Af Malhotra hosts Dr. Odom for a fireside chat and signing of his new book, Change Optimized: Leading the Human Side of AI Transformation.

Registration Required | Seating Limited | Cocktails & Nibbles

Join Dr. Odom and Af Malhotra as conveners of the conversation that matters most right now: How do we create a future of work that actually works for and with people, businesses, and society?

Exciting news! Due to the level of interest, we have exceeded the capacity available to us at the Oxford and Cambridge Club for the September 8 London book signing of Change Optimized: Leading the Human Side of AI Transformation. The event has been expanded to accommodate up to 100 attendees and will now take place at a new location: 10 Exchange Street, London.

Vorboss (https://vorboss.com) is a London-based provider of business internet, managed IT, and cybersecurity services, with its own dedicated network across the city. When they heard the topic of the evening and learned of this timely new book, they graciously offered to host at their space and provide the catering, and we are deeply grateful for their sponsorship and generosity.

Change Optimized: Leading The Human Side of AI Transformation is built on three interdependent pillars of adaptive leadership, talent elasticity, and psychological safety and reflects that dual vantage point. Each pillar draws on established academic research. Each is specified with the operational precision that managing large workforces through disruptive change demands. The assessment instruments, governance frameworks, implementation roadmap, and case studies that follow are designed for deployment, not for theory.

Stick around after the talk for an exclusive book signing session. Meet the author, bring along your copy to be signed, and connect with other leaders navigating what it really takes to lead well in this next era of work.

Can't wait to see you there for an evening of inspiration and great conversation!

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A regional health system delayed its $30M AI launch by six months to build the human architecture the technology required. It exceeded every board-set performance target eighteen months ahead of peers that deployed on schedule.

That trade is the one most organizations refuse, and the one this book makes the case for. The companies failing at AI transformation aren't moving too quickly. They are moving without building what the technology needs and watching a workforce adapt around the technology rather than with it.

Drawing on 25+ years of Fortune 100 consulting experience and his work as an executive coach and a professor at Northeastern University, Dr. Odom shares a human-centered model for the future of work to lead people through AI-driven change.

Change Optimized: Leading The Human Side of AI Transformation provides the architecture. Five diagnostic instruments that map readiness before deployment. Two governance frameworks for algorithmic bias and workforce transition. A four-phase implementation roadmap. A 15-item Quick Screener (Appendix B) that produces a readiness diagnosis in ten minutes, which the book recommends running before Chapter One.

Senior executives can build the case for human-readiness investment from the sequential argument. Heads of transformation facing a stalled deployment, a talent system that blocks mobility, or a culture that suppresses honest feedback can navigate directly to the relevant instrument. Faculty can use the case studies in Part Three as classroom material.

This book doesn't require technical AI expertise. It assumes the algorithm. It addresses the question the technical literature leaves unanswered: Once you have it, how do you build the human architecture that allows it to generate value?

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Curtis L. Odom, Ed.D.

Scholar · Practitioner · Executive Coach · Consultant

Dr. Curtis Odom is an Executive Professor of Management and Organizational Development at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, where he teaches courses in management consulting, global talent management, organizational transformation, and leadership development. Twenty-five years of Fortune 100 senior leadership experience ground his teaching in the judgment demands of executive practice, and his doctoral research at Pepperdine University shaped that practitioner knowledge into experience-driven frameworks rigorous enough to withstand scholarly scrutiny.

He is Managing Partner of Prescient Strategists, an international management consulting firm that helps organizations build the human readiness capabilities that determine whether AI investments generate lasting value. The firm’s proprietary frameworks are deployed across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and professional services organizations worldwide.

Learn more at www.prescientstrategists.com

Curtis holds a Doctor of Education from Pepperdine University and served on active duty in the United States Navy during Operation Desert Storm. A

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