I recently facilitated a mastermind session with a senior leadership team

A format designed to help leaders navigate complex dilemmas in a world defined by rapid change, market disruptions, and AI reshaping the rules overnight.

The core guideline: no giving solutions.

Instead, leaders listen deeply, reflect, ask questions, and expand perspectives.

And the results are powerful.

In our last session, one executive shared a dilemma he’d been struggling with for over a year.

Within a space of openness and not-knowing, new angles emerged, insights surfaced, and a clear, creative solution appeared – one he hadn’t considered before.

He left the room and implemented the change that same day.

This isn’t magic,  it’s research-backed.

MIT studies show that collective intelligence reaches its highest levels when groups avoid jumping to solutions and instead focus on curiosity, listening, and broadening viewpoints.

In a business reality that shifts faster than we can process

Where a competitor can launch a similar product the day before our release, leaders need spaces where they can pause, hold uncertainty, and think together.

That’s where clarity, resilience, and innovation are born.