The Identity Table
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The Identity Table.

In partnership with Jonathan Mithran Sunderraj

A dialogue for senior leaders. Eight dimensions of identity, one a month, ninety minutes each. The conversation most rooms skip.

Doors open 12:00 for pizza.

Wednesday 14 October 2026, 12:15 – 13:45, HoST, Luxembourg. Nine seats. €45 per session, or €310 for the season of eight. VAT included.

October 14 — Instinct & Judgment

What does your body know that your mind keeps overriding?

And in the room you lead: when did you last trust a business instinct before seeking external validation?

There was a time you decided and moved. You trusted a read you had spent twenty or thirty years building. Now there is a pause before the call, and something in you checks with something outside you before you commit.

Your body usually knows first. The tightness about a hire you talked yourself into. The flatness about a deal that looked right on paper. Most senior leaders can name a time they overrode that and paid for it. Far fewer can name the last time they trusted it without looking for a second opinion.

This is the first of eight. Each month we take one dimension of identity and work it in the company of eight other people carrying decisions as real as yours. We start here because instinct is the first thing to go when the machine is always available, and because it is the most concrete place to begin. No frameworks. No takeaways. One question, ninety minutes, and everyone answers.

The Identity Compass

Eight dimensions. Eight sessions. October to May.

Each dimension is worked twice. Once as a question about you, and once as a question about the room you lead. The pair is the point, because what you cannot answer about yourself tends to show up in what your organisation cannot decide.

AI is what makes this urgent rather than interesting. As the machine absorbs more of what leadership used to mean, the things it cannot hold become the things worth most: your judgment, your values, the thought that could only have come from you. Each session asks what that dimension is worth now that the cognitive work is no longer scarce.

Each session stands alone. No prior attendance required.

  • Wed 14 October 2026 — Instinct & Judgment
    What does your body know that your mind keeps overriding?
    When did you last trust a business instinct before seeking external validation?
  • Wed 11 November 2026 — Mind & Original Thought
    What do you think or create that could not have come from anyone else?
    Which decisions come from genuine wisdom — and which have you quietly delegated to AI?
  • Wed 9 December 2026 — The Story You Tell
    What story about yourself is running on repeat — and is it still true?
    What story about your business has become a constraint rather than a compass?
  • Wed 13 January 2027 — Purpose & Calling
    What is asking to be expressed through your one unrepeatable life?
    Is your business serving your purpose — or consuming it?
  • Wed 10 February 2027 — The Pattern You Repeat
    What part of yourself are you most reluctant to bring into the room?
    What leadership pattern keeps showing up that you have not fully owned?
  • Wed 10 March 2027 — Who Knows You
    Who do you become in the presence of those who truly know you?
    Who in your ecosystem genuinely knows you — and do you let them?
  • Wed 14 April 2027 — Values & Beliefs
    What do you stand for that no algorithm could ever hold?
    Where are your business decisions misaligned with what you say you stand for?
  • Wed 12 May 2027 — Essence
    Who are you beneath every role, title and achievement?
    What is the soul of your organisation — and does it still match yours?

Every second Wednesday of the month, lunchtime. Pizza at the table.

AI is not a technical conversation. It's a human conversation.

Every leader is being asked to make AI decisions right now:

  • What to adopt
  • What to automate
  • What to integrate
  • What to push back on
  • What to bet the next five years on

Most are answering the technical question first:

  • What can it do
  • What does it cost
  • Which vendor
  • Which roadmap

Then the answers don't hold. The strategy shifts every quarter. The team is exhausted. The company starts to look like something they didn't sign up to build.

The technical question never holds. Not because the answers are wrong, because the question is downstream.

Before any tool, there's a human conversation underneath. Who are we now. Who do we want to become. What do we stand for, no matter what gets automated next.

That conversation isn't optional anymore. It's the only foundation strong enough to make AI decisions on.

Leaders who know who they are make sharper decisions about what AI should and shouldn't do for them. The ones who don't, drift.

Why this dialogue

You can't have the human conversation alone.

Not because it's too hard. Because it's too easy to skip when no one's sitting across from you. The technical conversation is loud:

  • The board wants the strategy
  • The team wants the roadmap
  • The vendor wants the contract

The human conversation gets postponed quarter after quarter, and then one Monday the leader looks up and the company has been making AI decisions for two years without anyone asking what it stands for.

That's how good companies become unrecognizable to the people who built them.

The human conversation needs three things most settings don't offer:

  1. Time, which the calendar resists.
  2. Honest peers, which the org chart prevents.
  3. A structure that holds the question open long enough for the foundation to surface.

Your core values. What you'll defend no matter what the technology can do.

The Identity Table is the dialogue for that. Every second Wednesday, nine leaders, ninety minutes over lunch. You speak for two or three minutes when it's your turn. You listen the rest of the time. You leave knowing a little more about what you're standing on, which means you make sharper AI decisions on Monday morning.

That's it. That's the room.

Two facilitators, one method

One of us names the question. The other gets you to the answer.

Marco Houwen

Marco Houwen

Frames the business and leadership stakes, poses the question, draws out where it lands on the decisions on your desk. Creator of the Growth Identity Method.

Jonathan Mithran Sunderraj

Jonathan Mithran Sunderraj

Holds the depth beneath the words and leads brief experiential inquiry to reach knowing that discussion alone cannot. Gentle, professionally framed, entirely voluntary.

Not an intellectual track with a practice attached. Two halves of one method.

How it runs

Cadence
Every second Wednesday of the month, lunchtime. October to May.
Time
12:15 to 13:45. Lunch served on arrival.
Size
Nine seats. One or two new each month, returning core around them.
Format
  • ArrivalDoors open for pizza and arrival — no agenda. A brief opening sets the business context for this month's dimension, with a grounding practice to arrive below the analytical register.
  • The questionThe question is read once, followed by two minutes of silence. First round — everyone answers, two minutes each, no interruption, no advice. A brief experiential inquiry follows. Voluntary.
  • The closeSecond round — what changed. Everyone speaks again. One question each to carry into the month. Close — one word each. How you are leaving versus how you arrived.
Cost
Nine seats. €45 per session, or €310 for the season of eight. Pizza included. VAT included. By application.
Facilitators
Marco Houwen and Jonathan Mithran Sunderraj.

The five rules of the room

The culture, stated up front:

  • 1.Confidentiality. What's said here stays here.
  • 2.No advice unless invited. Questions over recommendations.
  • 3.Speak from your own experience. First person, not theory.
  • 4.Silence is welcome. Not every minute needs filling.
  • 5.No phones, no notes. The conversation is the work, not the content.

Who this is for, and who it isn't

It's for you if:

  • You decide things other people live with
  • You are feeling the shift AI is putting on your role
  • You want a dialogue that does not race to the answer
  • You are willing to be asked the same question as everyone else, and answer it honestly

It isn't for you if you're looking for:

  • A deck or framework to take away
  • A tool stack or vendor pitch
  • A networking room or a takeaway document
  • A seat you can sit in quietly

Everyone answers. That is the whole design, and it is why the room is nine and not ninety. If that sounds like the wrong room for you, it probably is.

Format and investment

Frequency
Monthly, second Wednesday, lunchtime. October 2026 to May 2027.
Duration
Ninety minutes
Group size
Nine seats
Location
HoST — House of Startups, Luxembourg
Investment
€45 per session, or €310 for the season of eight. Pizza included. VAT included.
Entry
A short application. Three questions. This protects the room without paywalling entry.
Format
Each session stands alone. Come to one, or take the season.

Take a seat

Eight dimensions is a portrait, not a series of lunches. The work compounds. What you name in October is what you are still turning over in May, and the room knows you by the third session in a way it cannot by the first.

One seat, held for you across all eight. €310 for the season, against €45 paying as you go. Pizza included, every time.

Nine seats. The season fills before the individual sessions do.

The season

Eight sessions, October to May

€310

One session

Wednesday 14 October, Instinct & Judgment

€45

Each session stands alone. Starting in the middle is fine. Nine seats either way, by application.

Marco works one-to-one with leaders on identity-driven AI integration. That's a separate conversation, not part of the dialogue. If you want it, write directly: marco@zentrapreneur.com.