Global Intelligent Automation Leader | Strategy, Innovation & Operations | Digital Transformation | RPA, AI, Startup, & Venture Advisor | Public Speaker | Gartner Peer Community Ambassador

Doug Shannon | IT Automation & Digital Transformation Leader
Top 50 Intelligent Automation Leader | 2x Top 25 Thought Leader | Top AI Voice  | Co-Host of InsightAI

🔍 I help leaders transform chaos into clarity by turning AI from a buzzword into a governed, explainable partner, through human-first frameworks like ACT, GAAA, and SODOTOLO.

With over 20 years of expertise in advanced technology and automation, Doug Shannon is a recognized leader driving the future of enterprise and consulting transformation. His work integrates cutting-edge automation, AI, and leadership principles to build the autonomous enterprise, enabling organizations to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

🌟 What Sets Doug Apart:
Creator of Frameworks for Success:
ACT Leadership Model: (Alignment, Clarity, Transparency).
GAAA Model: (Gauge, Analyze, Automate, Adapt) - empowering businesses to evolve and optimize.
SODOTOLO Framework: (See 1, Do 1, Teach 1, Learn 1)- driving continuous growth through practical learning.

🌍 Global Recognition:
Ranked among the Top 50 Intelligent Automation Leaders.
Ranked among the Top 50 Global Digital Transformation Leaders.
2x recipient of the Top 25 Thought Leaders in 2024 & 2025 award.
Automation Innovator: Architect of self-healing and resilient automation processes, setting new standards in operational excellence.
Digital Transformation Visionary: Championing multi-agent systems and frameworks as a cornerstone of the future for AI and GenAI.

💡 Core Competencies:
Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), LLMs, NLP, ML
Agile Project Management (Certified Scrum Master)
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Risk Analysis, Enterprise Architecture, Product Governance
Digital Transformation & Business Process Reengineering

🌍 Affiliations:
Forbes Technology Council - https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/people/dougshannon/
Co-Host of InsightAI - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLivd8WaRu-XnT0kiQTmTAXQ2e5gloVLvp
Gartner Peer Community - https://blogs.gartner.com/peer/ambassador/
Theia Institute - https://www.theiathinktank.com/

☕ Support Doug’s Insights: https://buymeacoffee.com/dshannon

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17 Episodes in, avg 30,000 views per Episode. One Enterprise AI Conversation That Actually Matters.

Insight AI is built for enterprise leaders, practitioners, and builders applying scaled intelligence inside real organizations, while keeping human judgment firmly in the loop.

This isn’t AI as hype.
It’s AI as applied leadership.

Douglas Atkinson, and Doug Shannon 🪢 focus on real enterprise conversations around:

▫️ Applying scaled intelligence across systems, teams, and workflows
▫️ Human-first leadership in an increasingly autonomous world
▫️ Agents, orchestration, and operational reality at scale
▫️ Trust, governance, and architectural clarity
▫️ The risks of intellectual surrender, and how leaders retain ownership of thinking

Every episode is grounded in how organizations actually adopt, integrate, and govern AI, not demos, not shortcuts, not theory detached from reality.

Technology matters.
Architecture matters.
Human judgment matters most.

If you’re leading AI inside an enterprise and want to scale intelligence without surrendering accountability, this conversation is for you.

Come join the conversation! 🙌

#CIO #EnterpriseAI #ScaledIntelligence #HumanFirst #Leadership #ai

Forbes Technology Council  Thinkers360  InsightJam.com  PEX Network  Theia Institute  IgniteGTM  IA FORUM  SSON  Intelligent Automation Community  Solutions Review  

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Most conversations about Shadow AI can miss the point… But hey 👋 here’s one more for 2026!

Shadow AI isn’t about people “using tools.”
It’s about applications being created without discipline.

Shadow AI is application creation without the disciplines that make software safe, accountable, and repeatable.

What actually happens under the hood:

▫️ AI outputs become application logic
▫️ Prompts become unversioned code
▫️ Models become runtime dependencies
▫️ Data becomes implicitly exported
▫️ Decisions become production behavior

That’s not experimentation.
That’s deployment.

Without oversight, version control, or change governance, AI collapses the distance between idea and production. The moment outcomes influence decisions, you are operating a system, whether you call it one or not.

This is not a people problem.
It’s a leadership and architecture problem.

If organizations do not provide governed paths to build, people will build anyway. They always have. The difference now is the blast radius is larger, faster, and harder to unwind.

The risk isn’t AI adoption.
The risk is invisible systems shaping real outcomes without accountability.

Governance is not friction… It’s how trust scales.

#governance #mindsetchange #ai 

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