Only 1 in 6 People Are Ready for AI. Here’s How to Change That.

Your organization bought the licenses. Ran the training. Sent the announcement. And your people are still using AI the way they used the last platform you rolled out — cautiously, occasionally, and not for anything that matters.

Forrester’s AIQ research found that just 16% of workers, that’s only 1-in-6, reached a High AI quotient in 2025, while 68% of organizations had generative AI running in production. The gap between what’s deployed and what’s actually being used well is not a technology problem. It’s a human problem and a change problem.

Deniz Olcay, VP of Marketing at Allego, is joined by guest speaker, J. P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester, to unpack Forrester’s latest AI readiness research and what separates organizations experimenting with AI from the ones turning it into an advantage.

You’ll learn how to:

• Benchmark where your people actually stand, not where you assume they do
• Strengthen confidence and motivation, not just skills, because that’s where AI readiness can stall
• Build the habit of questioning AI output, so AI creates value instead of rework
• Reinforce adoption in the flow of work rather than announcing it once and hoping

The AI advantage won’t go to the companies that adopt AI fastest. It will go to the ones that are ready to make it work.

Speakers:

Guest Speaker:

J. P. Gownder, VP & Principal Analyst at Forrester

J. P. Gownder is a vice president and principal analyst on Forrester’s Future of Work team. He is the creator of Forrester’s workforce AIQ, the Artificial Intelligence Quotient, a measure of how ready employees are to use AI productively and safely at work. He covers the joint impacts of technology and human factors on the future of work. He helps clients design strategies that drive productivity, collaboration, and effective and ethical use of AI. For over a decade, he has analyzed how AI and automation technologies are transforming jobs, organizations, and the workforce.

Deniz Olcay, VP of Marketing at Allego

Deniz has had a sales-centric background from the start, including working in the sales training industry at RAIN Group where he was directly responsible for creating learning programs to help sellers sell more effectively.

In his previous role at Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) he was the VP of Product Marketing, managing a portfolio of 12+ products representing over $650M in annual revenue. He played a pivotal role in training a 500+ person sales team and is intimately familiar with the challenges of arming sellers with the knowledge and tools to be successful in selling virtually.