Book launch · Friday, October 23, 2026 · Minneapolis

The Intelligence Organization launches October 23.

Megan C. Starkey reads from the book, signs hardcovers, and sits down for a fireside chat with Lori Ryan. Admission is complimentary. RSVP to reserve your place.

When
Friday, October 23, 2026
Time to be announced
Where
ModernWell
Minneapolis
Admission
Complimentary
RSVP required
Author
Megan C. Starkey
Founding Member and Board Member, Stone Arch Collective
The Intelligence Organization: Nature’s Operating Model for the AI Era, by Megan C. Starkey. Hardcover front cover.

Reserve your place

Complimentary. The reading time goes out to everyone on the list.

“A rigorous, deeply human blueprint for leaders ready to stop forcing AI into structures built for another era.”

Advance praise · Jonathan H. Westover, PhD, Innovative Human Capital Innovations

Agenda

  1. ReadingMegan C. Starkey reads from The Intelligence Organization.
  2. SigningSigned hardcovers are available at the launch.
  3. Fireside chatMegan C. Starkey in conversation with Lori Ryan about the book and the questions in the room.

What is The Intelligence Organization about?

We spent a century building organizations to run like assembly lines. Then we introduced a technology that behaves like a nervous system. Only one of them can win, and today the machine is winning.

In The Intelligence Organization, enterprise AI strategist Megan C. Starkey shows why the modern corporation cannot absorb a technology that joins every department it touches. Its blueprint was carried out of World War II and into Ford in 1946. AI is integrative. The org chart is divisional. Nearly every enterprise AI failure traces to that incompatibility. Starkey argues the fix is a redesign, and that nature already drew the plans. Living systems have run distributed intelligence for 3.8 billion years, on cooperation, feedback, shared intelligence, and distributed power, the exact principles the corporate machine was built to suppress.

Grounded in original research and two decades at the intersection of business and technology, Starkey delivers both the diagnosis and the evolution. She first exposes how the corporate machine was built and why conventional AI transformation isn’t working. Then, she constructs the replacement across four bands: aligning technology capacity, talent, operations, and a governance model that lets the organization move as fast as the technology demands.

Underneath the business case sits a larger project: bringing human work back into balance. Equal parts execution manual and future-of-work manifesto, The Intelligence Organization is written for the leaders who must create economic value from AI inside a real company, the consultants who guide them, and everyone who has felt the everyday incompetence of the corporate machine.

Megan C. Starkey is a Founding Member and Board Member of Stone Arch Collective. Launch Week details: stonearch.ai/events