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How Principal Financial’s new CEO brought AI religion to the C-suite, and then worked to upskill 20,000 employees

When Deanna Strable, the chief executive officer of Principal Financial, mandated a four-hour, in-person artificial intelligence training session for her executive leadership team, the initial response wasn’t entirely enthusiastic.  “I had some resistance from my team,” recalls Strable, who says the training was held in July as part of a monthly meeting at the company’s … Read more

From ‘fear factor’ to ‘cognitive fatigue’: KPMG principal on the quarter when everyone started thinking about AI differently

AI agent deployment in major U.S. organizations has entered a period of hyper-growth, with workplace culture and management strategies evolving just as rapidly, according to the latest KPMG Q3 2025 AI Quarterly Pulse survey. In just six months, the share of organizations with deployed artificial intelligence (AI) agents quadrupled from 11% to 42%, according to … Read more

How I went from a kindergarten teacher to principal at a Big 4 consulting firm: a ‘contagious culture of change’

If you had told me years ago, as I was arranging storybooks and finger paints in my kindergarten classroom, that I would one day lead cloud and AI transformation initiatives for some of the world’s largest organizations, I might have laughed in disbelief. After all, in the ’90s, “cloud” was just something in the sky … Read more

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