Leadership in the Age of AI

AI is changing what teams expect from their leaders. Routine analysis, drafting and reporting can now be done in minutes. What remains is the part only a leader can do: setting direction, building trust, developing people and making sound judgement calls.

This programme helps leaders do both. They learn to use AI tools with confidence in their own work, and they strengthen the human leadership skills that matter more as AI takes on the routine. It runs as a two-day core programme, with an optional third day on strategy and change.

Who is it for?

Senior and mid-level leaders, department heads and high-potential managers. It also suits the HR and L&D teams who support them. No technical background is needed.

By the end of the programme, leaders can:

• Explain what AI can and cannot do for their function, in plain language

• Use AI as a thinking partner for decisions, communication and planning

• Lead with a clear sense of their own values and leadership identity

• Coach, delegate and give feedback with more skill, using AI to prepare

• Set clear rules for responsible AI use in their team

• Lead their team through AI adoption with a practical 90-day plan

Programme at a glance

• Day 1: Leading yourself in the age of AI

• Day 2: Leading people and performance with AI

• Day 3 (optional): Leading strategy and change with AI

Before the programme

• A short survey on current AI use, confidence and concerns

• Each leader brings one real leadership challenge to work on

• A briefing with the sponsor to agree the business priorities and the AI tools your company has approved

Day 1: Leading yourself in the age of AI

MODULE 1: THE NEW LEADERSHIP LANDSCAPE

• What is changing in the workplace and what is not

• What AI does well, where it fails and why it can be confident and wrong

• The leadership work that stays human: judgement, trust, ethics and care

MODULE 2: AI FLUENCY FOR LEADERS

• How to brief an AI tool the way you brief a capable colleague

• Hands-on practice with the tools your company has approved, such as Microsoft 365 Copilot or ChatGPT

• Checking the output: accuracy, bias and confidentiality

MODULE 3: CREATE YOUR LEADERSHIP SHIELD

• Define your leadership identity: strengths, beliefs and purpose

• Use AI as a mirror and compare your own version with an AI-generated one

• Share and refine with peers

MODULE 4: VALUES AT WORK

• Explore what drives you as a leader with the Values at Work cards

• Connect personal values to everyday leadership behaviour

• See how AI can help translate values into team commitments

MODULE 5: DECISIONS WITH AI AS A THINKING PARTNER

• Use AI to widen options, test assumptions and find blind spots

• When to trust the machine and when to trust your own judgement

• Apply it to the leadership challenge you brought

Day 2: Leading people and performance with AI

MODULE 6: BUILDING TRUST IN AN AI-ENABLED TEAM

• The Trust Equation and what it means when work is shared with AI

• Talking openly about job concerns, workload and fairness

• Being transparent about how you use AI as a leader

MODULE 7: COACH WITH AI

• The G.R.O.W. Model for coaching conversations

• Use AI to prepare coaching questions and rehearse difficult conversations

• Live coaching practice in pairs with peer feedback

MODULE 8: DELEGATION AND FEEDBACK

• What to delegate to people, what to give to AI and what to keep

• Give effective feedback with the SBI2 Model

• Use AI to prepare feedback while keeping the conversation human

MODULE 9: COMMUNICATING AS A LEADER

• Draft clear messages, updates and presentations with AI support

• Keep your own voice and avoid generic AI writing

• Lead more productive meetings with AI summaries and action tracking

MODULE 10: RESPONSIBLE AI IN YOUR TEAM

• Data privacy, confidentiality and intellectual property

• Bias, fairness and accountability for decisions

• Write a simple set of team rules for AI use

Day 3 (optional): Leading strategy and change with AI

MODULE 11: STRATEGIC THINKING, ENHANCED

• Build a PESTLE analysis of your business environment

• Prompt AI to expand and challenge the group's analysis

• Turn the analysis into strategic priorities

MODULE 12: FINDING THE RIGHT AI OPPORTUNITIES

• Map the work of your function and spot where AI adds real value

• Assess each idea for value, effort and risk

• Choose one or two pilots worth running

MODULE 13: LEADING CHANGE AND AI ADOPTION

• Leading change in a VUCA world

• The emotional change curve and how people respond to AI

• Influencing strategies for winning support from stakeholders

MODULE 14: YOUR 90-DAY LEADERSHIP PLAN

• Build a personal plan and a team AI adoption plan

• Present it to peers and the sponsor for feedback

• Agree commitments and measures of progress

After the programme

• A prompt library and toolkit to use with your own team

• A follow-up review session to share results and solve problems (optional)

• One-to-one executive coaching for individual leaders (optional)

How we train

We follow our T.A.P.E. method: Theory, Application, Practice, Evaluation. Short input, then hands-on work on real leadership challenges. Leaders use AI tools throughout, so they leave with skills they have already practised.

Tailored to your organisation

We consult with you first, then design the programme around your industry, your leadership framework and the AI tools your company has approved. Case examples and exercises are adapted to your business.