Paying Attention with Scott Sandland: Lead to Succeed 81
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize many industries. By integrating AI, businesses are presented with different opportunities to improve their day-to-day operations.
But what potential does AI bring into the mental health area? Can it help cultivate meaningful conversations that will lead to solutions?
In this episode, Scott Sandland explains how AI can improve meaningful conversations. Scott is the CEO of Cyrano.ai, a company focusing on artificial empathy and strategic linguistics.
As a former head of a mental health clinic and longtime technologist, Scott has experience leading purpose driven organizations. He has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, Psychology Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Scott has presented his AI work at the United Nations AI for Global Good Conference and is a frequent guest lecturer at various universities.
Listen in and learn how talking solution is better than talking problems.
Key Talking Points of the Episode:
[02:18] What is artificial empathy and why is it important?
[04:41] What is a learning machine and what are the interventions it can provide?
[07:26] How does the platform work and what are the monitoring processes?
[12:15] How to effectively integrate the program into a workplace
[17:12] Scott’s journey from being a hypnotherapist to a leader
[21:20] How to discern the marketability of what you have and how to make a bigger impact using it
[22:25] Talking solutions vs. talking problems
[27:05] What failure, or apparent failure, later set you up for greater success?
[30:23] Rapid fire questions
Standout Quotes from the Episode:
“People will pay you more for painkillers than vitamins.”
“Think of the value of the problem, not of the solution.”
“People care about their problem first, and if you can reduce or remove one of their problems, they will pay with their attention.”
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