For healthcare teams
Introducing technology or AI? Work through staff needs, readiness and one real workflow before choosing the next step.
Change First. Technology Second.
Helping healthcare teams adopt technology and AI.
Change First Studio helps healthcare teams put technology and AI into practice, and helps technology and AI companies bring their products into healthcare workflows.
Find your starting point
Two audiences. Practical adoption support.
Healthcare is our focus. Teams in other sectors are welcome too.
For technology and AI companies serving healthcare
Help a ready product fit everyday practice. Work with clinical and operational teams on workflow fit, training and adoption.
Services
Open a conversation, work through a challenge together, or put a useful change into practice.
Speaking
For conferences, leadership events and team gatherings. Talks on change, AI and the human side of leadership use real stories, practical insight and discussion to leave people with shared language and useful questions.
Talks from one hour. Agree the topic and format. Fees, preparation and travel are quoted for the event. Hands-on planning belongs in a workshop.
Explore speaking
Sessions and workshops
For healthcare teams preparing for change or learning a practical skill. Hands-on sessions help people plan adoption, practise useful skills and agree what to try next.
Choose flagship half-day adoption planning or tailored full-day and multi-day planning around change and AI use. Longer sessions are quoted to scope. The flagship price and follow-up apply only to its defined half-day format.
Explore workshopsFrom product to practice
- Understand the workflow
- Prepare the peopleProduct teamCliniciansOperational staff
- Review adoption
Illustrative approach · scoped to your work
Implementation support
For technology and AI companies serving healthcare. Work with product teams, clinicians and operational staff on workflow fit, readiness, training and adoption.
Agree deliverables, owners, pilots and handover in a scoped proposal. Product engineering and operational decisions stay with their owners.
Explore implementation supportSupport that fits your work
Illustrative patterns · timing agreed together
Consulting
For healthcare leaders, executives and teams working through change. Clarify decisions, review an adoption plan or bring a practical thinking partner into the work.
From hourly to monthly support. Time, availability, outputs and fees are agreed before starting.
Explore consultingPeople-centred changeReadiness, communication and adoption
Practical adoption supportClear next steps, ownership and review
Practical learningInsight, hands-on work and useful next steps
Experience behind the Studio
Selected speaking, teaching and facilitation engagements from founder Ohad Eliyahu’s work. Logos identify engagement contexts, not endorsements of Change First Studio. Upcoming work is labelled below.
Upcoming
Evidence from speaking and workshops
What stayed with people.
“Learning how to build an agent was very valuable”
Anonymous participant feedback2026 Canada West Health Leaders Conference session evaluation “Change does not happen without people”
Anonymous participant feedback2026 Canada West Health Leaders Conference session evaluation “Try AI, be transparent, and it is easier than we think!”
Anonymous participant feedback2026 Canada West Health Leaders Conference session evaluation “The workshop was interactive and a lot of fun … we learned a lot of skills that we can apply right away.”
JodieTeam Lead, Training and Efficiency Alignment · Cenovus Energy “He has a rare ability to simplify even the most complex topics and turn them into meaningful, memorable learning experiences.”
RahulFormer Account Executive · Edstellar “His Change Management course was well-structured, engaging, and delivered practical, actionable takeaways for our team.”
JasonChange-management workshop participant “He offered a unique and practical approach with a strong emphasis on how to utilize AI tools to achieve positive results.”
JeffTwo-day change-management workshop participant
Separately scoped implementation
What this can look like in practice.
The workshop helps you plan the next step. The examples below show what a broader engagement could include. Building, testing and implementing a tool are separately scoped work, not included in the half-day workshop price.
For teams with a workflow to improve
Build something useful with your team
A support team spends too much time searching for guidance and preparing routine replies. Together, we choose one workflow and build an assistant or automation using tools available and approved for that team. We test it, train the people using it, and work through the exceptions.
Your team keeps the agreed tool, practical instructions, clear responsibilities and a maintenance plan. Custom development or integrations beyond those tools are scoped separately.
For technology companies and clinical teams
Help your technology work in clinical practice
A health-tech company wants to introduce an AI scribe into a clinical team. We work with both sides to understand the workflow, involve the people affected, identify product and process improvements, and prepare the team to use it.
You leave with a clear implementation plan, role-specific training and a practical way to assess adoption. Clinical decisions and product engineering stay with the appropriate owners.
The Change First Studio approach
People prepared.
Work clearly planned.
Change First Studio combines people-centred change management, practical learning and adoption support. We connect what needs to change with the people, decisions and everyday work that make it possible.
For each engagement, we agree a clear purpose, scope, responsibilities and review points. We work through readiness and concerns, prepare communication and learning support, and build a practical way to check progress.
Whether the challenge involves AI, a technology product or a process change, the approach stays grounded in your team’s needs. Tools and deliverables are selected to fit the work and the agreed scope.
Explore the Studio’s approachFive moves.
Something useful
at each step.
Our working process connects people-centred change with practical adoption planning, from a shared problem and clear responsibilities through to review. Each step is adapted to the agreed engagement.
Ground it
A shared problem statement and a useful result to work towards.
Map the people
The people affected, the decision makers and whose voice is missing.
Read readiness and resistance
The practical barriers and concerns to address before action.
Prepare the people
A communication, learning and support plan with named owners.
Hold the gains
Measures, review dates and responsibility for what happens next.
Questions before you begin
A clear place to start.
Practical answers to help you decide what fits.
Who does Change First Studio help?
Our focus is healthcare teams adopting technology and AI, and technology companies serving healthcare that need support with adoption. We also work with teams in other sectors. Speaking, workshops, implementation support and consulting can be engaged separately. Non-AI process and organizational change are part of the work too.
How do we choose the right starting point?
Start with a free 20-minute assessment of one team or challenge. You receive initial verbal recommendations with no obligation to proceed. If useful, a scoped proposal follows. Prefer to reflect first? Try the separate free readiness self-check, with no email gate.
What experience informs the work?
Founder Ohad Eliyahu, MSc, is a Prosci-certified change practitioner with more than 15 years in varied leadership roles across Alberta public healthcare. His professional healthcare experience is distinct from consulting client work. Read the founder’s background and speaking experience and attributed feedback.
Request a free assessment.
A free 20-minute assessment with Change First Studio focuses on one team or challenge. Discuss your needs and receive initial verbal recommendations before deciding whether to proceed. If useful, a scoped proposal follows.