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AI Adoption

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

ESSAY 001Jun 15, 2026AI Adoption

Why Your Experts Are Your AI Strategy

AI does not replace expertise. It depends on it. Learn why expert judgment is the real foundation of successful AI adoption and how organizations can capture it before it disappears.

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Shannon D. Smith

CPTD · TRAINER · SPEAKER

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.

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