Chris Avore
VP Design
,
Diligent
About the Speaker
Chris Avore is a veteran design executive who leads multidisciplinary design, research, and content teams across global organizations. He coaches design leaders and partners with executives to elevate design’s role in driving business impact and product innovation. A frequent speaker and workshop facilitator, Chris helps design leaders scale their impact, strengthen their leadership skills, and navigate emerging challenges like AI’s role in design and organizational change.
About the Session
As AI hype collides with workplace realities, design leaders face a threefold challenge: managing executive expectations fueled by LinkedIn headlines and pithy X posts, calming teams worried about being replaced, and figuring out how to integrate AI into both new products and legacy systems. In this talk, Chris Avore shares lessons from leading design organizations through this transition—from using AI to power product innovation to leveraging it for team enablement, like automating operational tasks to create time to design better outcomes. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to set realistic expectations, ease team anxiety, and drive meaningful AI adoption in their own organizations.
Speaker Name
VP Design
,
Diligent
About the Speaker
Speaker Bio
About the Session
As AI hype collides with workplace realities, design leaders face a threefold challenge: managing executive expectations fueled by LinkedIn headlines and pithy X posts, calming teams worried about being replaced, and figuring out how to integrate AI into both new products and legacy systems. In this talk, Chris Avore shares lessons from leading design organizations through this transition—from using AI to power product innovation to leveraging it for team enablement, like automating operational tasks to create time to design better outcomes. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to set realistic expectations, ease team anxiety, and drive meaningful AI adoption in their own organizations.
Speaker Name
VP Design
,
Diligent
About the Speaker
Speaker Bio
About the Session
As AI hype collides with workplace realities, design leaders face a threefold challenge: managing executive expectations fueled by LinkedIn headlines and pithy X posts, calming teams worried about being replaced, and figuring out how to integrate AI into both new products and legacy systems. In this talk, Chris Avore shares lessons from leading design organizations through this transition—from using AI to power product innovation to leveraging it for team enablement, like automating operational tasks to create time to design better outcomes. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to set realistic expectations, ease team anxiety, and drive meaningful AI adoption in their own organizations.
