Beyond Individual Skills: Building Collective Leadership Capability

Organizations have traditionally focused leadership development on building individual skills. In today’s fast-changing, AI-driven environment, competitive advantage increasingly depends on how effectively organizations learn, decide, and adapt collectively.

In this roundtable discussion, L&D thought leaders Dr. Nigel Paine, Jay Moore, and Bjorn Billhardt will explore why leading organizations are shifting toward strengthening the collective organizational brain. This includes shared judgment, decision-making capability, and collaboration that drive performance.

The discussion will examine how experiential learning, simulations, and AI-enabled practice help organizations move beyond knowledge transfer toward scalable capability building. Drawing on decades of leadership development experience, real-world examples and lessons from working directly with global organizations, the panel will explore how immersive, practice-based learning helps leaders and teams strengthen business judgment, improve cross-functional collaboration, and accelerate organizational learning.

 Key Takeaways:

• Understand why organizational performance increasingly relies on collective intelligence and shared decision-making rather than individual skill development alone.

• Evaluate how experiential learning, simulations, and AI-enabled practice can accelerate leadership development while strengthening peer learning.

• Identify practical strategies for designing leadership development ecosystems that build judgment, collaboration, and adaptability across teams.