Shared future-state markers
Observable indicators of what the organization must be able to accomplish three to five years from now.
Blueprint outputThe New Leadership Blueprint Lab
AI changed what is possible. Now leaders must redesign how work gets done.
A facilitated executive lab for redesigning the workflows, capabilities, decision rights, incentives, governance, skills, trust, and organizational systems your organization needs next.
90-minute or half-day formatsA facilitated executive decision lab using purpose-built card decksCustomized around a real organizational workflow
Tangible outcomes
Your team leaves with more than ideas.
The work is captured as four connected outputs, ready for an executive owner and a next decision.
One redesigned workflow
A real process reconsidered through Remove, Automate, Augment, Invent, and the PLOT integrity check.
Blueprint outputOne future capability
A strategic organizational capability and the foundations required to begin building it.
Blueprint outputOne 90-day executive decision
A consequential next move, assigned to a named owner and aligned by the leadership team.
Blueprint outputAn anonymized engagement example
What can happen in the room
A global organization used the New Leadership Blueprint Lab to redesign a critical HR workflow. The team identified opportunities to automate or augment up to 40% of its activities and redirect the resulting capacity toward customer growth. The most consequential breakthrough was recognizing that the redesigned workflow required a role that did not yet exist. Leaders used the Lab to define and create that new role, purpose-built for an AI-enabled way of working.
of workflow activities identified for automation or augmentation
selected as the destination for released capacity
created to support the AI-enabled workflow
What happens inside the Lab
Purpose-built cards turn complexity into visible choices.
The experience is structured and facilitated—not open-ended play. The card decks give leaders a shared language for making trade-offs, testing assumptions, and aligning around action.
Whose experience and consequences must shape the design?
What should we remove, automate, augment, or invent?
What must the organization begin building now?
What breaks first when the blueprint meets pressure?
The working method
Seven decisions. One integrated blueprint.
Each stage keeps the conversation anchored to a leadership decision, a practical question, and a tangible output.
01 / 07
Leadership decision
Define the skyline
Set the future-state markers that will guide the redesign.
Question examined
Three to five years from now, what must the organization enable that it cannot reliably enable today?
Output producedShared future-state markers
Workflow integrity check
PLOT is the building code.
A redesigned workflow is only as strong as the human system around it. Select each element to reveal the structural risk.
Who has the authority to make decisions and take action?
Without clear power, decisions funnel upward and the people closest to the work lose agency.
The capacity dividend
Capability creates possibility. Leadership gives it a destination.
If AI releases capacity, leaders must decide whether it becomes more pressure or greater human possibility.
Reinvest in
Customer value
Move time toward the work customers can see and value.
The Lab makes the trade-off visible and actionable.Two engagement formats
Choose the depth your decision requires.
Both formats center on real work and executive decisions. The difference is how deeply the team can examine the organizational system around the workflow.
A focused leadership working session
Designed to move one consequential workflow from broad concern to a clear executive choice.
- Built around one consequential workflow
- Uses purpose-built card decks to surface the most important choices
- Aligns the team around one 90-day executive decision
A deeper workflow-redesign experience
Provides the space to examine the organizational system around the workflow and develop a more complete blueprint.
- Includes greater stakeholder and scenario analysis
- Examines capabilities, incentives, governance, decision rights, skills, and trust
- Stress-tests the proposed workflow and its assumptions
- Produces a more developed blueprint and 90-day action plan
Recommended group size5–30 participants; alternatives considered during scoping
Delivery optionsBest in person; adapted to the team, location, and engagement design
PreparationSponsor conversation + selected workflow
CustomizationBuilt around your workflow and decision context
Who the Lab is for
Built for leaders who own the consequences.
Executive leadership teams
Align around where AI should change the operating model and what the organization must build next.
Functional leaders
Redesign a consequential workflow with the people who own its business and human outcomes.
HR and talent leaders
Reconsider roles, skills, incentives, performance, and how judgment develops.
Transformation teams
Move from pilots and activity to visible operating-model decisions.
Leadership offsites
Use the room to make and assign a real decision, then move it forward.
Facilitators
Organizational expertise for consequential decisions.
Kelly and Kim guide senior teams through the work with rigor, candor, and attention to both business outcomes and the human system.
Organizational psychologist · AI and future-of-work researcher
Dr. Kelly Monahan
Kelly is the former Director of Future of Work at Meta and former Managing Director of Upwork’s Future of Work Research Institute. She is the author of Reclaim the Plot: How Leaders Rewrite the Story When AI Rewrites Work, forthcoming from Wiley on September 29, 2026.
Published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review
Organizational psychologist · Executive facilitator and coach
Kim Fazio
Kim brings expertise in organizational psychology, behavioral science, executive facilitation, and coaching. She helps leadership teams surface the dynamics beneath a decision and translate insight into practical movement.
Co-founder, Beyond the Desk
Frequently asked questions
What leaders ask before the Lab.
01Who should participate?+
The Lab is designed for the leaders who own the workflow, its business outcomes, and the human consequences of changing it. The final participant group is confirmed during scoping.
02How is the workflow selected?+
We select one consequential workflow that is important enough to matter, specific enough to examine, and ready for an executive decision. Beyond the Desk helps the sponsor test the choice before the session.
03How customized is the Lab?+
Each Lab is shaped around your workflow, strategic context, decision constraints, and desired outcome. The underlying method stays consistent; the working materials and facilitation focus do not.
04Should we choose 90 minutes or a half day?+
Choose 90 minutes when the workflow is well defined and the priority is focused alignment. Choose a half day when the team needs deeper stakeholder analysis, organizational-system design, scenario testing, and a more developed action plan.
05Can the Lab be delivered in person or virtually?+
The Lab format works best in person, but delivery options depend on the team, location, and engagement design.
06What preparation is required?+
A short sponsor conversation and a clearly selected workflow are the essential starting points. Any additional preparation is confirmed during scoping.
07What happens after the session?+
The team leaves with the Lab outputs and a 90-day decision or action plan. Any follow-on advisory or implementation support is scoped separately.
08Is this AI training?+
No. The Lab is an executive work-redesign and decision experience. It is not software training or prompt training.
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