Dr. Devonish Engages the Audience on Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and AI, an Interactive Discussion with Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
What a joy to present on June 25th at The Link in Nocatee on “Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and AI: Small Business Owners and Entrepreneurs” to women making the greater Jacksonville area a thriving economic environment!
If you missed the event, here’s a brief clip about personality traits, emotional intelligence, and how a combination of IQ, technical knowledge, and emotional intelligence is crucial for leaders to guide, influence, and inspire action.
Key Takeaways:
Intellect, technical knowledge, and experience combined with emotional intelligence is the essential combination for effective leadership.
Future-forward leaders implement AI to enhance business operations that shifts allocation of employee labor towards meaningful and impactful work.
Critical thinking is the most important skill team members must possess to develop AI competency because AI competency is a required skill in the digital era.
Leaders use emotional intelligence to introduce AI to their workforce via appropriate messaging, training, and feedback loops for continuous improvement in business operations and culture.
Leaders use Emotional Intelligence and AI to:
Evolve
Grow the business and stay abreast of market conditions, customer trends, and tools to reduce to costs and increase efficiencies.
Innovate
Apply critical thinking to generate ideas with the possibility of customer trends, and tools to reduce to costs and increase efficiencies.
Replace
Eliminate repetitive, redundant, and mundane tasks to increase bandwidth for employees to focus on applying their expertise to deliver quality products and services.
Develop
Professional development and coaching to enhance workplace culture and promote collaboration, which fosters engagement, loyalty, and retention.
Communicate
Design communications that are timely, relevant, and helpful to their teams and their customers.
Connect
Deploy AI as a supplement to TQ and IQ for inquiries, research, and examination combined with EQ to connect with humans to attain win-win results.
Stay tuned! Participants in the Sapna Foundation’s Circle of Creation cohort on “Elevating Women in Business: The Synergy of Emotional Intelligence and AI,” will receive more insights in their workbooks at Business Expo on October 1, 2025.
If you are interested in learning how you can Branch Out to Reach Your Highest PotentialSM, contact me to schedule a free 20-minute consultation to discuss your goals and how I can help you achieve them.
