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Executive program · Boards & senior leadership

Lead the AI transformation with confidence

A hands-on program that builds the AI fluency, judgment, and operating confidence senior leaders need to steer through the strategic changes created by agentic AI. Not technical training — leadership readiness.

Delivered as a 2-hour board briefing, a 1-day primer, or the full 5-session program.

Why now

AI is the next stage of your digitalization journey — not a separate agenda

Agentic AI runs on the foundations you have already built. The question is no longer whether to act, but how to lead the next phase deliberately.

01

You've already built the foundation

A decade of investment in cloud, data platforms, automation, IoT, and Industry 4.0 created exactly the digital assets agentic AI operates on.

02

Activate what already exists

AI transformation is not about starting from scratch. It uses your existing data, systems, workflows, and organizational knowledge to augment people and speed up execution.

03

Leadership is the bottleneck

Moving from experimentation to scalable value creation takes strategic clarity, practical fluency, and responsible governance at the top — a management capability, not a technical one.

Who it's for

Designed for the people who set direction

  • Executive directors and board members
  • C-suite leaders and senior executives
  • All disciplines — strategy, operations, finance, commercial, HR, legal, technology, data, risk, communications
  • Especially valuable for companies that have already invested in digitalization and want to build on it

No technical background needed

Participants don't need to be technologists, programmers, or data scientists. What they do need: strategic curiosity, a growth mindset, and the willingness to engage personally with AI tools, workflows, and agentic systems.

The ideal participant wants to get better at assessing AI opportunities, asking sharper questions, setting ambition levels, prioritizing use cases, governing risk, and leading organizational change.

Learning outcomes

What you'll walk away with

Six concrete capabilities. Tap each one for the detail.

Understand the essential concepts behind machine learning, LLMs, generative AI, copilots, agents, workflows, multi-agent systems, RAG, APIs, memory, and automation — with enough practical grounding to make sound strategic and investment decisions.

Build personal fluency through direct use of AI tools, prompting methods, reusable workflows, connectors, and simple deployed applications — so you can judge what AI can realistically do, where it fails, and how it changes the economics of knowledge work.

Apply AI directly to your own executive work: drafting, analysis, research, meetings, email, presentations, decision support, and follow-up — and learn where human judgment, context, and review remain essential.

Assess organizational readiness, define ambition levels, build a champions network, structure governance, guide change management, and align AI initiatives with your existing digital infrastructure and strategic goals.

Translate AI capability into business outcomes across cost, quality, speed, growth, and enablement — distinguishing personal productivity, departmental automation, agentic workflows, and enterprise-scale transformation.

Understand the core legal, ethical, operational, and risk-management requirements of AI adoption — privacy, data quality, cybersecurity, model reliability, human oversight, transparency — and the leadership implications of hybrid human-agent organizations.

The agenda

Seven building blocks, from fundamentals to foresight

Select a section to see what it covers.

Rationale

Why AI, why now, and why it builds on what you already have

AI is the next stage of the company's digitalization journey, not a separate technology agenda. This opening section sets the strategic frame for everything that follows.

  • How a decade of cloud, data, automation, and Industry 4.0 investment set the stage
  • What agentic AI actually changes: augmenting people, automating decisions, new operating models
  • Why digitized companies are best positioned to move from experiments to scalable value
  • Framing the leadership task: activate what exists, don't start from scratch

Fundamentals

The concepts every decision-maker needs — in plain language

A crisp, jargon-free grounding in what the technology is and where it already shows up in your company and your life.

  • Machine learning, deep learning, LLMs, and image generation — one page each, with practical examples
  • The AI capability ladder: chatbot → copilot → agent → agentic workflows → multi-agent teams → agent-managed teams
  • The surrounding plumbing: APIs, MCP, RAG, memory, scheduled automation
  • The tool landscape compared: Microsoft 365 Copilot vs Claude vs OpenAI for knowledge work

Personal productivity & gut calibration

Feel what's possible. Use the tools yourself before directing anyone else to.

The hands-on heart of the program, refined with hundreds of leaders. Executives personally experience practical AI workflows in a controlled learning environment.

  • Guided setup and walkthrough of a modern AI desktop toolkit, adjusted for a senior executive audience
  • Feel the power: learn prompting and iteration, build and deploy your own application, teach an agent a skill, connect your mail
  • Wield your new powers: connect your calendar, work with AI on real documents, build a personal morning-report agent
  • Walk through a large executive use-case library, including prompts and reusable skills
  • Loops — the big invention of 2026, applicable to everything with a measurable outcome
  • The personal dangers of AI: immediacy, dependency, false productivity, frustration, wasted time

Includes an optional self-paced track covering meeting note-takers, NotebookLM, image and infographic tools, deep research, and Deck — a free presentation skill built by Grow.Studio.

Leading the company transformation

From personal fluency to organizational change

The management system for an AI-enabled transformation: where to start, how to govern it, and how to keep it moving.

  • Readiness assessments for the board, the company, and each discipline
  • Strategy review and goal setting in the age of AI: outcome-led transformation
  • Business case development and prioritization
  • Governance structures and processes
  • People change management: psychology, education, AI as a colleague, human agency, skills
  • Legal overview of global AI directives, with pointers for depth
  • Risk management: data quality and privacy, human in the loop, model bias, explainability
  • Challenges and learnings from other companies
  • Execution monitoring

Leadership & organization models

What changes for leaders when agents join the org chart

As agents take over parts of management, leadership becomes more important than ever. This section explores what that means in practice.

  • Management gets partially replaced by agents — leadership is more needed than ever
  • Leading agent teams and hybrid human-agent teams
  • Organizational models for the hybrid company

Future foresight

Looking past the current wave

A structured look at where this is heading, so your strategy anticipates rather than reacts.

  • Latest insights from leading thinkers in the field
  • Exponential developments and what they mean for planning horizons
  • What makes a company, when intelligence is abundant
  • Disposable departments and disposable companies

Staying current

The course ends; the learning doesn't

AI moves monthly, not yearly. Participants leave with the channels and the network to stay tuned in.

  • Curated subscriptions and references to stay up to date
  • A community of practice — keep learning, also from each other

Three formats

Choose the depth that fits your ambition

Same material, three levels of engagement — from opening the conversation to building experience-based confidence.

2 hours · Live

Board briefing

A live presentation in a board setting that walks through the full program and touches all elements, with limited interactivity.

GoalOpen the floor to the subject and get a good feel for the scope.

1 day · Interactive

Executive primer

An interactive full overview of the material — a fast, intensive introduction to the subject as preparation for a supportive role.

GoalPrepare for supportive participation in the AI transformation.
Full program

5 half-days · Hands-on

Executive AI program

The complete experience: full depth, personal hands-on work, and exercises that produce lasting output you keep using after the course.

GoalExperience-based confidence to decide on — or lead — the AI transformation.

Next step

Let's do this

Tell us about your leadership team and where you are on the digitalization journey — we'll recommend the right format and tailor the use cases to your business.

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