CEO & Executive Tips to Engage AI as a Strategic Thought Partner | Ep 16 | Fountain of Vitality

by, LaMont Leavitt
Nov 24, 2025

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What happens when a 12-year-old's lemonade stand evolves into training 200+ CEOs on artificial intelligence strategy? Sam Keller, founder of Gen AI Academy, reveals how his seventh-grader's ChatGPT discovery launched a Bay Area training empire teaching business leaders to leverage AI as strategic thought partners. Traditional efficiency messaging failed to enroll employees, while aspiration-focused training showing how AI accelerates personal life goals created genuine buy-in. In this episode of Fountain of Vitality, host LaMont Leavitt explores the therapy company CEO who cloned himself into an AI doppelganger for his 1,500-employee leadership team reporting higher-caliber C-suite interactions, the single-day AI agent development winning largest-ever client contracts through simulated decision-maker avatars, and voice-only AI enabling 80-year-old bank executives without computer skills to access strategic thought partners. Keller discusses free consumer accounts inadvertently training public AI models with corporate secrets requiring business license protection, governance systems preventing duplicative AI tool chaos across organizations, and personality assessment analysis bridging gaps between 20-year colleagues. Learn how additional intelligence beats efficiency rhetoric for employee adoption, why guardrails unlock rather than constrain AI creativity, and daily automated updates keep leaders current without newsletter rabbit holes.

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