Project Management

Decision-Making Under Pressure in the Era of AI

Artificial Intelligence Complexity Decision Making Strategy

January 7, 2026 11:00 AM EST (UTC-5)

Platform: Zoom
Capacity: 5000
Duration: 60 min
Presenter: Aina Aliieva

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Overview

This session brings together real project scenarios, practical AI use cases, and two environments where decision-making becomes brutally honest and impossible to disguise: poker tables and international travel.

Poker reveals how people behave when stakes rise, information is incomplete, every minute demands a decision, and every choice quietly shifts the balance.

Travel shows what happens when leaders enter an unfamiliar system — new rules, unfamiliar context, and no time to understand the landscape — mirroring the conditions of modern project environments.

Seen together, they show why even experienced leaders fall back into instinctive patterns under pressure, and what it takes to build a decision-making system that stays stable when the environment doesn’t.

This session is designed for leaders who navigate uncertainty and complexity every day.

Learning Objectives

Pressure compresses time, distorts what leaders notice, and exposes the gap between how decisions are expected to be made and how they actually unfold when conditions tighten.

This webinar qualifies for the following PDUs:

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CAPM	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-ACP	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-SP	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-RMP	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PfMP	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-PBA	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
DASM	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
DASSM	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
DAC	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
DAVSC	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-CP	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-PMOCP	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00
PMI-CPMAI	0.00	0.50	0.50	1.00