What Are We Really Hiring For?
Job descriptions now demand AI experience the way they once demanded Excel skills. But the capability organizations actually need isn't expertise in a tool. It's the ability to adapt when the tool inevitably changes.
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Perspectives on leadership, organizational change, AI, and the future of work — from someone who has spent two decades helping organizations navigate transformation.
Job descriptions now demand AI experience the way they once demanded Excel skills. But the capability organizations actually need isn't expertise in a tool. It's the ability to adapt when the tool inevitably changes.
The transformations that actually hold rarely look dramatic from the outside. They look like a hundred small renegotiations of how people spend their attention.
Organizations keep treating AI adoption as a procurement and training exercise. The real bottleneck is whether people trust what happens to them after they adopt it.
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Not the version on the slide, but the part where strategy meets human behavior and either takes hold or quietly doesn't. My background sits at the intersection of organizational psychology and hands-on transformation leadership — and Adaptive Work is where I think out loud about what I've learned.
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Coaching, advisory, speaking, or a transformation that needs a steady hand — reach out and tell me what you're working through.