Session Focus:  A peer design charrette focused on moving AI adoption beyond training programs toward shared practice and sustained learning.

Many organizations can launch AI upskilling. Far fewer build the change conditions that make it stick—communication, manager support, and reinforcement in real work. This design charrette builds on insights from Kate Haney’s October  ✨ AI Practical Lab: From Whiteboard to Workflow and recent community discussions around enterprise AI deployment.

Borrowed from architecture, a design charrette brings experienced practitioners together to solve complex problems quickly.
ELE Design Charrettes—introduced by Alaska Fu, ELE’s Experience Designer—are focused, peer-powered working conversations that help leaders co-create and refine practical approaches in 50–90 minutes.

Together, we’ll examine what it takes to move AI adoption from training to shared practice—where communication, support, and reinforcement drive real use. The focus is not on vendor selection, but on how leaders create conditions for experimentation, feedback, and real use.

Expect thoughtful peer input, design questions, and early patterns leaders can adapt inside their own organizations.

In our October AI Practical Lab, Kate Haney—leading enterprise AI reskilling at Zurich North America for more than a year—shared what’s working (and what’s stalling) in real organizations. One insight resonated deeply across the group:

Successful AI upskilling isn’t just about training programs—it’s about communication, support, and real success stories that make it stick.

That insight frames the AI Transformation model below—and why human-centered transformation requires far more than content or tools. Who Should Join Leaders who are past experimenting with AI and now wrestling with a harder question: Why isn’t it sticking?

If you’re responsible for scaling AI use across managers, teams, or functions—and you’re seeing uneven adoption, stalled momentum, or “great tools, little behavior change”—you’ll be in the right room. This is especially relevant for HR, talent, learning, and transformation leaders who know AI adoption is no longer a training problem, but a practice, support, and reinforcement challenge.

How This Works This 50-minute ELE Design Charrette isn’t a presentation. It opens with a short framing insight, then quickly moves into peer work. Participants compare notes on what actually shifts behavior at scale—how communication, manager support, and real success stories accelerate adoption, and where well-intended efforts quietly break down.

You’ll leave with clearer design patterns and sharper questions—not a framework to admire, but practical moves you can test immediately inside your organization.

Join the ELE Conversation These every-other-Friday discussions are part of ELE’s ongoing peer exchange for leaders shaping talent and work in the AI era. Come ready to listen, contribute, and learn alongside peers testing ideas in real organizations and sharing what they’re learning.

Recordings are posted to ELE Insights within 2–4 business days.