AI is changing how work gets done — quickly.

From copilots and automation to predictive planning and content generation, teams are being offered unprecedented speed and leverage. The risk isn’t that AI replaces people. The risk is that organisations double down on efficiency and accidentally hollow out the very things that make teams effective.

This talk challenges a subtle but dangerous assumption: that better tools automatically create better outcomes.

Drawing on years of coaching teams and leaders inside complex organisations, Geoff explores what agility really means when machines can think faster than we can. He reframes agility away from speed, output, and optimisation — and back towards learning, decision quality, and human responsibility.

This is not a talk about how to “use AI better”.

It’s a talk about how to lead, collaborate, and build teams that stay effective because AI is in the room — not in spite of it.

Practical, reflective, and grounded in real organisational dynamics, this session helps teams avoid becoming faster machines and instead become better systems for thinking, adapting, and acting together.