John Winsor helps leaders win in the AI economy. He's the author of the forthcoming The Explorer's Mindset: The Leadership Advantage in an AI-Driven Economy and an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School's AI Institute, where his research focuses on AI and the future of work.

AI is not a technology challenge but a human and organizational one. The companies that win won't be the ones with the best models. They'll be the ones whose people can act with judgment when the map runs out. His ideas are resonating, as the top AI author in Harvard Business Review with seven articles in the last eighteen months, with two more on the way.

As AI makes expertise cheap, the old advantage, being the person in the room who knows the most, is disappearing. What's scarce now is the capacity to explore: to stay curious under pressure, to move before the path is clear, to bring a team through terrain no one has charted. John helps senior leaders and their teams build that capacity, working alongside them rather than handing down a playbook.

He's spent two decades at the frontier of how work changes, a six-time founder who exited his companies for more than $100 million, the author of six books including the bestselling Open Talent, and a regular voice in HBR and Forbes. He founded Open Assembly and has advised Fortune 500s, startups, consulting firms, and private equity, all circling the same question in different forms: what happens to people when the work itself transforms?

He comes at it from the mountains as much as the boardroom. John surfs, skis, and climbs, and in 1993 he survived an avalanche in the Selkirks. He doesn't treat those as metaphors. They're where he learned what he knows about uncertainty — and the boardroom keeps proving it true.