Cisco Just Gave 90,000 Employees an AI Agent. Here’s What That Announcement Reveals About What’s Coming for Your Organization.

by Kenyotta Boone | Jul 10, 2026 | Uncategorized

Last week, Cisco announced that, beginning in its new fiscal year, each of its 90,000 employees will have a personalized AI agent—an assistant capable of answering questions, carrying out tasks, and working across functions ranging from finance and investor relations...

Your Organization Has 20 Ways to Measure AI Impact. But Are You Measuring What Matters Most?

by Kenyotta Boone | Jun 8, 2026 | Uncategorized

Organizations today have no shortage of frameworks for measuring AI impact. Financial metrics, operational metrics, customer outcomes, workforce indicators—revenue growth, cycle time reduction, adoption rates, AI literacy scores. Each provides valuable insight into...

Your AI Investment Has a People Problem — Gallup Just Proved It

by Kenyotta Boone | Apr 10, 2026 | Uncategorized

Your organization is paying for AI tools. You are likely paying for the technical integration. Gallup just released its 2026 State of the Global Workplace report. The subtitle was The Human Side of the AI Revolution. I need you to sit with that for a moment — because...

The Risk No One Is Budgeting For: What Happens When Early Talent Has No One in Their Corner

by Kenyotta Boone | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized

A client recently signed on for their second year of our ASCEND Mentorship Program. Not because the first one was good enough to repeat. Because the first one changed something — and they weren’t willing to lose that ground. Let me tell you what they were...

The Team That Was Too Busy to Build Trust—Until They Had To

by Kenyotta Boone | Mar 13, 2026 | Uncategorized

Most leadership teams don’t actually have a trust problem. They have a speed problem that’s showing up as a trust problem. They’re moving fast, meeting deadlines, staying focused on execution—and from the outside, everything appears to be working....