Disruptive Leadership Institute - DLI New York

10/16/2026

🚀 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐃𝐎 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐀𝐈?

If everyone has access to AI, why will some people and organizations achieve better results than others?

The answer goes beyond technology. It lies in how leaders redesign work, strengthen human capabilities, and build organizations where humans and AI perform better together.

In my latest Leadership in Turbulence™ newsletter, I explore this challenge through the lens of my latest book, The SHAPER Leader: A Practical Implementation Guide to Building Human–AI Organizations. https://cee-global.com/publications/books

The SHAPER AI Leadership™ Model highlights six essential capabilities:
https://cee-global.com/frameworks/shaper-ai

🔹 S — Strategic Foresight
🔹 H — Harness Human–AI Collaboration
🔹 A — Architect Adaptive Organizations
🔹 P — Protect Trust Through Ethical AI Governance
🔹 E — Execute Transformation with Agility
🔹 R — Renew Leadership Capability Continuously

The leadership imperative is clear: move beyond AI adoption to redesigning work, improving decisions, and creating sustainable organizational value.
AI may accelerate performance, but leadership determines how that performance translates into competitive advantage.

💬 A question for CEOs and CHROs: Is your organization using AI to help people work faster—or redesigning work so humans and AI can achieve better results together?

👉 Read the full article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-top-performers-get-more-from-aiand-what-shaper-leader-bawany-vby6c

10/15/2026

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔)

I am delighted to announce the availability of my latest book, The SHAPER Leader: A Practical Implementation Guide to Building Human–AI Organizations, part of The Future-Ready Leadership™: Four Volumes. One Journey. The Future is Human–AI.™ Book Series.

As Artificial Intelligence reshapes organizations, leaders face a critical question:
Are we simply adopting AI, or are we redesigning our organizations to thrive in the Human–AI era?

The SHAPER AI Leadership Model™ offers a practical framework built around six essential leadership capabilities: https://cee-global.com/frameworks/shaper-ai

S — Strategic Foresight
H — Harness Human–AI Collaboration
A — Architect Adaptive Organizations
P — Protect Trust Through Ethical AI Governance
E — Execute Transformation with Agility
R — Renew Leadership Capability Continuously

This book helps CEOs, board directors, senior executives, and HR leaders translate AI ambition into action by combining human judgment, machine intelligence, responsible governance, organizational adaptability, and continuous learning.

𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐄
The future of leadership is not about choosing between humans and AI. It is about shaping how they work together.

𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐘 𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐙𝐎𝐍:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFZJGGL2

𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒:
https://cee-global.com/publications/books

𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐊 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐒
For corporate purchases, executive leadership programmes, and organizational learning initiatives, contact the Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global):
Email: [email protected]
WhatsApp: +65 9002 3848

Thank you to everyone who has supported my work on future-ready leadership and Human–AI organizations.

Let's move beyond AI adoption. Let's become the leaders who SHAPE the future.

Prof Sattar Bawany
CEO & SAGE™ Master Executive Coach
Disruptive Leadership Institute LLC, New York, NY (DLI)
Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global), Singapore

10/06/2026

🚀 Leadership in Turbulence: Preparing Leaders for What Comes Next

I am delighted to be the Master Trainer for Corporate World Intelligence (CWI)'s HE LEADS: Global Leadership & Executive Excellence Conference and Awards 2026 in Kuala Lumpur this November, where I will be delivering my executive masterclass:

“Leadership in Turbulence: Leading Through Disruption, Crisis, and AI-Accelerated Change.”

We are living through a period where disruption is no longer an occasional event—it has become the operating environment.

Geopolitical uncertainty. AI-accelerated transformation. Cybersecurity threats. Talent disruption. Changing stakeholder expectations. And increasingly complex decisions where leaders must act with incomplete information.

In this environment, leadership cannot simply be about managing what is happening today. It is about anticipating what could happen tomorrow—and building the capability to lead through it.

During this highly experiential masterclass, I will share practical frameworks, tools and approaches from my research and executive coaching work, including:

🔹 Leadership in Turbulence™ Framework
🔹 The Making of a C.R.I.S.I.S. Leader Framework™
🔹 ELEVATE Cognitive Readiness Framework™
🔹 SHAPER AI Leadership Model™
🔹 VUCAD Leadership Model
🔹 Future-Ready Leadership System™

Participants will work through crisis simulations, strategic scenario planning, Human–AI leadership challenges, reflection exercises and action planning—moving beyond leadership theory to practical application.

The goal is simple:To help leaders develop the clarity, cognitive readiness, resilience and adaptability to make better decisions when the stakes are highest.

Because in an era of Human–AI organizations, leaders don't need to compete with AI. They need to learn how to lead with AI—while ensuring that human judgment, accountability, trust and purpose remain at the centre of leadership.

I look forward to engaging with CEOs, C-suite executives, board members and senior leaders at HE LEADS 2026 and exploring what it truly means to become a Future-Ready Leader.

📍 InterContinental Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
📅 17–19 November 2026
🎯 Executive Masterclass: 19 November 2026
🔗 Find Out More: https://lnkd.in/gExJVyNC
🔗 Register Now: https://lnkd.in/gqHdTa7D

My appreciation to Corporate World Intelligence (CWI) for the invitation and for creating a platform that brings leaders together to challenge perspectives, exchange insights and strengthen leadership capability for what comes next.

The future belongs to leaders who can anticipate disruption, adapt continuously, leverage AI responsibly, and inspire people to navigate uncertainty with confidence.

10/03/2026

𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈-𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFZJGGL2

The Future-Ready Leadership Book Series is a four-volume exploration of what it takes to lead effectively in an era defined by disruption, uncertainty, crisis, and the accelerating impact of Artificial Intelligence.

Together, the four volumes examine leadership in the Age of AI through complementary perspectives: understanding the changing leadership landscape, developing the capabilities required to lead Human–AI organizations, building the governance and organizational systems needed for sustainable advantage, and putting these principles into practice through the SHAPER Leader framework.

Volume 1 — Future-Ready Leadership: Preparing Leaders for Disruption, Crisis and AI-Accelerated Change establishes the strategic foundation for the series. It explores why traditional approaches to leadership are increasingly inadequate in an environment characterized by technological acceleration, geopolitical uncertainty, shifting stakeholder expectations, organizational complexity, and disruption.

Volume 2 — Leading Human–AI Organizations: Designing Work, Leadership and Organizations for the Intelligent Machines moves from understanding change to building organizational capability. It examines the leadership capabilities required to lead effectively in Human–AI organizations and introduces the SHAPER AI Leadership Model as an integrated leadership architecture for the AI era.

Volume 3 — The Human–AI Enterprise: Governance, Transformation and Sustainable Advantage in the Age of AI shifts the focus from individual leadership capability to enterprise-wide transformation. It explores how boards, CEOs, and executive teams can institutionalize future-ready leadership through governance, organizational design, culture, talent, decision-making, responsible AI practices, and enterprise-wide transformation.

Volume 4 — The SHAPER Leader: A Practical Implementation Guide to Building Human–AI Organizations translates the principles and frameworks developed across the series into practical implementation. It provides leaders with a structured approach to developing the capabilities, practices, and organizational conditions required to build and lead effective, responsible, and future-ready Human–AI organizations.

Taken together, the four volumes provide an integrated roadmap for future-ready leadership: understand the forces reshaping leadership, develop the capabilities required to lead in the Age of AI, build the governance and organizational systems needed to sustain transformation, and put these principles into practice.

The series is grounded in a fundamental proposition: technological advancement alone will not determine which organizations succeed in the years ahead. Leadership will. The future will be shaped by leaders who are prepared to lead with human judgment, strategic foresight, adaptability, purpose, engagement, and the responsible use of AI.

Prof Sattar Bawany
C-Suite Master Executive Coach | Board Advisor | Author
Disruptive Leadership Institute LLC, New York
Centre for Executive Education, Singapore

🌐https://cee-global.com | 🌐https://www.disruptiveleadership.institute
✉️ [email protected] | 📱 WhatsApp: +65 9002 3848

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09/28/2026

Managers vs. Leaders | CNA LIVE Interview with Prof. Sattar Bawany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBApoX9CqJk

🎙️ What is the difference between being a manager and being a leader?

In this CNA LIVE interview, Prof. Sattar Bawany explores the distinction between management and leadership and why organizations need leaders who can do more than simply manage day-to-day operations.

The interview examines the different responsibilities of managers and leaders, the importance of leadership effectiveness, and the capabilities required to lead people and organizations through change and uncertainty.

🧭 Managers vs Leaders

Management and leadership are closely connected—but they involve different dimensions of organizational effectiveness.

Management traditionally focuses on:

• Planning
• Organizing
• Coordinating
• Controlling
• Executing objectives

Leadership extends beyond these functions.

Leaders must create direction, purpose, alignment and commitment, while influencing and mobilizing people toward shared objectives.

The leadership challenge is therefore not simply to manage resources efficiently, but to lead people effectively.

🤖 Managers and Leaders in the Age of AI

Artificial Intelligence is changing the nature of managerial work.

AI can increasingly support planning, analysis, monitoring, reporting and decision-making.

But leadership remains fundamentally human.

Leaders are still responsible for:
Judgment + Purpose + Trust + Accountability + Empathy + Responsible Action

The emerging challenge is therefore not simply Managers vs Leaders.

It is how leaders can effectively combine human leadership capabilities with AI-enabled intelligence and organizational capability.

💡 Leadership Reflection

Ask yourself:

Are you primarily managing tasks, processes and performance—or are you also creating the purpose, trust, direction and conditions that enable people to perform at their best?

And in the Age of AI:

What should remain uniquely human in leadership—and what should be augmented by AI?

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Developing Future-Ready Leaders for the Age of AI
https://cee-global.com/
Email: [email protected]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBApoX9CqJk

Managers vs Leaders | CNA LIVE Interview with Prof. Sattar Bawany...

09/27/2026

🚀 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐈𝐬 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 + 𝐀𝐈: 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲?

AI is transforming technology. Disruption is transforming business. But leadership determines how organizations respond.

The leadership challenge is no longer simply:
“How do we adopt AI?”

It is:
“How do we lead people, organizations and AI together—with judgment, trust, accountability and resilience?”

That is why the Centre for Executive Education (CEE) has developed 6 Executive Masterclasses under one integrated Future-Ready Leadership™ architecture:

🔹 Leading Human–AI Organizations
Applying the SHAPER AI Leadership™ Model

🔹 Leadership in Turbulence™
Leading Through Continuous Disruption & AI-Accelerated Change

🔹 Critical Thinking & Executive Judgment
Making Better Decisions in an AI-Augmented World

🔹 ELEVATE Cognitive Readiness™
Strengthening Executive Thinking for Complexity, Uncertainty & AI

🔹 High-Performance Human–AI Teams
Building Collaborative, Adaptive & Resilient Teams

🔹 Crisis Leadership & Organizational Resilience
Leading Before, During & Beyond Crisis

Together, they address six critical leadership capabilities:
AI Leadership → Turbulence → Executive Judgment → Cognitive Readiness → Human–AI Teams → Resilience

Technology may accelerate what organizations can do. Leadership determines what they should do—and how responsibly they do it.

Is your leadership team ready for the Age of AI?

CEE can tailor these Masterclasses for CEOs, Boards, C-suite executives, CHROs and leadership teams through executive programs, Board briefings and customized corporate learning journeys.

📩 Enquire: [email protected]
📱 WhatsApp: +65 9002 3848

🌐 Explore: cee-global.com/solutions/executive-development

Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global) Singapore
Developing Future-Ready Leaders for the Age of AI
In strategic partnership with Disruptive Leadership Institute (DLI), New York

09/25/2026

AI Is Scaling Faster Than Leadership

AI adoption is accelerating—but are our leaders developing at the same pace?

The 2026 Global Leadership Study by Harvard Business Impact points to a critical leadership readiness gap.

The challenge is no longer simply AI literacy.

It is developing leaders who can exercise judgment, adaptability, critical thinking, ethical discernment, and accountability when humans and AI increasingly work together.

This raises a bigger question for CEOs, CHROs, CIOs and CLOs:
Are we developing AI users—or AI-enabled leaders?

In the latest edition of Leadership in Turbulence™, I explore why executive development must evolve:
Competencies → Capabilities → Capacity → Institutional Capability

And why future-ready leadership requires five forms of intelligence:
Human + Strategic + AI + Adaptive + Ethical & Responsible Intelligence

I also introduce five questions every executive team should be asking about leadership readiness in a VUCAD, Human–AI workplace.

👉 Read the complete article in the latest edition of Leadership in Turbulence™ at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-readiness-gap-ai-scaling-faster-than-prof-sattar-bawany-y9sjc

The future is not Human versus AI.

It is Human + AI.

Prof Sattar Bawany
C-Suite Master Executive Coach | Board Advisor | Author
Disruptive Leadership Institute LLC, New York, NY (DLI)
Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global) Singapore

🌐https://cee-global.com | 🌐https://www.disruptiveleadership.institute
✉️ [email protected] | 📱 WhatsApp: +65 9002 3848

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-readiness-gap-ai-scaling-faster-than-prof-sattar-bawany-y9sjc

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09/23/2026

🚀 𝐒𝐢𝐱 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐈.

AI is transforming technology.
Disruption is transforming business.
Leadership determines how organizations respond.

For CEOs, Boards and executive teams, the question is no longer simply:

“How do we adopt AI?”

It is:

“How do we lead people, organizations and AI together—with judgment, trust, accountability and resilience?”

The Centre for Executive Education (CEE) has developed the Future-Ready Leadership™ Executive Masterclass Series—six complementary masterclasses designed to equip leaders for an AI-accelerated and continuously disrupted world.

🔹 1. Leading Human–AI Organizations Masterclass
Applying the SHAPER AI Leadership™ Model

🔹 2. Leadership in Turbulence™ Masterclass
Leading Through Continuous Disruption and AI-Accelerated Change

🔹 3. Critical Thinking & Executive Judgment Masterclass
Making Better Decisions in an AI-Augmented World

🔹 4. ELEVATE Cognitive Readiness™ Masterclass
Strengthening Executive Thinking for Complexity, Uncertainty and AI

🔹 5. High-Performance Human–AI Teams Masterclass
Building Collaborative, Adaptive and Resilient Teams

🔹 6. Crisis Leadership & Organizational Resilience Masterclass
Leading Before, During and Beyond Crisis

🔷 ONE INTEGRATED LEADERSHIP ARCHITECTURE

AI Leadership → Turbulence → Executive Judgment → Cognitive Readiness → Human–AI Teams → Crisis & Resilience

These are not six disconnected courses. Together, they address the critical leadership capabilities required to navigate the Age of AI.

Technology may accelerate what organizations can do. Leadership determines what they should do—and how responsibly they do it.

CEE works with Boards, CEOs, C-suite executives, CHROs and executive teams through executive masterclasses, Board briefings, immersive programs and customized leadership journeys.

Is your leadership system ready for the Age of AI?

📩 [email protected]
📱 WhatsApp: +65 9002 3848

🔗 Explore the Executive Masterclasses:
https://cee-global.com/solutions/executive-development

Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global) Singapore
Developing Future-Ready Leaders for the Age of AI
In strategic partnership with Disruptive Leadership Institute LLC, New York, NY (DLI)

09/21/2026

🤖 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞, 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐄𝐎’𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-ai-becomes-colleague-what-ceos-role-humanai-prof-sattar-bawany-5ojoc

Imagine an AI agent that can analyse the data, challenge your assumptions, recommend the strategy—and increasingly execute the decision.

Here is the question I believe every CEO should be asking:
What exactly should remain uniquely human about my role as CEO?

The answer is not simply “keep a human in the loop.”

In a Human–AI Organization, leaders must create clarity about where intelligence, authority and accountability reside.

AI can analyse.
AI can recommend.
AI can execute.

But leadership must continue to provide purpose, judgment, trust and accountability.

The future-ready CEO is therefore not simply the leader who adopts the most AI.

It is the leader who knows where AI should lead, where humans must lead, and where humans and AI should lead together.

In my latest Ask Your Master Coach newsletter, I explore this CEO coaching challenge—and how the SHAPER AI Leadership Model™ and Future-Ready Leadership™ Book Series provide a practical leadership architecture for navigating this transition.

👉 Read the full article: When AI Becomes a Colleague: What Is the CEO’s Role in a Human–AI Organization? at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-ai-becomes-colleague-what-ceos-role-humanai-prof-sattar-bawany-5ojoc

What would you keep uniquely human in the CEO role; even in an AI-driven enterprise?

Prof Sattar Bawany
C-Suite Master Executive Coach | Board Advisor | Author
Disruptive Leadership Institute LLC, New York, NY (DLI)
Centre for Executive Education (CEE Global) Singapore
🌐https://cee-global.com | 🌐https://www.disruptiveleadership.institute
✉️ [email protected] | 📱 WhatsApp: +65 9002 3848

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