Fortune 5000 companies employ over 150 million people globally—controlling more than 40% of the world’s GDP.
This 15-minute podcast shows you what’s actually happening when companies use AI in the workplace. No jargon, no hype—just the reality of what works and what doesn’t.
Lexi Reese—CEO of Lanai—brings together the people who know: executives implementing AI in large companies, government officials writing the rules, and researchers studying the results.
They discuss which jobs are changing, which are disappearing, why some teams see huge productivity gains while others fail, and what skills will matter most as work changes.
AI @ Work: Open Garage Sessions. The human intelligence behind how AI is actually changing work.
Why AI in Marketing Isn't Paying Off Yet, with Jim Lecinski, Northwestern Marketing Professor and Former Google Exec
“Only 15% of CEOs rate their marketing function as doing a good job with AI.” Lexi Reese sits down with Jim Lecinski to discuss why marketing teams are struggling to show financial impact from AI — and what it takes to move from scattered pilots to real operating leverage.
They cover the AI Moment of Truth, synthetic customer personas, workflow rewiring, and the practical commitments CEOs and CMOs can make this quarter.
8 Apr 2026
We're Repeating the Outsourcing Mistake, with Ralph Loura, former CIO Clorox, HP
"We're taking entry-level programmers and laying them off. Ten years from now, where do you get the next layer of experienced programmers to manage the AI agents? You don't."
Ralph Loura has been a CIO since before most people understood what that meant. Bell Labs. Cisco. HP. Clorox. He's navigated every major technology wave of the last four decades, and he has a specific, experience-backed warning about this one.
In this Open Garage session with Lanai CEO Lexi Reese, Ralph gets direct about the AI problems CIOs are actually sitting with — and the one most aren't planning for at all.
What they cover:· Why eliminating junior engineering roles today creates a leadership vacuum you won't feel for a decade· Why AI workload visibility is the most important unsexy problem in enterprise right now· The word Ralph banned from every organization he's ever run — and what he uses instead· What data sovereignty means when a handful of platform players control your AI stack· Why resilience, not efficiency, is the right thing to optimize for right now· How to use procurement as a governance tool without becoming the department of no
An unusually candid conversation from someone who's been in the room for every technology transition of the last 40 years.
22 Oct 2025
The One AI Metric That Matters with Fred Laury, Xero CIO
Xero CIO Fred Laury shares the crucial AI metric he uses to gauge success across 4,500 employees, blending data with intuition in this interview.
9 Jun 2025
From Pilot to Production with Zoetis CDAO J.D. Williams
Zoetis CDAO J.D. Williams, Ph.D., discusses scaling AI in animal health through strategic focus and company culture in an interview with Lexi Reese.
24 Mar 2025
Quote-to-Cash and Beyond: CIO Karl Mosgofian’s Playbook for AI Transformation
CIO Karl Moskofian joins Lanai CEO Lexi Reese in the first Open Garage episode to reveal why most enterprise AI fails—and what it really takes to make it work.
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