Training & Development

Building AI confidence at board level

From a focused half-day workshop for your board to a structured nine-week programme for individual directors — training designed for the people who govern, not the people who code.

Bespoke Board AI Workshops
Tailored to your board, your sector, your questions
Available now

A focused, practical session designed around the specific needs of your board. Not a generic AI overview — a working session that starts with your strategic context and ends with clear next steps your board can act on immediately.

Each workshop is built from a modular framework, so the content flexes to match what matters most to your organisation. Whether your board needs to get to grips with the fundamentals, challenge management's AI strategy, or establish a governance framework, the session is shaped around that conversation.

AI Foundations What AI actually is, what it can and cannot do, and why it matters to your board — in plain language
Strategic Assessment How to evaluate AI's impact on your value chain, challenge management's AI proposals, and identify blind spots
Risk & Data Security The questions your audit and risk committees should be asking about AI, data, and third-party vendors
Governance Frameworks Practical structures for AI oversight — policies, committees, escalation routes, and board reporting
Regulation & Compliance The evolving UK and EU regulatory landscape, including the EU AI Act and its implications for your business
Live Demonstration See AI in action with examples relevant to your sector — making it concrete rather than theoretical
AI Fluency for Directors
Strategy, governance, and effective boardroom use — a 9-week cohort programme
Coming soon

A structured programme for individual directors and aspiring directors who want to build genuine AI fluency — not just awareness, but the confidence to ask better questions, govern AI responsibly, and use it effectively in their board role.

The programme is delivered in cohorts of 10–16 participants, combining taught content with peer discussion, practical exercises, and a progressive AI Skills Lab that builds your hands-on capability week by week. By the end, you'll have led an AI workshop for your own board.

Weeks 1–4
Understand & Evaluate
AI foundations, how modern AI works, challenging management's AI strategy, and data security & vendor risk. Build the conceptual grounding you need.
Weeks 5–6
Apply
Using AI as a director — summarising board papers, drafting challenge questions, scanning regulatory developments. AI in the boardroom — improving board and committee work.
Weeks 7–9
Govern & Practise
AI governance frameworks, ethics & regulation, real-world case studies, and a board simulation. Culminates in your personal action plan and Board Workshop Challenge.
2¼ hours per week Taught content, peer discussion, practical exercise, and AI Skills Lab
Cohort of 10–16 Small enough for real discussion; large enough for diverse perspectives
AI Skills Lab 15 minutes each week building practical, hands-on AI fluency in parallel
Board Workshop Challenge Leave with the skills and toolkit to lead an AI workshop for your own board

Interested in joining the first cohort? Register your interest and we'll notify you when enrolment opens.

EU AI Act: AI Literacy for Organisations
Meeting the Article 4 obligation — practical compliance for boards and leadership teams
Coming soon

Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires organisations that provide or deploy AI systems to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among their staff. This obligation has been in force since February 2025, and national enforcement provisions apply from August 2025. It affects any organisation whose AI systems are placed on the EU market or used within the EU — regardless of where the company is headquartered.

This programme is designed to help boards and senior leadership teams meet that obligation practically and proportionately. It goes beyond a tick-box exercise to build genuine understanding — what AI is, how your organisation uses it, what the risks are, and what questions leaders need to be asking.

Why this matters now: While Article 4 does not carry a standalone fine, a lack of AI literacy training is likely to be treated as an aggravating factor in enforcement for other breaches of the AI Act. For organisations deploying high-risk AI systems, the training obligation is explicit and will remain in force regardless of the EU's proposed Digital Omnibus simplifications. Boards that act now are building a defensible compliance position.

Compliance-mapped Content aligned to Article 4 requirements and European Commission guidance
Role-appropriate Tailored for directors, senior leaders, and those overseeing AI — not one-size-fits-all
Documented evidence Provides the audit trail you need — training records, competency assessment, and completion certificates
UK & EU scope Covers the EU AI Act's extraterritorial reach and the emerging UK regulatory landscape

Want to discuss how this applies to your organisation? Get in touch

Not sure which programme is right for your board?

Every board is starting from a different place. A short conversation is usually the quickest way to work out what would be most useful.