From Adoption to Impact: The Behavior-Change Your AI Strategy Is Missing

A working session for the leaders who turn AI investment into real capability, behavior change, and P&L impact.
3 hours
Wednesday, August 5, 2026 | 3:00 - 6:00pm EDT | New York
Thursday, August 6, 2026 | 3:00 - 6:00pm CDT | Chicago
New York | Chicago

Your AI pilots worked. So why hasn't anything changed?

AI adoption behaves like innovation: iterative, human, built through practice. The early absence of ROI isn't failure. It's the sign of an organization that hasn't been asked to build the muscle yet. Flywheels & Diamonds is how you build it.

  • ‍Flywheels — small teams ship one narrow AI innovation fast, creating the "wow" moments that turn skeptics into believers.‍
  • Diamonds — the standout flywheels become proven new ways of working, institutionalized across the company.

The result isn't a one-time rollout. It's a culture that keeps renewing itself, building skills, confidence, joy, and P&L impact at once. ROI follows the muscle, not the other way around.

You'll leave with the operating model, the leader behaviors that make it work, and a first move you can run inside your own organization.

Built for senior HR, Talent, L&D, and Strategy leaders, alongside the executives driving AI transformation. You own the muscle. That makes you the people who decide whether this works, not a support function.

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Event details

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Wednesday, August 5, 2026 (session full)

3:00pm-6:00pm EDT, including reception

The Lexington, 511 Lexington Ave & E 48th St, New York

Sign up to be added to the Waitlist for New York

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Thursday, August 6, 2026

3:00pm-6:00pm CDT, including reception

Hotel EMC2, 228 East Ontario Street, Chicago

Register here for Chicago

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