Insights from the Field
Is Your Team Ready To Turn AI Into Business Value?
McKinsey & Company research confirms a readiness gap many leaders are already feeling: AI value does not come from tool access alone. In this post, Glenna Wiseman explores why AI adoption is a team system change, how organizational readiness shapes business value, and why the AI Uplift Assessment was created to help leaders reflect on the human infrastructure needed to support AI adoption and expansion.
Women Are Not Falling Behind on AI. They May Be Showing Us How to Lead.
New research from Chief and The Harris Poll offers a more complete story about women and AI. Senior women leaders are not standing on the sidelines. They are shaping governance, protecting judgment and culture, and showing why intentional preparation can help organizations move faster toward meaningful value.
Execute What Matters Most in the AI Era
AI headlines promise transformation, but many organizations are still working to turn AI investment into real value. In this post, Glenna Wiseman reflects on the constant that matters most in the AI era: people and teams. She shares how leaders can prepare the human infrastructure needed for AI innovation.
AI Adoption Is a Team System Change: Common Pitfalls Leaders Can Avoid
AI adoption can create meaningful business value, but only if the team system is ready to hold the change. Glenna Wiseman shares why leaders need to look beyond tools and prepare the human infrastructure needed for AI adoption to succeed.
Why Team Alignment Is a Strategic Asset for Clean Energy Companies
Discover how clean energy leaders can transform team purpose into scalable value. Learn how New Sun Road paired metric-driven alignment with tactical AI workflows.
When AI Exposes the Cracks: Why Human Infrastructure Is Becoming the Leadership Imperative
AI is reshaping clean energy organizations, but success depends on team functionality. Learn why strong teams, not tools, drive real transformation.
Beyond the Tool: Why Your Team is the Real Power Source for AI Transformation
AI is reshaping clean energy organizations, but success depends on team functionality. Learn why strong teams, not tools, drive real transformation.
How Clean Energy Leaders Can Strengthen Teams in the Age of AI
Clean energy professionals gathered for a WRISE International Women’s Day leadership lab to explore how to build high-value teams. Discover the four major challenges teams face today and the solutions surfaced to strengthen purpose, communication, and collaboration.
How AI Is Impacting Team Functionality
Crowdsourced insights from renewable energy leaders on AI integration, team dynamics, enterprise strategy, and future-fit leadership.
Rebuilding Team Engagement After Layoffs, Restructuring, and AI Disruption: A Systemic, Purpose-Led Approach
How HR leaders and executives can restore team engagement after layoffs, restructuring, and AI disruption using a systemic, purpose-led team coaching approach that builds future-fit capability.
Cultivating Purpose Together: Reflections from the WRISE SF Purpose Portfolio Building Workshop
A full-house WRISE SF workshop exploring purpose through personal symbolism, names, and regrets and how a living Purpose Portfolio helps women thrive.
Why Purpose-Driven Goals Help Professional Women Follow Through
Research shows goals stick when they’re rooted in purpose. Learn what truly helps professional women sustain meaningful goals and lasting change.
Why Most New Year Goals Don’t Stick and What Actually Helps
Why most New Year goals don’t stick and what research shows actually helps. Explore how purpose, meaning, and support create lasting change.
The Piano with a Love Note Inside: A Holiday Story of Family, Purpose, and Enduring Love
Discovered during the holidays, a hidden love note inside a family piano becomes a winter reflection on love, purpose, gratitude, and the beauty that travels across generations.
Future-Fit Teams in Clean Energy: Insights from the WRISE Bay Area Women’s Leadership Workshop
When you bring a brain trust of women from across the renewable-energy ecosystem together and give them a container to explore real challenges, something meaningful happens. True...
Leading Future-fit Teams: Why Purpose and Foresight Define the Next Era of Leadership
In every era of change, leadership faces a defining question: Are our teams built for what’s now, or for what’s next? In the renewable energy and climate sectors, we are...
A Crack in the Armor, for Which I Am Grateful
It was late on a Friday night. Storms were pouring down across California that spring evening, delaying flights at both ends of the state. My team and I were trying to get home...
Finding Your North Star: Living with Purpose as an Individual
Why Purpose Matters: From Words to Action Finding Your North Star: Living with Purpose as an IndividualFor individuals, articulating and activating purpose isn’t just...