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Upcoming Event: July 2025
Thursday, July 24th at 12:00pm PDT / 2:00pm CDT / 3:00pm EDT
Guest Speaker: Lorraine Segal
Topic: “Conflict Transformation for Leaders“
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Most Recent Event: June 12
Summary:
This isn’t just a tech tutorial—it’s a mindset shift!
In this high-impact workshop, Adnan Iftekhar invites you to rethink how generative AI can support not just your productivity—but also your purpose. You’ll explore how to use AI as a co-pilot in your professional and personal life, freeing up time, reducing overwhelm, and designing systems that align with your values.
Whether you’re a leader, educator, or creator, this session helps you move from burnout to clarity, and from chaos to intention.
Expect practical tools. Expect reflection. Expect transformation.
You’ll leave with an AI-powered strategy that enhances—not replaces—your human skills: empathy, focus, and decision-making.
Takeaways:
- Identify & eliminate low-value work using Gen AI so you can focus on what matters most
- Build micro-habits and workflows that make AI usage simple, repeatable, and effective
- Shift from reactive to strategic by using AI to support thinking, not just doing
- Walk away with a personal AI Action Plan tailored to your goals and energy
About the Speaker:
Adnan Iftekhar is an educator, entrepreneur, and technologist with 25 years of experience across education, nonprofits, and tech. Known for blending creativity and innovation, he has taught subjects ranging from yoga, dance, and biology to computer science and social innovation. As the author of the book AI Culture Shift, Adnan developed the IQ/EQ/AQ framework to promote ethical AI and enhance human potential.
A champion of responsible AI use, Adnan has created AI-powered tools like the Food Label Analyzer and Real Estate Profitability Analyzer. He also collaborated with the Mongolian government on a nationwide education program, implementing Chromebooks and training 600 educators. As a speaker and consultant, Adnan has shared his insights at global events, including Alibaba’s summit and LAUSD. His work integrates AI with social-emotional learning to empower students and educators. Adnan’s work also extends to advising GenAI EdTech startups, where he helps shape the future of learning through the integration of AI technologies.
Beyond tech, Adnan has founded a yoga studio, software firm, non-profit, and boarding school in Vermont, further demonstrating his versatility and commitment to innovation. His work continues to reshape how AI is integrated into education, focusing on its potential to foster creativity, empathy, and responsible growth.
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Past Event: May 22
Summary:
In today’s day and age, we can’t afford to not be leveraging AI every day. Join us, as we provide practical examples of how to use AI to make you more valuable to your company, achieve your desired business outcomes, and delight your customers daily.
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Takeaways:
- Learn why the time is now to start applying AI to your job
- Gain several AI use cases, that showcase tangible results
- Hands-on breakouts, designed to give you practical experience applying AI to project management
- Receive free AI prompts, that will help you in your role
About the Speaker:
Kyle Dukes is an AI Consultant, Trainer, and Managing Partner at Strata AI. He holds a bachelor’s degree in MIS from Bowling Green State University and has his MBA from The University of Findlay. His experience extends almost 25 years, across 16 different industries. Kyle is passionate about helping people achieve their full potential through AI.
Past Event: April 18
Summary:
Traditional leadership has long depended on intuition, manual processes, and fragmented feedback loops. But what if AI could fundamentally reshape talent management—ensuring meritocracy, optimizing productivity, and fostering self-sustaining teams?
Imagine an autonomous AI companion that not only analyzes performance patterns but also prioritizes coaching needs, recognizes high-potential talent, and mitigates disengagement before it happens. By removing hierarchical bottlenecks and enabling decentralized decision-making, AI can empower teams to self-organize, continuously learn, and drive leadership at every level.
In this session, we’ll explore how AI-powered behavioral analytics, real-time feedback loops, and intelligent coaching models can enhance productivity, ensure truly merit-based performance evaluations, and scale leadership beyond a select few. We’ll also address the challenges and ethical considerations of embedding AI into decision-making structures.
This isn’t just about using AI as a tool—it’s about how AI can drive systemic change in leadership and talent management. Join us as we uncover practical frameworks and real-world applications for building AI-driven, high-performing teams that are autonomous, adaptive, and deeply human.
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Takeaways:
- AI can eliminate bottlenecks and enhance productivity: AI-powered insights enable real-time feedback and proactive interventions, reducing the need for manual performance tracking.
- AI-driven talent management fosters continuous improvement: Instead of relying on annual reviews, AI helps teams self-optimize through continuous coaching, adaptive goal-setting, and data-informed decision-making.
- Leaders can scale their impact without micromanaging: AI empowers managers by providing actionable insights, allowing them to focus on strategic leadership rather than repetitive performance monitoring.
- AI helps prevent disengagement before it happens: By detecting early warning signs of burnout or disengagement, AI enables proactive leadership actions that improve retention and team morale.
- The shift to AI-enhanced leadership comes with ethical considerations: Transparency, fairness, and responsible AI use are critical when embedding AI into talent management to avoid bias and build trust.
About the Speaker:
Alireza Boloorchi is a seasoned AI and organizational leadership Strategist and Architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has over 15 years of organizational leadership experience across multiple industries. Currently, he serves as the CEO and Founder of Catch Up AI, an autonomous employee performance management platform, and as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science. Alireza’s career includes a pivotal role as VP of AI Strategies and as the head of the Center of Excellence at a $3B tech startup. Additionally, his extensive experience encompasses key leadership positions at global giants like Visa, KLA-Tencor, and JPMC. In addition to his industry roles, he is a Certified Agile Coach and a trusted advisor to several startups, including serving as a portfolio advisor at Expert Dojo.
Past Event: March 13
Summary:
Embrace the transformative power of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its sweeping impact on the workplace, leadership, and organizational design. This session unpacks highlights from the new book Human-Robot Agent, exploring practical strategies to embrace innovation, navigate complexity, and harness AI to thrive in a socio-technological and wicked world.
Takeaways:
- Understand AI’s Role in New Ways of Working: Identify how technology reshapes traditional business structures and ways of working.
- Embrace Disruptive Innovation: Learn actionable approaches to lead change and be the disruptor rather than embracing change and being disrupted.
- Cultivate New Skills and Mindsets: Explore the shift towards multi-skilled (M-skilled) workers and leadership adaptability in AI-driven networks.
- Design for a Dynamic Future: Discover patterns and practices for building vital, dynamic, versatile, and ethically conscious organizations.
About the Speaker:
Jurgen Appelo is a pioneering author, speaker, leadership coach, and entrepreneur known for challenging traditional organizational thinking. He helps leaders rewire their organizations for the AI-driven future, focusing on human-AI teamwork, anti-fragile structures, and algorithmic management. Recognized by Inc.com as a Top 50 Leadership Expert and Top 100 Leadership Speaker Jurgen has authored several influential books. His books tackle everything from employee engagement (Managing for Happiness), innovation (Startup, Scaleup, Screwup), change management, the role of Agile managers (Management 3.0), transformation (How to Change the World) to the chaos of human-machine interactions in his novel Glitches of Gods. His coaching has empowered leaders worldwide to drive transformation, while as a founder of The unFIX Company, and co-founder of the Agile Lean Europe network, Jurgen continues to shape the future of work with radical, boundary-pushing ideas.
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