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What’s important about the AI-Readiness Assessment?
Today’s technology marketplace has crowned AI as the answer before most organizations has even asked the question.
In addition to selecting the right AI tool for your organization, the more important question pertains to the readiness of the leaders and the workforce.
Is the workforce ready? Can the leaders adapt while it lands?
For successful AI adoption, AI readiness is the prerequisite, not the byproduct.
From research, we understand the agility frameworks determine whether a tool becomes a transformation or a sunk cost.
Workforce agility and leadership agility play critical roles; organizational agility that emerges only when the first two align.
A transparent AI-readiness assessment helps to inform and gives leaders a leading posture on readiness actually requires.
AI-readiness assessment results provide an evidence-based approach for the next steps to guide AI adoption.
What’s the hype about AI taking jobs?
Most likely, AI is not going to take your job.
But someone who knows how to use AI in today’s work processes, the right way; those who can lead AI; those who can safely, ethically, and responsibly leverage AI outcomes, may be better positioned for elevated opportunities.
Here’s what no one is saying openly: the gap between those who can lead AI and those who have not started engaging with AI, is not based on intelligence. The gap is not aligned with talent. Surprisingly, it is not necessarily generational or experienced based.
It is one framework. Check out our new AI Ready books to find your place, with AI readiness and AI integration!
Come learn with AI-ReadyX
Experience our Interactive Prompt Lab for Testing LEADx in High-Stakes Acquisition
We offer an interactive Prompt Lab section where users can input their own acquisition scenarios and learn how to apply the Signature LEADx Framework using step-by-step with practical examples.
The section includes expandable LEADx steps with real-world examples, a complete prompt template they can copy, and key takeaways for effective prompting.
About the Speaker and Author
Bea Dukes, PhD has spent her career at the intersection of leadership, workforce readiness, and institutional change. She is an organizational development practitioner, AI strategist, and Senior Procurement Leader.
A retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel with twenty-three years in uniform where she held command at the detachment, company, and battalion levels. Her leadership experience includes strategic transformation projects driving system and business process changes for 12,000 personnel. Her work serves senior executives and leaders in healthcare, education, nonprofits, small businesses, and public sector acquisition organizations who are building AI-ready workforces.
Dr. Dukes, a native of rural Appalachia, and graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, holds an MBA and a Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Leadership. A keynote speaker that energizes and inspires any room that she enters (virtually or in-person). She is also an adjunct professor, author of the Leadership and Workforce Matters newsletter, and a community volunteer. Her writing reflects the leaders she has spent her career alongside.
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