This week on How I AI: How to get your whole team excited about AI
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How to get your whole team excited about AI (and actually using it) | Brian Greenbaum (Product Designer at Pendo)
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Brian Greenbaum is a product designer at Pendo who accidentally became the company’s AI champion, starting with a single Slack message he sent while on paternity leave. What followed: hands-on workshops, simple demos that changed leadership’s minds, a clear “golden path” for tools and policies, and real adoption across PMs, designers, and engineers. In this episode, Brian breaks down a practical, repeatable playbook for getting your team excited about AI—and actually using it.
Biggest takeaways:
Becoming your company’s AI champion is a career accelerator. Brian notes, “This initiative has opened so many doors internally. . . I’m having influence way beyond my scope.” As a senior IC designer, he’s now influencing company strategy, appearing on podcasts, and being sought out by colleagues across departments. The first person to raise their hand gets this opportunity.
Rapid tool experimentation beats careful selection. Rather than spending months evaluating one tool, Brian’s approach was to create a fast-track approval process for trying many tools. This allowed the team to discover what actually worked through hands-on experience rather than theoretical evaluation.
AI can reignite designers’ imagination muscle. Years of “minimum viable product” thinking has trained designers to self-censor their creative ideas. AI’s ability to quickly prototype ambitious concepts (like animated characters waving in an intro screen) lets designers think beyond constraints again—leading to more delightful products.
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