Equity-Centered Leadership focuses on ensuring that all employees can succeed in a workplace, regardless of their...
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Ethnography for Organizational Change
Organizations are realizing that successful change requires the ability to understand work practices as cultural practices. They need to go beyond the ubiquitous employee survey to develop a more holistic view...
Anticipating Credible Futures
Overview Strategic planning is becoming less and less viable in a volatile world prone to black swan events. Prediction is a low-percentage approach to an unknowable future. But we still need to navigate change...
How Is AI Integration Transforming Organizations? New Opportunities for Ethnography, Research, and Strategy
The integration of AI technologies into every functional area of organizations is bringing a new period of transformation. It is...
AI Research Tools and Ethnographic Methodologies
Are AI-provisioned research tools the ticket to supercharged research at scale, or overblown trickery designed to make us...
How to Make Networking Suck Less (and Start to Enjoy It!)
Networking has a bad name. Associated with schmoozing and selling yourself or your business—frequently through staged social...
Authoritarian Transitions or Democratic Resilience?
The pace of political change in the United States and Europe has made it difficult to interpret the fire hose of news, or assess...
Recalibrating a Patient-Centric Perspective in Healthcare Today
Overview Ongoing digital transitions, punctuated by erratic responses to the COVID pandemic, are changing how we approach health care as a service and business. This volatile moment invites the...
Proxies for Attention: The Reciprocal Modeling of People and Digital Systems
Growing concern about the way digital technologies are transforming human attention and agency set the stage for a pressing...
Semiotic Sensemaking with AI
How AI is changing research and cultural meaning Methods for nuanced cultural analysis with AI tools This session introduces...