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

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Date: 9.16.26 at 11:00 AM EST
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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.

Mark Magnacca, President & Co-Founder of 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

Register and get your free individual Forrester AIQ assessment, the same benchmark Forrester uses to compare what leaders think their people can do against what employees actually report, to see where you stand personally.

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.

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Speakers:

Mark Magnacca, President & Co-Founder at Allego

Mark Magnacca is President and Co-Founder of Allego. Prior to Allego, Mark was President of Insight Development Group, a sales enablement and consulting firm that specialized in financial services. During this time, Mark helped his clients enable their sales teams more effectively and scale their efforts using technology. Mark is also the co-author of Mastering Virtual Selling: Orchestrating Sales Success with Yuchun Lee and Tony Jeary. The book redefined virtual selling for sales executives and their teams in financial services, medical device, high tech, and manufacturing. Mark hosts The Adapter’s Advantage podcast, in which sales and training leaders across industries share stories of overcoming challenging situations that help viewers adapt to a rapidly changing world. Mark is a graduate of Babson College and a participant in The Strategic Coach program.

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.