The Leadership Project: Activating Meaning in the Age of AI

The age of AI has arrived upon us, rapidly disrupting and forcing evolution in everything we do. While it promises massive benefits, it is accompanied by unparalleled complexity and uncertainty.

This prompts the question – Are we ready for this age? Is our leadership ready for this age?

This presentation explores what leadership in the age of machines could look like, to helps us collectively activate meaning in the age of AI.

Using bold provocations, fascinating case studies and insightful research, this presentation offers practical steps HR and L&D professionals could take to future proof leadership across our organizations.

• Understanding shifts in the age of AI.
• The consequences of deploying past era leadership to the AI era.
• Codifying what future ready leadership look like.
• Understanding leadership skills that will be needed in the age of AI.
• Steps HR & L&D professionals could take to develop future proof leadership across our organisations.

3  Key Learnings

1. Contrasting leadership across previous ages of disruption and understanding why the age of AI is different.
2. Reimagining future ready leadership across organisational levels.
3. Understanding leadership skills in the age of AI and how HR / L&D could help in preparing organisations for this.

About Ganapathy

Ganapathy is a leadership advisor and author. He is passionate about leadership centred on progress and movement. He has worked with organisations across countries, on complex projects in the HR, finance, supply chain, procurement and sales technology space, both in the corporate and public sector. He is also the author of REBOOT – an Amazon.com best-selling book, that shows you how to recover troubled technology projects. He likens himself to a plumber helping you unblock progress within organisations. He understands how stressful it is for HR and L&D professionals to operate in a chaotic and uncertain environment coupled with a recessionary economic outlook, while doing their very best to retain talented people and take good care of them. 

Over the last 2 years he has been helping leaders build trust in their teams by helping them anchor around progress and problem solving.  He runs leadership development programmes to help leaders build greater trust and make visible progress with their teams.  His talk is focused on the emerging nature of disruption within our world and exploring an alternative perspective to leading through disruption.