Greg Brisco 🙏🏾
CEO & Board Advisor | Engineering Leadership Models for the AI Era
March 11, 2025
Does this sound familiar? One of your top portfolio companies just secured $150M for AI development. Twelve months later, growth flatlines. The board is furious. Post-mortem reveals the AI models worked, but the team couldn’t align on risk, ideation, or execution. Sound familiar? For VC/PE leaders the real risk isn’t underfunding AI; it’s overspending on tech while underspending on the teams that scale it.
Your trillion-dollar edge?
Mastering the human algorithm.
The AI Paradox: Why Your Portfolio’s ROI Hinges on Teams, Not Tech
Every VC/PE firm can write a check. But in the AI era, capital alone is table stakes. The true differentiator is Building innovation-ready cultures across your portfolio.
McKinsey’s warning rings loud: 70% of digital transformations fail due to talent and culture gaps, not tech! For you, that means stalled exits, diluted carry, and restless LPs.
But here’s the upside: You’re not just an investor. You’re an architect of systems. The firms dominating 2025 and beyond aren’t betting on AI, they’re engineering repeatable innovation engines that turn human potential into predictable profit.
The $110M Lever: Data-Driven Teams = Fund-Wide Multipliers
Your secret weapon is scientifically validated team design. Tools like the Innovation Strengths Preference Indicator® (ISPI™), the world's only validated innovation tool, used by organizations like NASA, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin, decode the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral drivers of high-performing teams. For VC/PE leaders, this isn’t “nice-to-have.” It’s a profit imperative:
EBITDA Machine: Portfolio companies using ISPI™ report 22% higher margins by aligning talent to innovation pipelines. For a $500M fund, that's $110M in incremental value, directly tied to your carry.
Exit Premiums: Buyers pay 15-30% premiums for companies with “innovation-ready” cultures. Scale this across three exits, and it’s like adding a fourth unicorn to your fund.
Risk Mitigation: Preempt team implosions during M&A or leadership transitions. No more surprises at the 11th hour.
Your playbook? Replace gut-feel talent decisions with data-driven precision.
AI’s Hidden Fuel: Teams That Scale Faster Than Tech
Your portfolio’s CTO can deploy cutting-edge LLMs, but without teams wired for ideation, adaptive risk-taking, and cross-functional flow, ROI plateaus. ISPI™’s research reveals why:
The Ideation Powerhouse (high Ideation/Energy scores) drives R&D breakthroughs.
The Process Orchestrator (Control/Process strengths) ensures AI models translate to operational efficiency.
The Relationship Catalyst bridges silos between data scientists and C-suites.
At Sandia National Labs, the ISPI™ restructured teams to slash project timelines by 40%—a replicable blueprint for your AI portfolio.
From Check-Writer to Innovation Architect: Your Playbook
Your LPs aren’t paying you to fund AI, but they are paying you to scale it. Here’s how to own the human side of the equation:
Audit Innovation Readiness: Embed ISPI™ assessments during due diligence. Quantify team strengths before wiring capital.
Build AI-SWAT Teams: Use the ISPI™ data to pair Visionary Pioneers (high Risk/Ideation) with Execution Sherpas (Process/Control).
Align Incentives: Tie carry bonuses to innovation KPIs (patents filed, AI adoption rates, team cohesion scores).
The Call to Action: Humanize AI or Get Left Behind
Top-decile VC/PE firms won’t just chase AI, they’ll humanize it.
Partner with Humanize Innovation to deploy the battle-tested ISPI™ framework, exclusively tailored for AI-driven organizations, to transform your portfolio’s human dynamics into quantifiable returns.
Why Us?
AI-First Expertise: We bridge cutting-edge tech with human ingenuity, ensuring teams scale with your algorithms.
Proven Impact: Clients see 30% faster product cycles and 40% reductions in team conflict, metrics that turbocharge IRR.
VC/PE Dashboard: Track innovation KPIs across your entire portfolio in real-time.
Your Move:
Pilot ISPI™ in your portfolio companies within 60 days.
Benchmark gaps and turn them into equity multipliers.
Scale success to every company in your fund.
Final Word: The AI race isn’t won by GPUs, but by the human dynamics you ignite. Your legacy as a VC/PE leader? It won’t be measured in capital deployed, but in cultures built. The question is: Will you settle for funding rockets or will you train the pilots?
👉 Act Now: Book a consultation to claim your free innovation audit and uncover the hidden value trapped in your portfolio.
The Future Belongs to the Innovation-Ready
The future isn’t waiting and neither should you. This is your moment to lead, innovate, and shape the future of AI. Will you take the leap, or will you get left behind?
At Humanize Generative AI, we’re here to empower you on this journey. Together, we can decode the Innovation DNA of your teams, engineer readiness, and build a future where AI and humanity converge to create unstoppable innovation.
Leap into the future. Lead with humanity. Shape the world.
With passion and purpose,
Greg Brisco is a leading voice in human-centric AI implementation and organizational innovation. He helps organizations bridge the gap between technological capability and human potential.
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