of individual contributors surveyed describe their manager’s AI leadership as hands-off.
FranklinCovey, 2025 survey ↗DISTINCTLY HUMAN / CO-EVOLVE PARTNERS
Better work
with AI.
Built together.
Get your team talking honestly, experimenting thoughtfully and making clearer decisions about AI.
Keynotes, workshops & practice series
Co-created by Leif Hansen & Nadja Haldimann
SOUND FAMILIAR?
What is your team
navigating?
Choose the concern closest to home. We’ll show you a useful starting point.
Other things teams may need to talk about
Changing roles. Where do people fit as responsibilities shift?
Change overload. What deserves attention when everything feels urgent?
Values and wider impacts. How do ethical and environmental concerns inform choices?
The future of the work. What do you want to protect, change or try?
WHY THE HUMAN SIDE MATTERS
A rollout needs
more than a login.
Leaders need to hear what is happening, make the expectations clear and give people room to learn.
of business leaders surveyed say psychological safety affects the success of AI initiatives.
MIT Technology Review Insights / Infosys, 2025 ↗About these findings
These are different surveys reporting respondents’ views, not experiments proving cause and effect. They do not measure the impact of our program. FranklinCovey attributes its finding to its September 2025 AI General Attitudes Survey. The second finding is reported in the December 2025 Infosys / MIT Technology Review Insights release. Both links are provided for review.
AGREEMENT IS NOT ALWAYS GOOD ADVICE
49%more affirmation of users’ actions by AI than by humans, across 11 models studied.
Cheng et al., Science, 2026 ↗Better questions.
Room to disagree.
In experiments about interpersonal advice, overly agreeable AI reduced participants’ willingness to repair conflict. That gives us a concrete question to practice: is this answer helping us think, or simply telling us what we want to hear?
The research concerns interpersonal advice, not a workplace trial or an evaluation of our offer.
“Humans create competitive differentiation through adaptivity, creativity, and judgment amid uncertainty and change.”Deloitte, The CFO Guide to 2026 Human Capital Trends ↗
THE CORE ENGAGEMENT
The AI Team
Alignment Workshop.
Time to hear what matters,
try things together and decide
what happens next.
HALF TO FULL DAY / TWO FACILITATORS
START WITH TRUSTPeople can disagree about AI
People can disagree about AI
and still move forward together.
We make room for enthusiasm, doubts and the questions that have gone unsaid. From there, we build practical AI confidence and the ability to listen, adapt and work together when the plan changes.
- 01
Notice
Compare current AI use, concerns and the decisions ahead.
- 02
Experiment
Try relevant examples with approved tools. See where AI helps and where human judgment matters.
- 03
Practice together
Use short, engaging exercises in listening, questioning and responding to change.
- 04
Agree & apply
Choose what to test, who owns it and when you will review it.
No acting experience required. No pressure to share personal stories. Participation and examples are adapted to the team.
WHAT YOU TAKE BACK TO WORK
More than
a good afternoon.
We agree the outputs with your sponsor. The core workshop is designed to produce:
A picture of where your team stands
Current uses, concerns and opportunities worth exploring.
Draft agreements for working with AI
What you will try, what needs human review and which questions still need a decision.
A next experiment with an owner
A practical step, a way to check whether it helped and a date to compare notes.
These are working outputs, not a finished AI policy or a guarantee of business results.
GO DEEPER WHERE IT HELPS
Your challenge
sets the agenda.
Use what the workshop reveals to choose a focused session or a longer engagement.
Practical AI confidencePut the tools to work
Practice on tasks your team actually does. Learn to give useful context, evaluate the output and decide when AI is not the right tool.
Judgment & shared boundariesMake the decisions clearer
Work through human review, appropriate data and accountability. Capture questions for your legal, security and policy owners.
Distinctive voice & creativityKeep the work recognizably yours
Use AI alongside your expertise and point of view. Compare drafts and ideas against what your team knows about its customers and its work.
Adaptation & change overloadFind a workable next move
Practice responding when plans change. Decide together what deserves attention and what can wait.
ANOTHER WAY IN
Test Drive
Your Future.
Explore different ways AI could change your work. Then ask: what do we want to protect, change or test now?
A workshop Leif has led at Human Tech Week, available as a tailored team session.
WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Four formats.
Your team’s choice.
A wider conversation, one focused question, a day together or time to practice. We’ll help you choose the scope that fits.
OPEN THE CONVERSATION
Keynote + live experience
45–60 minutes + optional Q&A
Bring a wider audience into the questions AI raises for people and work.
Take away: shared language and questions worth discussing.
FOCUS ON ONE QUESTION
Online workshop
90 minutes
Work through one well-defined challenge with discussion and a practical exercise.
Take away: a next step your team can test.
WORK IT THROUGH TOGETHER
AI Team Alignment
Half to full day
Give an intact team time to hear different views, try relevant tools and make shared decisions.
Take away: draft working agreements and an experiment with an owner.
PRACTICE AND FOLLOW THROUGH
Practice series
Six weeks / four 2-hour sessions
Apply the work between sessions, compare what happened and adjust together.
Take away: tested practices and revisions based on experience.
We agree delivery arrangements and intended outputs with you. You can begin with any format.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Human understanding.
Practical experience with AI.
Leif Hansen
FOUNDER, CO-EVOLVE
Leif brings hands-on AI fluency, live facilitation and coaching. He helps people have candid conversations and practice new ways of responding to change—with some room for play along the way.
His work on the human side of technology reaches back to the SoulTech workshops he co-created in 2007. That work featured on NBC’s Today Show, in the Los Angeles Times and Seattle Times, and on PBS MediaShift. He is the author of Digital Mystics and led Test Drive Your Future at Human Tech Week.
More about Leif ↗
Nadja Haldimann
HUMAN EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
Nadja brings 25+ years in UX and human-experience design, including Microsoft, alongside systems thinking and creative direction.
As co-founder of Podipo, she helps organizations connect performance with the experience of being human at work. Her coaching and 30+ conversations as host of The WakeUp Protocol inform how she designs space for people to think together.
More about Nadja ↗Together, we pair a thoughtfully designed experience with the ability to respond to what actually happens in the room.
FEEDBACK ON LEIF’S WORK
Client voices
On AI consulting, speaking and facilitation.
The Co-Evolve offer with Nadja builds on this experience.
“Leif's team brought an extraordinary mix of technological fluency, emotional intelligence, and values-based leadership to our organization's AI journey. At Greenprint, our team included a full spectrum of perspectives—from those with strong ethical concerns about AI, to those unfamiliar with the tools, to a few AI-curious and AI-forward staff. Leif skillfully engaged every person with respect and insight, helping us foster open dialogue and build trust across differences. With his guidance, we were able to make intentional, mission-aligned decisions about how we use AI—together, and with integrity.”
“I've benefited personally and professionally from Leif's AI consulting. His heart-centered approach is both refreshing and inspiring in a world often dominated by profit-driven narratives about AI. I highly recommend working with Leif — he makes the learning process deeply engaging and meaningful.”
Executive Producer, We Rise Up
“Whether onstage or in a workshop room, Leif sparkles with energy. Before long, the room does too. Looking for a facilitator or speaker who will enliven your event and push your audience out of their shells? Look no further.”
“This was the greatest training in my 30 year career I have attended.”
“This was without a doubt the most fun, interactive training program I have ever been involved with. My team was fully engaged and had a lot of fun. They were learning without realizing that they were learning.”
“I've seen Leif activate creative thinking in groups that previously had only hoped they could be innovative.”
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LEIF’S SPEAKING, FACILITATION & CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
PREVIOUS MEDIA COVERAGE OF LEIF’S WORK
These organizations and media appearances relate to Leif’s earlier work, rather than endorsements of the new joint program.
SEE THE WORK IN ACTION
From the panel
to the practice.
Leif on a Human Tech Week panel, plus participant reflections on his Test Drive the Future workshop.
Fostering More Resilient Human Relationships
Watch on YouTube ↗Test Drive the Future: participant feedback
Watch on Vimeo ↗BEFORE WE WORK TOGETHER
A few good
questions.
“Leaders who communicate clearly about AI’s impact and model openness to questions and dissent create the conditions for innovation.”Laurel Ruma, MIT Technology Review Insights
Published December 2025 ↗
Who is this for?
Team, People, Learning, operations and transformation leaders who want to work through the human side of AI with their people. The most useful starting point is a specific team and a real question—not a requirement that everyone already agrees.
Do we need to be AI experts?
No. We adapt the session to your team’s experience and work with approved tools and appropriate examples. Enthusiasts, skeptics and people who are still figuring it out all belong in the conversation.
How do you make it relevant to us?
We start with a sponsor conversation and a short questionnaire about current use, concerns and priorities. Together we choose the focus, examples, length and intended outputs.
How will we know it helped?
Ask whether people felt heard and understand what comes next. Then review what happened with the agreed experiment. We use that evidence to decide whether further support would be useful.
What about fees and availability?
We agree scope, delivery format, facilitator availability, timing and fees in a proposal before either side commits. Preparation, participant numbers and accessibility needs are part of that conversation.
Can we try something ourselves first?
Yes. Our free working tools help you reflect on AI use, plan a task, prepare a team conversation or review your distinctive voice. No email is required to use them.
TAKE THE CONVERSATION TO YOUR TEAM
The offer,
in one deck.
Share the formats, facilitator backgrounds, client testimonials and research with a colleague. The PDF has 16 conversation slides and two research appendices, with an invitation to share your honest reaction.
LET’S START WITH YOUR TEAM
What do you need
to work out?
Bring one live question about AI and your people.
We’ll explore what kind of support would be useful.
- Talk for 20 minutesTell us what is happening in your team.
- Choose a useful scopeAgree the focus, format and intended outputs.
- Review a clear proposalConfirm timing, preparation, fees and responsibilities.
- Work together, then check backReview what happened with the next experiment.
Sharing observations, rather than looking for support? Contribute to our research.