ELEVATE Series 2025 with Chad Lefevre: How to Lead and Thrive in An AI Economy
In this powerful episode of the ELEVATE Series, Chad Lefevre—neuro-strategist, systems thinker, and founder of The Most Important Conversations—challenges us to rethink what it means to be human in a world reshaped by AI.
As technology rapidly transforms the economy, Chad explains why our brains instinctively resist change, even when it serves us. He shares how we can use neuroscience, behavior design, and creativity to stay relevant, adaptable, and grounded.
Chad’s experience spans from producing events with visionaries like Peter Diamandis and Tony Robbins to developing neuromedia games that helped Coca-Cola leaders achieve 4x performance gains. His work is rooted in transformation, and he believes we’re not just navigating a tech revolution—we’re facing a full-blown identity crisis.
The solution? Reclaiming our natural creativity and reconnecting with what makes us uniquely human.
In this session, you’ll learn how to embrace AI as a tool, understand how your brain’s addiction patterns can hold you back, and start designing a life built on your core values, not society’s expectations.
Here’s just some of the fantastic strategy and advice shared from this conversation:
👉 Change isn’t the problem—our brain’s resistance to it is. Even life-or-death situations often fail to spark transformation because our brains view change as a threat. Awareness is the first step toward change.
👉 Your brain is an addiction-making machine. Chad reframes addiction as “reinforced behavior,” and urges us to create positive neurochemical loops that serve us instead of sabotage us.
👉 We’re shifting from a doing-based economy to a being-based one. AI is taking over many “doing” jobs, so your true value lies in who you are, not just what you can do.
👉 A massive wave of AI displacement is coming. Chad outlines a decade-long bell curve of economic transformation, where traditional jobs vanish and self-employment rises. The time to prepare is now.
👉 We must move from isolation to creative collaboration. The future belongs to those who can form communities, share knowledge freely, and build new systems together.
Meet our guest speaker, Chad Lefevre:
Chad Lefevre is an international design thinker, creative strategist, author, and speaker with nearly two decades of experience in business strategy, leadership development, and cultural transformation.
His work integrates systems thinking, neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and philosophy to help leaders unlock human potential and design transformative solutions.
As the founder of The Most Important Conversations (TMIC), Chad cultivates a global community of creative leaders dedicated to reimagining systems for a thriving future. He has collaborated with organizations such as Coca-Cola, Shell, Sony Music Latin, and United Way, and co-produced thought leadership events featuring figures like Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis.
Chad’s mission is to guide individuals in becoming “Life Regenerative Leaders”—visionaries who lead with intention, emotional mastery, and creative purpose.
Website: www.chadlefevre.com
Connect with Chad: www.linkedin.com/in/chadlefevre
Special Bonus!
The Values Conversation: Includes a fun and quick questionnaire, followed by a one-on-one session with a coach to help uncover the values that align with your core self. This is the gateway to Chad’s Whole Life Architecture program:
www.TMICtvcleadership.com
Free SourceCode Subscription: Get weekly insights from Chad on transformation, systems change, and AI adaptation:
https://open.substack.com/pub/chadlefevre
Meet your host, Amber Vilhauer:
Amber Vilhauer is a Books & Business strategist, multi-bestselling author, speaker, and the Founder of NGNG™ Enterprises (No Guts No Glory), an Inc. 5000 top marketing agency. She is the author of Infinite Impact and co-author of The Long Forest Trail with her son, Clay. Since starting NGNG™ in 2007, Amber has helped thousands of entrepreneurs align their business with their core talents and desires, empowering them to build the business and life of their dreams while naturally scaling revenue and impact.
She and her team routinely get in the trenches, implementing custom marketing strategies that attract qualified leads, launching bestselling books, and growing engaged followings that convert. Her strategies are comprehensive, deep, and built to align every aspect of her clients’ businesses with their ultimate visions. Amber and her team have made more than 1,000 authors #1 bestsellers, and has also been twice recognized as Female Entrepreneur of the Year. Connect and learn more at https://ngngenterprises.com, https://getinalignment.com, and https://booksandbusiness.com.
Watch the replay of Leading and Thriving in An AI Economy:
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When markets faltered in 2020, host Amber Vilhauer pioneered innovative strategies that grew her business by 80% annually for two years, earning multiple Female Entrepreneur of the Year awards and Inc.5000 recognition for being one of the fastest growing companies in America.
Now she’s assembled an elite line-up of speakers to address critical challenges like cognitive overwhelm, an aligned marketing strategy that is turning heads and getting results, how to use AI to expedite your progress, and how to adjust your sales approach to gain financial stability. Don’t shrink or “wait and see.” Gain the clarity, connections and customized 16-month growth plan needed to expand your following, revenue and impact while protecting your wellbeing.
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Connect & Get Support:
- https://NGNGenterprises.com (Strategy, Training, & Services)
- https://AmberVilhauer.com & https://GetInAlignment.com (Leadership and Impact)
- https://BooksAndBusiness.com (Education & Community)
- Books: https://InfiniteImpactBook.com, https://ClayVilhauer.com
About:
NGNG™ Enterprises (standing for No Guts No Glory) was founded in 2007 out of a passion to lift up those with an impact-driven message. Today, we’ve served thousands of authors, speakers, coaches, and business owners globally through branding and website design, bestseller book launches, and online growth strategy and systems.
Our work is custom (no generic, cookie-cutter stuff here). The relationship we have with our clients is personal and long-term. Download our pricing menu and see if we can be a fit to help you actualize your potential online!
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