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CultureCon Webinar: The People-first Approach to AI Adoption - Why Culture Matters More Than Ever
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CultureCon Webinar: The People-first Approach to AI Adoption - Why Culture Matters More Than Ever
Date:
June 10, 2025
Time:
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM CDT
Event Description:
Traditional change management methods, where senior leadership selects technology and mandates adoption, often struggle, especially with artificial intelligence. The upcoming CIO magazine feature underscores the limitations of this top down approach. Instead, a people first strategy using an adaptive adoption framework has proven far more effective. This approach emphasizes democratic engagement, complexity management, and bottom up emergence. To successfully integrate artificial intelligence, organizations must immerse their teams in continuous learning and cultivate a culture receptive to organic and adaptive change. This demands a radical cultural shift that many companies are not yet equipped to lead.
Key Takeaways
- The unique benefits of the people first approach for artificial intelligence adoption.
- The critical importance of organizational learning and culture shifts for successful AI integration.
- The advantages of adaptive adoption compared to traditional change management strategies.
About the Speaker
Paul Gibbons
Principal | Paul Gibbons, LLC
Paul is the author of Adopting AI, called the 2025 AI book of the year. “Few books so artfully blend the optimism of Kurzweil with the caution of Bostrom with the pragmatism of Mollick.” — (Linus Caldwell, Alphaverse Capital) He has a global reputation as a scholar on the human side of technology—leadership, culture, digital transformation, and talent. Technology adoption, says Paul, isn’t a technology problem, it is a human problem – even more so with artificial intelligence. He has helped household names such as Microsoft, Comcast, Zappos, Shell, BP, HSBC, Barclays, PwC, KPMG, and Kaiser Permanente navigate their trickiest human capital challenges and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and The Financial Times. Paul brings clients real solutions, not management myths and pseudoscience. He challenges leaders to go beyond orthodoxy, received wisdom, and feel-good statements such as “change is the only constant” or “embrace change”—inviting them to look deeply at their own leadership capabilities. In the 2000s, Paul’s leadership consulting firm, Future Considerations, was ranked the top leadership boutique by Leadership Excellence magazine. In 2020, Paul polled at #3 in a ranking of the most influential speakers on organizational culture; in 2007, he was ranked the #2 CEO coach in the UK by CEO Magazine. In 2017, Paul was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Paul has degrees Organizational Psychology, Philosophy, and Molecular Biology, and graduate study in Economics and Neuroscience. He has taught leadership, sociology, business ethics, and organizational change as an adjunct professor at several business schools in the US and UK. Though European, Paul lives in Colorado with his two sons and competes at the highest level internationally at in bridge and poker.
