AI Leadership Institute · Research Study

The State of Agentic AI Leadership

AI agents are joining the workforce faster than most organizations can govern them. I'm gathering perspectives from leaders like you for my next book, Scaling Agentic AI Systems — a leadership playbook for building responsibly in the era of intelligent agents.

Noelle Russell · Founder & CEO, AI Leadership Institute · Author, Scaling Responsible AI

3–4 minutesAnonymous unless you opt in

Section A

About you

For segmenting results — never for identifying you.

Which best describes your role?*

How large is your organization?*

Section B

Where you are on the journey

Where is your organization on the agentic AI journey?*

Does your organization have an inventory of the AI agents operating inside it?*

Including agents built by business teams, vendors, or embedded in SaaS products.

Who is building most of the AI agents in your organization?*

Does every deployed agent have a named human owner accountable for its behavior?*

Section C

Governance and trust

What level of human oversight do your AI agents operate with today?*

How confident are you that your data is ready to support autonomous agents?*

Quality, semantic consistency, and governed access.

Not ready at allFully ready

What is the single biggest barrier to scaling agentic AI in your organization?*

How much do you agree: "Strong governance slows down AI innovation."*

Strongly disagreeStrongly agree

Section D

In your own words

Optional, but these stories are the heart of the research.

Tell me about a moment an AI agent or AI system surprised you — a failure, a near-miss, or an unexpected win.

A few sentences is plenty. What happened, and what did you learn?

What is the one question about agentic AI you wish someone would answer for you?

Section E

How may I use your answers?

May I quote your written responses in the book?*

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