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Use CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING®: The Human Accelerator for Artificial Intelligence to help your leaders, teams, and organization have better conversations about AI adoption, decision-making, accountability, trust, and execution.

Conversations Worth Having®: The Human Accelerator for Artificial Intelligence


Published by the Conversations Worth Having Institute and co-authored by RLD Group.


A QuickStart Guide for leaders strengthening trust, collaboration, and AI Leadership Alignment.


As organizations move from AI experimentation to enterprise adoption, technology alone does not create alignment. Sustainable results depend on how leaders build trust, strengthen collaboration, and create the conditions for AI investments to generate top-line opportunity and bottom-line impact.


Conversations worth having help leaders align people, judgment, and accountability so AI accelerates what matters most.

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What this QuickStart Guide helps leaders do

What the QuickStart Guide helps leaders do

This QuickStart Guide helps leaders:


  • Build trust that supports responsible, human-led AI adoption. 
  • Strengthen cross-functional collaboration and reduce costly fragmentation. 
  • Align people, judgment, and accountability so AI accelerates what matters most. 
  • Apply four practical conversation practices that improve consistency and execution.

Why this QuickStart Guide matters now

AI is changing how work gets done, how decisions are made, and how organizations create value. But AI does not automatically create clarity, trust, accountability, or coordination.


It amplifies what already exists.


When leadership systems are fragmented, AI can increase rework, confusion, risk, and missed handoffs. When leaders strengthen the quality of conversations, they create the conditions for responsible adoption, stronger collaboration, and better execution.

Connected to RLD Group’s AI Leadership Alignment research

RLD Group’s applied AI Leadership Alignment research identified three recurring barriers that prevent organizations from translating AI investments into top-line opportunity and bottom-line impact:


  • Organizational silos. 
  • Reduced explorer mindset. 
  • Under-designed conversations and collaboration. 


CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING®: The Human Accelerator for Artificial Intelligence translates these insights into practical conversation practices leaders can use to improve trust, learning, alignment, and accountability across the I–WE–US system.

At RLD Group, we help organizations strengthen the leadership systems AI is about to amplify — so strategy executes, risk is contained, and AI investments create measurable top-line opportunity and bottom-line impact.

Created by Conversations Worth Having and AI Leadership Alignment practitioners

CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING®: The Human Accelerator for Artificial Intelligence is co-authored by:


Toni Racco Benner, D.ODC
Lisa Duerre
Jackie Stavros, DM
Cheri Torres, PhD
Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD


Together, the authors bring decades of experience across Appreciative Inquiry, leadership development, executive advisory, engineering, organizational development, and applied research.

About CWH Institute

The CWH Institute equips leaders, organizations, educators, and practitioners with practical conversation practices grounded in Appreciative Inquiry. Its work helps people strengthen relationships, build trust, foster collaboration, and create conditions where people and organizations can flourish.


CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING®: The Human Accelerator for Artificial Intelligence builds on this foundation and applies it to one of today’s most urgent leadership challenges: helping people and organizations adopt AI with greater trust, alignment, accountability, and confidence.


Learn More About CWH Institute

RLD Group Co-Author Perspectives

Lisa Duerre on AI Leadership Alignment

Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, on Human-Led AI Adoption

Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, on Human-Led AI Adoption

“AI doesn’t create alignment. It amplifies whatever leadership system already exists. 


When leaders strengthen the quality of conversations, they strengthen trust, reduce fragmentation, and create the conditions for AI to generate top-line opportunity and bottom-line impact.”


— Lisa Duerre
CEO & Co-Founder, RLD Group
AI Leadership Alignment & Leadership Systems Strategist

Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, on Human-Led AI Adoption

Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, on Human-Led AI Adoption

Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD, on Human-Led AI Adoption

“Engineering teaches us that systems produce the outcomes they are designed to produce. AI is no different. 


Organizations need more than better AI conversations; they need better leadership conversations about AI. 


When leaders intentionally design how people collaborate, question assumptions, and learn together, they create the conditions

“Engineering teaches us that systems produce the outcomes they are designed to produce. AI is no different. 


Organizations need more than better AI conversations; they need better leadership conversations about AI. 


When leaders intentionally design how people collaborate, question assumptions, and learn together, they create the conditions for trustworthy, repeatable outcomes.”


— Alenka Žnidaršič, PhD
AI Engineer, Applied AI Leadership Alignment Research Team Member, and Co-Author

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If your organization is navigating AI adoption, unclear ownership, cross-functional friction, or inconsistent execution, RLD Group can help leaders align people, process, judgment, and accountability so AI investments create top-line opportunity and bottom-line impact.


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