We help the people who know the work turn AI into real value, every month
Modern Workery is a practical AI adoption and change management practice. We work with leaders at companies of 200 to 20,000 employees who bought Copilot and need the middle of the organization to use it. Process before technology. Start small and add on.
Chevelle Bedra, Founder
Chevelle spent nearly two decades in employee engagement, frontline leadership, and large-scale change before starting Modern Workery. The last big one was a Microsoft 365 Copilot rollout to 77,000 people. The organization reached 93 percent adoption in two months, and she wrote the responsible use guidelines teams worked from.
What made it work wasn’t the training deck, and it was a thorough deck. It was people in every team who knew the work and were trusted by the people around them. When one of them said “I tried this, you should too,” their team listened in a way they never will to a course. That’s the system Modern Workery builds now. Chevelle has watched AI adoption fail on people and process far more often than on technology, so that’s where she starts.
She’s based in Michigan, a mom of two, and an eternal optimist. She believes people are good and want to do good work, and when they don’t, something is in the way. Most of the time it’s a pebble in the shoe, not a mountain.
MBA. MS in Finance. MIT Sloan Generative AI certification. Stanford HR Transformation certification.
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77,000
Employees enabled across
enterprise deployment
93%
Sustained adoption rate achieved in highly regulated environment
2 months
From kickoff to full organizational rollout
Adam Espinosa
Adam spent 20 years in manufacturing and HR, most recently as Senior Manager of Training and Organizational Development at ARCH, where he traveled the country coaching plant leaders on hiring, retention, and leading today’s workforce. Along the way he watched a lot of new technology get rolled out and quietly ignored. The tools were never the problem. What was missing was a person on the floor that everyone already trusted.
He built programs on that idea, equipping internal leaders to teach and sustain new skills on their own, and it’s the same idea behind Modern Workery’s champion networks. Adam leads business development and is usually the first conversation a client has with us. He’s based in Metro Detroit, a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, and a volunteer youth football coach.
What we believe
AI is not a typical technology rollout
What worked for every other launch will not work here. AI changes every month, so a launch is out of date by the next quarter. We build for the pace, not the launch.
The people who know the work find the value.
Nobody in the center can see where AI changes how claims get processed or how a sales call gets prepared. The people doing that work can. We put them in charge of finding it.
People adopt AI when someone they trust shows them it’s worth it.
A colleague saying “I tried this, it works” does what no course can. We put that person in every team and give them a monthly rhythm.
Fixed scope, nothing open-ended.
Accelerator is a fixed-scope engagement. Momentum is a monthly program. You know the outcomes, the timeline, and the price before you commit, and you own the network we build.
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