Leonhard Center hosts three-day AI-TELL Academy faculty workshop - Penn State

Penn State just spent three days teaching faculty how to integrate AI into their work — not replace their work. That distinction is everything. If you bought an AI tool that nobody on your team actua

Penn State just spent three days teaching faculty how to integrate AI into their work — not replace their work. That distinction is everything.

If you bought an AI tool that nobody on your team actually uses, you're not alone. Most implementations fail for the same reason: the tool gets dropped in, nobody gets shown how it fits their actual day-to-day, and it quietly becomes a $200/month line item on the credit card statement.

That's not a tech problem. That's a change problem.

What Penn State got right is the same thing most business owners skip entirely. They focused on human-centered integration — meaning the humans come first, the tool fits around them. Not the other way around.

When AI adoption fails, it's almost never because you picked the wrong software. It's because nobody mapped the tool to a specific task a specific person does every day.

This week, pick one repetitive task one team member does daily. Then ask: what part of this task is just information transfer or formatting? That's your starting point. One task. One person. Thirty days.

What's the one workflow in your business you wish took half the time it currently does?

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Workshops included a session on prompt engineering, human-centered AI integration, designing AI-resilient and AI-integrated assignments and more.