The pressures AI creates for senior leaders are concrete: board scrutiny, talent restructuring, client expectations, AI failure, and operating models that move faster than the people working within them. The Room gives participants the analytical frameworks and peer challenge to develop a position that holds in the boardroom, with their teams and clients, and in their own critical judgement. Participants leave with more than shared experience. 

Leading with and alongside AI disrupts how power is held, how decisions are made, how work gets done, and how leadership is experienced. The Room is a small, senior leadership circle for executives who already perform at a high level and want to get ahead of that shift: to build a clear, grounded position on human‑AI leadership and act from it with confidence and support. 

Why join The Room?

This programme offers a high‑trust peer space for senior executives navigating the business impact of AI. Grounded in organisational psychology, socio‑technical systems thinking, leadership development practice, and hands‑on AI strategy and product work, it helps participants build practical intelligence about human‑AI leadership. Designed as a place to work through live organisational questions with peers, participants leave with more clarity, a renewed understanding of their role in human‑AI leadership, and practical anchors for action. 

AI is moving faster than most organisations can operationalise. The real cost of unexamined leadership in AI‑driven systems is rarely technical; it is human. In this context, business growth depends less on having a perfectly optimised strategy and more on surfacing the assumptions and behaviours that shape how decisions are made in systems that feel increasingly hard to follow and explain. 

What We Explore

The five sessions follow a deliberate arc, from understanding the ecosystem to build a personally grounded framework for leading within it: 

• What (Who) is AI, really? Cutting through the noise to understand what AI is, what it is not, and how it re-organises your organisation 
•  Who are you as a leader in this new context? Examining how AI disrupts leadership identity, authority, and role 
•  What is your relationship with AI? Exploring the human-AI dynamic: competition, envy, dependency, delegation, trust, and where human judgement remains irreplaceable 
•  Power, accountability, and the unconscious Using a systems psychodynamic lens, including projection, splitting, and containment, to examine how power shifts when AI enters the room 
•  Your decision-making framework Leaving with a clear, personally grounded framework for AI-related decisions, built from lived experience across the programme 

Who Should Apply 

The programme is designed for (1) CEOs and senior leaders navigating the impact of AI; (2) founders building organisations in an AI-shaped environment; (3) board members, advisors, OD professionals, and consultants working at board level. 

We will aim to align groups by seniority, job functions, and industry to maximise relevance and peer learning. . 

Outcomes 

• Human-AI decision support: a grounded, personal position on AI that holds in board and team conversations paired with a tailored Co-design Agent for sociotechnical strategising 

• A practical decision-making framework Built across the five sessions, specific to your organisation, lived experience and context 

• Deeper self-awareness and systems awareness of how you lead and make decisions under genuine uncertainty 

• Peer insight that lasts Relationships with senior leaders across sectors navigating the same level of complexity 
• The programme will provide the opportunity to co-design a tailored Human-AI leadership Agent 

Programme Directors

Dr Annja Neumann

I work at the intersection of sociotechnical systems design, systems psychodynamics, arts-based methods and realist evaluation – folded into a single organisational consulting practice focused on human-AI systems – here understood as socio-technical systems (STS), interactions where social and cultural aspects matter as much as technical infrastructures.As Principal STS Consultant and Artist-Researcher I help organisations, teams and senior leaders build the adaptive capabilities they need to...

Alon Alperovitz

Alon Alperovitz is an Organisational Psychologist, a coach and Culture Strategist with over 15 years’ experience helping organisations evolve without losing their identity. He works with senior leaders to design and embed culture strategies that drive performance, resilience, and meaningful change, building ways of working that are people-centred, commercially grounded, and built to last. Drawing on hands-on experience across financial services, consumer brands, scale-ups, and mission-driven organisations worldwide...

Logistics

The Room will take place every Monday for 5 weeks, beginning 1st June, 18:30 - 20:30 UK time.

In person, at the Tavistock Institute Offices. 

External keynote speakers from leading tech companies will contribute to the programme. 

Participant numbers will be capped at 10; we encourage early applications.