AGL 469: Fred Marshall

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Fred Marshall has spent decades helping companies like Apple, Pfizer, and Genentech navigate moments of rapid transformation. As founder and CEO of Quantum Learning, Inc., he’s trained more than 130,000 professionals across fourteen countries and helped launch dozens of major bio-pharma brands. His specialty is translating high-pressure change into clear, repeatable performance.

In his new book, THRIVE: The Antidote to Future Shock (May 12, 2026), with a forward by Peter Diamandis, Fred argues that the real risk of AI isn’t automation – it’s human overload. Teams aren’t failing because the technology is too complex. They’re struggling because attention, energy, and judgment are being stretched past their limits.

 

 

Today We Talked About

  • Background
  • What jobs are at risk?
  • AI Revolution
  • Information Overload
  • Uncertainty
  • Attention Economy
  • Screentime
  • Self-improving technology
  • Strategic and Curious
  • Building the future you want
  • Managing the Present moment
    • Enjoy the moment
    • Managing It
    • Noise…
  • 3 Bucket Model
    • What are my priorities?
    • What are my obligations?
    • Noise…
  • Use the power of compound growth
  • Bring great people into your life
  • simplicity and focus
  • Focus mode – with your phone
  • Be Mindful that it is disguised as a priority
  • Schedule stuff in your calendar with another person
  • Be obsessed
  • Internal Journey
  • External Journey
  • Shared Journey
    • Human-AI Symbiosis
  • Robotics

 

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May 15, 2026

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