From our 2026 webinar for Nonprofit Builder, presented by AlignIQ co-founders Dan Garmat and Caroline Stauss.
The step that gets a team unstuck is smaller than most expect: a conversation with someone who isn’t yet on board, and one experiment you try safely together.
Key takeaways
- It’s enough to start a conversation with someone who hasn’t agreed with you yet.
- Seek out a colleague who sits somewhere else on the spectrum of willingness to use AI.
- Ask one specific question: can we try this AI experiment safely together?
- Repeated, that becomes shared practice: a few chosen workflows, cleaner data, minimum rules, and habits that stick.
Try this with your team
Pair up with the colleague whose view of AI is furthest from yours. Agree on one small experiment you could both stand behind, and what would make it safe.
Going further
The free AI Opportunity & Risk Snapshot gives a team a shared starting point for that conversation. wAI-Finder is our facilitated version.
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Transcript
Lightly edited from YouTube’s automatic captions for readability. Wording and order are the speakers’ own.
It’s enough to start a real conversation with someone who hasn’t agreed with you yet. I recommend checking in with someone who’s maybe somewhere different from you on the spectrum of willingness to use AI.
In our deeper work, we help teams turn this into a shared practice: choosing a few workflows, helping to organize and clean data, setting minimum rules, and building habits that stick.
You’ve got a next step that you can stand behind. Ask specifically: can we try this AI experiment safely together? And then that can repeat itself, and we can coach you on how to make it a repeatable team practice.