Drive AI from Strategy to Success

An Executive Guide to Operating AI at Scale

Your AI pilots worked. Now what?

Most organizations have already validated AI. Few have redesigned the business to scale it.

Noelle Russell, CEO of the AI Leadership Institute, and Ben Blanquera, VP of AI and Sustainability at Rackspace Technology break down what separates organizations scaling AI from those still searching for traction in this two-part series.

Featured clips:

Part 1:

Why so many AI projects fail (and what to do next)

Ben and Noelle start with the strategic foundation: how to choose the right use cases, align leadership around core values and define what success looks like before a single line of code is written.

Part 2:

How to scale AI in the enterprise (2026 playbook)

The series shifts to execution: where initiatives break down, how to make sound technology decisions, govern agentic systems at scale, build an AI-fluent workforce and manage the economics many organizations underestimate.

Get instant access to the executive guide. Every framework from the series in one place.“From Strategy to Success: The AI Action Playbook”

Speakers

Ben Blanquera

VP of AI and Sustainability, Rackspace Technology
Ben works with enterprises to move AI beyond early experimentation into secure, scalable production environments.

Noelle Russell

CEO, AI Leadership Institute
Author of Scaling Responsible AI, Noelle has built and deployed AI systems inside some of the world’s largest organizations and is a five-time Microsoft AI MVP and TEDx presenter.