---
id: "action-role-model-ai"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ 4. Role Model", "§ AI Leadership is a Muscle"]
tags: ["leadership-behavior", "culture"]
related: ["concept-human-centricity", "framework-ai-leadership-transition", "quote-ai-democratically-accessible"]
action: "Demonstrate personal use of AI in daily routines and meetings."
outcome: "Signals to the organization that AI adoption is a shared priority, not a delegated task."
source_url: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
source_title: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
sources: ["execution"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-execution"
originDay: 8
articleStem: "hbr-foci-60-successful-ai-pilots"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently"
sourceTitle: "What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently"
---
# Role model AI adoption visibly

## Action: Role model AI adoption visibly

**Action:** Demonstrate personal use of AI in daily routines and meetings.

Senior leaders must demonstrate their own use of AI through **daily routines, experiments, and decisions**. A concrete example provided: a **CFO sharing his screen in meetings** to model AI usage (see [[quote-ai-democratically-accessible]]).

**Expected outcome:** Signals to the organization that AI adoption is a shared priority, not a delegated task.

### Placement
Step 4 of the [[framework-ai-leadership-transition]]; a primary lever for [[concept-human-centricity]].