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The New Last Mile
Harnessing the 21st Century Intelligence that AI Can't See
A Leadership Field Studio - Tokyo - December 5, 2025
Most leaders make their most consequential decisions from environments disconnected from the systems their choices affect.
TThey have AI-powered dashboards but lack the contextual insight and real-time systemic intelligence that determine whether their organizations thrive or stall. These unseen forces—trust, ownership, and resilience—drive performance, loyalty, and adaptability, yet remain invisible in dashboards and meeting rooms.
They live in the field—where people coordinate, adapt, and create meaning together.
We take you there.
The Last Mile Field Studio anchors a multi-part leadership program designed for the next generation of decision-makers preparing to lead in an AI-integrated world. It begins with an online diagnostic and orientation, continues with a full-day field immersion in Tokyo, and concludes with individual and group coaching sessions focused on integrating insight into lasting organizational practice.
The sequence builds perceptual capacity step by step—preparation, immersion, reflection—so leaders can translate what they see in the field into action that endures.
Guided by OCULAR’s IRIS Process (Form → Frame → Flow), participants enter Tokyo’s living laboratories—stations, markets, cafés, and service systems—to observe how trust is built, ownership emerges, and resilience sustains under pressure.
You will learn to recognize these dynamics in motion, translate them into your own organizational context, and convert that awareness into sharper decisions, faster innovation, and stronger team accountability.
Leaders accountable for growth, innovation, or transformation who suspect that efficiency has replaced awareness.
People ready to leave the meeting room, see what’s actually driving their results, and return with clarity their peers won’t have.
At its core, the program cultivates a discipline of perception through OCULAR’s IRIS Process (Form → Frame → Flow).
Participants learn to:
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Detect trust, ownership, and resilience in real systems.
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Exercise sharper judgment about what is truly driving or blocking progress.
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Apply a structured process (IRIS) for turning observation into action.
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Re-energize purpose, ownership, and initiative across teams.
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Establish a repeatable practice for sustaining adaptability and relevance.
The program is a practical process leaders can use immediately in their own settings.
- Pre-Studio (Online): Diagnostic and orientation identifying one overlooked systemic opportunity in each participant’s organization.
- Field Studio (Tokyo, Dec 5): One-day immersion combining observation, synthesis, and application in Tokyo’s living systems.
- Post-Studio (30 & 90 Days): Individual and group coaching to translate insight into measurable organizational change.
This progression creates a continuous learning arc that connects insight to implementation.
- Date: December 5, 2025
- Location: Maranouchi, Central Tokyo
- Cohort Size: 20 participants maximum
- Fee: ¥275,000
Daniel Hewett is an architect, educator, and systems thinker with more than two decades of experience designing and leading context-based learning environments across industry, government, and education.
A teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Northeastern University, his work bridges organizational innovation and creative practice—helping leaders and institutions see hidden systemic dynamics in the environments where performance, trust, and resilience actually live.
His programs and field studios have been hosted in North America, Europe, and Asia, engaging executives, educators, and policymakers seeking new forms of strategic relevance in complex environments.
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