AI Professionals: The Director Track | Singapore

If you’re the go-to expert in your team, AI practitioner, or data engineer everyone relies on, your days are likely filled with constant interruptions.

But is being indispensable actually slowing your organization down; and burning you out?

In this podcast style discussion, we break down a simple, week-long observational challenge rooted in classic productivity research (including studies by Leslie Perlow and Gloria Mark) that will change how you view your daily workload.

What you’ll discover:

• A 7-day silent tracking exercise to run at your desk
• The crucial difference between a busy Tuesday and a structural bottleneck
• Why individual "quick questions" add up to invisible, compounding costs
• The psychological trap of heroics in high-pressure engineering roles
• How to gather the data you need to finally spark a real operational change

This is a podcast style discussion so no camera is needed. Join, listen and engage with other attendees in the chat.

Learn how to transform that constant, exhausting "felt sense" of being busy into clear, actionable data.

You got here because you're good at it. The pilot, the integration, the model behaving strangely, and the deck for leadership all route through you; which is why nothing moves when you're away, and why there's nobody above you to ask.

This lab walks you through the steps that separate managing the work from leading it:

• Where being the routing point actually costs you each week,
• Why being right isn't the same as being heard,
• What people say you're good at when you're not in the room,
• How you make calls under pressure, and what your overload is really telling you.

Each step asks where you are honestly rather than aspirationally, and everyone's experience will be unique; the path someone takes who can't hand anything off looks nothing like the path of someone whose team runs fine but who still gets overruled on direction.

Expect it to take the full session.

You finish with a personalized action plan built from your own answers: a 30-day sequence with specific first moves, measures to track, and a short list of the things to stop doing.

The recommendations point the same tooling you already build for everyone else: retrieval, classification, summarization, adversarial review; at your own intake, your own decisions, and your own reasoning, so the leadership work costs hours rather than months.

The goal isn't a promotion or a title. It's that six weeks from now, fewer things require you, more decisions get made without you, and the hours you free up go to work you actually chose.