AI for Employee Well-Being: The Leadership Gap It Can’t Fix
AI wellness tools can nudge healthier habits, but they risk masking leadership failures. Real well-being depends on leaders who notice, listen, and care—not just dashboards and algorithms.
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AI for Employee Well-Being: A New HR Frontier
AI is moving workplace wellness beyond surveys and perks. By reading real-time work patterns and delivering subtle nudges, AI systems help prevent burnout, sustain performance, and open a new frontier for HR and change leaders.
The Field Guide to Bumper Sticker Leadership
Leaders love to toss out slogans like “People hate change” or “We’re like a family here.” They sound sharp, but they shut down feedback and disguise deeper issues. Real resistance isn’t fear of change—it’s frustration with poor planning, muddled priorities, and chaos masquerading as strategy.
Building A Resilient Change Management Career
Change management is a demanding field, but building a resilient career is about more than just mastering the basics. Discover how to stay relevant, grow your expertise, and thrive no matter what changes come your way.
The Cutover Comms Playbook
From first steps to seasoned strategy, cutover comms demand more than updates. This guide shows how practitioners at every level can steady the chaos of go-live.
How Much Shareholder Value Is Enough?
The drive to “return value” every quarter rarely benefits the people who created it. As practitioners, we must ask: when does returning value cross the line into extracting it—and what role do we play in enabling that cycle?
The Weaponization of “Help Me Understand”
'Help me understand’ sounds curious, but in change work it often masks a demand to defend. This piece unpacks the hidden power play—and shows how practitioners can reclaim the phrase as a tool for connection instead of control.
The Cost of Being ‘Nice’ in Change Work
Being “nice” feels safe in change work—but it comes at a cost. When we smooth over conflict, delay hard truths, or prioritize approval over impact, we quietly erode our credibility and influence. True kindness means courage: telling the truth with care and leading with clarity.
Grow Stronger, Stay Safer: How to Build Your Personal Boards
Don’t wait for the perfect mentor. Practitioners need two personal boards of directors: one that fuels growth and one that protects the business of you. Together, they create the scaffolding for a resilient and sustainable career.
The Bare Minimum Change Plan That Still Gets Results
Not every project needs a full change rollout. If you’re solo or stretched thin, a “bare minimum” plan can still deliver results. This guide shows how to reduce confusion, build trust, and drive adoption with just enough change support to matter.
Why So Many Change Practitioners Are “Open to Work”
GenX change practitioners are feeling the squeeze as orgs flatten, AI encroaches, and the profession faces an identity crisis. Survival means reframing our value—not as “change management,” but as outcomes leaders can’t ignore.
Burnout as a Business Model
Some organizations quietly accept burnout as part of their business model. When “resilience” is weaponized to mask systemic overload, change leaders can’t stay neutral—we must call it out and design for sustainable capacity.
Now Hiring? The Truth Behind Ghost Jobs
Ghost jobs—roles posted but never filled—are fueling frustration across the job market. Surveys suggest up to 40% of listings fall into this category. For job seekers, it erodes trust. For leaders, it’s a lesson in credibility and alignment.
Your Next Workflow Partner Doesn't Take Lunch Breaks
Agentic AI isn’t just smarter assistance—it acts. By automating handoffs, preserving context, and accelerating cross-functional workflows, it’s reshaping how work gets done. Leaders must design for trust, governance, and accountability in this new operating model.
Workplace Wellness—The AI Anxiety Paradox
Employees face an AI anxiety paradox—fearful of job loss yet hopeful for relief through personalization, inclusivity, and automation. Leaders and change practitioners must embed wellness and trust into AI strategies to turn uncertainty into opportunity.
Journey Mapping is Dead. Long Live Journey Intelligence.
Journey Mapping gave us empathy and structure, but it’s too static for today’s dynamic world. Journey Intelligence uses real-time data and AI to spot friction, guide adaptive nudges, and help change leaders design trust-driven experiences that evolve in real time.