Lead Change™ 2026 — AI Adoption, Activated.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transitioning from experimentation to becoming integral to how organisations operate, make decisions, serve customers, manage risks, and create value. However, implementing AI within the organisation is merely the starting point. More challenging questions are emerging now: How does AI integrate into real work? What builds trust without fostering overdependence? What occurs when roles, expertise, and decision-making rights start to shift? How does governance turn into everyday behaviour? What actions must leaders take differently? And what does all of this demand from those professionals tasked with leading change? Lead Change™ 2026 unites experts, practitioners, evidence, real-world experience, and the collective intelligence of the change and transformation community to collaboratively explore these questions. This is not just another event focused on AI trends. It is a one-day summit addressing what AI adoption requires from organisations — and from those leading change within them. Register for Lead Change™ 2026 The Work Is Already Changing Organisations are heavily investing in AI, yet value does not simply manifest because technology has been implemented. AI must become integrated into workflows, decisions, leadership, governance, capabilities, and daily behaviours. Unlike many prior technological shifts, what people are adopting may continue to evolve after its arrival. People are learning when to utilise AI, what to delegate, what to query, what to validate, and where human judgement must prevail. Roles and expertise are evolving. New governance questions are emerging within workflows. Leaders are being asked to provide direction while the future state is still taking shape. Simultaneously, change and transformation professionals are being tasked with navigating issues that extend well beyond traditional communications and training. The task of AI adoption is altering the nature of change work. Lead Change™ 2026 is intended to assist you in understanding this transformation as it occurs. Built Around the Work — Not the Hype Lead Change™ 2026 fosters a variety of perspectives in a unified discussion. Throughout the day, you will encounter: • expert insights and emerging thoughts; • real-world cases and lessons from practitioners; • current evidence and research; • challenges to adoption and patterns of failure; • human, organisational, governance, and technological viewpoints; • practical demonstrations of technologies impacting adoption; and • facilitated opportunities to compare your observations with peers. The aim is not to forecast an artificial intelligence future. It is to gain a better understanding of the reality already unfolding within organisations. FEATURED KEYNOTE Travis D. Hahler Senior Director, Global Strategy & TransformationSalesforce Author, Rethink Resistance Meet Travis View the Book Get to know our keynote speaker → Watch Theresa Moulton’s recent CMR conversation with Travis Hahler Register for Lead Change™ 2026 Voices Selected for SubstanceLead Change™ 2026 will gather researchers, practitioners, executives, advisors, technologists, governance experts, behavioural specialists, and transformation leaders, enabling us to examine AI adoption from various dimensions. Additional speakers will be announced soon. Register for Lead Change™ 2026 Curated by Theresa MoultonLead Change™ 2026 is curated by Theresa Moulton, Chief Executive Officer and Editor-in-Chief of Change Management Review™, to amalgamate the perspectives professionals require to comprehend AI adoption and its implications for the future of change and transformation. For nine years, Lead Change™ has convened professionals around the forces reshaping the field. In 2026, the discourse is centred on one of the most impactful of these forces yet: How artificial intelligence is transforming organisations, work, people — and the practice of leading change itself. Register for Lead Change™ 2026