Rewiring Your Organization for AI - by Koreen Pagano & Kristi Broom (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Manage People. Manage AI. Lead the Future.

Every business leader, HR professional, and people manager is now navigating the most dramatic shift in how work gets done in more than a century. You need to lead business operations, people, and AI agents simultaneously while integrating human-AI hybrid teams into daily workflows. You want to build your team's essential skills more intentionally--and move faster. But you also want to maintain core human values because your people still matter most. Business and AI strategy experts Koreen Pagano and Kristi Broom wrote Rewiring Your Organization for AI for exactly this moment.

In this book, you'll learn how to:

• Use AI to remove low-leverage work from managers' plates, freeing them to do more of the essential work only humans can do.


• Build effective operational models around human-AI collaboration.


• Distribute responsibility wisely and create accountability in human-AI teams.


• Manage up, down, and across an AI-driven, human-focused organization.

Don't wait for inevitable disruptions and tech advances to upend your business plans. Let Pagano and Broom help you rewire your operations--from decision making to governance to skills development--right now.

Review Quotes

"This book comes at a timely moment when AI transformation needs a new narrative. By sharing practical frameworks for how work and roles will evolve yet remain grounded on the essential human core of the workforce, Rewiring Your Organization for AI provides a clear path for leadership teams that want to get workers excited about what a human-first, AI-enabled future can hold."

-Kyle Forrest, Future of HR Leader, Deloitte Consulting

"This book is written by two people who have actually been with leaders during the frustrating and exhausting process of AI transformation. It acknowledges the crazy, and then hands you a way to navigate it that doesn't ask you to stop being human."

-Dani Johnson, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst, RedThread Research

"A playbook for leaders reshaping their organizations in the era of AI, this book embraces the philosophy that what got you here won't get you there. It offers practical guidance for AI-curious leaders who want to build AI-capable organizations."

-Alicia Sanchez, PhD, Chief AI Officer, MPF Federal

"Well-written and thoroughly researched, Rewiring Your Organization for AI grounds us where we are in our organizations, and then methodically and practically takes us where we need to go next. The step-by-step guides and blueprints are immediately useful and pragmatic. This book is a real guide for real challenges."

-Rob Robertson, Global Head of Learning Experience, N26

"This is one of the few AI books I've read that doesn't get distracted by the technology. Instead, the authors ask critical questions: What work should AI do? And what work should humans do? The book makes a compelling case that AI isn't eliminating leadership; rather, it's forcing us to become better leaders. The organizations that succeed won't be the ones that automate the fastest; they'll be the ones that figure out how humans and AI work together best."

-Keri-Lynne Shaw, Founder, The Salary Bump

"There is a false narrative that managers simply coordinate and route information and are therefore easily replaceable by AI. In Rewiring Your Organization for AI, the authors reveal why that argument doesn't hold water while pointing us in the direction of a revised managerial function."

-Sandra Loughlin, PhD, Chief Learning Scientist, EPAM Systems

About the Author

Kristi Broom is an AI strategy consultant, executive coach, and people expert who helps leaders integrate technology, strategy, and human potential to create thriving, future-ready organizations. With more than 30 years of experience leading transformation across startups, scale-ups, and mature enterprises, She has built a career at the intersection of people, performance, and innovation. Broom is known for designing and executing transformative strategies that drive growth, improve quality, and strengthen teams. She works with leaders who want to embrace AI without losing the human connection that drives their businesses. As a certified Positive Intelligence Coach and Registered Yoga Teacher, Broom combines science-backed mental fitness tools with mindful leadership practices. She is an accomplished speaker and author who lives in Prior Lake, MN.