AI transformation is starting to look a lot like what we've seen in many other transformations. Bold visions with hefty investments. Expert guidance on architecture and best practice. But when the rubber meets the road, the transformation's goals are undermined by avoidance and resistance. It's not always obvious, but people get quiet, build their own workarounds, or resign.
Most approaches overemphasize the technical work and avoid the adaptive one, the human side of change.
These are questions that require learning, debate, and confronting tough tradeoffs, like:
Which decisions stay with a person, and who decides that?
How do we keep building judgment when the tool answers in ten seconds?
Whose role changes first, and what do we owe the people who trained the tool now doing their job?
We invite you to bring your stuck transformation, AI or something else. We'll help you find practical strategies where these tough questions finally get traction, with the people who need to address them.
What becomes possible
A government agency we worked with had been stuck on the same problems for years, where safety kept slipping despite everyone's best efforts. Experts kept working the issue, but they couldn't fully solve it until other people were in the room, folks who understood culture, frontline work, and mismatched incentives.
A new way of working involved:
Shifted Relationships: Nobody felt they were allowed to convene people across the organization. We helped them figure out how to come together.
Better Conversations: Nobody felt they knew how to get a productive discussion going. We helped them frame the right questions and build the right conditions for everyone's full attention and creative problem solving.
Effective Boundaries: People thought this would take forever. They realized they could accomplish massive breakthroughs in as little as 90 minutes.
You'll leave with:
A clearer read on what's actually stuck in your own transformation
A working design for convening the people your transformation depends on, including the skeptics
Moves for keeping learning and creativity front and center
This is for you if:
Your AI rollout, or any major change, is stalled, even though it looks technically on track
You keep hearing about workarounds or projects that are stuck for reasons nobody names
More training or a stronger directive hasn't moved the needle
This will be a virtual workshop. It will be held 10:00-11:30am EDT / 16:00-17:30 CEST / 17:00-18:30 IDT.
The workshop fee is $119. You will receive an email with payment link after registration. If you have a discount code, please enter it in the registration form.