EP 23 Jun 9, 2026
The AI Grok Moment: Why Most Companies Miss It | Stacey Mulcahy, Microsoft Senior Director
Stacey Mulcahy
Why does AI adoption fail in business? Stacey Mulcahy, Senior Director of the Microsoft Garage, breaks down the real AI adoption challenges companies face and how Microsoft solves them with curiosity, hackathons, and hands-on AI skilling. Stacey leads the team behind the Microsoft Global Hackathon and the Skill Up AI program, engaging over 70,000 employees in grassroots AI learning and employee enablement across the company. We go deep on why formal learning paths are not enough, why curiosity and exploration drive real behavior change, and what Stacey calls the grok moment: the point where AI stops being a search engine and starts changing how you work. She also shares why leadership modeling makes or breaks adoption, how she runs learning in the open by streaming her own experiments, and why the GitHub Copilot CLI has completely changed her daily workflow.
