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Understanding Where AI Adoption Actually Breaks

Hosted by Jory Des Jardins

Wed, Sep 23, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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What you'll learn

Spot the three hidden risks of AI adoption

Learn to name succession hollowing, the productivity alibi, and cognitive foreclosure before they define your team.

See how the manager's role is shifting

From overseeing tasks to orchestrating AI and people together — and which skills that shift now rewards.

Leave with three questions for your team.

Three concrete questions to ask this week to find out where these risks are already showing up.

Why this topic matters

AI adoption gets measured by usage, not what it changes — who's accountable, and which skills still matter. Left undiagnosed, that gap produces three failure patterns: succession hollowing, the productivity alibi, and cognitive foreclosure. It's also redefining management itself, from overseeing execution to orchestrating people and AI together. In 30 minutes, learn to spot both — before they become a crisis instead of a choice.

You'll learn from

Jory Des Jardins

AI readiness advisor | Exited founder | Advisor to 30+ frontier tech companies

Jory Des Jardins is an AI readiness advisor and the creator of Human Agency Architecture, a framework for aligning AI adoption with human decision-making rather than just tool usage. She's the co-founder of BlogHer, one of the first digital platforms built for creators, taken through a successful exit in 2014. Through her advisory practice, Candor Partners, Jory has spent two decades as a systems builder across five waves of frontier tech — digital/social media, data privacy, blockchain, AR/VR, and now AI. She's a LinkedIn Top Voice in AI and works with senior operators — Chiefs of Staff, VPs of People, and function leaders — to design what comes after adoption: clear decision rights, not faster tools.

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