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Andrew Brummer

Andrew Brummer

CEO & Founder of The Ardunan Village; fractional COO, leadership coach, and author known as "The Business Polygraph" for helping leaders and teams through authentic dialogue.

Aug 19, 2026

5:48
Give us a sense of what that chaos looked like for you, just the thread of it.
5:52
One, I loved it just because I love chaos, and I love learning and experiencing, and I love stretching my own envelope to figure out there's something there that can go.
5:59
But the journey of it was really understanding, one, understanding what I'm good at.
6:04
So if I had to mega kind of high-level the learnings, The first was understanding what I'm really good at, what attracts people around me and what is the influence or value add that I can drive into a person.
6:14
Not what I want to say, not what I want to think I'm good at, but what do people come back to me time and time again for? And how do I influence those lives so that those people can make a difference in themselves versus we go for a nice kumbaya cup of coffee and people go home feeling like they've heard.
6:29
But how do you turn that into...
6:30
So that was an eye-opener for me.

19 MINS LATER

25:31
You can't mention names because you're in the confidentiality business, but share one that helps illustrate this great work.
BlessedHOST
5:45
Maybe not even in the next I
5:51
agree with you.
5:51
You know, if AI does replace the workforce, it's because society have found a way to get the technology to work smarter and faster than us.
6:05
And maybe it gets there.
6:06
I look at my use of AI and I use AI extensively.
6:09
And I look at how productive I've become.
6:14
I look at the number of things I can do that I never used to be able to do.

9 MINS LATER

BlessedHOST
15:16
Now, what, Growing up in South Africa, teaching about people and leadership.
12:55
Mm.
12:55
There's, there is a missing page he- p- piece here.
12:58
And often it's a tiny piece of information or insights that you don't have.
13:02
In terms of how, gosh, I can tell you how, hey.
13:06
I just...
13:07
I have an ability to walk into an oil and gas plant right now.
13:10
I could switch off of this discussion and go to an oil and gas plant and talk about their line of business, and straight after that go into a SaaS, and then straight after that go into retail, and I'm able to embrace...

9 MINS LATER

22:28
Okay.

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