Training and enablement
AI literacy for boards and leadership teams
The decisions about AI are made at the top, often by people who have not had the time to understand it properly and are relying on vendors to explain it. A leadership programme fixes that: a shared, accurate mental model, in the language of your business, that makes every AI decision afterwards faster and better.
A session, or a programme
The leadership AI awareness session is the single day that starts most engagements: the inflection point, what the technology is and is not, the four levels of AI, the Opportunity Pyramid, the competitor and vendor landscapes, and governance, tailored to your sector.
A leadership programme goes further for boards and executive teams who will be making AI decisions repeatedly: a series of shorter sessions over a quarter, each on one decision the business faces, with pre-reading, a worked case from your own business, and the artefact to keep. It is built for the board that needs to approve a roadmap, sign off a governance model, choose between build and buy, or understand what an agentic system is before funding one.
Five sessions, one quarter
The landscape and the inflection point
What changed, what the adoption and productivity evidence shows, what competitors in your sector are already doing, and the broader toolkit beyond generative AI.
Reading an AI opportunity
The Opportunity Pyramid, the four levels of AI, the adoption pathways and the data positions, applied to three opportunities from your own business.
Governance and regulation
The EU AI Act for your business, responsible-AI principles, the governed-access model, and the four governance fields to add to every investment case.
Build, buy, partner or wait
How to decide, with the vendor landscape for your functions, the economics of frameworks versus products, and the questions to ask any supplier, including us.
Reading a roadmap and a business case
What a good AI business case contains, how to challenge it, what a readiness-sequenced roadmap looks like, and how to run the first quarter.
Taught by people who have made the decisions
Sessions are led by Dr Paul Gibson, who holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has advised on AI for more than three decades, with the group's directors and engineers joining for the sessions on delivery and governance. The material is the same material we use in client programmes, with the artefacts from the Converge Methodology, not a generic course.
About leadership AI literacy
Does this satisfy the EU AI Act's literacy requirement?
For the people who attend, yes: Article 4 requires a sufficient level of AI literacy among staff involved in AI systems, and leadership is where that starts. Wider staff training is covered by the team and policy formats.
How many people?
Up to fifteen works best for the session format; a programme is usually the board and executive team, eight to twelve people.
Can non-executives attend?
Yes, and it is often the non-executives who ask for it, since they are being asked to oversee AI decisions without the operational view.
Can it be delivered remotely?
The programme sessions can; the single-day awareness session is better in a room.
Make the board the best-informed room in the business
Start with the session; grow it into a programme if the decisions ahead warrant it.