AI is changing the cognitive load on your leaders every day. Automation bias, attention residue and less recovery between decisions, and what organisations can do about it.

Just over half of organisations now expect their leaders to make greater use of AI in strategic decision-making. That's Harvard Business Impact's 2026 Global Leadership Study. A separate Gartner survey this year found only 8% of HR leaders believe their managers currently have the skills to use AI effectively in that role. Do the subtraction and you get a 45 point gap between what's expected and what's actually there. The obvious response is more AI training, another workshop

Every keynote on AI and leadership eventually arrives at the same line, and I have said a version of it myself. AI will never replace human judgement. Somewhere behind it, unsaid, is the assumption that judgement holds up on its own under pressure, which is the part I have started to disagree with. It is true, as far as it goes. It is also, increasingly, said without any explanation of what protects judgement when the pace is relentless and the decisions keep coming. The line

AI is clearing routine tasks, but it concentrates the hardest, ambiguous decisions onto leaders already drained by a faster pace. Discover how the concentrated cognitive load impacts executive decision quality and how to use the RESET Framework to protect your leadership capacity.