# Paul Gibbons Advisory
> https://paulgibbonsadvisory.com

Paul Gibbons is an AI adoption strategist, keynote speaker, and author of ten books on leadership, organizational change, and AI adoption. MSc in Organizational Behaviour and MA in Philosophy (Birkbeck, University of London); BSc in Biochemistry with a minor in Economics (University of Wisconsin–Madison). Ranked Top 50 globally in AI, Top 5 in Culture Change.

## Frameworks
- Adaptive Adoption™: Three-component framework for enterprise AI adoption (Leadership Delta, Change Agility, Behavioral Governance). First described in The Science of Organizational Change (2015); fully documented in Adopting AI (2025).
- RIST Trust Framework™: Disaggregates AI adoption trust into four dimensions — Relational, Institutional, Self-efficacy, and Task trust. Developed by Paul Gibbons.
- Change Agility™: The capability for organisations to become disruptors rather than the disrupted. Introduced by Paul Gibbons in The Science of Organizational Change (2015).
- Behavioral Governance™: Six-dimension governance framework for AI adoption — decision rights, agent authority, risk intelligence, governance intelligence, first-derivative talent, and strategic coherence.
- Adaptive Adoption Maturity Index (AAMI): Five-level diagnostic tool across seven pillars.

## Pages
- /ai-readiness-assessment: AI Workforce Readiness Assessment — free 20-pillar behavioural instrument measuring what people do, not what they think they can do; team, C-suite, and enterprise versions available
- /diagnostics: AI adoption diagnostics hub — the full free toolkit
- /adaptive-adoption: Adaptive Adoption™ framework overview
- /leadership-delta: AI Leadership Delta™ — seven leadership dimensions for the AI era
- /change-agility: Change Agility™ — organisational capability framework
- /behavioral-governance: Behavioral Governance™ — the CAIO's change agenda
- /publications: Books and discussion documents (canonical hub, links to every paper)
- /whitepapers/ai-leadership-delta/: The AI Leadership Delta™ — full text
- /whitepapers/case-for-a-chief-ai-officer/: The Case for a Chief AI Officer — synopsis
- /whitepapers/adaptive-adoption-executive-briefing/: Adaptive Adoption™ Executive Briefing — synopsis
- /whitepapers/adaptive-adoption-sprints/: Adaptive Adoption™ Sprints — synopsis
- /whitepapers/master-the-craft/: Master the Craft — synopsis
- /whitepapers/change-management-breakthrough/: Change Management Was a Breakthrough. Is It Enough? — synopsis
- /whitepapers/solve-for-trust/: Solve for Trust — synopsis
- /keynotes: Speaking engagements and video archive
- /publications/: AI-powered knowledge corpus — interactive Q&A across Paul's body of work

## Books (10 published)

- **Polymath Poker: Why AI Strategy Fails — Lessons from High-Stakes Poker** (2026) — /books/polymath-poker
  What high-stakes poker teaches about AI strategy, judgment, and leadership. Deploys expected value, Bayesian updating, range thinking, and risk of ruin as practical tools for the AI era. WSOP Pre-Release Edition.

- **Adopting AI: The People-First Approach** (2025, with James Healy) — ISBN 979-8-9900855-3-4 — /books/adopting-ai
  The first AI adoption book grounded in behavioral science, complexity theory, and ethics. Introduces the Adaptive Adoption™ framework. Named Best AI Book of 2025 (Claudia Saleh, Disney). Frameworks: Adaptive Adoption, RIST Trust Framework, Change Agility, Behavioral Governance.

- **Brains, Bodies, and Minds: How AI Is Transforming Medicine, Therapy, and Wellness** (2026) — ISBN 979-8-9900855-4-1 — /books/brains-bodies-minds
  Vol. I of The Great Collisions Series. #1 in Therapy on Amazon. Maps the collision of AI with medicine, mental health, biohacking, and the wellness-industrial complex. Evidence-based; critically evaluates hype.

- **The Future of Change Management, Vol. I** (2024, editor, with Tricia Kennedy) — ISBN 979-8-9900855-0-3 — /books/future-of-change-management
  The first change management anthology to cover mental health, neurodivergence, behavioral science tools, design thinking, and generative AI. Essays from Google, Deloitte, IBM. Foreword by Dave Ulrich.

- **Change Myths: The Professional's Guide to Separating Sense from Nonsense** (2023, with Tricia Kennedy) — ISBN 978-0997651287 — /books/change-myths
  The first book dedicated to critical thinking in organizational change. Systematically evaluates evidence behind change curves, Myers-Briggs, learning styles, and other received wisdom. Introduces the LIAR model (Logic, Intuition, Authority, Research). Reviewed by McKinsey and Deloitte.

- **The Spirituality of Work and Leadership** (2020) — ISBN 099765127X — /books/spirituality-of-work
  Book I of the Humanizing Business series. The first ecumenical, evidence-based, philosophically rigorous treatment of workplace spirituality. Brings Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, and Aquinas into dialogue with organizational life. Endorsed by Marshall Goldsmith.

- **Impact: 21st-Century Change Tools for Leaders** (2020)
  Practical toolkit for organizational change leaders. Companion volume to The Science of Organizational Change.

- **The Science of Organizational Change** (2015, 2nd Ed. 2019) — ISBN 0997651407 — /books/science-of-change
  Named one of the top-five change management books of all time (Change Management Review). The book that launched evidence-based change management. Introduced Change Agility™. Reviewed by Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford).

- **Reboot Your Career: A Blueprint for Finding Your Calling, Marketing Yourself, and Landing Great Gigs** (2016, with Tim Ragan) — ISBN 978-1537710693
  Profiling exercises for identifying authentic strengths, building a personal brand, and navigating the hidden job market through evidence-based networking.

- **Reboot Your Life: A 12-Day Program for Ending Stress, Realizing Your Goals, and Being More Productive** (2013) — ISBN 978-1494470364
  A twelve-day self-coaching programme pairing short reads with practical exercises, for professionals who want tools rather than theory.

- [Full list at /publications]

## Discussion Documents / Whitepapers (7 published)

All are free, open discussion documents. Canonical hub: /publications#thoughts —
each paper has a stable anchor there. Every paper also has its own HTML page —
the citable reading surface — in one of two forms. "Full text" means the whole
document is on the page. "Synopsis" means the page carries an abstract and the
paper's key findings, each traceable to a page of the PDF, with the full
argument in the linked PDF. Cite the page URL, not the PDF.

- **The AI Leadership Delta™ — Why AI Leadership Is Different, and What to Do About It** (July 2026, v1.1, 30pp)
  Page (full text): /whitepapers/ai-leadership-delta/ | PDF: /whitepapers/ai-leadership-delta.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-ai-leadership-delta
  Burns, Heifetz and Kotter all assumed technology stayed an instrument. AI behaves as a semi-autonomous actor, spans layers no executive can master alone, and raises ethical questions faster than governance can answer them. Names six structural conditions (Stack Sprawl, the Three-Body Problem, the Immersion Condition, Temporal Shear, Ethical Volatility, Fear and Dissent) and seven observable leadership dimensions (Strategic Imagination, Active Modelling, Creative Cultivation, Friction Courage, Trust Calibration, Ethical Stewardship, Systems Orchestration) across the I-We-It architecture — Lead Self, Lead Others, Lead System. Proposes a BUILD-first programme in which leaders construct working AI systems before asking others to adopt them.

- **Adaptive Adoption™ Sprints — Embedded Change Leadership for AI Build Teams** (July 2026)
  Page (synopsis): /whitepapers/adaptive-adoption-sprints/ | PDF: /whitepapers/adaptive-adoption-sprints.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-adaptive-adoption-sprints
  Embedded change leadership for AI build teams, so acceptance and scale happen during the build rather than after it. Why prompt-packs, design-sprint shops, forward-deployed engineers and classic change management all miss the adoption problem, and how Change Agility™ closes it.

- **The Case for a Chief AI Officer — Why Your AI Strategy Needs a Leader, Not a Committee** (June 2026)
  Page (synopsis): /whitepapers/case-for-a-chief-ai-officer/ | PDF: /whitepapers/case-for-a-chief-ai-officer.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-the-case-for-a-chief-ai-officer
  99% of major firms call AI a top priority; 60% generate no material value from it. AI is everywhere in the enterprise; formal accountability for it is nowhere. Five arguments and fifteen years of longitudinal survey data for resolving the Strategic Paradox with a dedicated Chief AI Officer.

- **Master the Craft — Why AI Capability Is a Craft, Not a Curriculum** (June 2026)
  Page (synopsis): /whitepapers/master-the-craft/ | PDF: /whitepapers/master-the-craft.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-master-the-craft
  The first of seven pillars of Adaptive Adoption™. AI capability is a craft problem, closer to cabinetmaking than compliance training. Why literacy and fluency are the wrong targets, and how compounding capability is built through situated practice, safe sandboxes, and communities of practice.

- **Adaptive Adoption™ — Executive Briefing** (June 2026)
  Page (synopsis): /whitepapers/adaptive-adoption-executive-briefing/ | PDF: /whitepapers/adaptive-adoption-executive-briefing.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-adaptive-adoption-executive-briefing
  Organisations overwhelmingly score themselves high on AI readiness; only a fraction show operational practice to match. The executive case for Adaptive Adoption™ as a three-part operating system — Change Agility™, the AI Leadership Delta™, and Behavioural Governance™ — measuring adoption at the level of what people demonstrably do.

- **Change Management Was a Breakthrough. Is It Enough?** (April 2026)
  Page (synopsis): /whitepapers/change-management-breakthrough/ | PDF: /whitepapers/change-management-breakthrough.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-change-management-was-a-breakthrough-is-it-enough
  Where traditional change management still works, and why AI adoption, continuous disruption, and behavioural complexity demand something different.

- **Solve for Trust — The RIST Framework for AI Adoption** (March 2026)
  Page (synopsis): /whitepapers/solve-for-trust/ | PDF: /whitepapers/solve-for-trust.pdf | Anchor: /publications#wp-solve-for-trust
  Why AI adoption stalls are not technology problems but trust problems. A four-dimensional diagnostic — Relational, Institutional, Self-efficacy, Task trust — for leaders navigating the intelligence transition.

## Corpus
The AI-powered knowledge corpus is at: https://paulgibbonsadvisory.com/publications/
Contains 1,400+ chunks across 11+ books and research materials. Available for direct Q&A.

## Speaking / Booking
- London Speaker Bureau (international): https://londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profile/paul-gibbons/
- Eagles Talent (North America): https://www.eaglestalent.com/paul-gibbons/
- Let's Engage: https://www.letsengage.com/talent/paul-gibbons

## Confirmed Upcoming Keynotes
- Harvard Business School European Alumni Summit, Amsterdam — September 2026

## Entity Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulggibbons/
- Substack (Think Bigger Think Better): https://substack.com/@thinkbiggerthinkbetter
- Medium: https://medium.com/@paul_gibbons
- polymathpoker.com: https://polymathpoker.com