THURSDAY GATHERING #39 Entering 2026 with Confidence

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Start the new year with clarity, confidence, and actionable skills to make 2026 your most effective year yet. Thursday Gathering #39 brings together founders, professionals, creatives, and innovators for an evening of interactive workshops and expert insights to help you communicate, lead, and make strategic decisions with impact.

1️⃣ Introduce Yourself with Impact: Confidence & Clarity in a Few Sentences
Time: 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM
Speaker: Carlo Loiudice

In networking or professional contexts, a clear, confident self-introduction makes the difference between being remembered or quickly forgotten.

2️⃣ Enter 2026 with Confidence
Time: 5:45 PM – 6:30 PM
Speakers: Igor Lucic & Margarita Albarracín

Confidence is more than motivation—it’s clarity, self-trust, and the ability to stay regulated under pressure.
Through a science-based, practical framework, participants explore:
- Why confidence erodes under mental overload and unresolved demands
- How to rebuild confidence through calm, consistent, small commitments
- Strategies to restore psychological stability and enter 2026 grounded and ready

3️⃣ Beyond Pitch Practice: The 7-Levers and 6-Senses Framework
Time: 18:30 – 19:30
Speaker: Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan, PhD.

Innovators and startup founders learn diagnostic frameworks that pinpoint exactly where their narrative fails—whether pitching investors, speaking to media, selling to customers, or engaging regulators and key opinion leaders.
Using the 7 Levers of Rapid Resonance™ and the 6-Senses Framework™ (including the proprietary CIVIC evaluation criteria), participants practice visibility engineering: systematically diagnosing and optimizing founder narratives using cognitive psychology and narrative science.
This is infrastructure work, not pitch practice — the same diagnostics that improve your investor pitch also enhance media soundbites, customer conversations, and regulatory positioning.

4️⃣ Use AI to Make Better Strategic, Creative, and Organizational Decisions in 2026
Time: 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM
Moderator: Dr. Valdrin D.

A practical, interactive session showing how founders, researchers, and creatives are already using AI to:
- Improve sensemaking, forecasting, and productivity
- Make strategic, hiring, and innovation decisions
- Test AI prompts to evaluate trade-offs and limits

🎟️ Free entry | Open to all