Rewiring your organization for AI
Human-First Leadership for the Future of Work
You already feel the pressure to move fast on AI. We wrote this for the leaders who want to move fast and keep their people at the center because those two goals were never actually at odds.
This book comes at a timely moment when AI transformation needs a new narrative. By sharing practical frameworks for how work and roles will evolve yet remain grounded on the essential human core of the workforce, Rewiring Your Organization for AI provides a clear path for leadership teams that want to get workers excited about what a human-first, AI-enabled future can hold.
This book is written by two people who have actually been with leaders during the frustrating and exhausting process of AI transformation. It acknowledges the crazy, and then hands you a way to navigate it that doesn't ask you to stop being human.
A playbook for leaders reshaping their organizations in the era of AI, this book embraces the philosophy that what got you here won't get you there. It offers practical guidance for AI-curious leaders who want to build AI-capable organizations.
Well-written and thoroughly researched, Rewiring Your Organization for AI grounds us where we are in our organizations, and then methodically and practically takes us where we need to go next. The step-by-step guides and blueprints are immediately useful and pragmatic. This book is a real guide for real challenges.
This is one of the few AI books I've read that doesn't get distracted by the technology. Instead, the authors ask critical questions: What work should AI do? And what work should humans do? The book makes a compelling case that AI isn't eliminating leadership; rather, it's forcing us to become better leaders. The organizations that succeed won't be the ones that automate the fastest; they'll be the ones that figure out how humans and AI work together best.
There is a false narrative that managers simply coordinate and route information and are therefore easily replaceable by AI. In Rewiring Your Organization for AI, the authors reveal why that argument doesn't hold water while pointing us in the direction of a revised managerial function.
Most AI transformations don't fail on the technology. They fail on the people.
We've watched organizations pour budget into tools and platforms, then wonder why nothing changed. The gap is rarely capability. It's leadership — the daily choices about how work gets redesigned, who gets brought along, and what happens to the humans in the loop. This book is the field guide we wished existed.
See the work clearly
Before you automate anything, you have to understand how work actually happens — not how the org chart says it does.
Lead the change
A human-first plan names the hard trade-offs early and gives people a real role in the redesign, not a memo after the fact.
Show it works
Momentum comes from evidence. We show you how to measure what matters and build trust one visible win at a time.
Two practitioners who've done this work in the room, not just on the page.
Koreen Pagano
A globally recognized expert in skills strategy, AI transformation, and learning technology. Koreen founded Tandem Learning and has led product at Lynda.com, LinkedIn, D2L, Degreed, and Wiley. She's the author of two previous books — Immersive Learning and Building the Skills-Based Organization — and co-founder of Rising Tide Cooperative. She lives in Carpinteria, CA.
Kristi Broom
An AI strategy consultant, executive coach, and people expert with 30+ years leading transformation across startups, scale-ups, and enterprises. A certified Positive Intelligence® Coach and Registered Yoga Teacher, Kristi helps leaders embrace AI without losing the human connection that drives their business. She lives in Prior Lake, MN.
Bring the book into the room.
Reading changes minds. Doing changes organizations. Our workshops take the frameworks from the book and put them to work on your team's real decisions — a clear path from a one-hour keynote to a two-day capstone.
Leading Your Human-AI Workforce
The signature keynote-workshop that puts the whole approach in the room — how to lead a workforce where people and AI agents work side by side.
AI & the Future of Work: A Leadership Briefing
The get-everyone-literate session for boards, executive teams, and all-staff rollouts. Names the shift AI brings to the manager's role and why it matters now.
Becoming an AI Manager
The org's most important new role — and almost no one has named it yet. What it means to design human-AI workflows, validate output, and lead integrated teams of people and agents.
Designing the Agent-Integrated Organization
What does your org chart look like with agents in it? Work through the Five Archetypes and design principles to find the structure your organization is drifting toward.
The AI Leadership Maturity Model & Roadmap
The true do-the-work session. Your leadership team leaves with a dated, owned roadmap — a plan you can resource, quarter by quarter.
The Human-First AI Leadership Intensive
The everything offering for serious buyers. The Five Archetypes, the AI Manager role, the maturity roadmap, and the five human skills — combined into one immersive experience for your high-potential cohort.
Six sessions that build on each other — plus four more expansion workshops available once you know where your team needs to go. Ask us which fits.
Planning an event? Have one of our authors speak.
Koreen and Kristi bring the ideas in Rewiring Your Organization for AI to conference mainstages, leadership offsites, and company all-hands — keynotes that leave your audience with a human-first way to lead through the AI shift.
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Rewiring Your Organization for AI
Koreen Pagano & Kristi Broom · ATD Press · September 2026