This highlight video is from June 12, 2025 session ✨ AI from Tool to Teammate: How to Build—and Lead—Your AI Team.

Session Focus: AI isn’t just a tool—it’s your newest team member. And Copilot helps you hire the right ones for the work you do every day.

“Start treating AI like a teammate, not just a tool—and you’ll unlock real value faster.” — Dirk Tussing.

That line reframed the entire discussion. Because it’s not just about adoption—it’s about integration. You wouldn’t discard a new hire after day one. You coach them. Set expectations. Help them contribute. The same applies to AI. It’s not a passive system—it’s a teammate you shape over time.

So what makes that relationship thrive?

“ChatGPT Projects let you create specialized AI agents—everything lives in one bucket, and the context builds over time. Copilot offers similar context anchors, but tied to your documents, chats, and apps.” — Roberto Seif

You don’t need to code—you need to design. L&D leaders are uniquely positioned to bring structure to ambiguity. When you apply imagination to AI, you eliminate the noise that slows your best people down and make space for deeper, more human work.

🔑 5 Strategic Takeaways

1. AI is your newest teammate: treat it like one—coach it, shape it, assign it work.

2. Know when to use Projects vs. Custom GPTs: projects store context for evolving workflows; Custom GPTs handle repeatable tasks with precision.

3. Start where it matters: your own role: run experiments on your workflow before deploying across teams.

4. Speed without process clarity just creates chaos faster: use frameworks like D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E. to find waste worth automating.

5. AI adoption is 80% culture, 20% tech: if your team doesn’t trust the change, it won’t scale.

✅ 5 Actions to Put Into Play

1. Spin up a ChatGPT Project for an active initiative. Think onboarding redesign, succession planning, or performance coaching.

2. Create a Custom GPT to handle your repeatable asks. Formatting, analysis, communications—it’s your backstage assistant.

3. Host a “test kitchen” sprint. Have each team member pick one task AI could support this week.

4. Map one broken process using D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E. Find the friction first—then layer in AI.

5. Talk less about AI. Ask more about work. Ask your team: “What’s taking too long?” and “What are we avoiding?” That’s where AI belongs.

The future of talent isn’t about replacing people with AI—it’s about elevating your teams with intelligence that adapts and imagination that leads. AI doesn’t take away the human—it makes space for it.
And if anyone’s ready to model that mindset, it’s us.

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AI isn’t just a tool—it’s your newest team member. And Copilot helps you hire the right ones for the work you do every day.