Hyperadaptive Reader's Guide

This reader's guide is a companion to Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI-Native by Melissa M. Reeve, with a foreword by Ryan Martens, founder of Rally Software and director of Manifest AI. It maps the book's nine chapters to Reeve's five-stage model, organized into three parts, and gives each chapter a summary, a "Try This" prompt, and discussion questions that move from comprehension toward application and disagreement.

Built for book clubs, leadership teams, and corporate training programs, the guide supports three paces — one part per session, one chapter per session, or a single-session overview using the Part introductions and closing discussion questions. A "Finding Your Stage" exercise, drawn from the book's own Conclusion, gives a group a shared, honest starting point before its first session.

Topics
AI · Leadership
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

About the author

Melissa M. Reeve

Founder, Hyperadaptive Solutions · as of 2026-09-01

Melissa Reeve brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective shaped by over three decades at the intersection of executive leadership, organizational transformation, and process excellence. Her foundation in the Lean mindset began at Waseda University in Tokyo, where she studied the Toyota Production System and witnessed Hino Motor Company’s Andon cords in action. This early exposure to process excellence informed her pioneering work with Agile marketing from 2011. As the first VP of Marketing at Scaled Agile and thought leader in the SAFe in Marketing space, Melissa immersed herself in systems thinking, Total Quality Management, DevOps, and Lean principles. She went on to co-found the Agile Marketing Alliance, where she built a community of Agile marketing practitioners and gained firsthand insight into the challenges of organizational change. Recognizing the enormous impact of AI with ChatGPT's introduction in November 2022, Melissa dedicated herself to researching AI's organizational impacts. Hyperadaptive represents the culmination of this work, offering a synthesis of process excellence, organizational evolution, and the human side of AI integration that provides leaders with a practical pathway to becoming AI-native enterprises.

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