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70% of Leaders Are Making Their Companies Worse. | Dr. Kelly Monahan | Ep. 222
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- Localization Fireside Chat
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- Jun 1, 2026
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- 3177
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Summary
Dr. Kelly Monahan has spent 15 years researching the intersection of leadership, labor markets, and AI at Deloitte, Accenture, Meta, and Upwork. She founded the Upwork Research Institute, co-authored the national bestseller Essential (Wiley, 2025), and now runs Beyond the Desk, an executive advisory platform. Her message to leaders is direct: AI is moving fast, and leaders are not keeping up — and the data proves it. In this episode, Kelly and Robin dig into why 70% of leaders say they're leaving their organizations worse than they found them, how behavioral economics exposes the flaws in most management systems, what Upwork's longitudinal research reveals about AI's real impact on the localization and translation workforce, and what it actually takes to lead a human-first organization in an AI-driven world.