TALK 03 · KEYNOTE OR WORKSHOP

Change is hard. Lead anyway.

Leading humans through every change on your desk: reorganizations, new mandates, modernization efforts, and AI.

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Change is external: the reorganization, the new mandate, the modernization effort, the AI rollout. Transition is internal. It is how your people process what changed, and it is where leadership actually lives. The research is blunt about why change fails, and it is rarely the plan or the technology. Gartner reports that 74% of HR leaders say their managers are not equipped to lead change, and MIT found that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to show measurable results. Clarissa has lived this from the inside: as Chair of the NYS Workers' Compensation Board, she led more than 1,000 employees through a pandemic, legislative reform, and a complex multi-year modernization of the agency's claims system. The technology got built. What made it work was how people were led through it.

In this session she gives managers and executives three moves that work for any change they are leading. Interactive, with live audience polls, in 30, 60 or 90 minute formats, and tailored to the change your organization is navigating, from reorganizations to AI adoption, today's most requested case study. Every participant leaves with The AI Change Leader's Checklist, a one-page tool that puts all three moves to work the same week.

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The one-page tool every attendee receives. Get your copy and put all three moves to work this week.

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YOUR AUDIENCE WILL LEAVE WITH
01Deep listening practices that surface what people actually fear and hope during change, before you prescribe a fix
02The five-line executive script for communicating through uncertainty, when silence reads as bad news
03A leader's approach to vulnerability that builds psychological safety through any transition
04A weekly practice for modeling new habits and setting the atmosphere the team walks into
05The AI Change Leader's Checklist, a printable one-page tool that puts all three moves to work on today's most pressing change

Your presentation, "Leading through Change," was relatable and offered several actions we can explore. We've received requests to have you back, so clearly your presentation was impactful.

ERIKA BEARDSLEY
Executive Deputy Director, NYS Justice Center for the Protection of People with Disabilities
Clarissa M. Rodriguez speaking at a leadership forum
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FormatKeynote or workshop (30, 60, or 90 minutes)
DeliveryVirtual or in-person
Best forExecutive forums, leaders navigating reorganizations and modernization, managers leading AI adoption, government and public-sector leaders
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