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CLE Overview

Building the Muscle to Lead Through Continuous Change

AI transformation is not primarily a technology challenge. It is a change challenge. Led by Gabrielle Kohlmeier, this capstone session will draw together the lessons of the America Bar Association’s 21 Days of AI: Grit & Growth Mindset Challenge to examine how legal professionals can build the human and organizational capabilities needed to navigate continuing technological change. Even if you didn’t participate in the Challenge, you are welcome to attend this event.

Using three interconnected concepts – change capacity, change agency, and change discipline, the session will help participants recognize how curiosity, experimentation, reflection, professional judgment, feedback, and repeated practice can create durable change muscle. Participants will explore how to move beyond episodic AI experimentation toward an intentional practice of learning, deciding, adapting, and acting as tools, expectations, and professional rules continue to evolve.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the elements of change capacity, agency, and discipline and how they support effective AI adoption and professional adaptation.
2. Recognize how experimentation, reflection, feedback, and professional judgment build durable change capability rather than simply tool proficiency.
3. Apply a practical framework for continuing change after the 21-day program, including deciding what to explore, what to prioritize, what to stop doing, and how to maintain momentum as AI evolves.

This session will offer 1.0 PA CLE Credit, sponsored by Babst Calland.

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Participants will receive a Zoom link closer to the event.

About Our Presenter

Gabrielle Kohlmeier is a lawyer, AI strategist, and transformation leader, and the Founder and CEO of GK Strategic Advisory, where she advises law firms and legal teams on AI strategy, innovation, and building the organizational capacity to navigate continuing change. Previously, she served as Verizon’s Global Head of Legal Innovation and Emerging Solutions and as a Market General Counsel, leading enterprise-scale AI adoption, technology transformation, and global teams. She has worked at the intersection of artificial intelligence, law, policy, and organizational change since 2017, including helping to build Verizon’s AI policy efforts and leading one of the largest in-house legal AI transformations of its time.

Gabrielle is co-creator and chair of the ABA’s 21 Days of AI: A Grit and Growth Mindset Challenge, which she created while serving as Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession. She continues as chair and serves on the Governing Council of the ABA Center for Innovation. She is also the creator and host of Technically Joyful: Building Change Capacity in the Age of AI, a podcast exploring how people and organizations can navigate rapid technological change with greater curiosity, judgment, agency, and joy. She holds a J.D./MA from The George Washington University and an Executive Master in Law and AI. Her work is grounded in the belief that the advantage in the AI era is not knowing everything. It is building the capacity – through grit, growth mindset, curiosity and awe – to keep learning, exercising judgment, and helping shape what comes next.