Welcome: Leading AI Adoption at Work

Learning Objectives Understand why AI adoption succeeds or fails at the team level Know what this playbook covers and how it differs from AI strategy playbooks Feel equipped to lead adoption even if you are not a technology expert The Adoption Gap Your organization has an AI strategy. Maybe the CEO announced it. Maybe there is a new enterprise license for Copilot or ChatGPT. Maybe a consultant delivered a 50-page roadmap. And then... nothing happens. Or worse — people sign up, try it once, get a mediocre result, and go back to doing things the old way. This is the adoption gap — the space between having AI tools and actually using them to improve how your team works. Strategy does not close this gap. Execution does. And execution is your job. A 2026 Gartner study found that 70% of enterprise AI tool licenses go underutilized within the first year. Not because the tools are bad — because nobody helped the team learn how to use them, nobody addressed their concerns, and nobody measured whether adoption was working. What You Will Learn Eight lessons that give you a complete adoption playbook: How AI is changing work — so you can explain the "why" to your team with data, not hype Running your first AI pilot — a step-by-step guide to a 30-day team experiment Training your team — what to teach, how to teach it, and common mistakes to avoid The tools your team will use — the specific productivity…