About Agentic AI for Leaders: Build AI Fluency, Discover Real Opportunities, and Thrive in the Era of Digital Workers
Every leader is being told to “do something with AI.” Almost none of them have been shown how. Between the hype, the vendor pitches, and the pile of pilots that never go anywhere, most executives are stuck, and quietly worried they are falling behind.
Agentic AI for Leaders was written to change that. It is a clear, practical guide for business and functional leaders who want to move from understanding AI to actually leading with it, and they do not need a technical background to follow along.
Author Subodh Kumar spent two decades inside enterprise transformation at companies like Dell, BP, Shell, and McKinsey, then founded the AI firm Brisk AI. He keeps hearing the same question from leaders across industries: “Can you help me understand this, and show me where it fits in my business?” This book is his answer, written the way he would explain it over coffee.
Readers get two frameworks they can use right away. SPOT helps them find their highest-value AI opportunities across any team or function. SCALE gives them a path from a first small win to enterprise-wide adoption, with the governance and guardrails to do it safely. The book also includes an AI Opportunity Readiness Checklist and a curated AI Prompts Library.
The big idea running through it: Agentic AI is not really a technology shift. It is an operating model shift, and that makes it a leadership job, not just an IT project.
It reads in a weekend and gives leaders something to act on Monday. A strong fit for any audience of executives, managers, and professionals trying to make sense of AI without the noise.
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Author Bio:
Subodh Kumar is the Founder and CEO of Brisk AI, where he helps organizations turn AI from an idea into real business value. He is a Harvard Business School alumnus and a graduate of IIT Bombay, and he has spent two decades working where strategy and technology meet.
Before founding Brisk AI, Subodh held strategy and transformation roles across global companies including Dell, BP, Shell, and McKinsey. At Dell, he built and led data science teams that put machine learning at the center of real business decisions, shaping product and go-to-market strategy. That blend of enterprise strategy and hands-on AI work gave him a rare view of how change actually happens inside large organizations, and where it quietly stalls.
Today he advises business leaders and boards on enterprise AI transformation and operating model design. His frameworks, SPOT and SCALE, come straight from that work, helping leadership teams move from scattered AI experiments to adoption that scales.
Subodh believes AI transformation is a leadership challenge, not an IT project. The leaders who thrive, he argues, are not the ones who understand the technology first. They are the ones who ask better questions about where it creates real value.