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AI-Q
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January 12, 2027

What do the leaders getting results from AI do differently?
Organizations are investing heavily in AI. Yet many struggle to translate that investment into business value.
Drawing on new research with more than 200 senior leaders, Athena Peppes reveals a striking finding. The leaders getting value from AI are not the ones using it the most, nor the ones with the biggest budgets. They are the ones changing how they lead.
What sets them apart is AI-Q: the capability to create value where human and machine intelligence work together.
Leaders with high AI-Q were three times as likely to report a quantified business outcome from AI.
Discover the Mindsets, Abilities and Practices at the heart of this leadership imperative, and how to:
- assess your leadership readiness and identify where to focus
- make better decisions about where and how to use AI
- strengthen the capabilities that matter in the Human + AI era
- translate AI adoption into business outcomes.
ATHENA PEPPES is an economist and futurist who advises senior leaders and speaks internationally on AI leadership and the future of work, including at SXSW and the Global Marketing Summit. She spent over a decade at Accenture, working with Fortune 500 companies. She is Director at Beacon Thought Leadership and Head of AI Research at BossUp.AI. Her research has featured at the World Economic Forum and in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review.
Athena is based in London, UK.
Foreword
Introduction: A new leadership imperative
Section 1: Why AIQ matters
Chapter 1. The Great AI readiness gap: Fear, FOMO and doubt
Chapter 2. The cost of AI illiteracy: A future without AIQ
Section 2: Reframing leadership for the AI era
Chapter 3. The AIQ MAP: Mindset, Abilities and Processes
Chapter 4. Measuring your AIQ: tools to assess your current readiness
Section 3: Building your AIQ
Chapter 5. Mindset: new ways of thinking
Chapter 6. Abilities: skills for the human+AI era
Chapter 7. Processes: technical knowhow for non-technical leaders
Chapter 8. Creating your own step-by-step MAP
Section 4: Applying AIQ beyond yourself
Chapter 9. AIQ for your teams: Helping others build their AIQ
Chapter 10. AIQ in your industry: Learning from case studies
Chapter 11. AIQ and the future workforce: Driving growth
Chapter 12. AIQ in your personal life
Section 5: Sustain your AIQ
Chapter 13. How to adapt to signals of change
Chapter 14. The 7 habits of high-AIQ leaders
Further resources and tools
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
About the author