The future of work will be co-created.
Innovative leaders recognize that the answers to their most pressing challenges are already inside their organization. Workplace Renaissance is the human-centered design methodology for guiding teams to develop creative and innovative solutions to those challenges.
Clarity emerges from complexity when diverse perspectives design the solution.
Just as the printing press didn't replace human creativity but unleashed it, AI offers organizations the same opportunity. Not a threat to manage, but a catalyst for a new kind of Renaissance, one where innovation and creativity can explode inside organizations. That is the work of Workplace Renaissance.
Over five decades ago, design theorists identified a category of challenges they called "wicked problems." Challenges of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity with no single right answer. Known as the VUCA challenge today. Inside every organization navigating these challenges are people who bring lived experience, hard-won wisdom, and creative intelligence that has far more to contribute than most organizations have ever created space for. Workplace Renaissance brings these challenges together with your team to co-create your organization's future.
Decades of design thinking as the proven methodology for solving wicked problems
Design-led companies outperform the S&P 500 over a ten-year period
2.4xDiversity-rich organizations financially outperform competitors
Workplace Renaissance is the methodology Karen developed from decades of leadership experience, including navigating high-stakes financial industry mergers where she consistently brought teams from seemingly opposing sides together for shared success. Her postgraduate studies in Innovation and Design Thinking through Emeritus Institute of Management, in collaboration with MIT, Columbia Business School, and Tuck at Dartmouth, gave that experience its framework.
Workplace Renaissance is co-facilitated with Chrissy Bencivenga, AI literacy consultant, whose expertise in HR, workforce equity, and AI implementation shapes the human side of every session.
When you put human-centered design and diverse perspectives to work inside your organization, the results are not just cultural. They show up on the bottom line.
Workplace Renaissance is eligible for 3 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) through SHRM's recertification program, made possible by Human Score's status as an approved SHRM recertification provider.
Workplace Renaissance was a featured community event at AIWEEK 2026. The workshop was presented alongside leading organizations as a human-centered approach to AI implementation, reaching C-suite leaders, decision makers, and influencers from across government, tech, and education.
* Workplace Renaissance is co-facilitated by Karen Zeigler and Chrissy Bencivenga, AI literacy consultant.
Choose Your Path
Option 1
Redesigning Work: A Human + AI Workforce Mapping Workshop
AI adoption isn't failing because organizations lack tools. It's failing because most organizations are prioritizing tools over people and how work gets done, rather than asking how tools can support people in the work that needs to be done.
MIT's Project Iceberg found that AI's technical capabilities now span 11.7% of the U.S. labor market's wage value, five times larger than visible tech-sector adoption. The disruption isn't coming only for coders and data scientists. It's already spreading through finance, HR, operations, administration, and professional services. And most organizations have no map.
Workplace Renaissance gives leaders that map. In 3 hours of digestible video segments completed at your own pace, you will apply human-centered design to one of the most pressing leadership challenges of our time: redesigning work so that Humans + AI each do what they do best.
Done well, this means stronger AI ROI, clearer decision ownership, higher employee satisfaction and performance, and an organization built to execute rather than experiment indefinitely.
LX = EX x CX
Leader Experience = Employee Experience x Customer Experience
Start with the end in mind. If your organization is not executing, your customers are not buying. Execution lives in the customer experience. But who drives execution? Your employees. And employees only execute at their best when they are equipped, empowered, and free from the roadblocks that slow them down.
Here's what the equation reveals: EX is not just a contributor. It is the multiplier. When employee experience is low the whole equation shrinks. When it rises everything rises with it: execution, customer experience, company results, and the quality of your experience as a leader.
This workshop starts at the multiplier.
Alignment
A human-centered AI vision keeps humans in the loop from the start, creating the conditions where leadership, teams, and technology move forward together.
Intelligence
Utilizing the diverse perspectives already inside your organization transforms employee experience into a leadership advantage and profitable, sustainable change.
Clarity
Built on alignment and collective intelligence, a clearly defined challenge gives your team the shared starting point that turns overwhelm into focused, confident action.
Momentum
When employees can directly impact their own workflows, something shifts. Work becomes meaningful. Engagement becomes genuine. And execution becomes something people want to be part of.
Plus Two Downloadable Tools
The Innovation Guardrails Checklist and the AI for Real Life and Real People guide, yours to use on every future redesign project.
$33 | On Demand | Self-paced | 3 SHRM PDCs
Buy Now$3,000 | Virtual - Private In-House Workshop | 8-10 Leaders
On-site available - travel and accommodation expenses charged separately.
Option 2
9-Week Redesign Lab
The Redesign Lab takes the Workplace Renaissance framework and turns it into a weekly leadership discipline. Over 9 weeks your cohort applies the methodology step by step to real challenges inside your organization, co-creating the redesigned workflows, decisions, and human + AI roles that will define how your organization operates going forward.
Each week includes a 60-minute live Zoom session applying the design methodology to each cohort's organizational challenge, plus AI leadership coaching, innovation consulting, and a dedicated WhatsApp group for ongoing cohort support between sessions. By Week 9, your leadership team will have completed their first human + AI workflow redesign, tested with real feedback, refined through iteration, and equipped with the design skills to keep improving it.
Knowing is not the same as doing.
Research shows that applying a new skill between learning sessions accelerates performance 20 times faster than learning alone. The Redesign Lab is where the methodology becomes muscle memory, applied to your real organization, with your real team, week by week.
Leadership Alignment
A human-centered AI vision co-created by your executive team eliminates the competing priorities and disconnected initiatives that derail implementation before it begins.
Workforce Intelligence
Structured empathy conversations with your own people surface what no survey ever captures, the real strengths, the real friction, and the untapped talent already inside your organization.
AI Fluency That Protects You
AI literacy at the executive level is the foundation for effective governance, risk reduction, and decisions your organization can stand behind. The AI knowledge of your leaders will be assessed and training customized to take each leader to their next level of understanding.
Increased Leadership Capability
Strategic thinking, data-informed decision making, adaptive leadership, and innovation within constraints are built directly into every phase of the design process. Your leaders don't just redesign work. They become the innovative leaders your organization needs to design the future of work.
Clarity of Ownership
Your Human + AI workforce map defines precisely which roles, tasks, and decisions belong to your people and where AI genuinely amplifies their work, eliminating the ambiguity that stalls execution and creates costly overlap.
Innovation Without Waste
Every idea your cohort generates gets stress-tested through the Innovation Guardrails Checklist before a single dollar or hour is committed. Vision drift, budget overruns, and stalled pilots stop here.
Buy-in by Design
When people help design the solution they are responsible for executing, resistance disappears. Your cohort leaves with a tested prototype their teams helped shape and the confidence that comes from building something together.
What This Program Does Not Include
AI tool selection, software recommendations, technical development, or done-for-you deliverables. Leaders do the work with expert coaching every step of the way. Many additional services are available separately or through our network of trusted partners.
$12,000 | Live Cohort | 9 Weeks | Up to 10 Leaders
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