How Organizations & Leaders Can Build the Human Connections AI Can’t Replace

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Learn how organizations & leaders can build the human connections AI can’t Replace

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Every AI conversation includes a version of the same promise: that as automation accelerates, uniquely human qualities will matter even more. Most senior leaders believe it. And yet, the employee experience keeps pointing in the opposite direction — more efficiency, but less connection; faster coordination, but weaker alignment.

The gap isn’t a morale problem or a hybrid work problem. It’s structural.

The interactions that build and maintain relationships once replenished themselves naturally. That’s no longer the environment most organizations are operating in. In this webinar on human connections in the AI era, we explore what it takes to close that gap — and what development looks like when it’s designed for strengthening the space between people.

What You’ll Learn

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

  • Why the erosion of connection is a structural design problem — not a culture problem — and why that distinction changes what organizations need to do in response
  • The 3 interconnected pathways through which leadership development rebuilds what AI and distributed work erode
  • Why most leadership development misses the mark — and what changes when the unit of development shifts from the individual to the space between people
  • What it looks like in practice when organizations design for collective relational capacity, rather than individual skill-building — and how that plays out in the real world
  • What L&D leaders can do now to start building relational infrastructure deliberately, without waiting for a fully formed organizational strategy to take shape

Your Hosts

Lisa Sinclair
Lisa Sinclair, MA
Leadership Solutions Partner

Lisa is a global leadership executive who partners with senior leaders to design leadership solutions and turn complex shifts — like AI — into clear, actionable leadership practices that strengthen decision-making, build organizational capability, and drive measurable business impact across complex, fast-changing environments.

Lisa is a global leadership executive who partners with senior leaders to design leadership solutions and turn complex shifts — like AI — into clear, actionable leadership practices that strengthen decision-making, build organizational capability, and drive measurable business impact across complex, fast-changing environments.

Sarah Stawiski
Sarah Stawiski, PhD
Vice President, Research & Impact

Sarah leads our talented team of researchers, data scientists, and evaluation scientists, guiding them in conducting groundbreaking research, analyzing trends, and providing actionable recommendations to our clients and internal stakeholders. She has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several books on topics including evaluation of leadership development, generational differences in the workplace, shared group cognition, ethical decision making, and bias in the workplace.

Sarah leads our talented team of researchers, data scientists, and evaluation scientists, guiding them in conducting groundbreaking research, analyzing trends, and providing actionable recommendations to our clients and internal stakeholders. She has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several books on topics including evaluation of leadership development, generational differences in the workplace, shared group cognition, ethical decision making, and bias in the workplace.

Lisa Sinclair
Lisa Sinclair, MA
Leadership Solutions Partner

Lisa is a global leadership executive who partners with senior leaders to design leadership solutions and turn complex shifts — like AI — into clear, actionable leadership practices that strengthen decision-making, build organizational capability, and drive measurable business impact across complex, fast-changing environments.

Sarah Stawiski
Sarah Stawiski, PhD
Vice President, Research & Impact

Sarah leads our talented team of researchers, data scientists, and evaluation scientists, guiding them in conducting groundbreaking research, analyzing trends, and providing actionable recommendations to our clients and internal stakeholders. She has published multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several books on topics including evaluation of leadership development, generational differences in the workplace, shared group cognition, ethical decision making, and bias in the workplace.

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