Organizational learning for an AI-shaped workplace

AI is changing how work happens.

Let’s decide how we want to work with it.

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Common Field helps mission-driven organizations understand where AI can genuinely improve their work, where it can get in the way, and what their people need to learn to use it well.

Explore where AI can help.

Protect what should stay human.

The Problem with AI ADOPTION
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Your team is already using AI. Just not together.

Buying new tools is easy. Learning to work differently is hard.

AI usually enters an organization person by person. One person uses it every day and has developed an excellent workflow nobody else knows about. Another avoids it. Someone else experiments without knowing what is possible, or even allowed. People wonder, “Am I cheating, going to be replaced, or losing my best skills?” Quiet fear and excitement simmers underneath the work. The result can be uneven adoption, duplicated effort, inconsistent quality, hidden risks, and a great deal of unrealized learning.

When used well, powerful AI tools can provide an execution layer beneath your operations. But learning to work differently takes creativity, experimentation, and critical evaluation. We help teams develop the capabilities to compound their collective intelligence.

How can AI help with strategy, communications, administration, and project management?

What happens to our judgment when more work is delegated to machines?

Could AI free up our time to do more of the deeply human work that matters most to us?

What do we risk losing when creative or relational work is automated?

How can AI help with cross-functional collaboration and knowledge translation?

Could AI make research, reporting, or proposal building take hours instead of days?

Could AI turn organizational knowledge into something more accessible and useable?

How do we hold excitement, hesitation, and resistance at once?

These opportunities and concerns are part of the work. Common Field helps organizations bring AI use into the open and develop a shared practice grounded in mission, values, and real operational needs.

OUR APPROACH

We start with your work.

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We identify where AI could help or hinder, co-design new workflows with your team, and teach them how to collaborate with AI systems.

We map recurring tasks, information flows, knowledge, decisions, software, bottlenecks, frustrations, and existing AI practices.

We bring empathy to the ways your people are navigating disruption and the rapidly changing landscape of work. We also seek to understand your culture, where friction sits, and where fluency already lives.


THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION

But what should stay human?

Efficiency is only one measure of good work. People find meaning in making things, thinking carefully, building relationships, exercising judgment, and practicing their craft. Those things deserve protection. So, we need to be careful about where we invite AI into an organization.

Protect

Work you value doing yourselves and want to preserve as meaningful human practice.


Assist

Work where AI can support people while human judgment remains central.

Automate

Routine work where responsible automation can return time and attention.

Avoid

Uses that create unacceptable risk, degradation, complexity, or cost.

The question is not, what can AI do? It is, what do we want it to do.

SERVICE PACKAGE A: Culture + Workflow Alignment

Discovery Lab

We study how you work and explore what is possible.

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For organizations looking to align culture and workflows, our Discovery Lab is a focused 4 to 6 week engagement designed to uncover creative pathways for responsible AI integration. It combines organizational research, workflow analysis, AI tool research, experimentation, and practical learning.

01 LISTEN + MAP

Discover

Through staff interviews, workflow mapping, document review, and analysis of existing tools and AI use, we develop a clear picture of your organization.

  • How AI is being used

  • Where are the bottlenecks

  • What work the team values

  • What is holding people back

02 RESEARCH + ASSESS

Research

We investigate what current tools and workflows could realistically offer, evaluating opportunities against the things that make them useful and sustainable.

  • What is possible

  • Where AI might create value

  • How can workflows change

  • Identify quick wins

03 Make + TEST

Experiment

We create a protected space in which your team can prototype workflows, test them on real tasks, evaluate what happens, and learn from the results.

  • Build new capabilities

  • Co-design workflows

  • Host open conversation about AI

  • Establish shared principles

04 DECIDE + MOVE

Grow

You leave with a practical view of the near horizon. It gives the team shared language for action, curiosity, patience, and boundaries.

  • Try now

  • Explore next

  • Watch

  • Avoid

SERVICE PACKAGE B: Collective Capability Building
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Learning Lab

Turn individual experimentation into organizational learning.

For teams ready to build collective confidence to co-create with AI systems, we create a flexible and safe space to learn through actual work. With hands-on upskilling, practical experimentation, and applied AI education, this engagement is customized to include studio sessions, coaching, office hours, workflow reviews, and facilitated reflection.

Our Learning Lab can take many forms: a one-day workshop, a virtual retreat, weeklong sprint, or monthly sessions, and can be delivered remote or in-person.

01

Learn

Explore new capabilities and approaches as the technology changes.

02

Experiment

Test emerging practices against real organizational challenges.

03

Reflect

Discuss what worked, what failed, and what should change.

04

Share

Turn one person’s discovery into knowledge the whole team can use.

05

Build

Develop stronger workflows, templates, assistants, and practices.

06

Coach

Support people and internal stewards as questions emerge in practice.

The goal is a team that becomes increasingly capable of making good decisions for itself as AI evolves.

WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH

Clarity you can use. Capabilities to grow.

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We work with you to scope every engagement so we can build toward the outcomes you need. The exact mix of what your people walk away with is grounded in your actual work and designed to carry learning forward.

Engagements might include:

01

A map of current work

Key workflows, bottlenecks, knowledge flows, and existing AI practices.

02

AI opportunity map

Specific, researched possibilities grounded in your organization.

03

Protected-work map

A shared view of where judgment, creativity, craft, and relationships stay central.

04

Tested experiments

Lightweight prototypes or redesigned workflows evaluated through real use.

05

Shared AI fluency

Common language and practical judgment around when and how to use AI well.

06

Working principles

Clear guidance around safe use, data, disclosure, experimentation, and review.

07

A practical roadmap

Concrete recommendations for what to adopt, learn, build, investigate, or avoid next.

OUR MISSION + APPROACH
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Build lasting AI fluency across your organization

AI is changing too quickly for organizations to rely on static rules or one-time training. People need space to try things, make mistakes, compare experiences, ask difficult questions, and turn individual discoveries into collective capability.

Common Field uses a studio model drawn from art and design education. We teach, facilitate, and guide your team as they experiment on real work. Your team learns when and where to delegate to AI, how to prompt, evaluate what comes back, and maintain a critical eye toward the whole process. Then you carry the useful learning into everyday practice.

Delegation

Know when to reach for AI, and when to set it aside.

Description

Communicate tasks clearly enough to hand them over.

Discernment

Evaluate what comes back with a critical, honest eye.

Diligence

Taking responsibility for how AI is used, ethically and safely.

Over time, AI fluency becomes less about knowing a particular tool and more about developing judgment.

ETHICS

AI raises legitimate questions about privacy, intellectual property, environmental impact, labour, bias, trust, creative practice, and the gradual outsourcing of human judgment.

For organizations that want deeper support, Common Field includes an AI Ethics supplement with Dr. Madelaine Ley, an applied ethicist specializing in emerging technology.

We need to talk about the Ethics of AI.

CAPABILITY

Practical rather than technical.

Common Field works at the intersection of organizational learning, workflow design, AI strategy, and experimentation. We can configure existing tools, develop lightweight assistants, create templates, and help your people learn to use them.

If your organization needs custom software, complex integrations, cybersecurity, or enterprise architecture, we’ll flag that and refer you to specialist technical partners.

WHO THIS IS FOR

We work with mission-driven teams navigating real change.

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The strongest fit is an organization already experimenting with AI, or ready to explore it seriously, that wants greater coherence, learning, and intention in how the technology enters its work.

  • Climate + environment

  • Housing + community

  • Education + learning

  • Arts + culture

  • Systems change labs

  • Non-profits + charities

  • Social-purpose initiatives

  • Foundations + philanthropy

Some teams begin with the Discovery Lab. Others know where they want to experiment and begin directly with a Learning Lab. We start from where you are.

ABOUT COMMON FIELD

Common Field is led by JP King.

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An organizational learning consultant, systems designer, educator, and facilitator.

JP has spent more than two decades designing learning experiences, tools, workflows, frameworks, and participatory processes across nonprofits, universities, creative organizations, public institutions, and systems-change initiatives.

At Dark Matter Labs, he co-led organizational development, governance, and learning. He has taught art and design at the University of Toronto, using inquiry, experimentation, visual thinking, and studio-based learning to help students work through complex social and environmental questions.

Training in Gestalt psychotherapy and Co-Active coaching continues to shape how he approaches change, uncertainty, resistance, group dynamics, and the human side of organizational learning.

JP works with a close group of associates to expand capacity when needed.

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AN INVITATION

Tell us about your work, what you’re learning, and how your organization is changing.

We’d love to see how we can help.