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Alyson Reece
Alyson Reece is VP, Talent Development Manager at Comerica, where she leads talent development for the bank at a pivotal moment: Comerica's acquisition by Fifth Third Bank was made official in early 2026, and Alyson's team is now navigating that integration directly.
Leading Talent Development Through Regulation, AI Anxiety, and an Acquisition All at Once
Alyson's clearest framework for AI adoption in a heavily regulated industry centers on leader transparency: rather than simply telling employees to "use AI more," she advocates for leaders narrating their own specific prompting process out loud, including the messy first draft and the editing it still required, so employees see that AI still needs expertise to be useful and feel genuine permission to experiment. She has also spoken candidly about "shadow AI," the phenomenon of employees quietly using AI tools without telling their organization for fear it will undercut their perceived value, and about how financial services' regulatory environment adds a distinct layer of anxiety around risk and data handling that other industries don't face in the same way.
Topics Alyson speaks on
- Leader transparency as a strategy for AI adoption
- Navigating "shadow AI" and employee trust
- AI adoption in heavily regulated industries
- Talent development through mergers and acquisitions
- Connecting growth and well-being instead of treating them as a trade-off
Sessions with Achieve
Alyson is a featured panelist on the Achieve webcast "Growth vs. Well-Being Is a False Choice: Here's How HR Proves It" (February 5, 2026), presented in partnership with Fuel50 alongside Kabir Aswani of Moody's Corporation and Murielle Larochelle of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In it, she discusses how she coaches leaders to model AI use transparently for their teams, and shares in real time that the Comerica-Fifth Third acquisition had just been made official that week, directly affecting members of her own talent development team.
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