Lead the Shift · Modular workshops
The shift to AI agents is already underway. Is anyone leading it?
Agents are moving from tools to teammates, and the hard part is not the technology — it is the people. This session gives leadership teams a practical change plan: what to say about jobs, how to give permission, how to train managers, and how to redesign the work — in a session shaped to fit your room.
No pitch, no selling. Delivered in person or online.
Three takeaways
01
Answer the job question out loud
What changes, what stays human, and what you commit to. Left unsaid, your people answer it for you — and adoption quietly stops.
02
Lead the change one manager at a time
Five moves in order: name the shift, give permission, train the managers, redesign the work, make it normal.
03
Leave with a 90-day change sprint
One process, one sponsor, one trained manager cohort — a new way of working you can show the rest of the organization.
Who it is for
Built for the people who have to lead the change, not run the pilot.
- CEO, COO and Chief AI / Digital leaders
- HR, People and transformation leaders
- Executive peer groups and chamber programmes
- Line managers leading mixed people-and-agent teams
What we cover
- 01Lead the Shift1 min
- 02This is a change programme2 min
- 03From tools to teammates2 min
- 04Every level leads the shift2 min
- 05One agent across the organization2 min
- 06The gap is a change gap3 min
- 07Where the change stalls3 min
- 08Lead the change one manager at a time3 min
- 09Name the shift3 min
- 10Give permission3 min
- 11Train the managers3 min
- 12Redesign the work3 min
- 13The first 90 days3 min
- 14Policy follows practice2 min
- 15Common questions2 min
- 16The leader's question1 min
- 17Next step1 min
Formats
Peer group or chamber programme
A modular session for a room of leaders, with a live change-readiness self-check at the end.
In-house leadership team
The same session for one company, tuned to the change already underway in your teams.
Working half-day
An extended version that ends with your own 90-day change sprint mapped out.
Workshop experts
Delivered by two people who have led both sides of this shift.
Pallavi Naliyanda
Founder, PositiveEdge Advisory
Pallavi has spent 15 years leading the people side of change: guiding startups through growth and acquisition, scaling DocuSign's organizations across the globe, and redesigning Aurora's technology orgs through constant change.
Her conviction, through PositiveEdge Advisory: AI readiness is not a technology project — it is a change management project, and it succeeds when companies prepare their people, not just their tools.
Matt (Murtuza) Haryanawalla
Founder, Productlabs · CEO, Tixa
Matt has spent 20 years leading technology innovation and teams at Broadcom, StartupGenome.com, TIE Silicon Valley, Excelerate and Strtup.net across US, UK, Canada, Dubai, India and Japan.
Currently deploying AI workflows and adoption for businesses via Productlabs.us and as CEO at Tixa (addtixa.com), Matt informs the hands-on view of what actually works when agents move from pilots into production.
Contact
Pallavi Naliyanda
Founder, PositiveEdge Advisory
- Email: Pallavi@consultpositiveedge.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/pallavidnaliyanda
- Website: consultpositiveedge.com
- Phone: 510-284-9682
Matt (Murtuza) Haryanawalla
Founder, Productlabs · CEO, Tixa
- Email: matt@productlabs.us
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mattharyana
- Website: www.productlabs.us
- Phone: 408-676-8787
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