Discover The AI Change Impact Lab™ and earn your Certification of Applied AI Change Management.
Change Management Review™ and Project Pal AI invite you to a special information session introducing The AI Change Impact Lab™—the new applied learning experience where change professionals build real AI capability and earn the Certification in Applied AI Change Management™.
Led by Declan Foster, CEO of Project Pal AI, and Theresa Moulton, Editor-in-Chief of Change Management Review™, this 45-minute session will clarify what the Lab is, how it works, and what you’ll gain.
You’ll learn:
- How the Lab helps you apply AI directly to organizational change-management work
- What the Certification in Applied AI Change Management™ represents—and why it matters now
- How the team-based, challenge-driven learning format builds capability quickly
- What kinds of projects participants complete and take back to work
- Key dates, pricing, and how to secure your seat
If you’re looking for a credible, practical path to building AI capability as a change professional, this session is the place to start.
Paul Gibbons
Paul Gibbons is a global expert on change leadership, AI adoption, and behavioral science in organizations.
A former IBM partner and business school professor, Paul has advised top firms including Microsoft, Google, and Shell.
His groundbreaking books—including The Science of Organizational Change and 2024’s best-seller
The Future of Change Management—challenge outdated change models and introduce cutting-edge insights on ethics,
neuroscience, and people analytics. A sought-after keynote speaker, Paul has inspired audiences on five continents.
Daryl Conner
Daryl is the founder and Chairman of Conner Partners, Conner Advisory, and Conner Academy and he serves as a leading advisor and educator to senior executives across the globe. He is the author of “Managing at the Speed of Change” and “Leading at the Edge of Chaos.”
For over forty-five years, Daryl has educated and advised strategic leaders and veteran change practitioners in many of the world’s most successful organizations, helping them to understand and navigate the challenges and opportunities they face during transformational change. He is co-founder and chairman of three distinct but related platforms that he uses to deliver his work – Conner Advisory (conneradvisory.com), Conner Academy (conneracademy.com) and Conner Partners (connerpartners.com).
Stefanie Jackson
Steffi Jackson is the CEO of the Change Management Institute, the global peak body for the change management profession, connecting a vibrant professional community across 42 countries and advancing standards of excellence worldwide. A Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, she brings 20 years of national and international leadership experience spanning management consulting, financial services, insurance, and the not-for-profit sector.
Melanie Franklin
Empowers staff to plan, lead and implement transformational change, including the adoption of new target operating models, the implementation of platforms and systems, the creation of new cultures and ways of working. She builds trusted, empathetic relationships with stakeholders who have not led large-scale transformational change before, ensuring they have the skills and confidence to develop their own approach to change.
Acknowledged as a thought leader in transformational change, through authorship of 10 books, and practical consulting for global organisations including the United Nations, utility and telecoms, global consultancies, universities, health services and central government functions in the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Founder of ChangeabilityPro™, an online platform for developing practical skills and capabilities for achieving organisational change and transformations, delivering on her belief that we need to provide the answers for how to make change happen, reducing the stress of constant, high volumes of change.
Chief Examiner for the Agile Change Agent and Agile Change Coach qualifications and Neuroscience for Change certification. Chartered Management Consultant, and adviser to executives in the public, private and third sectors.
Founder of the Change Capability Community which facilitates networking, knowledge sharing, collaboration, and mutual support among change professionals globally.
Originator of the global Capability for Change Survey, which provides change professionals with a valuable benchmark for their progress in building change skills in their organisation, and identifies latest trends, challenges and successes for the change profession.
Melanie is a talented communicator and has a reputation for delivering complex information with humour and passion. She draws on her wealth of practical experience to illustrate concepts and to engage her audience in lively debates on advantages and disadvantages of each approach that she outlines.
Edwina Pike
Ed is passionate about transforming businesses, she offers an unusual perspective; a deep understanding of leading transformational change, and the pressures and dynamics that come with it.
Ed spent thirty years transforming businesses across the globe, the last ten in a senior leadership role managing the high value, complex culture and behavioural changes that come with M&A.
In 2019, Ed left the security of her corporate role to set up Pike Squared, an advisory firm specialising in guiding businesses through the toughest transformations, and Irrational Change, focused on building behavioural science capability in her fellow change agents.
An expert in leadership, human behaviour, culture, motivation, value realisation and inspiration, Ed often writes, speaks and teaches. Ed is the innovator behind Irrational Change.
Get to Know our Mentors
Patrick Brennan
Patrick is the founder and lead architect of BrainstormX, a Dublin-based AI and digital transformation consultancy serving mid-market Irish companies. As a fractional CTO, he works with businesses in the €50-150M revenue range, bringing over 20 years of enterprise technology leadership to organisations navigating complex digital transformations.
His distinctive approach—”fix foundations first, then AI”—positions BrainstormX in the gap between Big 4 consulting fees and pure-play AI firms, delivering enterprise architecture rigour with practical, ROI-driven outcomes. Prior to founding BrainstormX, Patrick served as Head of Digital Services & CTO at Kingspan Group, where he led technology operations across 70 countries and managed large global teams.
His current portfolio includes strategic technology advisory for a number of mid-tier companies, AI implementations, and the development of a fashion-tech platform. He leads a distributed team of 20 engineers and specialises in AI native technology, RAG systems, enterprise data strategy, and turning proof-of-concepts into production-ready solutions that demonstrate measurable business value.
Aarthi Kumar
Aarthi Kumar is the Head of Pre-Sales Engineering at CKDelta, an AI software business within the CK Hutchison Holdings group. She leads pre-sales, marketing, strategy, and partnerships, focusing on the development of strategic AI products that harness large-scale enterprise data to deliver efficiency, revenue growth, and sustainability. Her current work is centred on ensuring AI drives meaningful value across the utilities sector.
With over 15 years of experience spanning EY Ireland, Allianz Benelux, and entrepreneurial ventures, Aarthi brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business insight, underpinned by her dual background in data science and accounting. She has successfully led AI initiatives across sectors including retail, life sciences, and energy, achieving measurable outcomes such as revenue uplifts and operational improvements. Aarthi is also an Adjunct Faculty member in Data Mining and Machine Learning at University College Dublin, and serves as an ambassador for Women in Data Science (WiDS) Stanford.
James Garza
James Garza is a Senior Data Scientist and a founder of Tequila AI, an AI and data consulting firm specialising in custom AI strategies, machine learning models, and data governance solutions. With over 20 years of experience in financial services and a Master’s in Data Analytics, James bridges the gap between technical AI capabilities and business transformation. He hosts the AI Amigos Show, a podcast exploring AI trends and their real-world impact. His published research in IEEE Explore on reinforcement learning applications reflects his commitment to advancing practical AI solutions.
Greg Heaslip
Greg Heaslip is an AI training specialist and business transformation advisor with over 30 years of experience building, scaling, and exiting businesses across manufacturing, technology, e-commerce, and SaaS. He is the founder of Westmar Consulting and an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, where he specialises in applied AI training for business and professional audiences. Greg holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Limerick, with research focused on systems thinking and failure analysis — expertise that shapes his diagnostic, process-driven approach to AI adoption.
His training style is grounded in practical application: participants leave with tools, templates, and redesigned workflows they can use immediately. Rather than teaching teams how to use a chatbot, Greg focuses on building the governance frameworks, workflow transformation, and internal capability organisations need to move from AI experimentation to AI scale. Based in Galway, he works with enterprises and SMEs across Ireland through Westmar Consulting and regional enterprise support programmes.
Meet the Facilitators
Declan Foster
Declan is an industry leader in project delivery and change management and is ranked in the top 10 Thought Leaders in project management by Thinkers 360. He has worked in project and change management for over 25 years. He is the co-author of the award-winning, best-selling book – Humology: How to Put Humans Back AtThe Heart of Technology. Declan has an honours degree in Artificial Intelligence and graduated from Oxford University with an Executive Diploma in AI for Business. He is the founder and CEO of Project Pal AI.
Theresa Moulton
Theresa Moulton is an executive organizational change management consultant, coach, and thought leader who has spent more than 30 years guiding leaders and organizations through complex, consequential transformation. Her client work spans financial services, higher education, manufacturing, entertainment, utilities, nonprofits, and government. Known for her ability to translate strategic complexity into clear, human-centered change, Theresa has led large-scale transformations from the inside, working at the executive level to build change leadership capability, coach senior leaders through high-stakes transitions, and design the internal structures — Change Management Functions and Change Centers of Excellence — that help organizations sustain transformation over time.
She founded and led Performance Change Initiatives, a boutique change management consulting firm and today serves as Founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Change Management Review™ — one of the profession’s most respected global platforms for research, education, and community. She hosts The Change Management Review Podcast™ and curates and designs the Change Management Review™ annual Lead Change™ conference, bringing together leading voices in change, leadership, and organizational transformation.
Theresa co-founded and co-developed the graduate-level Personal and Professional Coaching Certification program at Cambridge College and currently instructs Coaching and Consulting Skills for Change Management Professionals™ — now enhanced through her partnership with Pandatron.ai. She has delivered keynotes and guest lectures for organizations including the IBM Center for Business Value, Babson College, the Organization Design Forum, SHRM, NEHRA, NICSA, ACMP Global, CFO Magazine, and the International Coaching Federation.
She holds certifications in Personal and Professional Coaching, Prosci® Change Management (CMP), and APMG Agile Change, serves on the ACMP Global/ICF Global Joint Task Force, and contributed to the development of the ACMP Global Standard™. She holds an MBA from Babson College and a B.S. in Marketing and Finance from the University of Massachusetts.
As the field evolves, Theresa brings her consulting and coaching depth to the emerging intersection of AI and organizational change, creating frameworks, programs, and learning experiences that equip change leaders to navigate AI-enabled transformation with confidence and clarity.