An Inclusion Leader Playbook for the Next Phase of AI

As AI moves deeper into everyday work, it is also beginning to redistribute power in the workplace including power over who gets access, whose judgment carries weight, and who benefits first. Inclusion leaders are in a crucial position to ensure that organizations govern AI at work successfully, especially as it reshapes organizational design, workplace access, and institutional trust.

Drawing on current research and interviews with senior leaders working across AI and inclusion, this paper identifies five operating priorities for how inclusion leaders can and should shape the next phase of workplace AI. These insights matter now more than ever because workers already feel the shift AI has taken beyond the pilot phase and into reshaping how work gets done.