Leadership Delta is the answer to that question. You can't lead AI by talking about it — so we hand leaders back 5–10 hours a week, then build the judgement to lead AI strategy, change and governance.
Pick your answer. The real figures are the reason this programme exists.
You're in good company if you missed these. Only about 5% of companies capture substantial value from AI at scale — the bottleneck is leadership, not technology (BCG, 2025). Just 26% of executives are rated AI-proficient by their own peers (Gartner, 2025), and the single biggest predictor of whether a team adopts AI is how well its leader personally uses it (Nufar Gaspar, The AI Daily Brief). Meanwhile only around a fifth of executive training still changes behaviour on the job a year later (transfer-of-training research; Saks, 2006) — which is why a head full of concepts never moves an organisation, and why this programme is built, not lectured.
Every other programme assumes leaders have spare time to learn. This one hands 5–10 hours a week back in week one — then puts them to work.
Leaders build with AI in their real work — they don't sit through slides explaining it. Judgement comes from contact, not theory.
Reps, not readings. You cannot lead what you have never touched. Every session ends in something built.
Leaders leave with a working AI system — a chief of staff, a knowledge engine, an agent team — not ten clever prompts that age in a week.
Build a working personal AI system and second brain — and recover 5–10 hours a week.
Your leadership's AI readiness across seven dimensions, measured again at the end — so growth is provable.
Sleeves-up: personal AI, knowledge & memory, and multi-agent orchestration.
Leading emergent change, AI strategy without the hype, governance, and proving value.
Built from daily practice — not a course recorded eighteen months ago.
Deep change-leadership behind every single session.
Productivity first, theory second. We hand the hours back, then put them to work.
Where your leaders were, where they are now — in their own words and numbers.
A build → think → build rhythm. Leaders build the thing first, then learn to lead with it. Click any block.
You'll build a working personal AI chief of staff and second brain around your real workflow — and leave saving 5–10 hours a week, a practitioner rather than an observer.
You'll design your own continuous-learning system (a research agent) so you stay frontier-current as the models change weekly — keeping judgement sharp without drowning in noise.
You'll learn to run AI as a portfolio of small bets with explicit kill criteria — proving value by experiment, not by forecast or a magic quadrant.
You'll see why renting the capability everyone can rent buys no moat — and learn where durable advantage actually lives, and how to make buy/build/borrow calls that compound.
You'll build knowledge graphs, a RAG deployment and persistent memory — turning your organisation's knowledge into a queryable system, and grasping the data that is your real moat.
You'll learn to lead change that has no end-state: probe-sense-respond over plan-execute, and the behavioural science that actually shifts what people do.
You'll learn why most AI pilots die between demo and deployment — and how to diagnose the binding constraint (process, governance, incentives) and design pilots built to scale.
You'll learn to govern so the organisation goes fast and safely — ethics as practised judgement, not compliance, and a behavioural-governance model that enables speed instead of killing it.
You'll build a multi-agent workflow that does real work — the capstone: orchestrating a team of agents as the Conductor, not the technician.
One day, in the room, building. Each leader leaves with a working AI Chief of Staff and second brain — and hours back in their week. The fastest way to turn a sceptical board into practitioners, and the natural front door to the flagship.
Private advisory for a single leader or a small top team. The frameworks applied directly to your organisation, your blockers, your board — with a 90-day action plan and the option to continue as ongoing or fractional Chief AI Officer support.
Nine questions — three on what you've built, six that test how you think. The obvious answer is often wrong. Answer honestly; most executives miss several. No email required.
Team, not-for-profit, and sole-practitioner pricing available — just ask.
Author of eight books on leadership and change. Former leader of a top leadership boutique that competed with Harvard and INSEAD; advisor to HSBC, KPMG, Shell, BP and Microsoft. Professor — and professional poker player. The combination of deep change-leadership pedigree and daily frontier-AI practice exists nowhere else in this market.
The next public programme begins 7 September 2026. Tell us about your team and we'll recommend the right way in — a Build Day, a cohort, or private coaching.