PREPARE YOURSELF TO BECOME A SKILLED TECH-SURFER

Reading the Water. Finding Your Stance. Understanding the Wind.
This is identity, awareness, positioning.

Reading the Water Before You Enter It

Audience: Executives, founders, board members

Objective: Shift participants from reactive to perceptive leadership.

  • The metaphor: ocean vs organization
  • The difference between noise and swell
  • Quick ARC introduction (light touch)
  • Identify current technology waves impacting them
  • Distinguish hype vs structural shifts
  • Small group discussion
  • Personal leadership stance reflection
  • Where are you over-leaning? (control vs curiosity, speed vs safety)
  • What external forces shape your organization?
  • Regulation, capital, talent, geopolitics
  • One insight
  • One strategic question
  • One immediate adjustment

Stance Under Pressure

Audience: Executives, founders, board members

Objective: Shift participants from reactive to perceptive leadership.

  • ARC stage mapping exercise
  • Leadership blind spot mapping
  • Organizational tension mapping (speed vs governance)
  • Personal stance diagnostic
  • Group synthesis
  • “Boardroom Trigger Questions”

The Foundation Day — Becoming Surf-Ready

Objective: This becomes a deep recalibration day.

  • Macro forces shaping next 10 years
  • AI asymmetry & autonomy discussion
  • Case studies (success & failure)
  • Executive stance deep work
  • Values under optimization stress
  • Personal & institutional ARC alignment
  • Organization positioning exercise
  • “If AI optimized your org, what would disappear?”
  • Craft a Stance Declaration