AI adoption is often treated as a one-size-fits-all approach. But individual employees and users have individual needs and preferences that successful AI programs consider.

In the latest episode of "What's the BUZZ?", host Andreas Welsch sits down with Christina Fischer, principal AI consultant and founder of Human Pattern Works, to unpack why so many AI transformations quietly fail the people meant to carry them, and what an actually inclusive AI playbook looks like.

Here's what you'll walk away with:
1) The real reason most AI initiatives fail
Christina puts the number at around 70%, and by her account, the common thread isn't the technology. It's leaders running a business problem like a software rollout, skipping the work across process, culture, and compliance that decides whether any of it sticks.

2) Your edge cases are your early-warning system
The employee who needs clarity on objectives or flexibility in how they work is often the first to feel friction nobody else has noticed yet. Listen to them early, Christina argues, and you catch what's breaking before it costs you the rest of the team.

3) Trust beats surveillance, every time
Keystroke logging and return-to-office mandates measure the easy thing, not the valuable one. Christina expects the flexibility of the pandemic years to come back, because it's what lets companies keep the specialized people AI transformation actually depends on.

Actionable takeaways you can implement this week
- Score before you scale: run Christina's four-dimension audit,  process, work culture, compliance, technology, on your own team before you greenlight another AI pilot.
- Build one real feedback loop: swap a status update for an open conversation about what's actually working, and treat what you hear as signal, not noise.
- Check on your middle managers: ask the people absorbing pressure from both directions how they're doing, before they become your next regretted departure.

Who on your team is the canary in the coal mine right now, and are you actually listening to them?

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Disclaimer: Views are the participants’ own and do not represent those of any participant’s past, present, or future employers. Participation in this event is independent of any potential business relationship (past, present, or future) between the participants or between their employers.

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