Sunday, October 19, 2025

How to lead through the AI disruption - Ruba Borno, McKinsey

Prompt engineering as a career path now seems almost quaint. The speed of AI capability is burning a future path for work and leaving recent convictions in the dust. Few executives see the pace of AI innovation as closely as Ruba Borno. As vice president of the Global Specialists and Partners group at Amazon Web Services (AWS), she works with partners and customers across industries to turn rapid technological advances into business impact. On this episode of the At the Edge podcast, she speaks with McKinsey Senior Partner Lareina Yee about leadership strategies, how to avoid pilot purgatory, and why AI security doesn’t slow growth, but speeds it up.