AI-Native Change Agent

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Dates & Locations

Nov 23-25, 2025
8:30am - 5:00pm

St. Charles, MO

Doug Less

Doug is an energetic and relentless Agile Transformation Coach passionate about helping organizations navigate their journey to agility. He has over 20 years of multidisciplinary consulting service experience, with the last decade aimed at driving the adoption of Agile values, principles, and practices to help people go beyond DOING Agile to BEING Agile.

Doug's coaching approach involves applying compassion, humor, flexibility, and creativity to navigate some of the most challenging transformation situations and motivate people to do extraordinary things. He has been a SAFe SPC since 2015 and became an SPCT in August 2022. He has trained and coached teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Management, Engineering Management, and Executives at several large and international Scaled Agile Transformations.

Doug draws his energy from a very active and adventurous family, including his wife Kerri and their three children, Mackenzie, Miranda, and Mason.

Register $2,500.00

This is an in-person class and the pre-requisite is having completed "AI-Native Foundations"

Continue your AI-Native journey started in "AI-Native Foundations" in this innovative, hands-on, project-based experience course that equips you to apply the AI-Native value discovery and delivery process in any context, whether through a focused workshop over several days or through an extended, informal approach over weeks or months.

Close the AI execution gap by enabling leaders to move initiatives out of the POC graveyard and into production
Improve alignment between business, tech, and leadership to reduce rework and delays
Establish repeatable success patterns for launching and scaling AI solutions across the enterprise

Day 1: PREPARE
- AI Opportunity Blind Spots
- AI Fluency
- Value Maximization
- AI-Powered Facilitation
- AI-Powered Discovery
Day 2: DESIGN
- Value Proposal
- AI Solution
- Data Strategy
- Product Operations
- Risk Management & Compliance
- Value Realization
Day 3: BUILD & SCALE
- The Implementation Roadmap
- Guiding Successful Implementations
- "Tell the Story"
- Expanding Your Impact

Throughout the course, you will learn how to:

Spot and overcome common blockers like hype traps, misaligned priorities, and stalled pilots
Apply the AI-Native value discovery process flexibly--facilitating structured workshops or embedding it into ongoing team practices
Translate AI concepts into business language to engage non-technical stakeholders and secure sponsorship
Build stakeholder maps, charters, and implementation plans that accelerate execution
Guide projects through lean cycles and act as an impediment remover to ensure live delivery

AI-Native Change Agent is specifically intended for those leaders tasked with moving the enterprise from "AI-curious" to fully "AI-capable."

You'll gain maximum value if you're role is:

Team Lead or Coach who needs to align cross-functional groups on AI opportunities and delivery
Transformation Leader driving enterprise adoption and seeking ways to scale success patterns and ways of working
Digital Strategist or Change Agent balancing AI experimentation with business requirements
Practitioner working to move beyond the hype of AI to the delivery impact for daily work

"AI-Native Foundations" (2-day course) is a REQUIRED PRE-REQUISITE.

*Do not enroll in this advanced course, if you have not already attended and completed the "AI-Native Foundations" course. There is no exception to this requirement, since there is key learning in the first course that is not covered in this content.

You will not be refunded the full amount of your registration, if you erroneously pay for this advanced course and do not have the pre-requisite "AI-Native Foundations" training completed beforehand. We will refund only the amount after deducting the non-refundable credit card transaction fee.

3 Days (In-Person)

Full Price: $2,500.00
Early Bird Price: $2,500.00

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