INSIGHTS & ADVICE

By Sandra Collomb, Founder of SANOPAZ I want to tell you something that nobody in the AI conversation seems willing to say out loud. The reason most AI transformation programs fail isn't the technology. It's the fact that the one leader most equipped to make it work, the CHRO, keeps being handed the wrong job description. Clean up the workforce anxiety. Run the reskilling. Manage the fallout. "Handle the human side." As if the human side were something you deal with after the

Around the 15-20 year mark, many senior leaders hit a quiet reckoning. Not a crisis, an invitation. Here's the question worth asking, and what it takes to answer it honestly.

By Sandra Collomb, Founder of SANOPAZ I've sat in a lot of transformation kick-offs. Polished decks. Bold vision statements. Leadership teams nodding in confident unison. And then, six months later, the same organisation, slightly more exhausted, slightly more cynical, wondering what went wrong. The strategy wasn't the problem. It rarely is. The real reason transformations stall Here's what I've observed over 15 years of leading and advising through change: most transformatio

Most executives approach AI adoption backwards. After 15+ years leading digital transformation at Airbus, here's what I know actually works — and why the human side is always the hard side.

By Sandra Collomb, Founder of SANOPAZ I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a Head of HR at a mid-size tech company. She walked me through her burnout prevention program with real pride: mindfulness workshops, a wellness stipend, an app subscription with guided breathing exercises. She'd worked hard on it. It was thoughtfully designed. Then she said, almost in passing: "But I still don't understand why people keep leaving." I didn't say what I was thinking in that moment.