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Your Boardroom Is Full of People Who Think Exactly Like You
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- The Tech Leader's Playbook
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- Feb 13, 2026
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- 3022
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For more thoughts, clips, and updates, follow Avetis Antaplyan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avetisantaplyan In this episode of The Tech Leader's Playbook, Avetis Antaplyan sits down with Kylee Ingram, a decision science expert and co-founder of Wizer, a platform built to help leaders design better decision-making rooms at scale. Kylee’s journey began in sports television and documentary work before pivoting into interactive media and ultimately decision intelligence—a shift inspired by her desire to remove industry gatekeepers and build systems that empower diverse thinking. Kylee unpacks the science behind why good leaders still make bad decisions, revealing how cognitive diversity—not just demographic diversity—is the missing ingredient in most executive teams. She breaks down the three hidden biases that compromise leadership groups (social, information, and capacity bias), why “smart people in the room” isn’t enough, and how decision profiles dramatically change communication, hiring, fundraising, and strategic alignment. Through research from Dr. Juliet Burke and real-world examples from organizations like Enron, Kylee illustrates how teams drift toward sameness as companies scale, quietly erasing the diversity of thought needed for innovation. She also shares practical tactics for CEOs to improve decision quality—without slowing down execution—and how leaders can tailor communication to different decision styles for more buy-in, clarity, and outcomes. This episode is a masterclass on designing better rooms, better conversations, and ultimately, better decisions. Takeaways Cognitive diversity—not demographic diversity alone—is what prevents bad decisions in leadership teams. Most CEOs fall into just two decision-making styles, which creates blind s…