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AI for Leaders

AI for Leaders
Six sessions to lead AI across your business, not just use it yourself.
An AI course for business leaders who already use tools like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot and now have decisions to make: what to spend, what to automate, what policy the business needs, and who on the team needs what training. You’ll leave with a committed 90-day plan.

Weighing up whether this is right for your business? Our AI Leadership Training page covers the business case, team options and how to talk to us before you book.:

Running for 6 Tuesdays
Price: £1285 + VAT / person
(Payment plans available to spread the cost)
Next Start Date: 15th Sept

Who this is for

Who this is for

Business owners, founders and senior managers who’ve already had some personal wins with AI and now need to lead it properly. You’ve saved yourself time with Claude or ChatGPT. The harder questions are the business ones: where AI actually pays, what you’re signing off when a tool asks for access, and whether your team knows more or less than you think.

This course is about deciding, not building. If you want to build the automations yourself, AI Intermediate is the doers’ route through the same territory. And if you’re not yet confident using the tools in your own work, start with AI Foundations first – Leaders assumes basic fluency, and you’ll get far more out of it that way.

What Will You Learn

  • Judge where AI genuinely pays in your business, and where it doesn’t
  • Understand what you’re actually signing off when tools ask for data and access, and draft the AI policy your business is probably missing
  • Size an opportunity before committing budget to it
  • Know what evidence to ask for before trusting an AI-produced report or approving a project
  • Decide what’s realistic to automate, what it costs, and where human oversight is non-negotiable
  • Leave with a 90-day AI roadmap and a clear view of who on your team needs what training

Format

Six weekly sessions on Tuesday mornings, delivered remotely in small groups with an expert instructor. Each session works on your business, not a case study – you’ll be making real decisions about your own spend, policy and priorities as we go.

This isn’t lecture-style learning, and it isn’t a build-along either. It’s structured thinking time with people making the same decisions you are.

Outcomes

This course was built by the team that led the R&D with Skills England to create the UK’s Level 4 AI and Automation Apprenticeship. We run our own business on Claude and other AI tools – what we teach is what we actually use, and what we advise is what we’ve had to decide ourselves.

Tool-agnostic throughout. Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot – whatever your business already uses.

By the end of the course you’ll have a committed 90-day plan, a draft AI policy, and the confidence to lead AI adoption rather than react to it.

By the end of the course, you’ll have AI working across your business – and a clear 90-day plan to keep it moving.

Individual outcomes

  • Able to judge AI proposals, tools and vendor claims on evidence rather than hype
  • A draft AI policy for your business, written during the course
  • A committed 90-day AI roadmap, specific to your business

Team outcomes

  • Clear decisions on spend, risk and priorities, made by someone who understands them
  • An AI policy the whole team can work to
  • A view on who needs what training next, so development budget goes where it pays

What’s in the course?

Session 1 – Leading with AI

Where AI actually pays and where it doesn’t. What the six weeks will produce, and what you’ll be able to decide by the end.

Session 2 – Risk, Ethics and Governance

Connectors, permissions and what you’re actually signing off. Data governance, and drafting the AI policy your business is currently missing.

Session 3 – Finding the Opportunity

Mapping your processes to spot where AI pays. Sizing the prize before committing to it.

Session 4 – Data, Evidence and Decisions

Can you trust what you’re being shown? What evidence to ask for before signing anything off.

Session 5 – Automation and Agents: What to Delegate

Demo-led, not build-led. What’s realistic to automate, what it costs, and where human oversight is non-negotiable.

Session 6 – Your AI Roadmap and 90-Day Plan

A committed 90-day plan, plus a view on who in your team needs what training next.

Learners

Booking for yourself? Six Tuesday mornings, £1,285 + VAT. Book now and we’ll send your joining details.

Employers

Sending more than one decision-maker, or thinking about the leadership course alongside training for the wider team? Worth a quick conversation first – about who to send where, and whether a closed course on your own dates makes more sense.

FAQs

FAQs

How much AI experience do I need?
You should already be using tools like Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot in your own work. This course assumes basic fluency and builds on it. If you’re not there yet, do AI Foundations first – you’ll get much more from Leaders afterwards.
Same territory, different question. Intermediate teaches you to build – data work, process mapping, working automations. Leaders teaches you to decide – what to spend, what to delegate, what policy you need and who to train. If your job is running the business rather than building the workflows, this is your course.
Three things: a draft AI policy for your business, a committed 90-day AI roadmap, and a clear view of who on your team needs what training next. All built during the sessions, specific to your business.
Remote delivery via video call, in small groups. Instructor-led, with time for discussion and working through your own decisions with peers making the same ones.
That’s part of what session six produces. For most teams the routes are AI Foundations for a shared baseline, AI Intermediate for your doers, or the Level 4 AI and Automation Apprenticeship – government-funded for most employers – for anyone going deep.
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