See the room - How decisions actually get made
See the Room
How decisions actually get made, what pressure reveals in a leadership team, and how to build the capacity to change it. A hands-on session for Chiefs of Staff.
Tuesday, October 6 · 10:00 to 11:30 AM PT · Virtual
Cameras and voices on: this is a working session, not a webinar.
Powered by The Purpose Project and The GRIN Labs
THE SESSION
Description
Decisions move faster than ever. AI adoption is overwhelming. The building of agents never stops. And none of it is really a technical problem: it is a leadership challenge, and Chiefs of Staff are the ones operating it every day.
Across companies, a lot is running through the chief of staff right now:
AI adoption to coordinate, with expectations rising faster than any agreement on how to use it
Decisions moving faster, while ownership and follow-through get harder to track
Teams re-forming, new leaders arriving, and context to rebuild each time
More meetings, more notes, more summaries, and less certainty about what actually matters
And a role that is itself changing, as AI takes on work that used to define it
The pain points are not new. The way we approach them is.
This is a hands-on session, built on the first block of the program we run with leadership teams. It comes in two parts, and the first one matters.
Part One · Your reflection · 30 minutes, before the session
The live room is built from your words, so your workshop starts before the call. Thirty minutes, on your own time: a short, guided picture of how you actually work. No personality tests, no types, no scores, just your own words, with voice input if you prefer talking to typing.
If you have CliftonStrengths, DiSC, or similar results from past lives, you can fold them in so nothing you have done is wasted.
Your link arrives when you register.
Please complete it before the workshop.
Everything we do together on the call begins from what you wrote.
Part Two · The room · 90 minutes, live
The session makes the room visible, operator to operator: how each person actually works, how each of you shifts when pressure rises, and where each draws the line between what you hand to AI and what stays human.
You will be paired with a fellow Chief of Staff from another company for a conversation about where your working styles would mesh and where they would grind.
And one question tends to open more than it closes:
What does AI already do around your work that nobody explicitly decided?
COME CURIOUS
The questions underneath
How well do you know the people you work beside every day? Not their work. Not their performance. Not their task list. Who they are.
What does silence carry in your meetings, and does it carry the same thing for everyone?
When the deadline hits, everyone in the room changes. Could you say how, for each of them?
You have already handed parts of your work to AI. Who decided which parts?
And the one we save for the room: how well are you known?
People leave with something they keep: their own picture, in their own words, and practices they can bring to their own leadership team the same week.
The rest is yours to discover.
HOSTS
About your facilitators
Michaela Zuckova is a co-founder of The GRIN Labs and The Purpose Project. She has led large-scale digital transformation and now partners with executives and leadership teams across industries on making clearer choices before momentum locks them in.
Carl Miller is a co-founder of The GRIN Labs and The Purpose Project. His career spans scaling fintech startups and leading AI-driven transformation across public and private organizations. He helps teams slow down before optimization, define intent before tools, and turn AI adoption into durable change.