Dr Sheila Volante
AI Starts with People
Douglasville, Georgia, United States
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Dr. Sheila Volante is the Chief Strategist of Volante Solo Consulting, LLC. She partners with organizations on strategic IT initiatives, digital transformation, and operational excellence.
With a PhD focused on Strategy and Innovation and more than two decades managing multimillion-dollar transformation programs for Fortune 1000 companies, Sheila brings rigor to the strategy and humanity to the room.
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The People Side of Change: Why Transformation Succeeds or Fails on Human Terms
Most change initiatives don't fail because of bad strategy or broken technology they fail because the people expected to adopt the change were never brought along in the first place. In this session, we explore why the human side of change management is the single biggest predictor of transformation success, and what leaders consistently get wrong when they treat people as an afterthought instead of the starting point.
Attendees will learn practical approaches for building buy-in, managing resistance, and creating the psychological safety people need to embrace change rather than simply comply with it. This session is designed for leaders and change agents who want to move beyond checklists and communication plans to build the trust and engagement that make transformation actually stick.
Beating the Odds: A Framework for Technology Initiative Success
Technology-led initiatives fail roughly 80% of the time. In this session, we break down why and more importantly, how to change it through the PPPT framework, a proven approach to scaling successful technology initiatives.
Designed for leaders driving digital transformation, this session reveals how to align people before technology, ensuring your organization builds the human foundation needed to support lasting change rather than letting new tools outpace the people expected to adopt them.
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