Change, Humanity, and AI: Helping Teams Move Forward in an AI Driven World

Presented by Dr. Nancy Morehouse, Ed.D.

Project managers know how to manage plans, timelines, risks, milestones, and deliverables. The harder challenge is helping people move forward when AI changes the tools, the pace, the expectations, and sometimes their sense of where they fit.

This masterclass begins with a question many team members quietly carry during change: Can I be successful in what comes next? It then turns that question back to project leaders: How can I help people move forward when the future is not yet clear?

In this timely session, participants will look beyond implementation plans and learn to recognize the human signals that often shape adoption, resistance, trust, readiness, and momentum. The session will explore how AI driven change affects not only how work gets done, but also how people understand their role, their value, and their ability to succeed.

Participants will leave with three clear outcomes:

They will learn how to recognize the human concerns that often appear as resistance, hesitation, confusion, or disengagement during AI driven change.

They will learn how to connect AI driven change to the daily work of the people expected to use it, support it, and sustain it.

They will learn how to lead stronger project conversations when teams need clarity, trust, and confidence before the future is fully defined.

Attendees will leave with a practical way to look at their own projects through two lenses: the project plan and the human experience unfolding alongside it. They will be better prepared to reduce resistance, strengthen adoption, and help their teams move forward with greater confidence in an AI driven world.

Dr. Morehouse holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California in Organizational Change and Leadership and brings more than 25 years of corporate experience leading projects, training, adoption, and change initiatives in highly regulated environments. Her credentials also include CPCU, CEBS, and an executive certificate in AI for Business Growth from Northwestern University.

She is an Amazon bestselling author, thought-leader, and speaker whose work focuses on the human side of organizational change, AI adoption, leadership, workforce readiness, and neurodivergent inclusion. Her work has centered on one practical question that becomes even more urgent as AI reshapes work: how can leaders recognize what people are experiencing before uncertainty becomes resistance, disengagement, or stalled adoption? That question became the foundation of her Recognition System™️ and SHIFT Method™️, which help leaders guide teams through change with greater clarity, confidence, and humanity.

Join the San Francisco Project Management Group for a practical and human conversation about leading change in an AI driven world. This session will help project managers see their work differently, lead their teams more thoughtfully, and bring stronger human judgment to the projects they manage.