Perspectives by Trey Malicoat, M.S.
The Human Advantage
Thoughtful conversations about AI, leadership, and the relationships that make a business worth building.
Ideas for the business you could become
Automation & human contribution
Automate the Busywork. Recapitalize the People. Explore the 3X Potential.
Five business areas you can automate, the efficiencies you can gain, and how reinvesting in people could create greater profit and human contribution.
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Power, trust & employee well-being
When Automation Is Abandoned Midstream: Recognize the Power Shift and Protect Yourself
Six signs an active automation rollout is being dismantled as power consolidates, and practical ways employees can protect their clarity, confidence, and well-being.
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The book & the human conversation
Why I wrote The Queen Has No Friends
On fear, trust, the cost of control, and the person we choose to become after being hurt.
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Automation, purpose & human possibility
Recapitalizing Human Capital
What if the greatest return on AI comes from what you finally enable your people to do? Reinvesting automated capacity in human purpose, creativity, and connection.
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The human cost of reversal
The Cost of Walking Away: What an Abandoned Automation Takes With It
An urgent appeal to leaders: see the investment, the trust, the human effort, and the sensitive information affected when a major automation is abandoned.
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The agentic business environment
When Your Customer Sends an AI Agent, Will Your Business Be Ready?
Agentic AI is changing how customers and businesses interact. Prepare your operations, your systems, and your people to participate.
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From direction to action
Automate in Stages. Begin with a Clear Direction.
Plan automation as a six- to twelve-month business investment, beginning with an exploratory six-point evaluation and a clear implementation roadmap.
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Human responsibility
What Should Stay Human When Your Business Automates?
Where trust, judgment, accountability, and creative possibility need a human presence.
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Identity and change
Why Do Capable Employees Resist AI and Automation?
Look beneath resistance to understand what people know, what they fear losing, and what they could become.
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Customer relationships
How Can a Business Use AI Without Losing Customer Trust?
Build an automated experience that makes it easier to get help and easier to feel understood.
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The future of work
How Do You Redesign Jobs After Automation?
Give recovered capacity a purpose through stronger relationships, creativity, and responsibility.
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The Cost of Standing Still · With Trey Malicoat
Bring Trey Malicoat to Your Audience: The Human Side of AI and Change
Why bring Trey Malicoat to your next event? The Cost of Standing Still connects business experience, clinical psychology, and a practical path through AI and human change.
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A bigger business question
Is 3X Profit Possible? What Would It Take to Reach 100X?
Could automation and a greater human contribution open the way to 3X, 10X, or even 100X profit? Let’s explore a bigger possibility.
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AI, leadership & human connection
When automation gives you time back, what will you make room for?
Greater capacity asks something of leadership. Give people a meaningful place in what comes next.
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AI, leadership & human connection
What should your business automate first?
Begin with recurring effort, clear expectations, and the human relationships you want to strengthen.
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AI, leadership & human connection
How to talk with employees about AI before changing their roles
A practical conversation about uncertainty, contribution, and what people need to participate in change.
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