Change Management & Adoption
Driving enterprise AI adoption, user change, and community empowerment.
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Ep 81 - AI Needs Better Data: Agentic AI Foundations at Scale
AI agents are showing up everywhere, but most enterprises are discovering a frustrating truth: getting an agent to “work” in a demo is easy, getting it to deliver measurable value in production is brutally hard. We dig into why the bottleneck is shifting away fro
Ep 78 - Learn By Building: From Strategy Decks To Working Agents w/ Matt Bartles
“We’ll learn AI once we understand it” sounds responsible, but it’s one of the fastest ways to fall behind. We sit down with Matt to argue for a different approach: learn AI by building with it, in small scopes, with real users, and with the humility to let the w
Ep 72 - The Future of Work: Designing AI-Augmented Roles w/ Vivek Gupta
AI is moving so fast that “keeping up” can start to feel like a losing game and that speed is exactly what’s reshaping the future of work. We sit down with Vivek, an IT services leader building an enterprise AI platform focused on digital foundation and organizat
Ep 67 - RAG Done Right: Measure The Evidence Or Drift Into Error
What happens when a brilliant-sounding AI gives the wrong answer with total confidence? We dig into the quiet culprit behind so many “LLM failures”: retrieval. Rather than judging how smart a model sounds, we walk through how to judge whether it looked at the rig
Ep 62 - Reconfiguring Work: A Playbook For Agentic AI Adoption
When AI stops acting like a tool and starts acting like a teammate, the rules of work change. We explore what agentic AI really means for teams, decisions, and culture—and why the biggest blockers aren’t algorithms but fear, fatigue, and unclear purpose. Instead
Ep 45 - Clarity Over Speed: The AI skills that actually matter
Have you fallen into the AI execution trap? While everyone races to master prompt engineering and ChatGPT tricks, this episode reveals the uncomfortable truth: execution has never been the real bottleneck in innovation. The true differentiator—in every technologi
Ep 18 - CloudCast Meets Inspire AI: Building the AI Ready RVA Community
Two podcasts collide as Jason McGinthy from AI Ready RVA's Inspire AI joins forces with Aaron Delp of The CloudCast, bridging Richmond's emerging AI community with the cloud computing landscape. Their conversation flows naturally between practical AI ap
Ep 3 - AI Strategies for Optimizing Business Operations w/ Matt Bartles
Ever wondered how AI can transform your business operations or how industry experts navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape? Join us for an enlightening conversation with Matt Bartels, an esteemed AI and automation consultant. Matt shares his remarkable journe
Ep 0: Introducing Inspire AI
What if automation could reshape not only industries but also the very fabric of our daily lives? Join me, Jason McGinthy, as we explore this compelling question and more in Inspire AI: Transforming RVA through Technology and Automation. Get ready to uncover how