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Pivoting to Technology Adoption

Hosted by Donna P. Mitchell · business · EN-US

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Pivoting to Technology Adoption 70% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because organizations never close the adoption gap. The system goes live. The people never fully adopt it. The investment stalls. If your clinicians won't use the new EHR, your teams are working around the new platform, or your rollout is technically "done" but nobody's actually using it, this show is for you. Host Donna P. Mitchell, The Transformation Authority™ and author of Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap , brings 49 years across five regulated industries (telecommunications, aviation, airline management, healthcare, and emerging technologies) to every conversation. From hospital systems to enterprise and mission-driven organizations, she has enabled more than 150,000 professionals through four major types of transformation, and she knows exactly where adoption breaks down. Each episode features the executive

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What is Pivoting to Technology Adoption about?

Pivoting to Technology Adoption 70% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because organizations never close the adoption gap. The system goes live. The people never fully adopt it. The investment stalls.

Who hosts Pivoting to Technology Adoption?

Pivoting to Technology Adoption is hosted by Donna P. Mitchell. The show has published 134 episodes to date.

What has Pivoting to Technology Adoption covered recently?

Recent episodes include "AI Follows the Culture | What CEOs Miss About Fear and Adoption | Brett Schklar" (13 October 2026, 33 minutes), "A Bad Process, Finished Quicker. What Leaders Miss Before They Add AI, with Tom Altman" (6 October 2026, 21 minutes), and "The Ending Is Where You Should Start, Rich Bornstein on the Story Gap" (29 September 2026, 20 minutes).

How often does Pivoting to Technology Adoption publish?

Pivoting to Technology Adoption publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 134 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on Pivoting to Technology Adoption?

Booking probability for Pivoting to Technology Adoption is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Pivoting to Technology Adoption requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Pivoting to Technology Adoption's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch Pivoting to Technology Adoption?

The strongest fits for Pivoting to Technology Adoption are IT Services & Software Development. Pivoting to Technology Adoption has a business audience.

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Donna P. Mitchell hosts Pivoting to Technology Adoption, a business podcast with 134 episodes published.

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  • Episode #134

    AI Follows the Culture | What CEOs Miss About Fear and Adoption | Brett Schklar

    Oct 13, 202633 min

    Your AI rollout will only be as healthy as the culture it lands in. Brett Schklar, CEO of GROW Powered and author of AI Without the BS, has talked with nearly 2,000 CEOs about AI. He explains why so much of the...

  • Episode #133

    A Bad Process, Finished Quicker. What Leaders Miss Before They Add AI, with Tom Altman

    Oct 6, 202621 min

    Most AI efforts do not stall on the technology. They speed up a process nobody has looked at closely. Fractional CTO/CIO Tom Altman explains why AI takes a bad process and makes it finish quicker, why the trouble lives...

  • Episode #132

    The Ending Is Where You Should Start — Rich Bornstein on the Story Gap

    Sep 29, 202620 min

    Seventy percent of technology transformations fail — and it is not the technology. It is the human adoption gap. Emmy-nominated producer Rich Bornstein returns to the show to talk about the gap inside that gap: how...

  • Episode #131

    What People Need — Why Buy-In Is Not a Nice-to-Have

    Sep 22, 20266 min

    Seventy percent of technology transformations fail — and it is not the technology. It is the human adoption gap. In this solo author read, Donna P. Mitchell reads Chapter 5 of her book Pivoting to Technology Adoption...

  • Episode #130

    What People Do — Shadow Systems, Sabotage, and the Distance Between the Dashboard and the Floor

    Sep 8, 20269 min

    Seventy percent of technology transformations fail — and it is not the technology. It is the human adoption gap. In this solo author read, Donna P. Mitchell reads Chapter 4 of her book Pivoting to Technology Adoption...

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  • Episode #129

    The Autonomous Enterprise: What Privileges Should You Allow AI?

    Aug 25, 202634 min

    Steve Hall, Chief AI Officer at ISG, argues the question executives keep asking is the wrong one. Not what AI can do — what privileges you should allow it. He walks through the autonomous enterprise, what his market...

  • Episode #128

    Five Industries. One Blind Spot.

    Aug 11, 202611 min

    70% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because of the gap between what leaders deploy and what people actually do with it. In this compilation, host Donna P. Mitchell puts a year of...

  • Episode #127

    What People Feel: Why Attitudes and Culture Eat Strategy Every Time

    Aug 4, 20266 min

    70% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because of the gap between what leaders buy and how people actually feel about using it. In this episode there is no guest. Host Donna P...

  • Episode #126

    The Builder's Chair: What C-Suite Misses About AI Adoption

    Jul 21, 202636 min

    70% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because of the gap between what leaders buy and how people actually use it. In this episode, host Donna P. Mitchell turns the lens to the...

  • Episode #123

    What People Know: The Gap Between the Dashboard and the Break Room

    Jul 14, 20266 min

    Two realities exist inside every transformation. One lives in the boardroom — strategic, funded, on track, with a dashboard full of green check marks. The other lives on the ground floor, where the people who use the...

  • Episode #124

    The Leadership Operating System: Trust People, and the Profit Follows

    Jul 7, 202626 min

    70% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because of the gap between the strategy and the people who have to live it. In this episode, Donna P. Mitchell sits down with Jürgen Dauk...

  • Episode #123

    Innovation Portfolio Management: Linking Strategy to Execution

    Jun 30, 202634 min

    0% of technology transformations fail. Not because of the technology, but because of the gap between a strategy set in the boardroom and the work that actually gets executed. In this episode, Donna P. Mitchell sits down...

  • Episode #122

    The Dashboard Trap: When Technology Doesn’t Change the Business

    Jun 16, 202640 minS0

    <p>Most technology investments don’t fail because the technology is broken. They fail because leaders measure activity instead of outcomes — logins, usage, dashboards full of green — while the business itself never...

  • Episode #122

    The Dashboard Trap: When Technology Doesn’t Change the Business

    Jun 16, 202640 min

    Most technology investments don’t fail because the technology is broken. They fail because leaders measure activity instead of outcomes — logins, usage, dashboards full of green — while the business itself never...

  • Episode #121

    Chapter 1: The Space Between — Author Read Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap | Donna P. Mitchell

    Jun 10, 202612 minS0

    <p>It was never the technology. In this solo author read, host Donna P. Mitchell reads Chapter 1 of her book Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap — the case for why 70% of technology transformations fail, and...

  • Episode #120

    The Simplicity Trap — Rohit C. Nambiar

    Jun 3, 202637 minS0

    <p>Technology is over-glorified in transformation. Change is not spoken enough. That's the message from Rohit C. Nambiar — former Group CEO of Tune Protect, now Co-Founder & COO of SabaiHealth — in this conversation...

  • Episode #119

    System First, Tools Second — AI Sales Leadership with Greg Grand

    May 27, 202635 minS0

    <p>System first. Tools second. That is the framework Greg Grand brings to AI sales leadership — and the reason most sales transformations fail.</p> <p> </p> <p>In this episode of Pivoting to Technology Adoption, Greg...

  • Episode #118

    People, Processes, Platform — Why Most Tech Transformations Collapse | Dusty Gulleson

    May 19, 202642 minS0

    <p>Most digital transformations fail at the people layer, not the technology layer. After 25+ years and 400+ clients, Dusty Gulleson, CEO of Tectonic, has seen the same pattern repeat: organizations start with the...

  • Episode #117

    Behavioral Science Meets Technology Adoption — Will Leach, Mindstate Group

    May 12, 202645 minS0

    <p>Messaging is not the same thing as meaning. And until executives understand that, 70% of technology transformations will keep failing for the same reason.</p> <p>In this episode of Pivoting to Technology Adoption...

  • Episode #116

    Adoption Matters More Than Sophistication — MEST Africa

    May 5, 202650 minS0

    <p>The best system is not the most advanced one. It is the one your team will actually use.</p> <p>Host Donna P. Mitchell goes inside the MEST Africa AI Startup Program in Accra, Ghana — where 30 entrepreneurs from 7...

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