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Break the Mold: Jasher Cox on Building Teams, Leading Change, and Owning Impact

Published on: 17th November, 2025

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

In this episode of The AI Governance Briefing, Dr. Tuboise Floyd is joined by Jasher Cox, Director of Regional Development at the University of Notre Dame, to deconstruct the mechanics of leading change and owning impact.

Leadership is not a title. It is an architecture.

When standard scripts for team building fail, you have to break the mold. This isn't about management styles. It's about building high-performance systems that survive contact with reality.

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KEY INTELLIGENCE

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∙ Building Teams — moving beyond the roster to the ecosystem

∙ Leading Change — how to pivot without breaking the structure

∙ Owning Impact — measuring the signal, not just the noise

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GUEST

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Jasher Cox

Director of Regional Development

University of Notre Dame

🔗 https://directory.nd.edu/profile/jcox23@nd.edu

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FRAMEWORKS REFERENCED

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→ GASP™ (Governance As a Structural Problem) — humansignal.io/frameworks/gasp

→ The Trust Gap — humansignal.io/frameworks/trust-gap

→ The Workflow Thesis — humansignal.io/frameworks/workflow-thesis

→ Noise Discipline — humansignal.io/frameworks/noise-discipline

→ L.E.A.C. Protocol™ — humansignal.io/leac-protocol

→ Failure Files™ — humansignal.io/failure-files

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SUPPORT THE SHOW

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ABOUT THE HOST

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Dr. Tuboise Floyd is the Founder and Chief Sensemaking Officer of Human Signal — an independent AI governance research and media platform based in Washington, DC. He is the Editor in Chief of The AI Governance Record, Host of The AI Governance Briefing, and a TAIMScore™ Certified Assessor (HISPI, March 2026).

A PhD social scientist (Auburn University, Adult Education / Systems Theory), Dr. Floyd reverse-engineers institutional AI failures and builds governance frameworks that operators can actually use. His canonical thesis: most institutions will not fail because of a bad AI model. They will fail because of a broken governance structure around it.

Independence is not a feature. It is the product.

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PRODUCTION NOTES

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Host & Producer: Dr. Tuboise Floyd

Creative Director: Jeremy Jarvis

A Human Signal Production

Recorded with true analog warmth. No artificial polish, no algorithmic smoothing. Just pure signal and real presence for leaders who value authentic sound.

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CONNECT

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Website: humansignal.io

Podcast: theaigovernancebriefing.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drtuboisefloyd

Email: tuboise@theaigovernancebriefing.com

General inquiries: hello@theaigovernancebriefing.com

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TRANSCRIPT

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Full transcript available upon request at hello@theaigovernancebriefing.com

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LEGAL

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© 2026 Dr. Tuboise Floyd. All rights reserved. Content is part of the Presence Signaling Architecture® (PSA), GASP™, and L.E.A.C. Protocol™. Human Signal is an independent research and media platform. Nothing in this episode constitutes legal, regulatory, compliance, or professional advice. Guest opinions are those of the guest alone.

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TAGS

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#TheAIGovernanceBriefing #HumanSignal #AIGovernance #Leadership #LeadingChange #TeamBuilding #HighPerformance #BuilderClass #JasherCox #NotreDame #OwningImpact #SystemsThinking #GASP #TrustGap #WorkflowThesis #NoiseDiscipline #LEACProtocol #InstitutionalLeadership #SignalNotNoise



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The AI Governance Briefing with Dr. Tuboise Floyd
The AI Governance Briefing serves operators navigating institutions disrupted by artificial intelligence. Hosted by Dr. Tuboise Floyd — founder, researcher, and principal analyst at Human Signal.

The market has split in two. The consumption economy trades in noise, checklists, and compliance theater. The investment economy trades in signal infrastructure, physics, and sovereignty. The AI Governance Briefing serves the investment economy as its intelligence feed. We do not trade in content. We trade in leverage.

Each episode applies the TAIMScore™ framework, GASP™ diagnostic, L.E.A.C. Protocol™, and the Failure Files™ instrument to reverse-engineer real institutional AI failures, and to build governance infrastructure before autonomous systems break the institution.

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Episode content applies the TAIMScore™ framework, GASP™ diagnostic, L.E.A.C. Protocol™, and the Failure Files™ instrument. The AI Governance Briefing publishes under Human Signal. The AI Governance Briefing operates as an independent media and research platform.

All episode content, including analysis, case studies, and framework application, is provided for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing in any episode constitutes legal, regulatory, compliance, financial, or professional advice. No advisory or consulting relationship is created by listening to or engaging with this content. Guest opinions are those of the guest alone and do not represent the positions of Human Signal or Dr. Tuboise Floyd. Case studies and institutional failure analyses are based on publicly available information and are presented as pedagogical tools, not legal findings or regulatory determinations.

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