Geoff Woods
Founder & CEO, AI Leadership · 1 appearance on the record.
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Geoff Woods is the founder of AI Leadership and author of The AI-Driven Leader, which teaches executives to use AI as a strategic thought partner. Previously, he served as Chief Growth Officer of Jindal Steel & Power and co-founded the training and consulting company behind the book The ONE Thing.
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Woods saved a company $300M in 10 minutes using ChatGPT interviews
“I saved one company, three hundred million dollars in 10 minutes with ChatGPT. Cause I knew how to get it to ask me the right questions.”
Geoff Woods predicts typing will eventually become obsolete
“I don't know this to be certain, but I think typing's gonna go away.”
Woods: Building AI agents is a distraction before mastering foundational skills
“People hear about building agents, like, oh, I gotta build an agent. For most people, that's a distraction. I really think of AI adoption like dominoes. If you stand them up and line them up correctly, How do you knock them all down? You just tap the first one…”
Woods: Tech shifts historically repriced skills rather than eliminating jobs
“If you study technology shifts throughout history,
It didn't take jobs.
Remember, a job is just skills you apply and processes you follow.
What it did is it made the value of certain skills and processes skyrocket in value and the value of certain skills and p…”
Woods: AI at 50% human capability will match humans in 12 months
“In fact, if AI is 50% as good as you right now,
You should start working to have AR replace it, because within 12 months it will be as good as you, and then it's gonna run away with it.”
Woods: AI will eliminate frontline customer service, document review, and entry-level jobs
“Customer service, frontline customer service, paralegals and maybe you'll still have paralegals, but document review, document generation, that type of stuff, that goes away. I think a lot of entry-level work goes away, and this is actually a bigger problem be…”
Woods: AI shifts creativity from drafting content to casting strategic vision
“The creativity is not your ability to create the draft. Your creativity is the ability to cast the vision for where you want to go, to be descriptive with AI on the types of things you're looking for, to be creative in terms of the roles that you pull in, or t…”
Woods: Most people use AI in ways that atrophy critical thinking
“I think this is the greatest risk with AI that is not being talked about. Is unfortunately a lot of people are lazy and they're not realizing it, but your brain, your ability to think is a muscle. If you stop using it, it's going to get weaker and weaker over …”
Woods: Claude is the best broad-based AI tool
“But I think just broad based across the board, Claude.”
Woods: Under 0.1% of $1M to $100M companies use true AI agents
“Less than .one are doing that. And in most, the vast majority of companies, people are still using this to write better emails or to be their Google. They say they're building agents. They're not. They're building a project or a GPT.”
Woods: The greatest AI use case is as a strategic thought partner
“The greatest use case I have found is not using AI as an assistant, but using it as a thought partner. Because your ability to think strategically is the difference between growing your business or going out of business.”
Woods: Apply AI to existing problems instead of seeking new use cases
“I think one of the greatest opportunities for people is to realize, don't go looking for an AI use case. Realize whatever problem you're solving right now is the AI use case, if you know how to approach it correctly.”
Woods: Prompt AI to interview you instead of asking it questions
“The most important part is the interview. I just don't ask AI questions anymore. I make it turn the tables and ask me questions to pull deeper context out of my head than I would have ever thought to have shared, but also to elevate how I think and to shift ho…”
Woods: AI prompt quality matters little if applied to trivial tasks
“If, I don't care how good your prompt is, if you aim it at something that doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. You can use this to write a better email that is not going to change your results. You use this to solve your biggest problems or to help you achieve y…”
Woods built an agentic AI CFO to automate financial email analysis
“I have now gotten to the point where I have built an actual agentic AI CFO. That literally is in my email every single day. If I get anything from my finance team, it reads it. It opens up the Excel files. It is got probably 10 pages of instructions on how to …”
Woods: Documenting tacit knowledge via AI interviews enables agentic replication
“Any knowledge you have in your head for how you do your work that is not documented Is an opportunity to document. Use AI to interview you, to create that documentation in markdown format, you save it in a file folder, then you give an agentic AI platform like…”
Woods: AI will enhance rather than replace strategy, communication, and creativity
“The things that I think are gonna matter from a human skill standpoint moving forward, the ability to think strategically, to solve problems, to communicate, to collaborate with people and machines, and to create, to be creative.
Those are the areas where you …”
Woods: AI-driven organizations function like networks and swarms, not top-down hierarchies
“In an AI driven world, AI driven organizations are for far more like networks and swarms rather than this hierarchy of top down.”
Woods: Workers must shift from single instrument players to AI conductors
“You're no longer the player of one instrument. You're now the conductor, front and center, who's waving the baton and creatively engaging AI as a business analyst, then transforming it into a world-class communication expert with deep expertise on your IACP, a…”
Woods: Treat every initial AI output as the 'bad answer'
“Remember whatever draft, whatever it gave you is just the first draft. And before I even look at it, I just tell myself, this is the bad answer. I don't care how good it sounds. This is the bad answer. I'm about to make it better.”
Woods: Leaders facing isolation should build an AI board of advisors
“You should have an AI board if you are in a position where it's lonely at the top, and you would like to have advice on demand from people that will, or personas that will have your best interest at heart that are custom designed to augment your weaknesses.”
Woods uses a 30-year future self AI persona as his top advisor
“My most valuable board member is my future self. I created a persona of the man I want to be 30 years in the future so that that version of me can advise me every single day.”
Woods: Effective AI adoption requires first-principles redesign over legacy patching
“And you will be so much more creative about how you can approach something, not by bolting AI onto the way things used to be, But by truly imagining from first principles, how might we do this if I was an AI driven leader or this was an AI driven organization?”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| How to Use AI to Make Money, Grow Your Business, and Be More Productive | Geoff Woods | Jul 15, 2026 | 42m |