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Mastery and Excellence in Creative Leadership
A Creative Leadership Hub Mastery Lab with David Slocum

As Artificial Intelligence expands its capacity to optimize, generate, and scale, the distinctive human contribution to leadership becomes more – not less – important. AI can optimize within parameters. Leaders must use their creativity and judgment to decide which parameters matter.

This 90-minute interactive webinar invites mid- and senior-level leaders across industries to rethink excellence in light of this distinction. A central reference point will be Brad Stulberg’s new book The Way of Excellence (2026), which reframes excellence as an “infinite game” of becoming rather than a race for external validation. His critique of “pseudo-excellence” offers a timely lens for leaders navigating algorithmic metrics and volatile environments.

The core contrast we will explore is not human versus AI, but optimization versus discernment. AI strengthens analysis, pattern recognition, and execution. Mastery strengthens judgment, craetivity, attentiveness, relational intelligence, ethical clarity, and the capacity to hold tension across competing demands and opportunities.

The leadership challenge, therefore, is coordination:

  • How do you integrate algorithmic efficiency with human discernment?

  • How do you avoid reducing leadership to output while still embracing technological leverage and augmentation? o

  • How do you move beyond improving what you do to transforming how you see, sensemake, and decide?

Upon completion of this live Mastery Lab, participants will be able to:

  • Distinguish clearly between outward excellence and inward mastery

  • Apply Stulberg’s framework to their own leadership context

  • Examine real tensions such as AI efficiency versus human meaning-making

  • Practice triple-loop thinking to navigate systemic contradictions

  • Define one concrete, repeatable structure to cultivate disciplined mastery

This is not a technology session. Nor is it a motivational seminar. It is a structured exploration of how leaders coordinate AI capability with human discernment and judgment to sustain excellence over time.

  • Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
  • Time: 06:00 P.M. CET
  • Format: 90-minute online interactive webinar
  • Audience: Mid- and senior-level leaders practicing creative leadership across sectors

All registrants will receive a background paper about Mastery, Excellence and Creative Leadership before the webinar.

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