In this EDGE - Beyond The Stage 1:1, Amber Allen makes the case for a more human way to lead through AI: with curiosity, play, and experimentation - not fear. She shares practical ways leaders can start small with simple tools, avoid wasting money on overbuilt AI projects, and think more clearly about human-in-the-loop systems, data governance, and team adoption. One of her strongest ideas is that in the AI era, leaders need to look beyond IQ and even EQ - and focus more on CQ, curiosity quotient.

Takeways:
* Leaders should “lead with play and a little bit of fun, not through fear.”
* Many companies waste money trying to build big AI systems before they even have their data cleaned up.
* One smart move CEOs can make now is simple: “start meta tagging your data.”
* In an AI world, the human edge is increasingly “CQ curiosity quotient.”