The Capacity Advantage: How Leaders and Teams Absorb More Without Breaking
In person. Off the record. With executives carrying the same load.
Location: NYC
Thursday, October, 15th, 2026
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
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We don't rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the level of our systems.
Every organization is asking people to absorb more. Most expect them to work out how on their own. Very few invest in actually expanding their capacity.
So people absorb the load at the expense of their personal lives. Some reach for AI and know they're only scratching the surface, because nobody has time to slow down and rethink how the work runs.
Capacity expands at the organizational level or not at all. That's the difference between surviving a quarter and growing through one.
Session Leaders
Robert Haddow Beaven
Partner, changeforce
Robert has a 20+ year track record building leadership capacity, advising executives, developing teams and helping complex organizations strengthen trust, culture, and performance.
Mica Vaipan
VP Product, Tech & AI, changeforce
Mica brings 15+ years of professional experience spanning entrepreneurship, executive coaching and leadership development, M&A, product development and AI. As the Founder of RunYourself, she has developed a scalable program backed by an AI-powered platform that enables leaders and managers to strengthen their coaching skills so they can scale themselves. As VP of Product and AI at changeforce, her work sits at the intersection of behavioral change, organizational performance and AI.
Featured panelists announced soon.
What This Live Session Covers
A 2-hour working session: a candid panel, an open room, then drinks and bites. Three practical questions:
Where capacity breaks at the leader and manager level
Most leaders were promoted for personal execution excellence and default to it under pressure. We look at how organizations change these limiting behavior patterns.
Getting teams to use AI to scale capacity
The hard part of AI adoption is rarely the technology. It's the human barriers: the fear factor, helping people feel the practical benefit, and making space to learn while the work keeps moving.
The practices that expand capacity
Fewer and better meetings. Clear prioritization. Explicit expectations. The operational habits that make room instead of consuming it.
Who This Is For
Senior leaders responsible for how their organizations perform when the pressure rises:
Executives leading through restructuring, integration, or rapid growth, where demands on people are outpacing the systems supporting them.
COOs & Business Unit Leaders
Carrying operational targets with fewer management layers.
CHROs & Chief People Officers, Head of L&D
Rebuilding leadership capability for flatter structures.
Leaders from these organizations have joined our past events:
Event Overview
5:30 - 6:00 PM
Arrival & Drinks
6:00 - 6:10 PM
Welcome & Core Strategic Framing
6:10 - 6:35 PM
Panel Discussion
6:35 - 7:10 PM
Facilitated Peer Conversation & Breakouts
7:10 - 7:30 PM
Group Insights & Closing Reflections
7:30 - 8:30 PM
Drinks & Networking
Why This Session, Why Now
You will spend the evening with practitioners who design behavioral performance architectures for organizations at critical junctures, alongside peers navigating the exact same capacity limits inside their own firms.
The conversation is strictly off the record to enable absolute candor. What gets discussed in a room like this is fundamentally different from what gets presented on a public stage.
We are intentionally limiting participation to 50 leaders to create a more candid, high-value working session.
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