Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Prerequisite: None

C. Lwanga Yonke

Founder and President

Padouk Consulting, LLC

Effective change leadership is often the differentiator between successful efforts and failed ones. Furthermore, in recent surveys, CDOs and CAOs consistently identify difficulty in changing organizational behaviors and attitudes as the greatest challenge they face.

This course provides well-tested and pragmatic skills that data, business, and IT leaders can use to successfully address this challenge and foster AI adoption and success. It highlights an element usually ignored by classical change management: the typically difficult personal transitions that individuals must navigate when required to change.

Participants will leave equipped with the essential but often neglected skills to lead or effectively participate in AI organizational change efforts.

You Will Learn:

• The difference between classical change management and people-focused change leadership
• The complex nature of AI projects
• The impacts of AI on the various components of an organization
• The sources of resistance to AI and how to mitigate them
• Models for the individual change journey and how to lead people through it
• The critical success factors for complex change and how to plan accordingly
• How to leverage the change adoption curve

Geared To:

• AI projects leaders or sponsors
• Business, data and IT leaders
• Product leaders
• Anyone leading or participating in projects that require significant organizational change
• Change managers and leaders