Trey Malicoat & Associates
An AI and automation workshop built around your people
A facilitated companion to The Cost of Standing Still that helps your team identify needs, obstacles, possibilities, and a practical next step.
It all begins with a curious conversation.
Before deciding what should change, we explore what is already working. Through an initial facilitated digital conversation using appreciative inquiry, Trey helps your team surface its true needs, obstacles, limitations, and possibilities.
The workshop turns the keynote’s ideas into a discussion of your business. People consider where automation could create capacity and how to use that capacity for stronger relationships, original thinking, and shared problem solving.
Six decisions to work through together
- Decide: What future are we choosing? Name a business outcome and a human outcome worth pursuing.
- Reimagine: What should automation carry? Weigh the benefit, reliability, risk, and judgment each choice requires.
- Prepare: What will people need? Surface concerns about security, competence, status, and belonging.
- Reorient: Who are we beyond our roles? Identify the experience, care, and creativity people want to contribute.
- Redesign: How will we work together? Clarify responsibilities, ownership, and time for learning.
- Realize: What will greater capacity make possible? Choose how to assess business results and relationship health together.
Make the next step specific.
The aim is to identify a meaningful first transition: what you want to improve, who needs to be involved, what questions remain, and how people will be supported. The scope is shaped with you during the planning conversation.
Keep human connection in the design.
If scheduling and routine updates become automated, where will customers still encounter a person who knows their situation? If reporting takes less time, how will managers use that time to coach? These are decisions to make deliberately, with the people doing the work.
Explore the keynote or an ongoing consulting conversation.
