Ariel Lechner

Founder, NewPo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Arielle Lechner coaches tech startup founders and C-suite executives on leadership psychology, organizational culture, and high-stakes decision-making. Before establishing NewPo, she spent a decade directing go-to-market strategies for B2B SaaS and Web3 companies.

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Lechner: Custom AI coach bots are inevitable and already happening

“There's definitely a fear there around like, yeah, if I just, you know, someone just creates like a custom GPT of like, you know, a couple of conversations with the coach, or they pull in like books and, you know, teachers and whatever things that have inspire…”

Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 5:33 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't

Disclosure

Lechner: Only about 20% of coaching clients personally use AI daily

“I don't think very many. I think maybe 20%.”

Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 0:46 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't

Insight

Lechner: Urgent daily firefighting prevents leaders from adopting strategic AI tools

“I think what a lot of people struggle, struggle with is this, like, tension between, like, the urgent and the important, and a lot of these urgent problems that come up at work we're just used to responding. And important work, like, you know, how can I, you k…”

Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:35 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't

Insight

Lechner: Monthly employee AI build presentations drive adoption better than mandates

“It's hard to be top down and tell your employees you need to be using AI. You can't really control what they're doing, and so what they proposed is at the end of each month, everyone needs to either, like, build a new workflow or a product or something using S…”

Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 3:39 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't

Insight

Lechner: Public thought leadership is sufficient to build effective AI models

“If you just compile, I guess you don't need their, like, IP necessarily to create something that's maybe not perfect, but good. A lot of people who spend a lot of time sharing their thought leadership who are doing interviews, I mean, there's nothing, you can …”

Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 10:56 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't

Insight

Lechner: Most people know when to make hard calls but avoid them

“I think what I have learned is most people in their heart of hearts or in their bones know when they need to make a hard call. But come up with reasons to avoid it.”

Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 33:06 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't	Oct 14, 2025	12m

Ariel Lechner

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