Leading Your People Through AI Change

Why this course exists

What makes AI adoption work in practice

MIT research published in 2025 found that 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots delivered no measurable impact on the bottom line, and the cause sat in how organisations integrated or adopted the tools rather than in the tools themselves.

An AI rollout gains momentum or adoption when the people leading it have a clear plan for the human side of change, alongside the technology itself. With the right support, teams can build new ways of working into their day-to-day (i.e. adopt) and get real value from the tools they are given.

This course gives you a methodology for introducing AI workflows into your team and supporting them to adopt new processes. It's written in plain words, built around the questions your team is already asking, and shaped to fit around your actual job.

Outcomes

What you'll be able to do

Understand why AI adoption is a people-led change, not simply a technology rollout
Assess your team's readiness for AI and identify the real barriers between go-live and everyday use
Create a clear vision and map your risks and priority actions for leading AI change in your team
Listen for what sits underneath silence, resistance and surface-level enthusiasm — and respond in ways that move people forward
Lead practical conversations that uncover where people are stuck and what they need next
Help your team find useful, low-risk ways to apply AI in their real work
Build confidence through practice, reflection and adjustment, especially when early attempts feel awkward or disappointing
Recognise genuine adoption, measure progress honestly, and know how to respond when momentum slows

Leave with a practical, people-first approach for guiding your team through AI change — with clarity about what to do next at every stage.

What's inside

Five modules · 2.5 hours

Every module is built around the questions that come up in real AI rollouts — with practical methods you can use with your team straight away.

01

The People Side of AI Change

Understand the gap between going live and everyday use, why AI can feel different from other technology changes, and what the people side of adoption asks of you as a manager.

02

Build the Plan Before You Move the People

Get clear on the vision you're building toward, diagnose your team's actual readiness with the Change Made Simple AI Readiness Scorecard, and map your risks and priority actions with your Detailed Project Risks & Actions Report.

03

What Your Team Is Actually Telling You

Learn to read what pushback, silence, workarounds and surface-level enthusiasm may be telling you — and lead conversations that help people move forward.

04

From Trying It Once to Making It Useful

Help your team find useful starting points for AI in their real work, build confidence through practice, and move from one-off experiments to everyday use.

05

From Rollout to Embedded

Recognise what genuine adoption looks like, build the habits that support it, measure progress honestly, and know how to respond when momentum slows.

What you get

What's included

The full course

Five self-paced modules, 2.5 hours all up. Start today and move at your own pace.

Five worksheets

Practical worksheets you complete as you go — about your team and your rollout, not a case study.

Your adoption action plan

You finish with a plan for your own team, ready to use on Monday morning.

Both CMS tools

Use the AI Readiness Scorecard — free to use, before and after the course — then unlock your Detailed Project Risks & Actions Report, the fuller version of the free tool, to build your plan.

Certificate of completion

A record that you did the work — for your files, your portfolio or your LinkedIn. A completion, not an accreditation.

Revisit any module

Come back whenever the rollout throws something new at you.

A quick check

Is this for you?

For you if

You manage a team that's been given AI tools to use
The rollout came with training for the tool, and nothing for the people leading it
Some of your team are on board, some aren't, and you want to know what to do next
You want something you can finish, and use, inside a working week

Not for you if

You're a change management professional — this is the plain-language version of what you already practise
You're looking for technical AI training or help choosing a platform
You need a programme for a whole organisation — that's a conversation with Change Made Simple

How this is different

A course, not a webinar

For the people being changed

Most change training is written for change professionals. This course is written for managers leading a real team through a real rollout — in plain words the whole way through.

Two and a half hours

Self-paced and built around the questions your team is already asking. Do it in one sitting, or take it a module at a time between meetings.

Built from real delivery

The methodology comes from 50+ technology projects over 30 years, at organisations including NAB, Australia Post and Monash University.

Who's teaching

Sheena Karim

Founder, Change Made Simple

I've spent 30 years working on projects and 20 of them in change management — more than 50 technology projects at organisations including NAB, Australia Post, Monash University and the Victorian Department of Education and Training, with more than 3,000 staff trained along the way.

In most rollouts I've worked on, the technology did what it promised. The real challenge was helping people adapt — especially the managers expected to make the change work day to day.

This course gives them a practical, proven way to lead their teams through it.

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From rollout to real adoption

Not sure yet? Run the free AI Readiness Scorecard first — it will tell you where your team sits right now.

Get the course — A$249

One payment · Self-paced · Start today

Leading your peoplethrough AI change