Brian Evergreen is Corporate America’s AI coach. His message: ‘AI doesn’t have vision. Leaders do.’ Are you ready to hear it?

Brian Evergreen—AI executive coach, chess prodigy, and former choirboy—wants me to articulate a vision for my future. As the waiter replaces our appetizers with entrées, I dodge by peppering him with question after question about AI. Has generative AI actually delivered meaningful results for his clients? Not as much as other forms of artificial intelligence. There are 27 different types of AI, according to Gartner. Machine learning and reinforcement learning have delivered ROI, such as all...