What Execs Get Wrong About AI Readiness

By: Ready, Test, Go. (Applause)

November 4, 2026

Nearly every board has asked for an AI strategy, and plenty of executive teams have a polished deck to show for it. But having a strategy and being ready to deploy AI are two very different things. When leadership teams treat AI as a purely technical initiative rather than a human transformation, pilots stall, user adoption falters, and the pressure to ship faster creates significant quality gaps downstream.

In this episode of Ready, Test, Go., Dr. Michael Housman, author of Future Proof: Transform Your Business with AI (or Get Left Behind) and co-founder/CEO of AI Performance Lab, joins to discuss what executives get wrong about AI readiness. Michael explains why leaders cannot delegate AI literacy, how leadership blind spots affect QA and engineering teams, and what AI-ready organizations do before shipping to production.

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