Hi Leadership Community,

A new bonus episode of the Leadership in Manufacturing Podcast is live.

This one is short, practical, and focused on a question I keep hearing from leaders across electronics, manufacturing, and supply chain:

How do you start using AI without overwhelming your teams or creating more noise than value?

Most organizations don’t struggle with a lack of AI tools. They struggle with too many options and not enough clarity. When AI shows up as urgency instead of intent, teams feel it immediately.

In this bonus episode, I’m joined again by Ellen Albright, Marketing & Communications Director at E-T-A Engineering Technology, to talk about how leaders should actually begin their AI journey.

Not with tools.

With decisions.

We talk about:

• Why AI only works when it’s tied to real business objectives
• Why starting small beats rolling everything out at once
• How prompt iteration beats expecting perfect answers
• Why AI adoption is a leadership and change management issue

This episode builds directly on Episode 133, where Ellen shares how E-T-A is implementing AI across sales and engineering with trust and structure. If you haven’t listened to that one yet, start there, then come back to this bonus episode.

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If AI is on your roadmap, this is a good place to pause and reset how you’re thinking about it.

Thanks for being part of the Leadership in Manufacturing community.

I appreciate you being here.

Stay curious.

Keep learning.

Keep leading forward.

Sannah

P.S. If someone on your team is feeling pressure to “do something” with AI but isn’t sure where to start, this episode will help them think more clearly about the first step.