Masterclass: The Alignment Advantage

Artificial Intelligence is making information easier to access, analysis cheaper, and execution faster. Yet many organizations continue to struggle with a very human challenge: getting people aligned around what matters most.

As information multiplies and change accelerates, leadership teams face more perspectives, more priorities, and more complexity than ever before. Conversations keep circling back, decisions lose momentum, and cross-functional initiatives stall — not because people lack capability or commitment, but because team alignment is becoming harder to achieve.

Why do strategies lose momentum after an enthusiastic kick-off? Why do important decisions keep resurfacing? And why do initiatives move more slowly than expected, even when everyone seems to agree on the destination?

This interactive Leadership Lab brings together Andreea Băloi, AI Literacy & Strategy Consultant, and Alina Bălan, Collaboration Expert and Founder of KA-BOM, to explore one increasingly important leadership capability: creating shared understanding that turns into coordinated action.

Bringing complementary perspectives on AI adoption, leadership and collaboration, Andreea and Alina will look beyond technology itself to explore what leaders need to do differently as complexity increases and AI reshapes the way organizations work.

ADURING THE LEADERSHIP LAB, PARTICIPANTS WILL EXPLORE

• What AI is changing — and what it isn’t
• Why alignment becomes harder as complexity grows
• The hidden patterns that slow down collaboration and execution
• How shared understanding influences the quality and speed of decisions
• How leaders can create the conditions for teams to move forward together in an AI-driven world

A HANDS-ON ALIGNMENT AUDIT

This is not just a conversation about alignment. Through an interactive Alignment Audit, participants will examine their own organizations, identify where alignment tends to break down, and uncover the patterns that most often slow progress.

APARTICIPANTS WILL LEAVE WITH:

• A deeper understanding of the leadership challenges emerging in the age of AI
• A practical framework for recognizing alignment gaps in their own organizations
• A clearer perspective on what prevents teams from turning decisions into action
• A fresh understanding of why the quality of our decisions depends on the quality of our conversations

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Andreea Băloi is the founder of KA-BOM, an ecosystem of specialists helping leadership teams navigate complexity, create alignment, and turn conversations into decisions and decisions into action. She is also President of IAF Romania and a BISM EMBA alumna.

She brings 15+ years of experience in communications, branding, advertising and business development, alongside 8 years of designing and facilitating collaborative processes for organizations including Google, HP, ING, Carrefour, BCR, Raiffeisen Bank, Deloitte and EY.

Discover more about KA-BOM: ka-bom.com/about

Alina Bălan is an AI Literacy & Strategy Consultant helping business leaders and teams build the judgment and confidence to adopt AI responsibly. Drawing on 20 years of experience at the intersection of business, technology and education, she approaches AI adoption by looking at people, processes and tools together — not technology in isolation.

Her work is grounded in a simple principle: literacy and alignment have to come before execution.

AGENDA

• 17:30 – 18:00 Networking & Welcome
• 18:00 – 20:00 Leadership Lab

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Executives and senior leaders navigating AI-driven transformation
• Managers and Team Leads working across teams and functions
• HR, People & Culture and Learning & Development professionals
• Transformation, Strategy and Innovation leaders
• Professionals responsible for turning strategic decisions into coordinated action

The Alignment Advantage is for leaders who recognize that, as AI makes execution faster, competitive advantage will increasingly depend on something deeply human: our ability to understand one another, make sense of complexity together, and move in the same direction.