Donna P. Mitchell

CEO & Executive Educator | The Transformation Authority™

Donna P. Mitchell is the founder of The Transformation Authority™ and CEO of Mitchell Universal Network, LLC. Official Member of Forbes Business Council and C-Suite Network Contributor. With 48 years of Fortune 500 experience across telecommunications, aviation, airline operations, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, and emerging technology, she has enabled 150,000+ professionals through enterprise-scale transformation. Author of Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap (Amazon, 2026) and host of the Pivoting to Technology Adoption podcast — IAB-certified, reaching executives in 60 countries with 136% year-to-date growth in 2026.

Chapter 1, The Space Between — Author Read | Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap

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June 10, 2026

Chapter 1, The Space Between — Author Read | Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap

It was never the technology. In this solo author read, host Donna P. Mitchell reads Chapter 1 of her book Pivoting to Technology Adoption: Mind the Gap — the case for why 70% of technology transformations fail, and what the 30% do differently. Deployment is an event. Adoption is a process. The distance between them is where organizations lose millions and billions of dollars every year. Drawing on 49 years across five industries — from the Bell System to US Airways to Johnson & Johnson — Donn...

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The Adoption Gap Is Widening — And the Big Four Confirmed It

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April 28, 2026

The Adoption Gap Is Widening — And the Big Four Confirmed It

In 2025, I said the AI adoption crisis would not be a technology problem. It would be a people problem. In 2026, BCG, McKinsey, MIT, and Gartner confirmed it with their own data. In this solo episode of Pivoting to Technology Adoption, host Donna P. Mitchell walks through the three calls she made in 2025 — and the independent data that confirmed every one of them. Then she names the three patterns she is watching for the next 12 months. TOPICS COVERED: • Why the 70% transformation failu...

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