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Trust is the missing metric
in your AI strategy

BetterUp Labs research on 580,000 workers found the strongest predictor of AI performance wasn't adoption, it was trust in leadership. Adam Grant, organisational psychologist and Chair of the BetterUp Centre for Purpose and Performance, unpacks the piece of trust leaders consistently underinvest in. BlackRock's Caroline Heller shares what it takes to make experimentation safe enough for people to risk being wrong in front of their team.

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Adam Grant

Organizational psychologist, author, and Chair of the

BetterUp Centre for Purpose & Performance

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Caroline Heller

Senior Managing Director,
Global Head of Human Resources

BlackRock

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Jolen Anderson

Chief People and Community Officer, BetterUp

Moderator


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Key takeaways

Build trust to boost AI performance

Trust is the most significant predictor of AI's impact on organisational performance.

Turn cognitive debt into dividend

Ensure AI leads to a cognitive dividend instead of a cognitive debt.

Sharpen judgement, not just adoption

Judgement, more than adoption, determines how effectively people use AI.

Take three concrete
moves to earn it

Three concrete moves that build the trust needed for AI to take hold.