Lab Notes: Presented by Rebel Leader Lab

The memo went out. The C-suite exhaled. Somebody booked a celebratory lunch. Then the real launch started, and nobody was watching.

In this episode of Lab Notes, Sheila Joy Vance walks through the 90 days after an AI announcement, phase by phase. There’s the silence everyone mistakes for buy-in, the rollout that splits your team into quiet experimenters and quiet resisters, and the day 45 dip that the dashboards never catch. Then comes the moment the organization decides its own story about what AI means. Sheila runs all of it through the REBEL Framework and shows why adoption doesn’t fail at the tool or the people. It fails in the leadership layer in between.

You’ll leave with two sets of next steps. One is for people living through a rollout right now. The other is for the leaders and managers who have to carry it out.

No buzzwords. No vendor pitch. Just what actually happens, and what to do about it this week.