AI & the Legal ProfessionCenter on the Legal Profession
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Workshops Harvard Law School · Berkman Klein

Bringing dragonfly thinking to the profession

Alongside the essays and visualisations, this work reaches senior decision-makers directly — through invitation-only workshops and public sessions that put the frameworks, and the AI tools that operationalise them, in front of general counsel, managing partners, and faculty.

Participants at the Senior Leadership Workshop on Dragonfly Thinking, Harvard Law School, April 2024
Workshop discussion at Harvard Law School Workshop session at Harvard Law School
Senior leadership · April 2024

Senior Leadership Workshop on Dragonfly Thinking

Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law SchoolInvitation-only

On 2 April 2024 the Center on the Legal Profession hosted an invitation-only senior leadership workshop — Institutional Strategies for Balancing Risks, Rewards, and Resiliency in a VUCA World — at Harvard Law School. Chief legal officers and managing partners worked through the frameworks underpinning this project: the Risks, Rewards, and Resilience framework for mapping complex decisions, and the dragonfly methodology for integrating multiple lenses — with live demonstrations letting participants interact with the AI tools to think through real decision problems.

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Executive education

“Dragonfly Thinking”: In-House Lawyering in a VUCA World

Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School

A Center on the Legal Profession session on dragonfly thinking for in-house lawyers — how general counsel navigate data privacy and cybersecurity, sustainability, economic and geopolitical risk, and the balancing of shareholder and stakeholder interests in a world that is volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Across all of these issues, the demand for integrative, multi-lens judgment is exploding.

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Public session

Agentic AI and Complex Decision-Making: How to Think Like a Dragonfly

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard

A Berkman Klein session on agentic AI and complex decision-making. AI provokes more competing narratives than any technology in history — not because people disagree about the facts, but because they are asking different questions about jobs, power, truth, safety, the environment, and human meaning all at once. Anthea Roberts maps nine narratives about AI, then pushes beyond mapping to ask why the disagreements persist — and how dragonfly thinking helps leaders hold them in view at once.

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