The Perspective Zoom
Effective leaders can do two things with any subject: zoom in until they see how it actually works, and zoom out until they see the pattern it sits in. Walk one subject — money — across five altitudes, then aim the same lens at AI. Every altitude shows you something the others hide. This is the frame for the whole day.
One subject, every altitude
Step through the stops with the buttons, the slider, or by clicking an altitude directly. At each stop: what can you see here that you cannot see from anywhere else — and what would you get wrong if this were your only view?
Walk all nine altitudes — both lenses — to earn the closing frame.
Say this before anything else happens today
“None of you are here to become AI experts or expert AI users.”
Everyone benefits from being a user.
Not someday, not via a project — personally, this month, in every role including this one. A board that has used the thing asks better questions about the thing.
Understanding ≠ expertise.
You do not need to be an expert in a thing to understand how it works. You already govern underwriting, reserving, and reinsurance this way. AI is not the exception.
And the hinge the whole day turns on: if you don't understand a thing, how can you make decisions about how to best use that thing? Big-picture-only briefings quietly assume the answer is “somehow.” Today assumes otherwise.
Facilitator layer How to run this — script, timing, props
The script — 15 minutes, six beats
Written to be said out loud. Stage directions in italics. The two props do the arguing for you; do not explain what people can simply be shown.
Prop checklist
Check each one in the room, not the night before. Ticks are saved on this device.
Watch for
If the room treats Act I as obvious — good, that is the point. The discomfort you want arrives in Act II, when they notice they have only ever been briefed from orbit. Do not rescue that silence; name it, then move on to the day.