What this is
This is not an AI literacy workshop. Your leadership team does not need to understand transformers. They need to understand each other, specifically, what each of them believes about AI's role in the business, what risks they're willing to take, and where the unspoken disagreements are that will quietly derail every initiative you try to run.
The Alignment Session is a half-day to full-day working session with your leadership team. We surface the real disagreements, establish shared language, clarify decision rights, and build the conditions your organization needs to move together. Everything that comes after this, strategy, implementation, culture change, depends on whether leadership can hold a coherent line. Most can't, yet.
AI strategy fails at the top before it fails anywhere else. When leaders can't agree on what they're doing and why, their organizations feel it immediately, and fill the vacuum with their own interpretations.
What the session covers
Opening
Where we actually are: an honest picture of AI in this organization today, drawn from pre-work interviews. Not what you think is happening. What is happening.
Block 1
The belief audit: each leader's actual working assumptions about AI: what it can do, what it threatens, what success looks like. Made visible, made discussable.
Block 2
Where you disagree: the structured disagreement exercise. We don't paper over the gaps. We name them, because unspoken disagreements at the leadership level are the single most reliable predictor of adoption failure.
Block 3
Principles and decision rights: what will this organization commit to? Who decides what, when? What does "good AI governance" mean here, in practical terms?
Close
The mandate: a written, signed set of commitments from the leadership team. Not a vision statement. Specific enough to act on.
01
A shared vocabulary
Alignment on language means alignment on intent. What your team calls "AI governance" should mean the same thing to all of them.
02
Named disagreements
Surfaced, documented, and resolved, or at least acknowledged. Unspoken disagreements cost more than resolved ones.
03
A written mandate
Specific leadership commitments your organization can actually be held to. Something to point at when the pressure comes.
Logistics
Format
Half-day (4 hours) or full-day (6 hours) depending on team size and complexity. Can be run in-person or remote; in-person strongly preferred for teams with significant unresolved tension. Pre-work required from each participant: approximately 30 minutes of structured reflection sent one week in advance. Facilitated by two Kinetic Change practitioners.
Who should be in the room
Your full leadership team: everyone who makes or materially influences decisions about people, technology, product, and operations. If someone is regularly excluded from conversations about AI and they're in this list, that is itself a signal worth noting. Ideal group size is 4–10.
4–10 participantsHalf or full dayPre-work required