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From AI Disruption to Real Results: A Leader Playbook

Speaker - Marcia Zidle

Wed Jul 29, 2026 01:00 pm EST 60 Minutes

30 Days left

Course Description

Across today’s workplace, AI is already changing how tasks, decisions, and workflows are handled across functions, teams, and industries. While companies continue to invest in new AI tools, many are running into a harder challenge: AI adoption is not moving as quickly as expected. Employees are unsure. Pushback is increasing. And the promised productivity improvements are not showing up consistently.

The Issue Is Not the Technology. It’s the Human Side Of Change.

No matter how advanced the system is, AI cannot create value when people feel confused, overloaded, or unconvinced about where these tools belong in their daily work. Many leaders are now seeing that weak communication, concerns about job security, and uneven change efforts can create quiet resistance that slows progress from inside the organization.

Take Action Now: Change Management Can Power AI Results.

Give your leaders and managers the guidance they need through this highly practical webinar “Turning AI Disruption into Adoption and Results”. This session will help them build the skills needed to guide the people's side of AI change with greater confidence. Participants will learn how to explain AI initiatives in a clear and credible way, respond to employee concerns before they become AI resistance, and create a workplace environment where adoption feels natural rather than forced.

Organizations that support attendance can gain immediate and measurable benefits

  • Accelerate ROI from AI investments through stronger Technology adoption.
  • Improve workforce confidence and engagement with AI tools
  • Align leaders around a consistent, effective AI strategy
  • Reduce hidden resistance that slows transformation efforts
  • Drive measurable gains in productivity and performance.

Bottom Line

What organizations need most is not simply more AI tools, but stronger adoption, alignment, and engagement.

Because in the end: AI doesn’t transform organizations—leaders who know how to manage change do.

Areas Covered in the Session:-

Throughout this highly informative webinar, the focus is to increase the effectiveness of leaders and managers to successfully manage AI adoption through practical, everyday change management skills. The objectives are:

  • Understand the key human factors that influence Employee adoption and resistance in the workplace.
  • Identify common barriers to AI implementation, including fear, skill gaps, and communication breakdowns.
  • Examine a case study of an AI-driven automation: The challenge, turning point, results, and key lessons learned.
  • Understand the Change Curve: The four stages of every adoption, the signs you’ll see, and how to manage each one.
  • Learn a four-step model to communicate AI initiatives that builds trust, reduces anxiety, and drives engagement.
  • Address common employee concerns and respond effectively to resistance, hesitation, and difficult questions.
  • Turn AI into a performance advantage—not a disruption to your teams or organization.

Why You Should Attend?

Across teams and workplaces, AI is quickly changing how work is completed, but many leaders and managers are learning that the biggest challenge is not the tool itself—it is getting people to actually use it. Even with major investments in AI systems, usage can remain uneven, resistance can build quietly, and the expected productivity gains may not appear.

The Gap Isn’t Technical; It’s Human.

When employees feel hesitant, adoption can vary from one team to another, and even strong rollouts can lose momentum when people feel uncertain or overwhelmed. If you are responsible for leading people, improving results, or managing change, this creates a serious gap between the promise of AI and actual workplace performance.

For leaders, managers, supervisors, or HR professionals, this highly practical webinar “Turning AI Disruption into Adoption and Results” will show you how to close that gap with clear, actionable strategies you can apply immediately. You will learn to:

  • Turn hesitation into engagement by addressing the real concerns behind AI uncertainty.
  • Communicate AI change with clarity and confidence—without creating fear or pushback.
  • Increase the use of AI tools across your team without forcing compliance.
  • Lead changes in a way that lasts, instead of fading after rollout.
  • Build employee confidence so people use AI—not avoid it.
  • Drive stronger performance and better results from your team using AI.
  • Register Now for This AI Change Management Webinar.

Real transformation does not happen because AI is introduced; it happens when leaders understand how to manage the human side of change. Make sure you are one of these leaders. Register and you’ll walk away with practical tools, real-world examples, and a clear approach to leading AI change effectively—so you can turn uncertainty into confidence and AI into a true advantage for you and your team. 

Who Will Benefit?

  • CEO’s, COO’s, VP of Human Resources, HR Leaders & Business Partners
  • Learning & Development (L&D) Professionals, Change Management & OD Practitioners
  • People Managers & Frontline Leaders, Project & Program Managers
  • Anyone expected to lead people through AI-enabled work changes.

Your Price Options

Live $189
Live & Recording $309
Live & Transcript $329
Recording $239
Recording & Transcript $319
Transcript $229
Live + Recording + Transcript $429
Marcia Zidle

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Marcia Zidle, the Smart Moves Coach, is a board-certified executive and career coach, business management consultant and keynote speaker, with over 25 years of management, business consulting and international experience in a variety of industries including health care, financial services, oil and gas, manufacturing, insurance, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, government and nonprofits. She has expertise in strategy and alignment; executive and team leadership development; social and emotional intelligence; employee engagement and... Read More