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Champion Pathways

Four learning pathways for people influencing AI adoption across their organizations.

Champion Roles and Learning Pathways

Champion Programs support two types of Champions: Leaders and Activators.

Together, they help AI adoption move from interest to sustained AI transformation.

Start with your role

Learn more about the role that best matches how you champion AI adoption within your organization.

Leaders

Set direction, support rollout, and create the conditions for AI adoption across teams.

Activators

Design workflows, build agents, and integrate AI into systems that scale high-impact solutions for their teams.

Then choose your learning pathway

Start with the pathway that best matches how you influence AI adoption today.

Lead

For executive sponsors setting AI direction, priorities, governance, and value goals.

Focus: Strategy, prioritization, narrative, value realization, sponsorship

Champion Role: Leaders

Enable

For enablement leads building AI fluency, guidance, and programs that help teams use AI effectively.

Focus: AI fluency, demos, guidance, adoption and education programs

Champion Role: Leaders

Deploy

For deployment owners managing rollout, governance, access, and change management.

Focus: Launch planning, governance, permissions, communications

Champion Role: Leaders

Integrate

For operationally minded people building AI workflows for their teams.

Focus: Workflow design, systems integration, scaling impact

Champion Role: Activators

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