SIG Summit Workshop: Candiss Kumar on AI Change Management for Leadership

Everyone's talking about what AI can do — but almost no one is talking about how to actually roll it out with people, not just technology, in mind. In her SIG Summit workshop, AI Change Management for Leadership: Leading Organizational Transformation with Artificial Intelligence, Candiss Kumar, a veteran of sourcing and procurement leadership, will make the case for treating AI adoption as a leadership and business transformation challenge rather than a tech rollout. Drawing on decades of experience guiding organizational change, Candiss will explore why AI triggers a different kind of resistance than past tools — touching on identity, trust, and job security in ways prior technologies never did — and share practical strategies for rolling out AI top-down with clear communication and purpose. Attendees will leave with a framework they can apply to any transformative change effort, not just AI, and a clearer sense of how to bring people along rather than leave them behind.