Dates

• November 6-9, 2025 + 3 optional online application sessions* (Dec 16, 2025; Jan 27, 2026; Feb 24, 2026)

Location

• Los Gatos, CA

Program Fee

• $8,400 $0

The full cost of this program including room and board has been covered by our donors.

Congratulations on being nominated for the 2025 AI Leadership Retreat, supported in partnership by Leaders in Tech and the Golden Gate Institute for AI. This program is by personal invitation only, and your invitation is not transferable. If you’re interested in participating, please complete the brief application form below.

Eligible Participants

This is a private retreat for 12 influential leaders who have a role in shaping the course of AI and its impact on the world. Nominees have been chosen by the Leaders In Tech and Golden Gate Institute for AI communities, and include technology and product leaders working on AI, security experts, academics, thought leaders and policymakers, and those taking AI leadership roles in media and civil society groups.

Program Description

This program begins with an intensive 4-day retreat, followed by 3 optional virtual application sessions where participants can get help applying retreat learnings back into their work. It is designed to advance your leadership, communication, and self-understanding skills and help you play a positive, impactful part in shaping the future.

The program curriculum is based on T-groups, the same learning format as the legendary Interpersonal Dynamics ("Touchy Feely") program – the most popular course at the Stanford GSB for over 30 years. It will be led by experienced facilitators from that program. T-groups are small, deeply intimate groups in which participants discover for themselves how and when they are most influential, how their behaviors impact others and gain a richer toolkit for building trusting and powerful professional and personal relationships.

Participants in Leaders in Tech retreats routinely describe the experience as having a profound impact both professionally and personally (testimonials).

For clarity: while participants will all be drawn from the broader AI community, this retreat will NOT focus on discussions of AI. Instead, it is designed to build general skills that you can bring back to your daily life, helping you to navigate conversations about AI with greater self-awareness, interpersonal fluency and the ability to connect with others across differences – skills critical to both individual and collective success in navigating these complex topics.

Agnes Le – Agnes Le is a Lead Facilitator at Leaders In Tech.

Agnes is a Stanford-trained group facilitator and executive coach who helps leaders increase their impact on their organizations. She also loves to work with great teams to help them find ways to become even greater. She draws upon twenty years experience in the people development field.

Currently, she is a leadership coach in the Executive Education and MSx programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as a group facilitator for the school’s most popular elective course, Interpersonal Dynamics. Formerly, she led the talent functions at various European companies.

A strong believer in a growth-mindset, Agnes has continued to look for ways to step outside her comfort zone: whether it was getting a Stanford MBA, coaching CEOs, hiking to the base camp of Everest, or running 12 marathons and even two ultra-marathons.

Hugh Cole - Hugh Cole is a facilitator at Leaders in Tech. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Group Psychotherapist and Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor from Chicago, Illinois.

Hugh teaches Interpersonal Dynamics, and was previously a facilitator in Interpersonal Dynamics T-groups, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is a senior clinician at Howard Brown Health Center and founding member and COO of Chicago Pride Center. Hugh is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life, a member of the trauma consultation group at Womencare Counseling in Evanston, and was the recipient of Loyola University Chicago’s President’s Medallion for community service for his group work in the Chicago LGBTQ+ communities utilizing phenomenological group process.

A lifelong learner, Hugh is currently pursuing certifications in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and applied Jungian Depth Psychotherapy. Hugh comes from a large and ever-growing family, and his passions include art, travel, music, theater, gardening and social justice. He is a loyal servant to his feline mistress, Maybelline the Beauty Queen. Long live the Queen.