Gallup and Silent Partners Launch Joint Venture to Redesign Work With AI, Starting With Senior Leaders

Silent Partners, Powered by Gallup® puts Gallup's research on leadership and engagement to work inside organizations, where leaders and their teams rebuild how they work with AI.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Although a growing number of organizations are integrating AI, few have changed how work actually gets done. Today, Gallup and Silent Partners launched Silent Partners, Powered by Gallup®, a joint venture built to close the gap between integration and productivity. It trains leaders and their teams to use AI to redesign how work gets done, so people spend more of their time on the judgment, creativity and accountability that deliver value for others.

Gallup's latest research finds that two in three U.S. employees in organizations that have implemented AI say it has improved their personal productivity — but just 14% strongly agree it has transformed how work gets done. Silent Partners identifies the distance between those two numbers as the AI adoption gap. Leaders see this gap in their organizations: AI capabilities have been made available, but outputs remain the same as before.

The AI adoption gap is widening just as work itself is changing. AI can now take on much of what used to fill a person's day, and people are asking human questions about it. What is my work now? What is expected of me? Where do I fit? Many organizations have answered with a technology rollout. Closing the gap takes people who understand what AI can do in their own work and are equipped to redesign it.

"The least interesting thing you can do with this technology is the same work with fewer people," said Andrew Peters, founder and CEO of Silent Partners. "When your team can take on far more than it could before, the better question is what you can go after now that you never could. Same people, bigger mission."

Unlike AI efforts built around deploying technology, Silent Partners builds the capability of leaders and employees to redesign their own work with AI. That people-first approach is what makes it a natural partner for Gallup, whose research has long focused on leadership, engagement and what people do best.

"For decades, Gallup has studied what helps people and organizations perform at their best. As AI changes how work gets done, leaders need to give their teams clear direction and the support to put new capabilities to use," said Joe Daly, Global Managing Partner and Head of Strategic Ventures at Gallup. "Our partnership with Silent Partners is designed to put Gallup's research on leadership and engagement into practice, helping leaders and teams redesign how they work and expand what they can accomplish. We want people to see a clear path forward and have the skills and confidence to help shape it."

Gallup's research identifies a key path for closing the gap. Employees whose managers actively support their team's use of AI are 8.7 times more likely to strongly agree it has transformed how work gets done. Leaders set the conditions everyone else works in.

That is why the venture starts with them. Senior leaders begin with a Senior Leader Intensive, a three-day in-person program, applying AI to their own roles before asking anyone else to. From there, everyone in the organization is invited to build the same skill inside their own work, taught to their strengths through the CliftonStrengths assessment, which more than 38 million people have taken. Those who go furthest take on whole workflows and redesign them into something the organization runs on and owns outright. The approach is model-agnostic and sells no AI tools — so the capability stays with the organization's own people as the technology changes.

"Most of the AI conversation is about tools and tips, and it misses what has actually changed," Peters said. "People are quietly asking whether they still matter. They do. The people closest to the work know where AI helps and where it doesn't. Our job is to give them the skills to redesign it themselves, instead of having it redesigned around them. And leaders have to go first, because people can't follow you somewhere you haven't been."

Leaders can download The Leader's AI Brief at silent.partners.

About Gallup

Gallup delivers analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems. Combining more than 90 years of experience with its global reach, Gallup knows more about the attitudes and behaviors of employees, customers, students and citizens than any other organization in the world.

About Silent Partners, Powered by Gallup

Silent Partners, Powered by Gallup®, a joint venture of Gallup and Silent Partners, works to close the AI adoption gap: the distance between using AI and changing how work gets done. Built on Gallup's research on leadership, engagement and strengths, it trains senior leaders first, then equips people across the organization to redesign their own work around what they do best: judgment, creativity and accountability. The approach is model-agnostic, so the capability belongs to each organization's own people. Silent Partners is led by founder and CEO Andrew Peters. Visit silent.partners.

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