I’ve been in a lot of rooms lately — boardrooms, roundtables, lunches with senior leaders. The AI conversation is relentless. But the word that keeps appearing on whiteboards isn’t AI. It isn’t strategy. It isn’t growth. The word on every whiteboard Belonging. Across every room, every industry, every seniority level — when leaders are really being honest about what keeps them up at night, it’s this. Not which model to use. Not the ROI. The question of whether AI makes people feel more or less at home in their own