# AI Adoption Challenges and Leadership: Insights from Jennifer Tharp

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Podcast: [AI Today Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-today-podcast-328222)
Published: 2026-09-02T04:00:00+00:00
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In this episode of AI Today, host Kathleen Walch welcomes Jennifer Tharp, president of Mastodon Consulting, former PMI Board chair, PMI Fellow, and also PMP and PMI-CPMAI certified. Jennifer discusses how AI is transforming project management, not just as a tool but by reshaping the work itself. She highlights three forces as the new bottleneck: collapsed estimation, distributed authorship, and quality assurance. Traditional artifacts like Gantt charts and risk registers risk irrelevanc...

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