The Executive Reboot for the AI Age

Lead or Lag is not another AI program. It is a leadership adaptation sprint for executives facing a world where the rules of authority, expertise, speed, and decision-making are being rewritten.

There is no complete leadership model for this moment. The pace of AI-driven change is outstripping traditional executive development, legacy management assumptions, and many of the leadership frameworks organizations still rely on.

This program helps leaders confront that gap directly. Participants examine how their thinking must evolve, where old leadership reflexes may limit them, and how to build the mental agility, discernment, and behavioral discipline required to lead now.

Who This is For

Senior Leaders and Executives who want clarity, tools, and progress they can see within thirty days.

This program is designed for intact executive teams, senior leadership cohorts, and organizations that want their leaders to adapt together.

It is especially relevant for:
• Executive teams preparing to lead through uncertainty, acceleration, and disruption
• Senior leaders who recognize that past success does not guarantee future relevance
• Organizations that need a shared leadership language for agility, judgment, accountability, and transformation
• Leadership cohorts navigating anxiety, resistance, or confusion around what AI means for executive work
• Companies that want leaders to rethink how they decide, prioritize, communicate, and create value

Lead or Lag is for leaders who do not need another technology briefing. They need a new way to think, lead, and stay ahead.

What Participants Achieve

Participants will walk away with:

• A clearer understanding of how AI is changing the expectations of executive leadership
• A practical map of the leadership assumptions, habits, and decision patterns that need to evolve
• A personal leadership reset plan focused on agility, judgment, relevance, and higher-value contribution
• Neuroscience-backed habits that help them respond with clarity rather than anxiety or avoidance
• A stronger ability to distinguish what should be automated, augmented, elevated, or protected as distinctly human
• Renewed confidence in your leadership presence, executive judgment, and ability to lead through uncertainty

Program Experience

Designed by two global executives who have led multi-continent transformations and coached leaders across industries, Lead or Lag delivers a structured leadership reset for a moment that has no ready-made playbook.

Unlike most programs that stop at insights, Lead or Lag delivers an ecosystem: neuroscience-backed habits, AI-powered practices, and personal blueprints that hardwire transformation into daily leadership.

The experience helps executives examine how they think under pressure, how they respond to disruption, and how they must evolve to remain effective when intelligence, speed, and work itself are being redefined.

The program combines:

• Executive reflection
• Neuroscience-backed habit formation
• Leadership adaptation practices
• Decision-making frameworks
• Practical application to each leader’s work
• A personal blueprint for sustained relevance and impact

Participants do not simply leave with information. They leave with a new leadership operating model for themselves.

    1. A Warm Welcome and What to Expect

    2. Prepare for the Program

    3. Mark Your Calendar

    4. The AI Era Readiness Scorecard

    1. Agenda

    2. Additional Curated Resources

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    2. Additional Curated Resources

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    2. Additional Curated Resources

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    2. Copy of Additional Curated Resources
  • THIS PROGRAM IS OFFERED ON DEMAND

    Please email [email protected] to discuss a private session for your organization

Why This Isn’t Just Another AI Program

Most programs stop at inspiration. This program helps leaders confront what the technology now requires of them, and build systems that make change stick.

The Future-Ready Leadership Blueprint:
● Practice → AI-powered practices, practical canvases, effective prompts, and frameworks you’ll use immediately
● Habits → Neuroscience-backed routines that rewire how you decide and lead
● Strategy → A personal AI integration plan that shifts 10–20% of your time to higher-value work
● Extended Support → A 30-day sprint community to keep momentum alive

The Mechanics of Transformation

This is not theory. It is a structured journey that helps leaders move from awareness to adaptation, from adaptation to new behavior, and from new behavior to sustained leadership relevance.

  • 1. Understand Yourself, Augmented

    - Explore how your brain and leadership style respond under pressure.
    - Identify where AI strenghtens your thinking without taking it over.

  • 2. Free Your Leadership Capacity

    - Deconstruct your work to identify:
    Automate → tasks that waste time
    Augment → decisions that need sharper clarity
    Amplify → areas only you can lead, scaled by AI

  • 3. Apply AI with Confidence

    - Learn practical AI approaches from both technology and leadership angles.
    - Apply AI as an extension of your leadership, never a distraction.

  • 4. Hardwire Sustainable Evolution

    - Build micro-habits that lock in the change.
    - Keep evolving well beyond the program.

  • 5. Create Plans that Drive Impact

    - Design clear, measurable roadmaps aligned with your goals.
    - Anchor transformation with accountability and milestones.

  • 6. Achieve Sustainable Results

    - Design your personal AI integration blueprint.
    - Strenghten habits that protect relevance and expand impact.
    - Reinforce your authority by embedding lasting change.

Meet Your Facilitators

Nina Hirota, MA, MBA

Executive Educator, Organizational Strategist
and Global HR Leader

Nina Hirota is the Co-Founder and Chief Talent Officer at Global Synergy Partner Solutions. She is a multilingual global talent management expert and AI strategist who has led change management and HR initiatives for Fortune 500 corporations with market capitalizations of up to $100 billion, strengthening talent pipelines, workforce engagement, and organizational transformation across 180 countries.
Nina is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University, where she prepares graduate students to succeed in diverse global contexts and earned NYU’s Teaching Excellence Award.
She serves on Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council and the Bellini Center Executive Advisory Board at the University of South Florida, where she advises on career building and the future of work. She is also the founder of the AI for Leadership group on LinkedIn.
Recognized as a LinkedIn Top Career Voice in 2024, Nina helps leaders navigate the intersection of leadership, artificial intelligence, and business transformation.
Connect with Nina on LinkedIn
Nina Hirota

Patricio Cuesta

Executive Mentor, AI-Era Leadership Strategist and Global Executive

Patricio Cuesta is the Founder and Executive Director of Thinkquan2m Empowerment Solutions, where he helps mid-career leaders shift from execution to executive impact without burning out. His neuroscience-powered method rewires how leaders think, decide, and show up under pressure, equipping them to thrive in complexity and rise with sustainable influence in the AI era.
With more than three decades of experience in multinational, US-based public corporations, Patricio has held senior regional and global leadership roles spanning Latin America, global marketing, and ultimately the C-Suite, where he led worldwide commercial operations at the President level. Throughout his career, he has driven business transformations across continents shaping strategy, scaling growth, and building adaptive teams to succeed in highly complex and rapidly evolving environments.
Today, he brings that expertise to executives, teams, and universities through programs that blend cognitive neuroscience, leadership systems, and future-readiness. Fluent in four languages and trained in neuroscience-based coaching, he also mentors rising leaders and champions neurodiversity as a catalyst for innovation and organizational intelligence.
His mission is clear: to prepare leaders not just to adapt to the future of work, but to lead it by leveraging AI as a tool while amplifying what makes us deeply human.
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