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AI Adoption

How organizations can adopt AI responsibly by grounding tools, workflows, and prompts in human expertise, context, and judgment.

AI AdoptionJune 15, 2026

Why Your Experts Are Your AI Strategy

AI adoption does not start with tools. It starts with the expert judgment your organization depends on but has not yet translated into shared language, decision rules, workflows, and usable knowledge.

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About the Author

Shannon D. Smith

Trainer | Speaker | Learning & Talent Development Strategist

Shannon helps organizations translate critical know-how into shared language, decision tools, and transferable ways of working. With graduate degrees in Instructional Design & Technology and Industrial-Organizational Psychology, and a CPTD credential, she partners with teams to surface what experienced people actually do and make it teachable, transferable, and ready for the age of AI.

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