The Identity Table.
A monthly dialogue on identity, intention, and the AI question that matters most.
Not a workshop. Not a mastermind. Not networking. A room.
Wednesday 27 May 2026, 12:15 – 13:45, Luxembourg. Nine seats. €15 covers the pizza.
Every leader is asking the wrong AI question.
What can it do for us. What should we automate. What's our strategy. What stack do we pick.
These are the questions every boardroom is having. They're not wrong. They're just downstream.
Because the most important AI question isn't what can AI do?
It's who are you when you use it?
The leaders who'll integrate AI well aren't the ones with the best stack. They're the ones who know themselves well enough to use the tools without being used by them. Who can tell the difference between augmentation that makes them sharper and automation that makes them smaller. Who choose, instead of drift.
That clarity doesn't come from a deck. It comes from a question, sat with, in the right company.
Why this dialogue
You can't think your way to identity clarity alone. Not because the work is too hard. Because the work is too easy to avoid when no one's sitting across from you.
Boards want answers. Teams want direction. Peers want tool comparisons. There's nothing wrong with any of that. None of it gives you what you need to integrate AI as a leader instead of just as an operator.
That work needs three things most settings don't offer. Time, which the calendar resists. Honest peers, which the org chart prevents. And a structure that holds the question open long enough for something real to surface.
The Identity Table is the dialogue for that. Once a month, 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 with a question you didn't have when you arrived, and a sharper sense of who's making the AI decisions you're about to make.
That's it. That's the room.
How it runs
- Cadence
- Every fourth Wednesday of the month.
- Time
- 12:15 to 13:45. Lunch served on arrival.
- Size
- Seven to nine seats. One or two new each month, returning core around them.
- Format
- A short framing of the month's question. Eight minutes. No slides. A peer round, each person responds, two or three minutes, no interruptions. Open dialogue. A closing line, one sentence each.
- Cost
- €15, covers the pizza. By application.
- Facilitator
- Marco Houwen.
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. The room is the work. Not the takeaway. Not the LinkedIn post.
May 27, the first question
Who are you when you use it?
Bring one specific way you've been using AI in the last month that you wouldn't say out loud at work. The shortcut you took. The judgement you delegated. The decision you made faster than you should have. That's the entry point. What it tells you about who you're becoming as a leader, that's the room.
Who this is for, and who it isn't
It's for you if you've built or led something significant, you're feeling the shift, and you want a dialogue that doesn't race to the answer.
It isn't for you if you're looking for a deck, a tool stack, a vendor pitch, or a takeaway document. You won't get one. That's not a complaint about you. It's just not what this is.
Nine seats. May 27.
Apply below. I review every application personally. You'll hear back within 48 hours.
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.