Bride humanity and technology: Brené Brown on the new challenge of leadership

It was in the center of New York Times The author of the successful author Brené Brown in Workday Rising 2025, the annual conference of users of the technology company. Brown explained that we can choose to be on “Team Technology” or “Team Human”, but “the future will belong to those of us who can ride the paradox of humanity and technology”. Both are necessary, she said.

Over the past two years, leaders have traveled an unprecedented uncertainty and complexity, managing this challenge each round, said Brown. The future of AI is a paradox itself, balancing innovation and regulations, speed and human involvement, even physics and philosophy, she said.

Our minds want to solve these problems quickly, so we’re having before solving the problem, said Brown. “If you can keep the conflict for a long time, something innovative and again will emerge,” she said.

In the AI ​​era, essential leadership skills do not consist in choosing between AI and humans, but rather how to unite both to stimulate growth. The organizations that choose the sides, said Brown, will not succeed. “Paradoxical thinking is enormous,” she said.

According to McKinsey, around 78% of corporate companies are currently deploying AI, some using it in production and others in tests or experimentation. During the opening address of the CEO of Workday, Carl Eschenbach, he said that 75% of workday customers use the capabilities of the working day. The company will continue to deliver innovation aligned with its values ​​”in a responsible, ethical, safe and thoughtful way, with human entry to the center,” he said.

Brown, research professor at the University of Houston, was appointed executive president of the Center for Daring Leadership at Betterup in 2024. She is currently working with organizations and CEOs worldwide to promote “courageous leaders”. His new book is “Strong Ground: the lessons of daring leadership, the tenacity of the paradox and the wisdom of the human spirit”. Brown’s 2010 Ted Talk, “the power of vulnerability”, remains one of the most visible of all time.

She told the public that the main organizations in the future require new forces, in particular paradoxical thinking, awareness of the situation, early thought, transparency and critical communication. “Say what you mean, mean what you say,” she advised.

Responsibility, which requires courage and vulnerability, is also essential to leadership, said Brown. She explained that vulnerability includes uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure.

“This is the difficult part-like probably everyone here, I was raised to believe that vulnerability is weakness,” she said. “There is no courage without vulnerability.”

Sheryl Estrada
sheryl.estrada@fortune.com

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