Knowledge Cafe 44: Conversational Leadership

Conversational Leadership in the Age of AI

As Artificial Intelligence increasingly reshapes how work gets done, one human capability is becoming even more valuable: our ability to have meaningful conversations.

Organizations today are flooded with information and constant digital interaction, yet many people experience less dialogue, reflection, and genuine connection. In this context, conversational leadership matters more than ever.

Conversational leadership is not about speaking more. It is about creating the conditions for trust, sensemaking, learning, and shared understanding to emerge through dialogue. It recognizes that some of the most important organizational outcomes — collaboration, innovation, culture, collective intelligence, and even resilience — are built conversation by conversation.

In the future, leadership may depend not only on expertise and decisions, but on the quality of the conversations leaders create and enable. And perhaps one of the most important questions for organizations today is not simply how we use AI, but how we protect and strengthen the human conversations that allow learning, understanding, and community to exist in the first place.

Join us for a Knowledge Café on Conversational Leadership to explore how leaders can create trust, clarity, learning, and shared understanding in an increasingly digital and fast-moving world. Together, we’ll discuss how conversation itself can become a strategic tool for sensemaking, innovation, culture, and collective intelligence.

No presentations. No panels. No q&a.

Just thoughtful dialogue with interested people.

Date: 10th June 2026 

Time: 15:00-16:30 CEST

Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hZFBbRIqRiiUpAGQ8yG0mQ