Accelerating AI Adoption: Leadership Strategies for Talent Development

In this course, executive coach and talent development expert Naphtali Bryant shows you how talent and HR leaders can create the conditions for AI adoption to succeed by guiding people, processes, and culture. Explore why most pilots fail, what leaders can do to fuel exploration, and how to design small pilots that build momentum. Practice strategies for communicating openly, telling the change story, and creating rituals that normalize experimentation. Plus, develop a 90-day action plan with meaningful metrics to sustain adoption and scale what works. Perfect for Talent leaders, general business leaders, and Talent development professionals, this course prepares you to champion AI adoption as a leadership priority in talent development.

Learning objectives
Recognize why most AI adoption efforts fail and explain why successful adoption requires leadership action rather than just technology.
Apply three key leadership practices to accelerate AI adoption in your organization: fueling exploration, daring to learn, and leading through turbulence.
Design and run small AI pilots with clear success criteria, identify AI champions, and build momentum across teams.
Communicate effectively during AI adoption by telling the change story, addressing challenges transparently, and creating rituals that normalize experimentation.
Develop a practical 90-day adoption plan that uses meaningful metrics to scale what works and sustain adoption in daily workflows.