---
id: "action-establish-transitional-roles"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Looking Ahead"]
tags: ["organizational-structure", "c-suite"]
related: ["concept-transitional-ai-roles", "contrarian-title-inflation"]
action: "Create targeted, transitional C-suite roles to manage AI governance, work augmentation, and cultural preservation."
outcome: "Dedicated leadership focus on the structural and cultural adaptations required by AI integration."
sources: ["governance"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-governance"
originDay: 7
articleStem: "hbr-sig-56-csuite-board-reshaped-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/how-c-suite-and-board-roles-are-being-reshaped-around-ai"
sourceTitle: "How C-Suite and Board Roles Are Being Reshaped Around AI"
---
# Establish Transitional AI Leadership Roles

**Action:** Create targeted, transitional C-suite roles to manage AI governance, work augmentation, and cultural preservation.

**Details.** Consider creating transitional C-suite roles to manage the immediate disruption of AI. Roles such as **Chief AI Governance Officer, Chief Augmentation Officer, or Chief Humanist Officer** can serve as temporary scaffolding to help the organization adapt its capabilities, incentives, and culture to the AI era — see [[concept-transitional-ai-roles]].

**Caution.** Heed [[contrarian-title-inflation]]: a new title is a *signal*, not a solution. Real transformation requires changes in capabilities, incentives, and culture — not merely renaming the problem.

**Expected outcome:** Dedicated leadership focus on the structural and cultural adaptations required by AI integration.