How AI Reveals Your True Leadership Style

Get featured on the show by leaving us a Voice Mail: https://bit.ly/MIPVM This episode explores how AI can transform leadership by analysing real conversational behaviour, reducing bias and giving leaders immediate insight into their communication style. The discussion covers how leadership differs from management, why early‑career support is often missing, and how continuous feedback can shorten the development gap for new leaders. Listeners gain a practical view of how leadership intelligence works and what it means for team clarity, alignment and growth. 👉 Full Show Notes https://www.microsoftinnovationpodcast.com/794     🎙️ What you’ll learn   • How AI analyses everyday conversations to reveal leadership patterns  • How to identify gaps between perceived and actual leadership behaviour  • How real‑time feedback improves clarity, alignment and team dynamics  • How to shorten the long development gap for early‑career leaders  • How psycholinguistics and trend data support better leadership decisions  • How AI Reveals Your True Leadership Style 👉 Chapters 00:00 The Wisdom Gap in Modern Leadership 05:09 From Journalist to Leadership Innovator 08:28 Why Traditional Leadership Development Fails 09:00 How Parafoil Reads Leadership Through Language 13:17 The Future: Proactive AI That Coaches You in Real Time 22:11 The Missing Apprenticeship: Learning Leadership Through Practice 26:27 A Breakthrough Moment: When Leaders See Themselves Clearly ✅ Find Ben Online: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perreau/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/perreau Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bperreau/ Personal blog/Website: https://benperreau.com/ 🔴 Highlights  • “We explore real‑world AI applications, share practical insights, and discuss how businesses are implementing responsible, ethical, and trustworthy AI.”  • “Parafoil analyses how you lead in the work.”  • “By measuring pronouns and prepositions you can work out all sorts of things.”  • “It gives you an analysis of how each conversation’s gone after the fact.”  • “You don’t have to recount what happened to a chatbot.”  • “A problem never gets better with time.”  • “Leadership can only really be learned through the doing of the do.”  • “Most managers consider themselves to be accidental.”  • “How do we help people earlier in their career and not have a ten year delta”  • “His communication style really shifted over the course of the next two to three weeks.”  🧰 Mentioned  • Parafoil - https://parafoil.co/   • Microsoft AI - https://microsoft.ai/   • Google – www.google.com (https://www.google.com/)   ✅Keywords  ai, leadership, management, psycholinguistics, feedback, teams, communication, alignment, leadership development, leadership intelligence, product, coaching  Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption is a Microsoft Press book for leaders and consultants. It shows how to identify high-value use cases, set guardrails, enable champions, and measure impact, so Copilot sticks. Practical frameworks, checklists, and metrics you can use this month. Get the book: https://bit.ly/CopilotAdoption 🔴 Subscribe for all the latest Microsoft Power Platform News: https://www.youtube.com/nz365guy?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Share this video with a Youtuber friend: https://youtu.be/z8jygROjV-U ✅ Recommended Playlist: Hear the latest from Senior Microsoft Staff 👉 Power 365 Show - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkqyy0tYMOozNcXsEdVn4sqh 👉 Copilot Show - https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PLzf0yupPbVkqPyRqPii192UiJuT-SQHw-/videos ✅ All our Microsoft Innovation Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzf0yupPbVkoEIfkNYZ0dModTR5aLbRh3 ✅ Let’s Connect: Collaborate with me here – https://cloverbase.com YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/nz365guy Website: http://www.nz365guy.com/subscribe LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy X – https://twitter.com/nz365guy Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nz365guy Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nz365guy Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.nz/nz365guy I’m Mark Smith - nz365guy - Helping people reach their full potential I have been a Microsoft Applications MVP for over 14 years. I am passionate about helping people reach their full potential, through training, coaching and mentorship. Accelerate your Microsoft career with the 90 Day Mentoring Challenge (https://www.90daymc.com/) Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nz365guy) If you want to get in touch with me, you can message me here on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nz365guy). Thanks for listening 🚀 - Mark Smith