadership challenge of our time. The first thing it asks of you isn’t adoption, or governance. It’s a position. Here’s mine. By Sue Cunningham, Founder & Principal Advisor - The Uncertainty Lab People ask me what I think about AI all the time. And for a long time, I couldn’t give them a clean answer - which is a strange thing to admit, given it’s the thing I advise on. But the honest truth is that a clear position on AI takes a while to form. You have to use it, explore...

Why experienced professionals struggle with AI, even when they’re using it AI is reshaping work. That’s no longer debatable. What is still poorly understood - and rarely discussed - is what’s actually stopping experienced professionals from engaging with it. The dominant narrative says it’s a skills problem. Train people. Upskill them. Run workshops on prompt engineering. But what if the biggest barrier to AI adoption for experienced professionals isn’t technical at all? The evidence paradox...

It's a permanent shift — and we need to learn how to live inside it. We are no longer moving through occasional disruption. We are now living inside sustained uncertainty – on an ongoing basis. This is not a hypothesis. It is what the latest evidence shows. Heading into 2026, uncertainty itself — not the pace of AI adoption, not geopolitical instability, not shifting trade policy — was the number one economic concern for US CEOs. Forty-three percent ranked it as their top threat when The...