Every leader deploying AI at scale is figuring it out in real time. Exceeding Expectations is where they compare notes.
Each episode features a senior leader from the front lines of AI implementation: their operational battles, their hard decisions, their failures and successes, and what they've built from them. Across industries. Across functions. Always from the people who had to make the call and live with the outcome.
Real experience. Shared openly. No hype..
Exceeding Expectations. By Encore.
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Encore AI Website: https://www.gainencore.ai
Laurel Rockall LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurel-rockall-a73813128/
Most failed AI deployments aren’t technology failures. They’re management failures wearing an expensive disguise. In this episode of Exceeding Expectations, host Laurel Rockall sits down with Elaine Barsoom, former Global Head of AI and Tech Innovation Partnerships at Nike, innovation leader at American Express, and now Founder of Waveco, to unpack why so many enterprise AI pilots impress in the room but never change how a company actually runs.
28 Aug 2026
Why EI (emotional intelligence) Is the Real AI Advantage with Adam Slonim
In this episode of Exceeding Expectations, host Laurel Rockall is joined by Adam Slonim, a leadership strategist, broadcaster, and AI adviser, to dive into why the most critical factor in AI adoption is how leaders think about control, culture, and the human dimension of work transformation.
12 Aug 2026
The Myths Holding Enterprise AI Back with Professor Dan Roth Chief AI Scientist at Oracle
In this episode of Exceeding Expectations, host Laurel Rockall is joined by Dan Roth, Chief AI Scientist at Oracle, who explains why language models are powerful but not the reasoning engines most people believe them to be, why the relationship between AI and data runs in both directions, and why most organizations are underinvesting in the data side of that equation.
14 Jul 2026
AI in Banking: How Valley Bank Scales the Human Touch
In this episode of Exceeding Expectations, host Laurel Rockall sits down with Izge Cengiz Ercan, Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Innovation at Valley Bank. They discuss how the bank deploys smart AI solutions across commercial lending, prospect outreach, and internal workflows without losing its human core.
13 Jul 2026
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Exceeding Expectations, hosted by Laurel Rockall, sits down with the business leaders who are deploying AI to unpack what they’ve learned, what broke along the way, what scales successfully, and what they would do differently next time. If you’re the one in the room making these calls, this show was built for you. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
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