Leaderwired™: The AI-Era Leadership Playbook
AI Is the New Fire. This Book Is About Which Leader You Become.
Pre-order Available March 3, 2026
Artificial intelligence doesn't replace leaders. It amplifies them, their clarity and their blind spots, their wisdom and their limitations. Amplification is unforgiving. Whatever you haven't addressed in how you think, decide and lead, AI will expose.
The Most Critical Upgrade Keeps Getting Ignored: The Human Leader.
While organizations race to adopt AI tools and digital strategies, leaders are running into the same invisible wall, feeling overwhelmed, stuck, privately wondering if they can keep up.
- The certainty that once made you decisive is now a blind spot.
- The control that once ensured quality is now a bottleneck.
- The expertise that once gave you authority has been commoditized by AI.
This is why leaders who understand leadership theory and best practices still struggle with executive decision-making under pressure. The problem isn't motivation. It isn't knowledge. It's architecture.
Every leader runs on an internal leadership operating system, the beliefs, patterns, mindset, and decision-making defaults shaped by past success. This operating system built your reputation. It drove your performance. It feels like who you are. But it was built for a slower, simpler world.
The 7-5-3 Human Upgrade Code™
Grounded in applied neuroscience and forged through more than sixteen years of executive coaching, Leaderwired™ goes where most leadership development stops, beneath skills and strategies, into the internal operating system that determines whether leadership actually works.
- Diagnose the hidden patterns in your leadership operating system that undermine decision-making and performance
- Understand why insight alone doesn't create lasting leadership change, and what neuroscience shows actually does
- Rewire how you process complexity, make decisions under pressure, and lead in AI-accelerated environments
- Build the internal architecture that enables human-AI collaboration and turns AI into a true leadership amplifier
- Create the cultural and cognitive conditions where leadership transformation scales beyond you and into the organization
This isn't a book about AI tools. It isn't another collection of leadership principles you already know. It's a diagnostic playbook for executives who are ready to transform how they think, decide, and lead.
What Leaders Say
Ronan Dunne served as EVP and Group President of Verizon Wireless before becoming EVP and CEO of Verizon Consumer Group, leading the teams responsible for delivering products and services to more than 100 million consumers. Previously, as CEO of Telefónica UK (O2) for eight years, he transformed the company into the UK's most successful wireless operation and was named Ethical Corporation CEO of the Year in 2015. He wrote the Foreword to Leaderwired.
From Practice to Page
Born From Sixteen Years of Real Transformation
Leaderwired™ isn't theory. Every framework in this book was forged in the coaching room, refined with real executives facing real stakes, and pressure-tested through thousands of hours of transformation work at AdvantEdge Leadership.
Anna's clients have included CEOs of startups and Fortune 500 executives. What they share isn't their industry or title, it's the moment they realized the operating system that built their success was now their biggest obstacle.
The transformation these leaders experienced through coaching is now available in a single, actionable playbook.
From the Book
"The leaders I’ve watched transform - truly transform, not just adjust at the margins - share something in common. They made a decision that their development mattered. Not because it was comfortable, not because it was easy, but because becoming a better leader was integral to who they wanted to be. They did the work on beliefs when it would have been easier to keep the old ones. They upgraded mindsets when the familiar orientation seemed more efficient. They rewired thought patterns when the old ones were automatic. They modified behavioral defaults when the habits were ingrained. They clarified values when ambiguity was more convenient. They upgraded communication when the old approach was well-practiced. And they sustained these upgrades - not through heroic willpower but through intelligent design of the practices, relationships, and environments that supported their continued growth. You can do the same."
- Anna Barnhill, Leaderwired™
About the Author
Ready to Transform How You Lead?
Leaderwired is the diagnostic playbook for executives who are done running AI-era demands on an outdated operating system.