WorkLab EY's Dan Diasio: AI is driving the biggest revolution in management ever
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Dec 10, 2025 Dan Diasio, EY's Global Consulting AI Leader, dives into how AI is reshaping the consulting landscape. He emphasizes the need for companies to become AI-first and invest in upskilling employees to compete effectively. Diasio discusses the shift from productivity to a growth mindset and the emergence of agentic tools blending human and machine capabilities. He shares practical strategies for leaders to drive transformation and highlights the importance of critical skills like creativity and systems thinking in AI-driven workplaces.
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Managers Will Oversee Agent Workforces
- Agentic AI will create a workforce of human-plus-agent teams where managers will supervise agents as employees.
- Dan proposes a human→agent→human workflow sequence to preserve critical human judgment.
Write A Two-Page Reinvention Agenda
- Do create a clear, investor-ready point of view describing where AI will create value for your business.
- Use a concise two- to three-page reinvention agenda to set mindset, skill, and tool objectives.
Build An AI-Native Blueprint
- Do build an AI-native blueprint with layers: platform, intelligence, control, and process.
- Define agent autonomy and data access as governance primitives before scaling agents.