AI For Leaders
The leadership system that makes AI stick and scale.
Six live sessions that give leaders the frameworks, confidence, and plan to turn AI capability into commercial impact.
- Live Online or in-person
- Expert guided
- Peer-learning cohort
- Built for leadership teams and AI champions
Most leaders are already under pressure to show AI is working.
But without a shared framework, adoption stays patchy, managers become bottlenecks, and the gap between AI investment and impact keeps growing.
The AI Leaders Blueprint gives your team a structured path - from assessing your own skills and team readiness, to walking away with a working 90-day roadmap you can act on immediately.
Six live, expert-guided sessions. Team training, peer learning, and structured resources that build AI literacy, alignment and capability to lead adoption.
From AI activity to AI impact.
Accelerate safe AI adoption with practical strategies and actionable roadmap.
C-Suite & Senior Directors
Make the right calls on AI investment, governance, and risk
Put the ROI case in front of your board with confidence.
AI Champions & Change Leads
Lead AI adoption across your organisation
Get the frameworks, tools, and peer network to guide change with more clarity.
HR, Change & P&C Leaders
Build the people strategy behind AI adoption
Plan capability, guide upskilling, and prove what’s working.
Functional Leaders
Build your own AI fluency and lead adoption across your function
Strengthen your approach with the governance and strategy to back it up.
Course outline
Six live, expert-guided sessions. Learn how to effectively lead adoption, build AI-ready teams and rewire the way you work – for sustainable growth
What it covers
- The programme arc and what you'll build across each session
- Your AI Readiness Assessment across 8 dimensions: Mindset, Leadership, Skills, Structure, Data, Strategy, Governance and Tools
- What AI maturity really looks like in modern teams - the characteristics, capabilities and behaviours that define AI-native organisations
What you'll leave with
- A clear understanding of the programme ahead
- AI Readiness Assessment - to complete before Session 1
What you'll master
- Why leaders who use AI drive faster adoption
- What effective AI use actually looks like at an executive level
- The thinking traps, biases and hallucinations that make AI unreliable - and how to work around them
What you'll do, live
- Build AI literacy in real business scenarios - strategy, complex thinking, decision-making
- Review your AI Readiness Assessment results and identify your top priority areas
What you leave with
Personal AI skills you can role model back with your team
Confidence to lead the conversation and identify day-to-day use cases
Your benchmark scorecard - a high-level view of where you and your team stand, and where to focus first
What you'll master
- Leading through uncertainty: how ready is your team and why people resist AI
- Guardrails as the essential foundation for adoption
- The impact of psychological safety: a case study in upskilling teams to drive long term behaviour change
- How to move AI from a side project to BAU: the councils, champions, comms and guardrails that make it stick
What you'll do, live
- Map your team's resistance points using the Mental Fossils framework
- Guardrails AI crisis simulation - who’s reponsible?
- Define roles, accountabilities and decision rights you’d need to drive forward
What you leave with
Mental Fossils mapped - with supporting behaviour change strategies for each
Sample AI Advisory Council - structure and activation plan to define and roll out internally
Democratised AI guardrails your team understands and owns
Neuroscience-backed AI Comms Plans
What you'll master
- Why most teams can't fully leverage AI yet - the data quality, access, and governance issues holding us back
- The 5-Step AI Tech Audit - what AI capability you're already paying for, what's connected and what's overlapping
- The governance risks of tech sprawl and shadow AI
- How to map workflows to surface inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and your highest-value AI opportunities
What you'll do, live
- Review the data readiness audit - what you've got, what's missing, and what can and can't go into AI tools
- Define a STACK audit across your current toolset
- Discuss common workflows to identify bottlenecks and prioritise your top use cases
What you leave with
Data Readiness Review: what's usable, what's not, and what to fix first
STACK Audit template: AI capabilities, gaps, and redundancies mapped
Workflow map example with AI opportunities identified and prioritised - to prepare with your team ready for session 4
What you'll master
- The AI Workflow Sprint Canvas - pillars to assess and validate priority pilots
- How to evaluate problems worth solving with the Impact vs Feasibility matrix
- ROI methodology: how to move from 'hours saved' to commercial impact that survives the finance conversation
- The Pilot Build Canvas - how to design experiments that generate real evidence and scale
What you'll do, live
- Work through the canvas to stress-test a real pilot proposal - from problem definition to priority
- Debate the ROI calculation for your highest-priority use case
- Define what 'good' looks like - scope, KPIs, and feedback loops
What you leave with
A validation framework for every AI proposal your team brings you
ROI calculators for commercial impact
Effort vs Impact Matrix - quick wins prioritised, pilots worth scaling identified
What you'll master
- The AI Adoption Curve - where teams stall, why it happens, and what leaders need to do at each stage
- How to move from individual tool use to AI as a shared operating layer - the habits, structures, and rituals that make it stick
- Agentic AI: what autonomous agents actually do, the risks they introduce, and how to govern them before they govern you
- The 6 Signs you're Agent-Ready - and the 8-Step framework for safe integration
What you'll do, live
- Diagnose where your team sits on the AI Adoption Curve - and what's blocking the next stage
- Map cross-functional AI opportunities and build a phased scaling plan
- Assess your organisation's agent readiness across the 6 Signs
What you leave with
AI Adoption Curve diagnostic - where you are and what needs to change
Scaling roadmap with phased cross-functional rollout
Agent readiness assessment - 6 Signs, 8 Steps
Data readiness and governance framework for agentic AI
What you'll master
- How to build a rolling 90-day AI roadmap that leadership can commit to and report against
- AI Impact Assessment: how AI will reshape roles, structures, and decision rights across your team
- How to design your Team of the Future - what stays, what evolves, what you need to build
What you'll do, live
- Assemble your 12-month AI roadmap with 90-day sprint structure
- Map your Team of the Future - role evolution, capability gaps, and accountability
- Present your AI Blueprint to the cohort for real-time feedback and challenge
What you leave with
12-month AI roadmap with 90-day sprint planning
AI Impact Assessment - how AI reshapes roles and workflows in your team
Team of the Future Map - role evolution with clear accountabilities
Workforce transformation and upskilling strategy
A board-ready blueprint. And the confidence to lead what comes next.
What people say
Every programme is built around your team’s tools, workflows, and priorities – from first conversation to confident AI adoption.
The Toms have done it again!
A great, practical and hands on course – thank you Catherine Toms and Stephen Toms and all my ‘alumni’ who shared their journeys and experiences, much of which I will ‘steal with pride’.
Stu Sheridan
Hiaitus.ai
CEO & CoFounder
Thanks again. Highly recommended for anyone curious about where to start and what’s possible or those eager to take action. Great framework for not only scaling AI but an excellent blueprint for leading any kind of change.
Kelly Monardo
ITW
Marketing Director | CMO
This was hands down the best course I’ve attended. Thanks again guys 🙏
I will genuinely miss the weekly dose of AI transformation wisdom.
Julie Fenwick
Connective
Strategic AI & Marketing Operations
Frequently Asked Questions
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