Elevator Pitch
AI adoption is exposing hidden dysfunction in your culture. This talk reveals how to lead through the pressure, redesign your team’s habits, and build systems that align technology with trust, clarity, and performance. If AI isn’t delivering, this is the leadership reset you need.
Description
AI adoption is exposing more than technical gaps. It’s revealing the cracks in our team and organizational cultures. As organizations rush to implement generative tools, many are discovering that the real challenge isn’t the technology itself, but the unhealthy team dynamics, misaligned incentives, and leadership blind spots that surface under pressure.
This session reframes AI implementation as a cultural stress test. When clarity, trust, and accountability are missing, even the most advanced tools amplify dysfunction instead of solving it.
This workshop explores how leaders can respond with intentionality and design.
Attendees will learn how to build “People Systems” that align culture with technology, shift from activity-based metrics to outcome-driven leadership, and foster environments where quality, collaboration, and innovation thrive. This session is ideal for tech leaders, data strategists, and executives who want to lead transformation that actually transforms.
If your organization is embracing AI but struggling to realize its promise, this session will help you diagnose the real barriers and equip you to lead the cultural change that unlocks both technological and human potential.
Notes
Aaron and Steve have a passion for equipping growing companies to create bigger futures and build thriving cultures. We also have a passion for the use of technology to improve daily life. We have witnessed too many times that technology and people often unfairly get blamed when the real issue is the absence of a People System. The foundation of the people system start with awareness.
- Self awareness
- Team awareness
- Organizational awareness
It is our desire that RVA not only be tech’s most creative city, but it also be tech’s best culture to incubate innovation.