We invite you to join the Center for Positive Organizations’ working group on virtuousness, organizational flourishing, and positive organizing in the age of AI.

For two decades, our community has built a rigorous account of what helps organizations excel and thrive. We now face a moment of technology-driven disruption that is reshaping how organizations decide, relate, allocate, and learn, yet most of the rhetoric is being shaped by a logic of efficiency alone, treating people as cost and setting aside essential questions of virtue, dignity, and organizational flourishing.

Here is our guiding question: What will it take to design, deploy, and govern AI systems that are not merely unharmful or compliant, but actively generative of human virtuousness and organizational flourishing?

As a working group, we are hands-on and diverse. Rather than leading with expertise, we seek to foreground what we don’t yet know and design our way toward the future we want. CPO hosts monthly 90-minute working sessions where we will engage together toward tangible outputs, including position papers, research collaborations, practice guides, leadership applications, and policy ideas. Both scholars and practitioners stand to gain from participating, as both have indispensable parts to play in gathering and framing the evidence about transforming organizations and what they do for flourishing in the age of AI.

Our next meeting is slated for July 23, at 11:00 a.m. E.T. The agenda will include a brief overview of compelling examples that set the stage for the big questions we will explore in group work and some hands-on time together.

Please come ready to share ideas in progress, name the real tensions, and learn from one another’s experiences. Your presence will meaningfully shape what this group creates and becomes.

Warmly,
Kim Cameron, Jim Mallozzi, Maureen Norton, Amy Young & Monica Worline
Center for Positive Organization Convening Committee

Questions? Email positiveorg@umich.edu.