For Organizations
I started The School of Critical Thinking because I believe critical thinking is the most undervalued, yet most important skill in today's workplace. Not communication, or emotional intelligence. Modern organizations need the ability to think clearly about hard problems under real pressure, now more than ever.
Most corporate training on this topic goes only ankle-deep. It covers fallacy lists and communication frameworks, but it doesn't teach people how to actually reason under uncertainty, how to decompose complex problems and maintain judgment when working alongside AI. These systems produce confident-sounding answers at zero cost, but without the human ability to evaluate them, they are a recipe for bad decisions and over-reliance on technology.
I run talks and workshops that treat critical thinking as the serious professional competency it is. Built on the intellectual foundations appropriate for the age in which artificial intelligence is dominant.
What I offer
Three formats, one foundation
Lunch and Learn
60 to 90 minutes · from $1,000
A single-topic session designed to demonstrate what real critical thinking looks like, and give a team something concrete to take back to their work. High-impact, low-disruption. Works well as a standalone or as the opening to a longer engagement.
Workshop
Half-day or full day · from $3,500
Hands-on application of critical thinking frameworks to real organizational problems. Pre-mortems, decomposition exercises, working through paradoxes and decision traps with the team's own cases. Not a lecture. The goal is for people to leave with a different way of approaching their actual work.
Multi-Session Program
Structured cohort, bespoke length · bespoke pricing
A deeper engagement for leadership teams, decision-making groups, or teams integrating AI into their workflows. Structured around the organization's specific thinking challenges. Includes between-session work and ongoing practice.
What we cover
Signature talks and workshops
Each topic is built around a real intellectual problem, not a framework with a catchy acronym. All three can be delivered as a lunch-and-learn, a half-day workshop, or a multi-session program.
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The Paradoxes of Modern Decision Making
Most bad decisions aren't made by careless people. They are made by careful people who have walked into one of a small number of well-documented traps: situations where the reasonable thing to do leads somewhere unreasonable. This session maps those traps, shows how they operate in real organizational contexts, and builds a practical toolkit for recognizing and avoiding them before they do damage.
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Elements of Modern Critical Thinking
A structured introduction to the five cognitive foundations that underpin clear thinking: patterns, causality, uncertainty, models, and decisions. Developing a working framework for the kinds of problems that professionals actually face. Participants leave with a shared vocabulary and a common lens for tackling complexity.
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Fundamentals of AI Literacy
Artificial intelligence is less a technology, and more a set of methods for solving problems. This session treats it as such, building a practical framework for understanding of the concepts that underlie it, so that teams can reason about it effectively, evaluate its output, and use it as a tool without being misled by it.
The facilitator
Eldar Sarajlic
I am an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, where I have taught logic, critical thinking, and philosophy for over a decade. I founded The School of Critical Thinking to build the curriculum I couldn't find elsewhere: one that takes thinking seriously as a discipline, from age eight to the boardroom, on the same intellectual foundations.
My approach is rooted in the same tradition of truth-seeking as academic philosophy, but applied to the real problems that organizations face: decisions under uncertainty, reasoning about complex systems, and maintaining judgment when working alongside AI.
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Every engagement starts with a conversation. Tell me who you're trying to reach, what you're working on, and what you're hoping to change. I'll respond within two business days.