Reduce fear, resistance, and burnout while giving your leaders the skills to guide teams through AI-driven change with clarity, trust, and psychological safety.
AI is changing workplaces faster than most organizations can emotionally process it. Leaders are now expected to answer difficult questions about automation, job security, productivity expectations, ethics, and constant technological change, often while feeling overwhelmed themselves.
The problem is not just technical adoption. It is human adaptation.
When leaders avoid conversations about AI, teams fill the silence with fear. Productivity drops, resistance rises, trust erodes, and high performers quietly start looking elsewhere.
This session gives leaders practice in real AI-related workplace scenarios from your organization, with tools they can use immediately and skills they can rely on under pressure.
"People won't lose their jobs to AI. They'll lose them to people who know how to use AI better."
This session is designed for executive teams, HR leaders, managers, and organizations introducing AI tools into the workplace.
This is the right fit if your organization is dealing with:
Your leaders leave this day knowing how to communicate about AI honestly, reduce fear without false reassurance, maintain psychological safety, and help teams adapt without burning out.
Most organizations are treating AI implementation as a technology problem.
It is actually a behavioral and psychological challenge.
Humans are wired to detect threat. When people hear words like automation, replacement, restructuring, efficiency, or optimization, the nervous system often hears danger.
The result:
The organizations that succeed in the AI era will not necessarily be the ones with the best tools. They will be the ones whose people can adapt, learn, communicate, and collaborate under pressure.
The cost is not just slower AI adoption. The cost is organizational paralysis.
Most AI workshops focus on prompts, tools, automation, and productivity hacks.
But employees don't resist AI because they can't use ChatGPT. They resist because of uncertainty, identity threat, fear of incompetence, fear of replacement, and loss of control.
This session draws on Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley's 20 years of expertise in clinical and organizational psychology to address the behavioral realities that standard AI training ignores: why humans default to fear during technological change, why stress overrides good intentions and blocks adaptation, and what actually builds psychological flexibility and team trust under pressure.
The session builds four core competencies:
Why uncertainty and AI change trigger stress responses, avoidance, defensiveness, and catastrophizing. Leaders develop a model for recognizing fear-driven behavior in themselves and their teams, and learn how to respond rather than react.
How to communicate honestly about AI without false reassurance, hold space for team concerns, and reduce rumor spread by filling information voids with clarity and trust.
How to create team conditions where people feel safe to ask questions, experiment, make mistakes, and learn new systems without shame or fear. Leaders practice tools that build adaptability instead of panic.
How to recognize overload early, recharge effectively, and model sustainable performance for their teams. Leaders leave with a personalized plan for maintaining their own capacity while guiding others through ongoing transformation.
Every session is tailored. Dr. Dayna will consult with you before the event to understand the specific change your organization is navigating and build case studies and role plays from that context. Sessions are developed by Dr. Dayna and led by a team of registered psychologists and professionals trained in her approach.
Your leaders leave having done the work, not having heard about it.
Your organization gets reduced resistance to AI adoption, improved psychological safety during technological change, and a leadership team with the skills to guide teams through uncertainty without burning out.
I have to say this was one of the best programs I have ever taken.
Healthcare Provider, Canadian Armed Forces
I can not emphasize enough how great I found this workshop. It has impacted both my personal and professional life in profound ways...I have told all my colleagues about it.
Staff, Canadian Armed Forces
I am really impressed with the quality, pace, and engagement of this training. I also felt energized and hopeful about the steps I can take within my control to improve this sense of fatigue and burnout, and to re-charge.
Healthcare Provider, Hospital
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Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a Registered Psychologist with 20 years of applied experience spanning clinical, health, and organizational settings. She is a recognized international expert and spent nearly 15 years working inside complex, high-stakes healthcare institutions.
Director of the Psychological Health and Safety Lab at Saint Mary's University and former Director of the Behaviour Change Institute at Dalhousie University. 60 peer-reviewed publications, 155+ scholarly presentations, and faculty positions at Dalhousie University and Saint Mary's University.
She is the author of Healthy Habits Suck and co-founder of the Dr. Dayna app. Featured in the Globe and Mail, Psychology Today, CTV, CBC, and Real Simple.
She has worked with national organizations including the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Health Canada, the Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Standards Association, and the Canadian Armed Forces.
Starting price, plus travel expenses for in-person delivery
One voluntary departure at the leader or high-performer level costs your organization an estimated $20,000–$60,000 in recruitment and onboarding alone. One day invested in giving your leaders the skills to navigate AI-driven change is a hedge against a cost you're already paying.
Personalized executive coaching to reach 20 leaders individually would exceed $25,000. This session delivers the same evidence-based behavior change at scale, in a single day.
Custom pricing is available for multi-day engagements, recurring programs, virtual delivery, and large-audience formats. Request a proposal for specifics.
Request a ProposalYes, always. The pre-event consultation is where Dr. Dayna learns the specific AI-related dynamics your leaders are navigating, the seniority mix of your audience, and the outcomes you need. Case studies and role-play scenarios are built from your context.
It's a full-day workshop where participants spend meaningful time practicing skills.
Yes. The session works well for senior leadership teams, middle management cohorts, and mixed-level audiences. The pre-event consultation determines the right frame and case study scenarios for your group.
Dr. Dayna's training has been delivered to healthcare, government, professional services, finance, education, non-profit, and manufacturing organizations. The psychology of adaptation to change is human, not sector-specific. The customization makes it specific to your context.
You'll have a pre-event call with Dr. Dayna to brief her on your organization's situation, audience, and goals. She handles content development from there. You can expect a professional planning process that doesn't create extra work for your team.
Policies are confirmed in the service agreement. In general, cancellations with sufficient notice can be rescheduled without penalty. Full details are provided during the proposal stage.
Yes. Once your leaders have completed the full-day session, there is a parallel offering designed for front-line teams covering the same core themes from the employee perspective. It is a natural next step for organizations that want the leadership and team layers aligned on how to adapt to AI-driven change together.
Building the internal business case? Download the one-page summary of this workshop, including objectives, format, outcomes, and pricing, to share with your leadership team or procurement process.
Book a consultation with Dr. Dayna.
We'll talk about what's happening in your organization, the seniority mix of your audience and the outcomes you need.
Afterward, you'll receive a proposal tailored to your specific context and the challenges your leaders are navigating.
Thank you for reaching out. Dr. Dayna's team will get back to you within 48 hours.