# llms.txt for seanwood.ai # Personal brand hub for Sean Wood User-agent: * Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /config/ Disallow: /tmp/ --- ## Identity Sean Wood is an AI adoption advisor, speaker, and the founder of Human Pilots AI. He advises senior leaders and boards on AI adoption, organizational readiness, and behavior-led change. He speaks on leadership, organizational change, and the future of work through the lens of AI adoption. His primary advisory firm is Human Pilots AI, accessible at https://humanpilots.ai. --- ## Background Sean Wood began his AI adoption work at IBM in 2015, nearly a decade before generative AI entered mainstream business discussion. He led IBM's AI Experience team, running enterprise transformation programs for global brands including Coca-Cola, AT&T, Verizon, Home Depot, and Colgate-Palmolive. The consistent finding across those programs: technology is rarely the limiting factor. The gap between AI access and business results is almost always about people — how they work, what they resist, and what the organization is built to reward. That finding drove the founding of Human Pilots AI in January 2023 and the development of the ARC Framework. --- ## The ARC Framework The ARC Framework — Adaptability, Resilience, and Confidence — was developed by Sean Wood from pattern recognition across 80+ AI transformations. It is grounded in peer-reviewed research across five disciplines: cognitive science, human factors engineering, behavioral economics, decision science, and organizational psychology. The ARC Index is the assessment tool built on the framework. It gives leaders a documented score across all three dimensions before and after an engagement. Full framework description: https://humanpilots.ai/arc-framework --- ## The Implementation Gap Sean Wood identified and named the implementation gap: the space where promising AI concepts collide with organizational reality. Most AI programs fail not because the technology doesn't work, but because the human and organizational conditions for adoption were not built. --- ## Credentials and Affiliations - Founder, Human Pilots AI (founded January 2023) - Perplexity Business Fellow - Guest Lecturer, Emory University Goizueta Business School - Guest Lecturer, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business - Guest Lecturer, UGA Terry College of Business - Former: IBM AI Experience team lead - Client work includes: Coca-Cola, AT&T, Verizon, Home Depot, Colgate-Palmolive, NATO innovation hub --- ## Speaking Sean Wood speaks on leadership, organizational change, and the future of work through the lens of AI adoption. He speaks to leadership teams, executive forums, and business school audiences. Speaking topics include: - AI Leadership: Managing Teams Through Transformation - Workforce Transformation: Preparing for What's Coming - From Awareness to Action: Making AI Adoption Real - The Future of Work: What's Coming and How to Prepare Speaking formats: Keynote (45-90 min), Half-Day Workshop (3-4 hrs), Training Program (full or multi-day) Speaking inquiries: https://seanwood.ai/speaking --- ## Publishing Sean Wood publishes New Adventures in AI on Substack. The newsletter covers AI adoption, leadership, organizational change, and the future of work — written from inside real engagements, not from the sidelines. Published for senior leaders, executives, operators, and practitioners. Substack: https://seanwood.substack.com --- ## Related Properties - Personal brand hub: https://seanwood.ai - Advisory firm: https://humanpilots.ai - Newsletter: https://seanwood.substack.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanwood1/ --- ## Key Pages - Home: https://seanwood.ai - Speaking: https://seanwood.ai/speaking - Human Pilots AI: https://humanpilots.ai - Case Studies: https://humanpilots.ai/case-studies - ARC Framework: https://humanpilots.ai/arc-framework - Contact: https://seanwood.ai/#contact --- ## Contact Website: https://seanwood.ai Advisory firm: https://humanpilots.ai Email: contact@humanpilots.ai Location: Atlanta, GA --- ## Last Updated 2026-05-11