Moving Beyond Efficiency Gains: Strategic Thinking with AI
Moving Beyond Efficiency Gains:
Strategic Thinking with AI
Tuesday, October 20 | Noon – 2 PM ET
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way organizations work, learn, and make decisions. While many grantmakers are already using AI to draft communications, summarize reports, prepare meetings, and streamline routine tasks, these applications represent only a fraction of its potential. Increasingly, leaders are discovering that AI can do more than help us work faster. It can help us think more strategically.
Last year, Albert Chen joined us for one of PCP's three Learning Labs exploring artificial intelligence and philanthropy, introducing members to practical ways AI could strengthen their work while encouraging thoughtful engagement with this rapidly evolving technology. Since then, both AI's capabilities and the ways organizations are putting them to use have advanced at an extraordinary pace.
Recognizing both the significance of this topic and the pace of change, we've intentionally designed this as an extended two-hour workshop. Rather than simply introducing new AI tools, we'll explore how AI can become a partner in strategic thinking, helping leaders clarify assumptions, synthesize complex information, identify patterns, explore alternative perspectives, and ask better questions before making important decisions.
Together, we'll examine practical ways AI can strengthen strategic planning, grantmaking strategy, organizational leadership, and decision making in ways that complement, rather than replace, human judgment and wisdom. Throughout the session, Albert will demonstrate approaches participants can immediately apply within their own organizations.
As Christian philanthropic leaders, we are called not simply to work more efficiently, but to steward our time, attention, and resources with wisdom. This workshop will invite participants to consider how AI can strengthen that stewardship by creating greater capacity for thoughtful reflection, better questions, and more informed decisions.
Whether you attended Albert's Learning Lab last year or are joining this conversation for the first time, you'll leave with practical tools and fresh perspectives for using AI not merely to do more work, but to think more clearly about the work that matters most.
About Albert Chen
Albert Chen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Anago, an AI strategy firm that helps organizations thoughtfully integrate artificial intelligence into leadership, operations, and decision making. Drawing on nearly two decades of experience across the startup, corporate, ministry, and nonprofit sectors, Albert is known for helping leaders move beyond the latest AI tools to think strategically about how AI can strengthen organizational effectiveness, leadership, and long-term impact.
Presenter
Albert Chen
CEO, Anago
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