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AI, as we see it at Neol, holds immense potential to enhance the experiences of knowledge workers and organizations alike. This year, we’ve been working hard to develop new ways of utilising AI within our new Hub, which captures Neol’s nature as both a network and a collaboration platform. And we agree with Neol Creative Leader Ehab Bandar that achieving AI’s full potential for creatives and other knowledge workers “will require collaboration like we’ve never seen before.” We’re excited to share his thoughts on "AI and the UX Design Reckoning" where he also notes, “The next phase of creativity is one that will be shaped by how well we humanize AI to solve intractable problems, simplify our lives, while also enriching it. This is not solely a technology problem, or a design problem, or a business problem." Read more from Ehab, here ↘: https://lnkd.in/dXvnG24h 

Our friends over at kyu Collective recently hosted a series of incredible sessions on sustainability and climate for London Climate Action Week. 🌍 We had a great time connecting with so many brilliant minds dedicated to addressing one of humanity's most pressing and complex challenges. Thank you to every single person putting in the hard work! 💪

New on the Neol blog! 🔖 Creative Leader Fanny Eliaers shares her story on escaping the silos of traditional leadership models, moving towards life-affirming economies and regenerative leadership practices, and how she created a path to put it all into practice through "The Flock". 🕊 "Our ideas of leadership – what it is or isn’t, what it could and should be – have been in a state of flux for some time now. From conversations around burnout to holistic workplace practices, the amount of attention we pay to what many have deemed a crisis of leadership far outstrips the amount of airtime we give to actually creating new forms of it." 🔗 Read Fanny's story here: https://lnkd.in/dGhePtDA

How do we design, nurture and regenerate our networks and communities? Last month, a group of Neol Creative Leaders came together in Tangier for the House of Beautiful Business’s "Between the Two of Us" event where we held an experiential event designed to explore this question. Our team, comprising Alice Katter, Fanny Eliaers, Gabriela Néspoli, Karimah Hudda, and Kriss Taylor facilitated a session entitled "A Collective Regeneration within Liminal Space." ✨ We're excited to share our experience and learnings with you below, as well as announce a new partnership with the House of Beautiful Business. We'll have more to share in the coming days, but for now, please check out the reflections shared by our Creative Leaders on their time in Tangier, here ↘ https://lnkd.in/dCkhN5ey

The recent release of the European Union's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act makes Neol Community Member Paul Hamilton's question on the use of GenAI in organizations even more interesting. Check out Paul's poll below - we'd love to know how organizations you're working with are approaching GenAI. 📊 And have a look at the EU AI Act here: https://lnkd.in/d3933wu8

New Horizons at IDSA NYC is coming up tomorrow, May 16th - and there's still time to grab tickets if you haven't already! 🎫

Earlier this year Neol Creative Leader Karimah Hudda led a community wide event at Neol, designed around the theme of Regenerative Resonance. Through her guidance, our community explored ways to align their purpose more deeply with nature and humanity, fostering a sense of connection and purpose. More recently, Karimah joined us for “Between the Two of Us” with the House of Beautiful Business, where she co-led a session on collective regeneration. In Karimah’s words: “The deeper and longer we stay in this Regenerative Resonance, the more we remember. The more we remember, the more intuitively we shift our ways of living, leading, livelihood and legacy to ensure that there is plenty for all of us, in this generation, as well as for all in generations to come.” 🌎 Read more on Regenerative Resonance from Karimah below, and be sure to connect with her via illumine.earth! 🌱 https://lnkd.in/ddxJHkwS

📣 Calling all creatives! 📣 A quick reminder to join our Head of Business Development David Beath, alongside Robert Fabricant, Katrina Alcorn, Maria Giudice, and Francois Nguyen at their panel for IDSA NYC, this Thursday, May 16th, hosted by Jane Chudinov. This event promises to be much more than a standard panel discussion —expect personal stories and deep dives into the real professional challenges they’ve faced. If you’re keen to discuss the next wave of design entrepreneurship and purpose-led creative practices, grab your tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gmkdxQBB

If you're in New York this week, be sure to see David Beath for his talk at IDSA NYC on the following: 🌐 How to navigate the shifting landscape around design during these uncertain times 📣 New ways to understand and communicate the value of design in the new context of AI 🤝 Emerging collaboration paradigms for creative practice 〰 The next wave of design entrepreneurship and purpose-led practice 🎟 Grab your tickets here! https://lnkd.in/gmkdxQBB

"A re-generative economy will require us to become more comfortable and accepting of designing for things to end . . . How should we develop comfort and acceptance with the end of life?" Creating a truly 'Life-Centered Economy' means planning for and embracing endings, as beautifully said by Neol Creative Leader Kriss Taylor, who joined us recently in Tangier for "Between the Two of Us" with the House of Beautiful Business. In our journey towards a regenerative economy, one of the critical shifts needed is in our approach to design — particularly, designing with the end in mind. Sustainable futures are built on cycles that allow for renewal and rebirth. This means that we need to become comfortable with the idea that every product, service, and initiative has a lifecycle that can and maybe sometimes should gracefully conclude, or at minimum, be more adaptable to change. So, how do we develop this comfort with endings? It begins with understanding the life cycles of what we create and embedding sustainability into the design phase. As Kriss says, these are questions to continue exploring. In thinking of strategies to help make 'endings' a more integrated part of our economic systems, we're also looking to his thoughts on more imaginative futures and working with complexity. Check out his notes below: ↘