Events
Join Sherry for talks, roundtables, and conversations on change leadership and AI adoption. You can also catch up on past sessions and recordings below.
Upcoming Events
Catch Sherry live as she shares practical frameworks for leading people through change. Come say hello at one of these events.
Bringing Your People Along
The Human Side Of AI Adoption
AI adoption takes hold when people understand what’s changing and see a real role for themselves in it. In this session, Sherry shares a practical approach for reducing resistance and building trust so employees become active participants in the change.
The session is part of the AI for Enterprise Growth track at the AI Friendly Summit, a two-day event presented by the Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce in association with Kynex.
From AI Coasting to AI Commitment
A Session At The 10th Marketing AI Pulse
Many employees follow an AI rollout simply because they’re told to. In this session, Sherry explores how leaders can move their people from compliance to real commitment.
When people believe in the change, bring their judgment to the work, and help shape how AI is used, they can turn hesitation into lasting ownership.
Power, Systems, and Change
The Next Reflection Series Conversation
This conversation looks at the incentives and structures shaping decisions, often without anyone noticing.
The Reflection Series is a monthly, small-group conversation for senior leaders who want to think more deeply about the forces reshaping organizations, work, and leadership. Each session runs about 90 minutes and combines optional curated reading with facilitated discussion. Business owners, executives, and advisors join the conversation, and the group stays small so every voice matters. Seats are limited, and each request is reviewed personally.
Optional Reading
- The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
- Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
- Managing with Power by Jeffrey Pfeffer
- The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Past Events
Catch up on recent talks and conversations, including recordings where they’re available.
AI Is Changing the Work. Who Is Developing the Workforce?
A Virtual Session In The LEAD Track
AI is reshaping roles faster than most organizations are preparing their people for them. In this session, Sherry explored who’s responsible for building the skills and judgment teams will need as the work changes, and what leaders can start doing about it now.
The talk was part of the LEAD track at All Day AI, a free, live, virtual conference focused on practitioner-led sessions. The LEAD track focuses on managing an AI-native organization.
The Reinvention Advantage
Using PATH to Navigate What’s Next
AI is changing how work gets done, where value is created, and what individuals and organizations need to remain relevant. In a world where change is continuous, the ability to reinvent may be one of our most important advantages.
In this interactive session, Sherry introduced the PATH Framework™ (Present, Assess, Transition, Harness) as a practical approach for navigating ongoing change. Participants explored how to recognize what’s worth carrying forward, question assumptions that may no longer serve them, experiment with new possibilities AI creates, and turn what they learn into lasting capability.
From Vision to Reality
A Reflection Series Conversation
This conversation explored why momentum stalls and what actually moves people through change when plans meet reality.
Optional Reading
- Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
- The Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan
- Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
AI Gave You Three Hours Back. Now What?
A Facilitated Roundtable Conversation
Organizations are investing in AI to save time, increase productivity, and automate work. This roundtable asked what happens after AI gives people some of that time back, and whether that new capacity can be used to develop people, generate ideas, improve the customer experience, and create new opportunities for the business.
Participants shared what they’re seeing inside their own organizations and discussed how leaders can involve employees in deciding how new capacity is used, how roles evolve, and how to prepare their organizations for ongoing change.
Leadership in a Fractured World
A Reflection Series Conversation
This conversation explored how to lead with humanity and purpose when the path forward is genuinely unclear.
Optional Reading
- Leadership on the Line by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
- Dare to Lead by Brené Brown
- The Power of Noticing by Max Bazerman
- An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
- Good Power by Ginni Rometty
A Fireside Chat With Tiffany Willis
The Stories Behind Professional Journeys
Sherry hosted a fireside chat at Atlanta Tech Park with Tiffany Willis, an investor relations executive whose career has taken her from EY and PwC to Time Warner, Fiserv, and Starbucks.
The conversation explored the stories behind professional journeys and what it means to own the narrative you carry through your career.
Rethinking Work and Identity
A Reflection Series Conversation
This conversation explored how shifting expectations are reshaping talent, ambition, and what people want from work.
Optional Reading
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra
- Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Range by David Epstein
How to Lead Change Without Getting Lost in It
The PATH Framework For Small Business Owners
Every week there’s another expert telling you what your business needs to change right now, whether it’s new technology, new tools, or new processes. Most business owners are trying to keep up, and they end up making changes that look like progress but quietly complicate what was already working.
In this session, Sherry introduced PATH, a practical four-step framework designed to help small business owners lead change intentionally. Attendees learned how to identify what should never change, surface the real problems their team already knows about, make focused decisions about what changes first, and measure outcomes so they can stop chasing every new trend.
PATH helps business owners change in the right direction, which matters far more than how fast they change.
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Keynotes, workshops, and facilitated roundtables are available for conferences, associations, chambers of commerce, and leadership teams.
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