Every major tech wave demands reinvention. Magnus Oxenholt sits down with Nikki Barua, co-founder and CEO of Flipwork, to explore why AI is the one wave where reinventing your technology without reinventing your people will leave you behind.
Nikki has led enterprise transformations across four continents through every major tech wave — e-commerce, digital, mobile, cloud. Her through line? Reinvention. Not just learning new tools, but shedding old identity. She argues that AI is no different — except the stakes are higher, the window is shorter, and most companies are still confusing surface-level adoption with genuine transformation. Her People Squared framework fuses human creativity and institutional wisdom with AI’s capacity for scale: a portfolio manager who handled 10 assets can now run 200. One plus one equals eleven. The conversation also digs into why the most underrated enterprise risk isn’t falling behind competitors — it’s losing the people who could have led you forward. Nikki Barua is co-founder and CEO of Flipwork, an AI transformation platform helping large enterprises become agentic. She is a bestselling author and creator of the People Squared framework, and publishes the weekly Reinvention Roadmap newsletter.
