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Allstate Insurance

Abilitie

What if you could practice your toughest leadership conversations in a completely safe environment, with AI characters who respond realistically to your every choice?

Join Luke Owings, VP of Product at Abilitie, and Lorna Malloy, Education Design Manager at Allstate Insurance, as they explore solutions to a fundamental challenge: how to practice essential management conversations without real-world consequences.  In this fishbowl-style session, you’ll witness your peers navigate real leadership scenarios, from delivering difficult feedback to influencing without authority, while AI-enabled characters react authentically to their decisions.

This session brings together two perspectives on using AI to elevate (not replace) humanity. Luke will share insights on designing AI-native products that amplify human capabilities, while Lorna provides context on the realities of implementing AI learning solutions.

Leadership With, And For, The Age of AI

Digital &amp; AI

Leadership

leadership development

talent development

lorna.malloy

CHIE2025

human capabilities

Leadership Skills

HR Technology

Influencing Skills

AI-enabled learning

L&amp;D strategy

luke.owings

management conversations

immersive practice

difficult feedback

AI native products

learning implementation

safe learning environment

An INFLUENCER leads change.
An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills.
An INFLUENCER makes things happen.
This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.

Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We learn to cope rather than learning to influence.

From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes the new edition of Influencer, a thought provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high powered influencers from all walks of life. You'll be taught each and every step of the influence process including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You'll learn how to:
<ul class="a-unordered-list a-vertical">
 	<li>Identify high leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change</li>
 	<li>Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions</li>
 	<li>Marshal six sources of influence to make change inevitable</li>
</ul>
Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand to South Africa, where you'll see how seemingly "insignificant" people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You'll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You'll discover breakthrough ways of changing the key behaviors that lead to greater safety, productivity, quality, and customer service.

No matter who you are or what you do, you'll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles and skills. Once you tap into the power of influence, you can reach out and help others work smarter, grow faster, live, look, and feel better and even save lives. The sky is the limit . . . for an Influencer.

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

Strategy

dirk.tussing

Change Management

organizational development

organizational change

Communication Strategies

Strategic HR

change leadership

Leadership Effectiveness

laura.sandera

Strategic Influence

Driving Change

Motivation and Change

Behavior Change

Stakeholder Management

Impactful Leadership

terresa.bubbers

As a leader, you work hard at crafting effective messages. You aim to influence, persuade, and present. You have a voice and a platform… but is anyone listening?

The reality is that the people you’re talking to are distracted. They’re listening at 125–250 words per minute but thinking at 1,000–3,000 words per minute. That gap means they will likely miss 75% of what you say.

And guess what? It’s the same when it’s your turn to listen. What are you missing? At the very least, if your people don’t feel heard or understood by managers and leaders, trust is eroded, frustration increases, and engagement is reduced.

You need to listen and be heard…but most of us have never learned how.

The Listening Shift will show you how to be a listening leader. Find out:

✅ why listening matters
✅ how do you engage people across your organization by listening
✅ how to have listening conversations – collaborative, connecting, and inclusive
✅ how to help others listen to you.

Janie van Hool is an expert leadership advisor in the art of communication. In the last 20 years, her practical, accessible, solutions-focused communication approach has allowed hundreds of leaders to engage, inspire, and influence their listeners.

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