Leading The Phantom Workforce

Two days take a leadership team from a way of seeing to a durable way of leading. Where the one-day workshop moves a team from awareness to action, the intensive is built to make that capability stick: more time in the diagnosis, deep practice of all three leadership conversations rather than one, the full Five Ps applied end to end, and a rigorous, peer-critiqued capstone that becomes a real 60- or 90-day implementation plan for a real challenge. Leaders leave not with a plan for a hypothetical, but with a dated commitment to a change they own — and a partner holding them to it.

Awareness is not the bottleneck; willingness and capability are. Most transformations do not fail at the strategy slide. They fail later — in the practice that never happens, the honest conversation that is never had, the metric that measures only cost and so produces only cuts. This is where a single day of alignment is not enough, and where the depth of a two-day intensive earns its place: it takes leaders past recognition and into rehearsed, pressure-tested, dated commitment. It is designed for organizations that cannot afford for the plan to be approximate.

What makes this experience developmentally different from the one-day workshop is the capstone. Each leader applies the complete Human-Centered AI Leadership System — all Five Ps — to one real scenario from their own organization, function, or team. It is diagnosed on Day One, built on Day Two, critiqued by peers and facilitator, revised, and converted into a plan scoped to be achievable in 60 to 90 days.

The scenarios are real and current, within each leader’s span of influence, and human-centered by design — about people, behavior, culture, or capability, never a pure technology purchase. The point is not a perfect plan. It is a real one each leader will actually begin, made sharper because their peers stress-tested it and a facilitator pressed it on the questions that matter: are you protecting a task or the value beneath it; does a real person come out more capable; can you name one measure that is not cost.

The intensive is run as a series of working sessions and coached labs, not a two-day talk. Leaders spend most of the two days doing the work — diagnosing, drafting, practicing, presenting — while the facilitator circulates as a coach, pressing each leader’s plan at three checkpoints toward feasibility, human-centeredness, and proof beyond cost. Participants work in standing pods of three that stay together across both days for coaching and peer review, which turns the room into a set of trusted critics rather than an audience. The conversation practice is done in full, in role, with structured feedback each round. Psychological safety is protected throughout: the inner conversation stays private and is never required to be disclosed.

The intensive is facilitated by Darryl Michael Speach, founder of the AI Experience Institute™ and author of The Phantom Workforce. Two full days of coached labs, structured peer review, and consequential live conversations demand more than subject expertise; they demand a master facilitator who can hold a room of senior leaders in difficult, honest work and coach each of them individually without losing the group.

That is the discipline of Darryl’s career. He learned it as a Disney Master Facilitator and spent the decades since building corporate universities and enterprise learning functions from the ground up — as Vice President of Learning & Development at New York Life, Global Head of Learning & Development at Creative Artists Agency, Chief Learning Officer at Majid Al Futtaim in Dubai, Dean of Centene University at Fortune 25 Centene, and Executive Director of Guest Experience and Learning & Development at Qiddiya/SEVEN — across healthcare, entertainment, financial services, and hospitality. He designs the two days so that rigor and safety coexist: leaders are pressed hard on the substance of their plans and kept safe enough to be honest about what they do not yet know. That Disney master facilitation and curriculum design adapts the coaching to each leader’s industry, role, and level of AI fluency. And because the frameworks being applied are his own, the feedback each leader receives comes from the person who built the system they are using.

The two-day intensive is typically commissioned by a CEO or executive team preparing to lead a significant AI-era change; a CHRO, CPO, or chief learning officer investing in durable leadership capability rather than a one-time event; a business-unit president whose function faces real role and workflow change; or a transformation or strategy leader who needs a leadership team to leave with implementable plans, not just alignment. It is the right choice when the change is real, the stakes are high, and the plan has to work.

Because every leadership team arrives with a different industry, a different level of AI fluency, and a different challenge in front of it, we do not publish a single fixed price. We develop a tailored fee proposal after a brief discovery conversation, so that what we recommend fits your audience, your context, and the outcomes you are after — rather than a package designed for someone else.

The proposal takes into account the factors that genuinely shape a strong engagement: whether the workshop is delivered in person or live online; your location; the size of the cohort; your cohort’s current level of AI acumen; your industry; the composition and seniority of the participants; whether you choose the one-day workshop or the two-day intensive; the degree of customization you would like; and any additional private consultation or advisory support, which is available at an hourly rate. Scoping the engagement around these factors is what allows us to recommend the right experience and to make the day — or the two days — land with your particular leaders.

The best next step is a short conversation. Complete the workshop inquiry form below to arrange an initial consultation call. We will learn about your organization and your cohort, discuss the experience that fits, and, when it is the right moment, prepare a tailored fee proposal for you to consider.