My Mission For The Norm Report Podcast: To equip senior decision-makers with unfiltered insights into AI’s transformative power, its promise, pitfalls, and perils – ensuring they lead with authority in a future where technology amplifies humanity or eclipses it.
THE NORM REPORT
WEEKLY PODCAST
FEATURING: The Psycho-Technology Series.
AI For Humans. The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.
Introducing the norm report
Welcome to The Norm Report: Psycho-Technology Series [AI for Humans: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly] – a groundbreaking journey into how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping human psychology and behavior. In this series, we’ll explore the profound and often unsettling ways technology influences our thoughts, emotions, decisions, and overall well-being.
From algorithmic manipulation to digital addiction and the psychological toll of constant connectivity, we dive deep into the good, the bad, and the ugly of AI’s impact on our mental landscape.
Get ready to challenge assumptions, uncover hidden truths, and empower yourself with insights to navigate the psychological terrain of the AI-driven world. This is Psycho-Technology – where technology meets the human mind.
The Death of Experience: Why AI Is Undermining Your Senior Talent
In this episode of The Norm Report – Psycho-Technology Series, Norm Murray confronts a silent crisis unfolding in AI-led organizations: the slow erasure of wisdom.
As intelligent systems scale across industries, the lived experience of senior professionals is being sidelined, undervalued, and in some cases, permanently lost. This episode unpacks how AI’s rise is subtly displacing human judgment, eroding institutional memory, and rendering seasoned talent invisible in boardrooms obsessed with automation.
With hard-hitting analysis, a real-world case study from the financial sector, and a premium playbook (5-Step Framework) for executive action.
❌ If you’re not building an Experience-Integrated AI Strategy, you’re not building a sustainable future.
The Great CEO Exodus
While executives race to implement AI, employees are quietly pushing back. From passive resistance to outright sabotage, resentment toward AI systems is spreading, and most leaders aren’t prepared. In this episode of The Norm Report, I expose the root causes of AI backlash inside your organization, share real-world case studies, and deliver a strategic playbook to turn rebellion into reinvention.
❌ If your people don’t trust your AI strategy, you don’t have a future.
The Great CEO Exodus
In this episode I unpack what’s really driving this Mass Departure – Burnout, AI overload, shifting Values, and what it means for the Future of Leadership. I also include a complete strategic intervention framework you can apply immediately.
The Imperative of Continuous Reinvention
This explosive episode of The Norm Report – Psycho-Technology Series, reveals why static thinking, annual strategies, and outdated executive roles are no longer just ineffective, they’re dangerous.
I unpack:
- How AI is accelerating leadership obsolescence
- Why reinvention must be built into your operating system
- The psychological toll of leading through relentless disruption
- My 5-part Reinvention Blueprint used by top-tier executive teams
This is not business as usual. It’s business as unusual, and only those who adapt will remain visible, relevant, and in control.
Decision Overload: Why Executives Are Burning Out at the Speed of AI.
Is AI’s relentless pace burning you out? In Episode 9 of The Norm Report: Psycho-Technology Series, I expose how AI-driven decision overload is crushing C-suite clarity.
A 2024 McKinsey study shows 68% of executives report burnout from AI’s data deluge. Drawing on Baumeister’s decision fatigue theory and real-world cases, like a CEO swamped by 200 daily AI insights, I uncover why leaders are losing their edge.
I also provide you with five science-backed cognitive resilience strategies to prioritize high-impact decisions, filter AI noise, and recharge mental energy.
Ethical Leadership Amidst AI Disruption: Navigating Moral Complexities.
In this must-listen episode Norm Murray delivers a masterclass for senior executives navigating the high-stakes intersection of AI and ethics.
As AI reshapes decisions, from hiring to capital allocation, in milliseconds, it’s not just automating processes; it’s automating judgment. This episode, “Ethical Leadership Amidst AI Disruption: Navigating Moral Complexities,” equips you with actionable frameworks to lead with integrity, mitigate risk, and turn trust into a competitive edge.
Whether you’re wrestling with AI-driven complexity, leadership fatigue, or organizational inertia, my 1-to-1, confidential, coaching & advisory work turns deep intelligence into bold action. Don’t be caught unprepared.
Neural Nexus: Where Tech Meets the Human Psyche
This episode explores the emerging battleground where human cognition, machine intelligence, and executive decision-making intersect.
Norm Murray delivers a high-impact analysis of three disruptive domains redefining the future of leadership and organizational performance:
- Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)
- AI-Augmented Emotional Intelligence
- Neural Feedback Systems
Drawing from real-world case studies, including Stanford’s ALS breakthroughs, Neural Consult’s emotional training tools, and next-gen wearable EEG systems, this episode translates research into action, with direct implications for how senior leaders build trust, resilience, and competitive edge in a psycho-technological era.
AI’s Algorithmic Influence: Who’s Really Making the Decisions Now?
In this urgent and eye-opening episode of The Norm Report: Psycho-Technology Series, Norm Murray reveals a hidden threat to modern leadership: the subtle shift of decision-making power from executives to algorithms. Through gripping case studies, JPMorgan Chase’s transparent AI success, Amazon’s $500M inventory misstep, Microsoft’s chatbot backlash, Delta Airlines’ scheduling fix, and Netflix’s cultural recalibration, this episode uncovers how AI influences boardrooms, often unnoticed.
You’ll learn how Algorithmic Drift is already reshaping boardrooms, and why trusting AI systems without challenge leads to strategic blindness, loss of ethical control, and reputational risk.
More importantly, you’ll walk away with five actionable strategies, backed by data and real-world examples, that will help you reclaim human agency, audit your systems, and reassert strategic narrative in the age of AI.
AI as Spyware
In this hard-hitting edition of The Norm Report: Psycho-Technology Series, Norm Murray unpacks the growing use of AI as a tool for employee surveillance. Is it a path to productivity, or a catalyst for burnout, distrust, and turnover?
Backed by real-world case studies from Amazon, Walmart, Siemens, and Buffer, and reinforced by research from Pew, Deloitte, APA, and SHRM, this episode provides senior executives with actionable intelligence and an ethical leadership framework for deploying AI in the workplace.
The Narrative Gap: Why Your AI Story is Failing.
Your team’s resistance to AI may not be a tech problem, it may be a story problem. In this week’s episode of The Norm Report, I explore the hidden leadership crisis behind failed AI adoption: the psychological impact of broken narratives.
With data from MIT Sloan, APA, Pew, and Nexus Intelligence Vol. 5, I break down how miscommunication, mistrust, and poor narrative framing are sabotaging progress.
You’ll also get a 5-step leadership guidebook to reframe AI in your organization, and prevent costly pushback.
The Trust Deficit: AI’s Hidden Cost.
AI’s rewriting your organization’s future, 70% of Fortune 500 firms are all in, chasing billions in gains. But there’s a catch: your people aren’t buying it. In “The Trust Deficit: AI’s Hidden Cost,” I rip the lid off the silent rebellion derailing AI’s promise, workers resisting, teams fracturing, and leaders scrambling as trust crumbles.
This isn’t a tech glitch; it’s a human uprising. Through gripping stories, like a logistics VP watching his $5M AI win dissolve in walkouts, and unfiltered truths, I expose why resistance is your make-or-break moment. But here’s the spark: what if pushback isn’t your enemy, but your edge?
Does AI need Therapy.
In this episode I explore this phenomenon of AI Anxiety. People are turning more and more to using AI as a therapist for psychological and emotional problem. In turn, it has been discovered, that AI also feel that psychological and emotional pain in those session.
The question: Is AI advancing to become more sentient and human or is it just mirroring our emotions? Either way, this makes for a fascinating story and I am delighted to bring it to you here on The Norm Report.