In this solo episode, I'm sharing the biggest lessons on AI adoption from my four most recent conversations — Christa Hill, Giovanni Giamminola, Violetta Drobot, and Clémentine Al-Elimat of Schneider Electric — along with what I'm seeing in the AI workshops and client work I'm running right now.

Whether your organization started its AI journey years ago or is just turning on Copilot, the tools are accessible to everyone, and you can catch up fast. But turning on licenses isn't the same as transformation. Andy covers how to tell real adoption from login counts, why you should bring problems to the technology instead of the other way around, the three stages of AI maturity, why adoption is a team sport, and why the era of prompt engineering is giving way to something more important: teaching people to think. He also shares how to measure whether it's working, so you have a real answer when leadership asks, "Are we getting our money's worth?"

In This Episode, You'll Hear:

• Why HR and L&D need to be in the room for any AI rollout, and why Andy is starting a new client engagement with the HR team first
• Christa Hill's "logins aren't adoption" — and the three levels of real adoption, from individual use to team-wide breakthroughs
• Why you should bring problems to the technology, not technology to the business ("Don't spread AI over the whole company like peanut butter")
• Giovanni Giamminola's reminder that nobody was hired to build PowerPoints — they were hired to make good business decisions
• A simple prompt anyone can use today to find where AI can help in their own job
• Clémentine Al-Elimat's three stages of AI — doing existing work faster, reinventing the process, reinventing the business model — and "AI plus, not plus AI"
• Why adoption is a team sport: AI champions, intact-team training, and pairing early adopters with beginners
• Why leaders need to participate, not just sponsor
• The three fears employees bring to AI, and why leading AI change takes coaching skills
• Why it's time to teach thinking, not prompting — plus Violetta Drobot's two rules for keeping a human in the loop

Work With Andy:

Ready to move from "we turned on the licenses" to real adoption you can measure? Andy helps organizations run focused AI pilots — starting with one team, mapping and redesigning key workflows, and training people to use AI with confidence and good judgment. His hands-on AI Kickstarter Workshop helps teams move past fear and into everyday AI use, and his Career Ownership and AI Keynote helps people take charge of what AI means for their own careers. Reach out at andy@andystorch.com or visit andystorch.com.

Connect with Andy:

• Website: andystorch.com
• Email: andy@andystorch.com