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CIOs and technology leaders have been running at pace for years, with clarity on what the future holds shrinking as time passes. At the same time, more and more of a CIO’s decisions are now mission-critical to keeping the enterprise afloat.

Long-term plans have quietly disappeared. AI, emerging technologies and geopolitical change have shortened business timelines. CIOs now find planning 12 to 18 months ahead a luxury, and decision fatigue is a reality.

For CIONET’s upcoming “Monday Masterclass” on Monday 16 November, we’ll be joined by Jeff Burningham, US-based tech entrepreneur, investor and author, sharing with the community how CIOs can maintain the clarity of mind necessary for effective leadership amidst increasing uncertainty.

Jeff spent years building billion-dollar companies, until burnout and loss forced him to rethink how he worked and lived. That rethink became his book, The Last Book Written by a Human: Becoming Wise in the Age of AI, which looks at what wisdom means in these new conditions. His argument is that as machines get smarter, the people running organisations need to get wiser.

Jeff will share with the CIONET community:

● how leaders can protect their own mental space when the ground keeps moving and make a decision they can stand behind
● how leaders can set an example, and build resilience into teams experiencing change fatigue
● why the bigger risk with AI is losing touch with what makes us human
● his three “universal teachers” that keep him grounded
● breaking the addiction to endless “productivity”, and why presence, intuition and stillness are the real superpowers for leaders

The session is open for questions from the audience, and will be hosted under Chatham House Rule.