🧘 AI ANXIETY WORKSHOP

Your leadership team is afraid of AI.
That's the real problem.

Before your organization can adopt AI, your leaders need to stop fearing it. This is not a technology workshop. It's a psychological intervention.

The Insight

Mo Gawdat spent years at Google X watching the smartest people in the world build AI. Then he watched the smartest leaders in the Gulf freeze when asked to adopt it.

The problem isn't technical literacy. It's fear. Fear of being replaced. Fear of making the wrong bet. Fear of looking foolish in front of the board. Fear of the unknown wrapped in a language they don't speak.

“Brilliant people don't freeze because they're stupid. They freeze because they're smart enough to see the risk — but haven't been given a framework to process it.”

— Mo Gawdat

Workshop Format

A carefully designed half-day experience for senior leaders

MORNING SESSION

Understanding the Fear (2 hours)

  • •The neuroscience of technology anxiety
  • •Why your brain treats AI like a physical threat
  • •Individual fear mapping exercise
  • •Group vulnerability session (Chatham House rules)
AFTERNOON SESSION

Reframing the Opportunity (2 hours)

  • •From threat to tool: cognitive reframing
  • •The 3 decisions that actually matter
  • •Personal AI action commitment
  • •Leadership alignment ceremony
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Arabic Coffee Break

Between sessions — informal conversation continues over traditional Gulf hospitality

Duration

Half Day (4 hrs)

Participants

8-20 C-Suite

Facilitated By

Mo Gawdat

Format

In-Person Only

WAITLIST ONLY

SAR 200,000

per workshop

Maximum 20 participants · In-person only · Gulf locations

“Not a keynote. A psychological recalibration.”

Join the Waitlist

Limited availability. We'll reach out to schedule when a slot opens.

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Facilitated by Mo Gawdat

Former Chief Business Officer, Google X. Author of "Scary Smart." Mo doesn't teach AI — he helps leaders understand their relationship with it.

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