Patrycja Pielaszek

30/12/2025

What was your biggest AI leadership lesson in 2025?

What are you changing in 2026?

https://open.substack.com/pub/ailevance/p/2025-the-year-ai-met-human-reality?r

28/12/2025

2025 finally exposed something we'd been hiding for years:
Bad leadership.

Not incompetence. Not lack of strategy.

The kind that looks good on paper but crumbles when people need actual guidance.

AI didn't create this problem. It just made it impossible to ignore.

I watched a VP delete an email three times last month.
Not because the content was wrong.
Because she couldn't tell if her team had used AI to write it and she didn't know if that mattered.
She finally sent it with: "Let me know if you have questions."
Translation: "I don't trust this, but I can't say that out loud."

Between May and July, trust in workplace AI dropped 31%.
But here's what the data missed:
People weren't losing trust in AI.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

2025 was the year we discovered that AI doesn't replace bad leaders.
𝗜𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.

I just published my year-end analysis on what happened when artificial intelligence met actual leadership.

The hard truths:
→ We're creating people who can operate tools they don't understand
→ Speed without trust creates expensive chaos
→ Most "AI adoption" is performance theater covering leadership gaps

Read the full analysis on Substack 👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/ailevance/p/2025-the-year-ai-met-human-reality?r=4a1a&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay

Real question:
Have you ever received AI-generated work from a colleague and immediately thought less of them for it?

(Be honest. This is what 2026 is actually about.)

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🟡 I’m Patrycja Pielaszek, transformation trainer, hybrid coach, and catalyst of 𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 • 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲, exploring how leaders integrate AI with human systems, wisdom & emotional intelligence.

26/12/2025

𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿!

I wanted to pop into your LinkedIn feed, for the last time this year, to say a massive thank you. Thank you to all of you who have co-created amazing things and memories or simply inspired me in 2025.

Thank you for being part of my journey!

𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆, 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!

Looking forward to see you next year.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗘 𝗳ü𝗿 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗝𝗮𝗵𝗿!

Heute statte ich deinem LinkedIn Feed einen letzten, kurzen Besuch für dieses Jahr ab.

Mit diesen Zeilen möchte ich dir ein riesiges DANKESCHÖN senden.

Ich bin dankbar für alle, die in 2025 gemeinsam mit mir wunderbare Dinge co-kreiert haben, einmalige Erinnerungen hinterlassen haben oder mich schlicht inspiriert haben.

Danke, dass du ein Teil meiner Reise bist!

𝗜𝗰𝗵 𝘄ü𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗶𝗻 𝗴𝗹ü𝗰𝗸𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀, 𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!

Ich freue mich bereits auf ein Wiedersehen im neuen Jahr.

Patrycja Pielaszek

https://pielaszek.ch/so/ebPjPxJeI?languageTag=en

21/12/2025

Trust in company-provided AI dropped 31%.
Trust in agentic AI fell 89%.

And unlike AI capabilities, leadership can change immediately - if you choose to close the trust gap.

Are you creating safety for experimentation? Or are you creating pressure to perform with tools nobody fully trusts yet?
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trust-gap-why-half-your-team-thinks-ai-users-less-patrycja-pielaszek-b2gge?utm_source

07/12/2025

Leadership is most powerful when it is centered on elevating others. When leaders invest in developing people's confidence and capabilities, they create an environment where individuals feel supported to step beyond their comfort zones. The most meaningful accomplishments often come from recognizing potential in others and helping them achieve what they once believed was out of reach.

At its heart, leadership is an ongoing commitment to guidance, encouragement, and belief in people's strengths.

04/12/2025

Join 𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘 - 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲, your pulse check on how AI and humanity can truly work in sync:

Exploring how leaders integrate AI with human systems, wisdom, and emotional intelligence. Click to read PATRYCJA PIELASZEK, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

29/11/2025

Delegate to agents. Keep humans on judgment.

Meet the 📒 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 that fixes teamwork:
delegate faster, review smarter, keep humans on the high-value work.

✍️ Comment PLAYBOOK to get the Human–AI delegation template.

And don't miss my new article "Human x AI for high-value work" 👉👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/ailevance/p/human-ai-rules-for-high-value-work?r=4a1a&utm_medium=ios

23/11/2025

Make a habit of reaching out to people just because they crossed your mind.

16/11/2025

Have you noticed how teams are getting busier with AI — not better?
We’re surrounded by automation and still drowning in noise.

Meet the new workplace disease:
🌀 — a blend of work and slop that describes the messy inefficiency created when humans and AI collide without clarity, empathy, or shared sense-making.

READ MORE 👉👉 https://ailevance.substack.com/p/workslops-why-ai-is-making-us-busier

10/11/2025

No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you are, those achievements are mere window dressing. They reveal nothing about your true character.

How you treat people ultimately tells all. Your behavior toward those who can offer you nothing in return - staff, service workers, or strangers - is the truest barometer of your soul. Integrity is everything.

It's the silent commitment to decency, fairness, and respect that defines your worth far more than any title or bank account ever could.

22/09/2025

Insecure leaders surround themselves with yes-men and women, creating echo chambers that stifle creativity and critical thinking.

They fear dissent and seek validation instead of feedback, hindering innovation and growth.

Strong leaders seek individuals willing to challenge their views and debate. They value diverse opinions and see constructive criticism as a way to improve decisions and team performance.