Hello CMI Adelaide!

Thank you to everyone who joined me at CMI Adelaide on 26 October! It was wonderful to connect and explore how AI can support our everyday change practice while keeping people at the centre.

I’ve shared the session resources below so you can keep experimenting, building confidence and putting the ideas into practice with your team.

AI for Change Managers: Working Smarter Without Losing the Human Element

CMI Adelaide | 26 October 2026

We explored practical ways to work smarter with AI while keeping human judgement, accountability and the human side of change at the centre.

The session covered:

• A prompt recipe: goal, context, source and expectations

• Building an AI toolkit with templates, reusable prompts, habits and a workspace

• Weekly checks and practical workspace setup

• The People + AI team conversation

• Reviewing outputs for Correct, Current and Complete

• Improving the process before automating it

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A practical session handout covering:

  • prompting frameworks

  • AI maturity for change managers

  • AI workspaces

  • reusable prompts

  • practical use cases

  • AI-enabled workflows

  • examples for change planning, stakeholder engagement, workshops, and adoption tracking

Resource #1: Summary of Session Slides

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RESOURCE #2: Creating Your Own AI-Ready Change Templates

A step-by-step guide to building reusable AI-ready templates for:

  • change and communications plans

  • stakeholder analysis

  • personas

  • readiness reporting

  • training plans

  • resistance management

This guide also includes:

  • reusable master prompts

  • guidance for handling missing information

  • tone and quality instructions

  • review techniques using the “3 Cs”

  • practical ways to build your own AI change toolkit