Lunch and Learn: Helping HR Teams Lead Through AI Change

Rehearsing the Future: Helping HR Teams Lead Through AI Change Presented by Josh Penzell, Founder & CEO, Imagination Applied

HR professionals are being asked to lead AI adoption — but most organizations are still running one-and-done trainings that don't stick, focused entirely on prompts and tools rather than the mindset shifts that actually drive lasting change. The result? Compliance without confidence.

This session offers a fundamentally different approach. Drawing on his background as a professional theater director and 15+ years of organizational transformation experience, Josh Penzell introduces a rehearsal-based model for AI readiness. You'll explore a new way of thinking about AI — one that moves your team beyond tool-tinkering and into genuine, confident collaboration — and learn why the future of AI adoption isn't about perfecting prompts. It's about learning to have better conversations.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Explain why prompt-centric AI training fails — and articulate why chasing the perfect prompt is the wrong goal for building lasting organizational capability.
2. Apply a new mental model for AI collaboration to common HR scenarios, including onboarding, performance management, and change communication.
3. Use creative, rehearsal-inspired techniques to help their team build confidence and curiosity with AI — not just compliance.
4. Leave with concrete next steps for shifting their organization's AI approach from one-time training events to an ongoing, adaptive practice.

Josh Penzell is the Founder & CEO of Imagination Applied, an AI transformation consulting firm. A professionally trained theater director with an MFA from CUNY-Brooklyn College and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Josh brings a uniquely human lens to AI transformation — one built on 15+ years of experience at companies like Amazon Alexa, Zillow, and Skillsoft. He helps organizations move beyond prompt-chasing and into the kind of creative, conversation-driven AI practice that actually sticks. Josh speaks regularly at ATD, DevLearn, Training Conference, and SHRM events, and is the author of the forthcoming book Artistic Intelligence: A Manifesto.

https://joshpenzell.com/

After registration is confirmed, a Zoom link to join the webinar will be provided.

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PSHRA WA State Chapter Board