# CECai

> CECai (Change Execution Consulting AI Inc.) is an Atlantic Canadian people and organizational advisory practice. It gives CEOs, owners and executive teams senior HR leadership without a full-time hire: strategic HR advisory, fractional and interim HR leadership, talent and succession planning, executive coaching, organizational transformation and AI readiness, and career transition and outplacement. CECai works in person across Atlantic Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador) and remotely across Canada and the United States. Tagline: People First. Future Ready.

## Key facts
- Principal & Managing Partner: Stephanie Abbott, CPHR, CEC. 25+ years leading HR at Canadian and multinational organizations including Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase and Amazon. Certified Executive Coach (Royal Roads University).
- Partner, AI & Transformation: Stuart MacMillan, MCMP, CCMP, PCACP, CPHR, P.BPM. 23+ years and 22 enterprise transformation engagements; advises enterprise AI programs above 100,000 users; Prosci's Canadian AI Change Principal.
- The CECai Collective: senior partner network in AI, digital, ERP, workplace protection and compliance, and organizational transformation (Michael McConachie, Steve Wakeham, Paul Bellavance, Darcy Daoust, Carol Kotacka).
- Engagement models: Advise (retainer), Lead (fractional or interim), Build (fixed-scope projects), Coach (leaders and teams).
- First step: a free 30-minute conversation. Contact: stephanie@cecai.ca
- Languages: English and French.

## Services
- [Strategic HR Advisory & Fractional HR Leadership](https://cecai.ca/services/fractional-hr-leadership.html): Senior HR leadership that flexes with your business, from an ongoing partner to an interim lead through a gap or a trusted advisor. Signature offers: HR Assessment & Roadmap; Fractional CHRO; Interim HR Leadership; HR Foundations; HR Team Mentoring.
- [Talent Strategy, Recruitment & Succession Planning](https://cecai.ca/services/talent-succession.html): Know who your critical people are, who comes next, and how to hire the roles that will shape the next five years. Signature offers: Owner Succession Program; Talent Review & Critical Role Assessment; Key Role Hiring: Strategy to Signed Offer.
- [Executive Coaching & Leadership Development](https://cecai.ca/services/executive-coaching.html): Certified executive coaching for whatever leadership asks of you: a new role, a hard decision, a team that's scaling, navigating change or growing into what's next. Signature offers: Executive Coaching; Leadership Team Coaching; First 100 Days; Leading Through Change & AI.
- [Organizational Transformation, Change & AI Readiness](https://cecai.ca/services/transformation-ai-readiness.html): Organization design, workforce planning and change leadership for the shift to human and AI teams. People First. Future Ready. Signature offers: People & AI Readiness; Human + AI Team Design Sprint; Change & Adoption Leadership.
- [Career Transition & Outplacement](https://cecai.ca/services/career-transition.html): When roles change or end, we help you lead the process with dignity, finding new paths where possible and supporting people with care. Signature offers: Respectful Transitions; Individual & Group Outplacement; Leader Transition Coaching.

## Pages
- [Home](https://cecai.ca/)
- [People & AI: the people side of AI](https://cecai.ca/people-and-ai.html): helping organizations move to human and AI agent teams, with role redesign, agent accountability and adoption.
- [How We Work](https://cecai.ca/approach.html)
- [Team](https://cecai.ca/team.html)
- [Stephanie Abbott](https://cecai.ca/people/stephanie-abbott.html)
- [Stuart MacMillan](https://cecai.ca/people/stuart-macmillan.html)
- [The CECai Collective](https://cecai.ca/collective.html)
- [Questions and answers](https://cecai.ca/faq.html)
- [Contact](https://cecai.ca/contact.html)

## Insights
- [Your next organization chart has agents on it. Who's accountable?](https://cecai.ca/insights/who-is-accountable-for-ai-agents.html): Only 24% of leadership teams agree on who is accountable for AI agents. A practical guide for CEOs and executive teams to assign human ownership, supervision and decision rights for AI agents.
- [25,000 Atlantic businesses will change hands. Succession is a people plan first.](https://cecai.ca/insights/atlantic-succession-is-a-people-plan.html): APEC expects about 25,000 Atlantic Canadian small businesses to change hands or close as owners retire, including 7,900 in New Brunswick. Why succession planning starts with people.
- [Restructuring is now routine. Doing it with dignity isn't.](https://cecai.ca/insights/restructuring-with-dignity.html): LHH research finds 87% of HR leaders have conducted or plan layoffs and most see restructuring as a regular event. Five practical moves to restructure with dignity and protect trust.