Allie Hartman is Putting People (and Curiosity) at the Core of AI

“An architect doesn't just manage the construction - she designs the blueprint.” 

Meet Women in Change USA Member, Allie Hartman. Allie is forging a path in Artificial Intelligence and creating a blueprint for other women to do the same. 

Allie is a Change Management Leader, but more specifically an AI Transformation Project Manager and entrepreneur. Her graduate studies in Psychology, Survey Research, Project Management and Business Analytics prepared her adequately for this role at the intersection of research, innovation, application, and opportunity. 

By day, Allie leads AI-enabled transformation initiatives at AgileOne, a talent intelligence and workforce solutions firm where she builds the tools, training and culture that assists people in implementing AI, not just tolerating it. She also serves on the ACMP Global Board of Directors. 

Allie also launched The Change Curiosity Lab a business she formed that focuses on “making AI-augmented change management accessible to practitioners everywhere.” Allie is also a wife, a mom to two daughters and someone who “genuinely believes curiosity is the most underrated professional skill we have.”

In her various roles, Allie understands first hand that access is a key driver in AI innovation and usage. The Change Curiosity Lab creates “AI-augmented change management toolkits, templates, coaching, prompt libraries and thought leadership resources built specifically for practitioners who want to work smarter without losing the human-centered core of what we do.”

Allie was one of the first women to join Women in Change USA when we launched in January 2026. “The alignment with Women in Change feels organic to me. Both are built on the belief that growth requires curiosity, not just knowledge. That you have to be willing to not know something before you can learn it. The Lab is my version of building that space - equal parts resource hub to learn and permission slip for practitioners to experiment, iterate and lead with confidence in their own practice," she shared.

Similar to Women in Change USA, Allie is on a mission to help women stay curious and ask the hard questions. However, she recognizes additional obstacles exist. 

“The barrier is credibility debt. Women in tech-adjacent roles are often asked to prove their value in ways their male counterparts simply aren't - especially when the work is strategic, invisible or long-horizon, which change management actually is. We get credited for the soft skills and overlooked for the systems thinking. That needs to change,” she said.

Allie’s strong foundation and outlets outside of work fuel her innovation. “I'm a mom first - my two daughters keep me grounded in what actually matters and remind me that kids learn new technology faster and with less fear than most adults and are certainly more curious. There's a whole change management lesson in that.” I also love true crime podcasts, reading nerdy AI and leadership books, experimenting with AI and staying curious across disciplines. And honestly, usually the best ideas come when I'm doing absolutely nothing work-related or just having conversations with friends - which I'm still learning to protect as a legitimate part of my creative process,” she said.

Allie recognizes that at the heart of AI transformation is the human which “means refusing to let technology lead the conversation. The most dangerous thing we can do is treat AI adoption as an IT project with a change management wrapper. Women who lead at this level are the ones asking: what problem are we actually solving, and for whom? We translate between the language of data and the language of people. We hold the tension between speed and readiness. We name the fear in the room when everyone else is performing excitement. That's architectural work. It's not always glamorous, but it's what determines whether transformation sticks or collapses the moment the go-live energy fades,” Harman shared.

Mention AI and you will get a host of reactions– some curious, some skeptical, some dipping their little toe in the water. Allie shared some practical advice with Women in Change USA when it comes to AI implementation:

1. Learn to read data: not necessarily to analyze it, but to interrogate it. Know what questions to ask about a dataset, a dashboard or an AI output. Change practitioners who can bridge qualitative human insight with quantitative evidence are incredibly rare and incredibly valuable.

2. You  need AI fluency not necessarily expertise: You don't need to build models. You need to understand what AI can and can't do, how it shapes decision-making and where human judgment is non-negotiable. That literacy changes how you advise leaders and design adoption strategies.

3. Sharpen stakeholder storytelling: AI creates anxiety because it's abstract. The practitioners who succeed are the ones who can translate complexity into meaning - for a frontline worker, a skeptical VP and a board member, all in the same week. That skill never goes out of style.

For those ready to make a small pivot towards implementing AI in some capacity, Allie suggests, “Start before you feel ready and start small. Pick one thing you do repeatedly in your change work - a stakeholder analysis, a communication draft, a training outline - and experiment with AI on that one thing. Don't try to overhaul your whole practice. Just iterate. The goal isn't to become an AI expert. It's to develop a working relationship with the technology so you can lead others through it with credibility. You can't coach someone to ride a bike if you’ve never ridden yourself before.”

As Allie brings others into uncharted territory, she reminds Women in Change members that we are own best advocates. This weekend at our second in person event, Advisory Council member Kristy Parke said, “Currency is not always financial.” Allie agrees arguing there is one concrete thing we can do for one another: “Sponsor each other into rooms, not just support each other outside of them. Mentorship is valuable, but sponsorship - actively advocating for another woman's seat at the strategy table, putting her name in the room when she's not there - is what moves the needle. Women in Change can formalize that. Build a sponsorship culture, not just a networking one.”

Afterall, you cannot fabricate true support, “There is something that happens when you're in a room - virtual or physical - with other women who are doing hard, complex, often thankless change work, and they just... get it. No translation needed. The validation is real, but more than that, the strategic exchange is real.”

To learn more about Allie and to connect with her directly, please visit:

https://www.changecuriositylab.com/about-3