Adapt & Adopt | empakt

The problem

Uncertainty is a business risk.

62% believe leaders underestimate AI’s emotional and psychological impact.

01

Engagement drops, decisions slow, psychological safety erodes.

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Generic wellbeing sessions raise awareness but change little.

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AI is the fastest-moving, least-understood edge of that change.

Two connected workstreams

AdaptAnnual programme

Human readiness and behaviour change

WIP: Work in Progress

The science-based backbone: a CBT-informed programme that builds the capabilities teams need to perform through constant change.

›Starts with a Measured Impact Pilot on Adaptive Thinking (proof before you scale).
›Validated scales track real behaviour change, before and after.
›Managers trained first, so change embeds rather than fades.
›Delivered by registered CBT practitioners specialising in workplace behaviour change.

AdoptModule, plugs into WIP

AI understanding, trust and adoption

Working with AI: AI Adoption Workshop

›High-impact use cases teams can put to work immediately, with champions who carry adoption forward and guardrails people can actually follow.
›A focused module, half a day to two days: it can intervene at any point of the WIP journey or run fully standalone.
›Delivered by an AI practitioner who has deployed AI with sceptical industrial teams in more than 20 countries.

Topic 01 · WIP: Work in Progress

Six capabilities, one theme every two months.

The annual programme, with manager enablement and reinforcement between sessions so new behaviours stick - from adaptive thinking to sustainable performance.

The Work In Progress programme

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01 / 06Months 1–2

Adaptive Thinking

Stay focused and keep making progress when priorities or outcomes are unclear.

Adaptive Thinking
Performance Under Pressure
Decision Confidence
High-Impact Communication
Challenge & Innovation
Sustainable Performance

Underpinning every theme

Embedded progress.

Each capability is reinforced by trained managers and re-measured before the next one begins, so progress solidifies into how the team works - and holds once the training ends.

Separate module

Working with AI

Not a step of WIP: a focused module that can plug in alongside any theme.

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How a theme runs

The same five-stage cycle, every theme.

Diagnose where the team stands, build and apply the capability, reinforce it between sessions, then measure what actually changed.

01

Diagnose

Where the team stands on the theme.

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Build & Apply

The session itself: capability built, then put to work.

03

Reinforce

Manager enablement and follow-up between sessions.

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Toolkit

A reusable resource participants keep.

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Measure

Pulse before and after, theme by theme.

Toolkit: a practical, reusable resource participants keep and customise.

How we measure WIP

Tracked before and after, not just satisfaction.

A baseline survey covering business alignment, a pre-session pulse, then pulse measurement and follow-up learning between themes.

Validated scales of behavioural and psychological capability

ConfidenceAction orientationDecision qualityPsychological safetyManager reinforcementSustainable performance

Who delivers WIP

Psychology and CBT-informed practitioners.

Alexandra Andronescu-Mihai

Psychology & CBT-informed practitioner

Specialises in workplace behaviour change, with evidence-based tools used within clear ethical boundaries and psychological safety.

Emily Jayne Willis

Psychology & CBT-informed practitioner

Co-leads the WIP programme session to session, turning awareness into behaviour that holds once the sessions end.

Topic 02 · Working with AI

AI understanding, trust and adoption.

A focused module, half a day to two days, run as its own subject: it plugs into the WIP journey at any point, or runs fully standalone where AI is already being introduced.

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Understand

Cut through hype to what AI really does.

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Trust

See where it is reliable and where it is not.

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Apply

Put it to work on one real use case.

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Use safely

Guardrails people can actually follow.

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Measure

Track adoption, not just satisfaction.

How we measure adoption

Adoption behaviours, not enthusiasm.

Tracked through practical adoption indicators, before and after the module: what teams actually do with AI once it is in their hands.

Adoption indicators

Active usageUse cases appliedGuardrails followedChampions in place

Who delivers the module

An AI practitioner from the field.

Gaspard Duthilleul

AI practitioner

Former COO of Greyparrot, an AI company deployed in more than 20 countries. Years spent bringing AI into traditional, sceptical, operational environments - which is what makes it practical and safe for teams that are wary of it.

Together, the two subjects provide a joined-up view of both the human and technical conditions needed for successful transformation.

Successful adoption means usage continues once the mandate ends: on change, and on AI.

Two ways in

A

Start with the WIP Measured Impact Pilot (up to 300 people) and build the six capabilities across the year. Add the AI module at any stage.

B

Start with the AI Adoption Workshop where AI is already being introduced and teams need support to adopt it well, then extend into the full capability programme.

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