Abstract: As generative AI systems proliferate across organizational settings, the foundational challenge facing leaders has fundamentally shifted—from acquiring scarce information to validating abundant plausibility. This article introduces Verification-Centric Leadership (VCL), a framework reconceptualizing leadership as the governance of evidentiary admissibility under conditions where coherent outputs scale faster than validation capacity. Drawing on high-reliability organizing, information-processing theory, and trust calibration research, we examine how leaders design, legitimize, and protect verification infrastructures that determine when claims warrant coordinated action. The construct comprises three interdependent dimensions: admissibility boundary setting, institutionalized adversarial verification, and epistemic maintenance. Through examination of organizational responses across healthcare, finance, and knowledge-intensive sectors, we demonstrate how VCL preserves decision quality and calibrates reliance when fluency decouples from validity.
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