AI, Leadership & Agency — What Capacities Do We Need Now?
AI has crept into nearly every corner of working life. It drafts the email, summarizes the meeting, suggests the reply. Each handoff is small. After enough of them, many of us start to wonder how much of the thinking is still ours.
Organizations face the same question at scale. The easy move is to turn every hour AI saves into more output. The wiser move is to ask what those hours could protect: judgment, trust, creativity, attention, and the quality of our relationships.
This 90-minute session is an open door into that inquiry, and the best way to find out whether our 8-week course is right for you.
Together we'll:
Share what our first cohort discovered when they looked closely at how AI shaped their thinking, from voices flattened toward the average to the quiet pull of the first plausible answer
Walk through how the course works across three levels of agency: individual, team and organizational
Make room for your own questions, doubts and experiments with AI
You'll leave with a clearer sense of where you may be handing over your thinking without noticing, and at least one question worth carrying into your own work.
Who it's for: leaders, coaches, consultants and professionals who use AI every day and want to stay the authors of their own thinking. No technical background needed.
Your hosts: Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele, co-founders of Voices of Emergence, lead the course. Amanda Efthimiou joins as co-host, bringing lived experience of implementing AI inside a large law firm, including its pitfalls and danger zones. Lisanne Buik, founder of Gracious AI and doctoral researcher on life-affirming AI, joins as guest faculty.
Explore the course: https://academy.voicesofemergence.com/ai-leadership
AI will keep getting faster. The choices about what we keep human are still ours to make. We'd like to make them together.