Coaching and Therapy: a necessary tension? | Webinar

Artificial intelligence is changing more than how individual tasks are performed. It is reshaping how organisations coordinate work, make decisions, share knowledge and create value. As organisations move beyond early experimentation, leaders face a new challenge: understanding how AI changes the design of workflows, teams and operating models, and what lessons can be learned from the first wave of adoption.

Join Phanish Puranam and Markus Reitzig for a discussion of what recent experiences with AI adoption reveal about organising in the age of AI. Drawing on cutting-edge research and emerging examples from leading organisations, they will explore why some AI initiatives scale while others struggle, how AI is changing coordination and decision-making, and what this means for leaders responsible for organisational performance and transformation.

Participants will gain practical insights into the next frontier of AI adoption: redesigning organisations so that human and machine intelligence work together effectively. The session will offer fresh perspectives on organisation design, human-AI collaboration and the leadership choices required to build adaptable, high-performing organisations in an increasingly AI-enabled world.

Why Decentralising Is Harder Than It Looks: Understand What Separates Lasting Empowerment from Good Intentions

Leading more collaboratively is usually framed as letting go — flattening the structure, pushing decision-making rights to the frontline, and getting out of the way for teams to do their best work. Yet despite good intentions, research in many organisations show that decentralising efforts lose momentum over time.

Many organisations do not realise that distributing power is a discipline, one that takes deliberate intention, constant practice, and active maintenance against the pressures that pull authority back to the centre. In this webinar, Professor Michael Lee draws on years of field research to examine why well-intentioned empowerment so reliably erodes, unpack what people actually want from autonomy, and explore what leaders can do differently to make decentralisation last.

Join Stefani Eisele as she shares her experience in the Lead the Future programme, key takeaways from her journey, and insights into how the programme supported her leadership development. Bring your questions and learn what you can expect from the experience.