A practical programme for senior leaders who must make sound decisions about artificial intelligence — where to use it, how to adopt it responsibly, and how to lead the organisational change it brings. No coding required.
Most organisations now face pressure to adopt artificial intelligence, but few have a clear view of where it will genuinely help. Enthusiasm and anxiety often arrive together: teams experiment with tools informally, suppliers promise more than they deliver, and leaders are asked to approve investment and manage risk without a reliable basis for judgement.
This programme gives senior managers that basis — the understanding needed to separate useful applications from distraction, adopt AI responsibly, and lead the workforce and governance change it requires. It is not a technical course. The focus is on the decisions senior leaders must make about strategy, people, risk, governance, investment and implementation.
Eight live two-hour sessions per part — sixteen learning hours per part. Take one part on its own, or progress through the full pathway — each part ends with a practical output your organisation keeps.
A practical understanding of AI — what it can and cannot do, and where it may create value.
Output · AI Opportunity & Readiness Map
How AI works at a practical level, common types, and the questions leaders should ask.
Finding problems AI may solve, rather than adopting technology without a clear purpose.
Selecting realistic opportunities that match organisational needs and capacity.
Moving from general awareness to controlled experimentation and practical implementation.
Output · AI Pilot & Implementation Plan
Assessing value, feasibility, risk and organisational readiness.
Preparing a clear business case for organisational approval.
Governing, scaling and sustaining AI adoption across the organisation.
Output · Executive AI Transformation Roadmap
Connecting AI investment to strategy, priorities and public or customer value.
Bringing strategy, governance, people, projects and measurement together.
Every session combines short expert input with facilitated discussion and applied practice: real public- and private-sector cases, decision-making exercises, role plays and simulations, peer coaching and workplace application. Cases reflect the constraints leaders actually face — limited resources, organisational politics, public accountability, competing stakeholder interests and incomplete information.
Between sessions, peer-coaching groups, facilitator-led clinics and sponsor check-ins keep the learning attached to genuine organisational challenges rather than theory in isolation.
Assessment is practical throughout — no formal examinations. Evidence includes case analysis, completed templates, workplace application tasks, peer feedback and the final plans and roadmaps. A CPD certificate is available for each part where applicable.
In-house delivery is tailored to your sector and priorities, and becomes the better value from around five participants. Bespoke versions, single parts and multi-cohort rollouts are all available — tell us the context and we’ll shape it to fit.
Frameworks & references · OECD AI Principles · EU AI Act · UK GDPR and data-protection principles · NIST AI Risk Management Framework · ISO/IEC 42001 · UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI · Kotter’s model of organisational change
To discuss dates, in-house delivery or enrolling a team, get in touch. We’ll help you choose the right starting point — a single part or the full pathway — and tailor it to your context.
Enquire & book → info@impactthinking.co.uk