The Identity Table.
A monthly dialogue for the leaders who need to know who they are in times of AI.
Wednesday 27 May 2026, 12:15 – 13:45, Luxembourg. Nine seats. €15 covers the pizza.
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 of them are answering the technical question first. What can it do. What does it cost. Which vendor. Which roadmap.
And then they're surprised when the answers don't hold. When the strategy shifts every quarter. When the team is exhausted. When 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. Time, which the calendar resists. Honest peers, which the org chart prevents. And 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. 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 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.
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. No phones, no notes. The conversation is the work, not the content.
May 27, the first question
Who are you when you use AI?
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.