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Your recruiting AI screens out candidates who would have been perfect. Your engagement surveys generate reports that gather dust. Your talent management platform has great data and zero adoption. These aren't implementation failures. They're values collisions.

David Alison

Your front desk staff keeps going around the AI tools. Your guests keep asking to speak to a real person. These aren't bugs. They're features of human nature that your tech stack ignores

David Alison

Leaders, and HR professionals, are facing a new frontier where machines aren’t just helping us; they’re reshaping how we work. And while that brings incredible opportunities, it also brings risks—human risks. In our rush to implement AI technologies, we sometimes forget about the people. Employees may feel...

David Alison

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform Alberta’s schools, offering new possibilities for teaching, learning, and managing education. But introducing AI successfully requires more than just deploying cutting-edge technology. To gain trust and foster collaboration, schools must align their...

David Alison

You've been in the meetings. Someone from IT presents a roadmap. There's a timeline, a budget, and a list of use cases sorted by department. It looks thorough. It is thorough. And it's missing the only thing that actually determines whether any of this works.

David Alison

Why not build AI tools that understand WHAT MATTERS MOST to us? This post is an open invitation to companies using AI who want to make AI human-centric. We have the data. Values are the Answer. We just need to put them to work. Let’s talk.

David Alison

Your employees have been through three AI training sessions. They still aren't using the tools. The problem isn't what they know. It's what they feel. Here's something that might help: The Trust Before Tools Framework. It's a sequence of four conversations you need to have before any AI rollout, and the order matters. I've watched organizations skip straight to the "here's how it works" training and then wonder why adoption stalled at 15%. The ones who get the sequence right see entirely different results. Let me show you why.

David Alison

I'm supposed to be writing a book right now. I'm sitting at my desk in Vancouver, third cup of coffee going cold beside me, staring at a manuscript that needs my attention. But I've got my speaking calendar pulled up on a second screen because I was looking for a specific date I needed for a chapter, and then I just started scrolling. I didn't mean to go down this road. I do this sometimes, though. I get lost in the memories of my travel itinerary, the way some people get lost in old photo albums.

David Alison