What does it mean to be a great leader as organizations navigate the shift to AI?
Four leaders from across the Volaris Group share their perspectives — and while their roles differ, a few themes run through all of them: invest in people, stay curious, and ensure that opportunities are abundant for mentorship and learning.
For Volaris Group Portfolio Leader Rob Turner, leadership has always meant opening doors for people. “I’m a product of that opportunity that was given to me,” he says. Giving others the chance to take on greater responsibility isn’t just good management — it’s paying forward what made him who he is.
CORE Technology’s General Manager, Geraldine Quinlan Burke, puts her leadership perspective simply: respect and investment go both ways. “If you invest in people, people will invest with you.” That principle doesn’t change in an AI-first world — if anything, it matters more.
Omegro’s Chief of Staff, Peter Grant, frames the transition to helping businesses adopt agentic AI as a duty of care. Leaders aren’t just responsible for adopting new technology; they’re responsible for helping their teams make the journey too.
Eric Tumperi, Group Leader in Volaris Group’s Justice portfolio, challenges leaders to examine their own thinking first. His advice? Be curious. Question assumptions. Use AI to learn, not just to execute. And watch what happens when you do: the early adopters will naturally become mentors, pulling the rest of the organization forward with them.
The message that resonates across all four leaders’ perspectives is that although the technology may be new, the fundamentals of good leadership aren’t.
