Your Engineers Accepting the Reality of AI
In a 3-hour, in-person workshop, Andrew works with your engineers to understand and overcome the human and emotional side of adopting AI, because applying logic doesn’t work.
# You’re Doing Everything but Your Engineers are Still Quietly Resisting AI
# You’re Doing Everything but Your Engineers are Still Quietly Resisting AI
It’s because you’re not solving the underlying problem. The resistance isn’t about AI. It’s about the human and emotional side of it.
Their identity is changing. They’ve built their whole careers writing code to solve problems, creating their own ways of working, and now AI is challenging and changing all of it. Engineers are having to change who they are.
So applying logic here - telling them the benefits, giving them the time to try AI isn't going to work. There'll still be that quiet resistance.
In 3 hours, Andrew uses a framework to help your engineers express how they’re really feeling about AI, and how to move past the resistance. He also gives them an honest talk about the future of the industry and that AI is here to stay and they don’t have a choice.
# 3-hr Workshop Tackling The Human Side of AI
# 3-hr Workshop Tackling The Human Side of AI
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Enrol your engineers
Enrol your engineers
Identify the engineers who are (quietly) resisting AI and get tickets for them to attend the workshop.
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The workshop
The workshop
3 hours, in-person in Melbourne. Andrew takes them through the framework, solo/group activities and Q&A.
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Engineers leave with a new mindset
Engineers leave with a new mindset
They leave with a personal next step for how they want to use AI going forward.
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Ongoing support
Ongoing support
Engineers join the Debugging Leadership Slack community to ask follow-up questions with Andrew and other peers.
# Outcomes
# Outcomes
Less push back
With “it’s slop” or “you can’t do that”. Engineers are more engaged.
Engineers experimenting
They try and try, instead of you pushing and getting them to use AI.
Part of the job
AI is not optional. Engineers leave seeing AI as part of their role now.
# Workshop Details
# Workshop Details
| Date | Thursday 27 August 2026 |
| Time | 9am to 12pm AEST |
| Location | In-person, Melbourne CBD (Location TBC) |
| Format | Deep dive into framework, solo/group activity and discussion, Q&A |
| Facilitator | Andrew Murphy |
| Investment | $650 AUD |
# Meet Andrew Murphy
# Meet Andrew Murphy
Engineering Leader & Educator
Andrew spent 20+ years in tech, starting as a developer and working his way to CTO. Along the way he discovered that being great at code doesn't make you great at leading people, and nobody tells you that when they promote you.
Now he runs workshops for tech leaders, teaching the communication, trust-building and strategic thinking skills he had to learn through trial and error (heavy on the error side!).