AI is reshaping more than tools and workflows. It is changing how decisions are made, how work is organised, how authority is exercised, and how leadership is experienced. 

For leaders at every level, the challenge is not simply how to adopt AI. It is how to lead well while systems become harder to interpret, roles become less stable, and expectations from boards, teams, customers, and colleagues continue to rise. 

The Room is a small, high-trust leadership circle for people leading others through the impact of AI – personally, at team, function, or organisational level. Drawing on organisational psychology, socio-technical systems thinking, leadership development, and practical AI strategy, the programme helps participants work through live leadership and organisational questions with peers. 

Participants leave with clearer judgement, a practical decision-making framework, stronger language for leading others through uncertainty, and the support of a peer group facing similar pressures. 

Why join The Room?

The Room offers a rigorous peer space for leaders working through the real implications of AI in organisations. It is designed for people who need to make decisions, guide others, navigate relationship, and hold authority in conditions that are changing faster than most organisations can comfortably absorb. 

Grounded in organisational psychology, systems thinking, leadership development, and hands-on AI strategy and product experience, the programme helps participants develop practical intelligence about human-AI leadership.  
 
Rather than offering technical hype or abstract optimism, it creates space to think seriously about what AI changes, what remains human, and how to lead in that tension. 

Programme Outline

Five sessions follow a deliberate arc, from examining what AI is and how it reorganises organisations, to developing a personally grounded framework for leading within it: 

1. What (and who) is AI, really? Developing a precise working understanding of what AI is, what it is not, and how it reorganises authority, work, and decision-making in your organisation. 

2. Who are you as a leader in this context? Examining the disruption AI brings to leadership identity, authority, and role — and the questions that creates for how you lead now. 

3. What is your relationship with AI? Exploring the psychological dynamics of the human-AI relationship: dependency, delegation, competition, and trust — and where human judgement remains not just relevant, but essential. 

4. Power, accountability, and the unconscious. Using a systems psychodynamic lens, including the dynamics of projection, splitting, and containment, to examine how power and accountability shift when AI enters the system. 

5. Your decision-making framework. Developing a clear, personally grounded position on 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) fManagers and team leaders navigating how AI changes day-to-day decisions, team dynamics, and their own role; (3)Advisors, OD professionals, and consultants supporting leaders through this transition 

No prior technical knowledge required. Groups are aligned by seniority and sector. Capped at ten participants. 

Faculty

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...

Jen Spalding

Jen Spalding is an experienced organisation development consultant, executive and team coach, and supervisor.  She works with individuals, teams and systems to uncover unspoken dynamics, build greater awareness, and support meaningful, sustainable change. Her background spans senior roles in HR, leadership development and change consultancy, and she now works within a team of coaches and consultants with clients across financial services, legal, healthcare, energy, and the arts. Jen...

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...

Logistics

The Room will take place every Monday for 5 weeks, beginning 7 September, 2026, 18:30 - 20:30 UK time.

In person, at the Tavistock Institute Offices and Online, via Zoom.

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

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