Invitiation and January Gathering Agenda Preview

Dearest friend,

We hope this message finds you relaxed and anticipating the year ahead. As the hosts and producers of the January 24-26 New Rules for Work Intent to Impact 2024 Gathering, we're reaching out to personally invite you to what promises to be an exceptional leadership experience.

Why Consider Joining?

As a full conference attendee, you’ll immerse yourself in Austin's vibrant culture and forge connections with like-minded professionals. Together, we’ll create:

• Your Personal 2024 Career Roadmap: Develop a guide to enhance your unique leadership style, productivity, and ease in adapting to rapid change.

• A Streamlined Approach to Crafting Team Agreements: Practice quickly creating team working agreements adapted to today’s workplace challenges

• Science-Backed Insights: Explore experiment results, the latest workplace trends, and the potential impact of AI on team dynamics.

• Intentionality Toolkit: Build a toolkit to turn your core intentions into impactful actions, including a communication plan that prepares you to share your insights with your teams

We’ll prepare and prototype these tools in a half-day intensive session on Day 1, January 24. On Day 2, we’ll engage with researchers and thought leaders to expand our vision and refine our thinking. Finally, on Day 3 we’ll assemble our 2024 toolkit and set our implementation strategy.

January 25 Agenda Highlights

Take a peek at our partial agenda.

Beginning at 15 GMT / 9 CT / 2 AEDT Jan 26:

We'll spend the first part of the day considering how teams do their best thinking.

• Eric Porres (Logitech) has exciting new data on how microbreaks enhance well-being and performance. He’ll kick us off by sharing these SmartHabits & The Art of Workplace Wellbeing. You can bet we'll put this advice into practice throughout the day.

• Last year, we ran dozens of experimental workshops to investigate how a meeting's location and technology impact team creativity.
  Joe Allen and Samantha Dubrow will share Early Experiment Results: Behavior and Sentiment based on data from the surveys and video recordings.
  Then, Keith McCandless will lead The Practioner's Fishbowl, where we share our Lessons from Swimming with Scientists

• AI erupted into the work world in the middle of last year’s experiment, which got us curious about Avoiding the Pitfalls of Collective Stupidity: How to Build Human-Machine Collaborations for Effective Decision Making

  Experts like Helen and Dave Edwards (Artificiality) say we shouldn't think of AI as software or a tool, but rather as a different kind of intelligence. They’ll highlight some of the most promising ways we can work with our new AI team members, and what we need to watch out for.

• Then, Alexandre Eisenchter (Stormz, AI Tinkerer's Club) will lead a workshop where we examine our future careers assuming AI will continue to evolve and ask: What must remain human?

Beginning at 19 GMT / 1 PM CT / 6 AEDT:

After the break, we'll focus on the workplace itself.

• Roni Reiter-Palmon will share more early experiment results, this time focusing on Team Creativity and Innovation, including a glimpse at our favorite future visions for all those lonely buildings drafted during the experiment.

• How do these visions align with the latest findings from workplace researchers? We'll hear from leaders at Miller Knoll and Google's Sustainability Initiative about the macro forces shaping the modern office.

• Building on these insights, we'll run a mini-experiment of our own. Mark Tippin (Mural) will invite us to Touch Base and take a Hands-On Spin on Creative Thinking. The twist? Online and in-person participants will use different strategies to meet a shared challenge.

• Finally, Annie Murphy Paul (The Extended Mind) will share her take on what the research of extended cognition and human excellence implies we should adopt as our new rules for work in 2024.

Get Your Tickets Now

1. Full Event Pass: $695 (Limited to 50 participants only!)

2. Virtual Pass Day 2 Only: $97

3. Virtual Pass Low Income: $47 for students and those facing financial hardship

Bonus! All 2024 Gathering passes include instant access to recordings from the 2023 New Rules for Work Symposium. (see the 2023 agenda)

"Intent to Impact" is more than an event—it's an opportunity to make your impact in 2024. We genuinely believe this experience will elevate our collective leadership journey, and we can’t wait to share it with you.

Be well. And see you there -
Dave & Elise

Any questions? Simply reply and we’ll get right back to you.