A Conversation with Sol Rashidi | Revolutionizing Business Structures with AI

Ben had the opportunity to speak with Sol Rashidi, a very accomplished entrepreneur and leader in the business world. Sol is the Chief Analytics Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. She has eight patents issued, 21 filed, and received CAO of the Year 2021, 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech, #4 in Top 20 CDOs award, 2020 & 2021 list of Global Data Power Women, and Top 100 Innovators in Data & Analytics. We discuss her various accomplishments in business and how incorporating artificial intelligence has changed or influenced company structures. Getting started in sports 1:00Change management and organization 10:30AI will create bandwidth and capacity 19:40Managing mental health and self worth 25:00Balancing your time between life and business 33:30“I had tremendous resistance from the team because I was disrupting what they knew was their life for the past 15-20 years, and I wasn’t popular for a really long time. I was amongst the executives. I wasn’t amongst the team because I fundamentally disrupted their lives and their way of working, and their 9:30-4:30 checkouts, and they were very comfortable in that arena.” 24:06