Keeping Leadership Alive in 2026

Leadership experience doesn’t automatically age well — I’m convening a small lab for people who want theirs to stay alive and relevant.

I’m personally inviting you into a learning community I’m committed to for 2026.

If you’ve spent years carrying responsibility for others — making decisions, holding complexity, mentoring, or advising — you may have noticed something subtle. The world is changing faster than most leadership habits were designed for. What once worked still functions, but doesn’t always feel fully alive.

Over the last few years, AI has entered that picture. Not as a replacement for judgment, but as a force that exposes it. Used poorly, it numbs thinking. Used well, it can return time, clarity, and attention to the work that is distinctly human: sense-making, relationship, and discernment.

What I’ve been looking for — and finally found — is a place to explore these shifts with other experienced people, without hype, without posturing, and without pretending we already know the answers.

That place is the Human Praxis Lab.

It’s a small learning community for people who have already led — and are not done learning. This isn’t a one-off course; it’s a rhythm of thinking, practicing, and returning. We don’t accumulate ideas. We practice them. We reflect, experiment, talk honestly about what we notice, and try things in real life before drawing conclusions.

In 2025, our work together included The Courage to Be Disliked, The Tools, The Tree of Knowledge, and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. What mattered most wasn’t the material — it was watching seasoned leaders notice their own thinking again, often in places it had quietly gone on autopilot.

Here’s the arc we’re holding for 2026:

We begin with Generative AI and the Human Advantage — a 14-week exploration of how AI actually works, where it’s genuinely useful, and where human judgment, creativity, and relationship still matter most. Some participants will arrive fluent. Others curious. What matters is a willingness to think openly and test assumptions.

From there, we turn toward Human Connection — reading together, running experiments, and paying close attention to how we relate, influence, and listen after years of experience have shaped us.

Later in the year, we focus on Body — because leadership is not just cognitive. Many of us were never taught how to care for the body that carries our work, stress, and ambition. We’ll think seriously about healthspan, not just lifespan, and what it means to remain capable over time.

We close the year more lightly — with shared story, reflection, and play. This year, we’ll spend time with The Best Christmas Pageant Ever as a way to end the year together rather than rush past it.

What makes the Human Praxis Lab different isn’t the content — it’s the people and the rhythm. Ideas return. Conversations deepen. You hear how something lands for someone else and refine your own thinking in the process. That rhythm — reciprocation, recurrence, recursion — is what keeps learning alive rather than theoretical.

We meet weekly, live, in a small group — enough structure to stay engaged, enough space to let insight unfold.

This is not a program for everyone. It’s for people who care about the quality of their thinking, the integrity of their influence, and staying awake to what’s emerging — rather than relying solely on what once worked.

The investment for 2026 is $100 per month or $1,000 for the year, with the option to join the full journey or individual segments.

If you’re still feeling a pull after reading this, the right next step is a short conversation to see whether this work fits the chapter you’re in — and whether the Lab is the right place to do it.

Choosing fun!

— Ron

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