Sourcing Industry Landscape · 2026-07-23 · 12 min
Everyone's talking about what AI can do - but almost no one is talking about how to actually roll it out with people, not just technology, in mind. In her SIG Summit workshop, AI Change Management for Leadership: Leading Organizational Transformation with Artificial Intelligence , Candiss Kumar, a veteran of sourcing and procurement leadership, will make the case for treating AI adoption as a leadership and business transformation challenge rather than a tech rollout. Drawing on decades of experience guiding organizational change, Candiss will explore why AI triggers a different kind of resistance than past tools - touching on identity, trust, and job security in ways prior technologies never did - and share practical strategies for rolling out AI top-down with clear communication and purpose. Attendees will leave with a framework they can apply to any transformative change effort, not just AI, and a clearer sense of how to bring people along rather than leave them behind.
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