AI for leadership teams
Leading the AI transformation
A workshop for leadership teams that are expected to lead the change AI brings, and want to agree on what that means before they ask anyone else to change.
- Format
- 3 to 4 hours, a full day, or a program over a few months
- Group
- 5 to 15 people
- Prior knowledge
- None needed
- You leave with
- Agreement on the direction, and job aids and frameworks with examples from your industry and company
- Language
- English, or Swedish if you tell us when you book
- Where
- Stockholm, elsewhere in Sweden, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, elsewhere in the EU, or online
- Price
- From SEK 50,000, excl. VAT. See all prices
Leading the AI transformation is a facilitated workshop where a leadership team agrees what AI transformation means for its business, tries AI hands-on, and plans how to lead the change: what changes, what stays, and how to bring managers and employees along. Think Big Leaders runs it in Stockholm, elsewhere in Sweden, in Copenhagen, Helsinki and Oslo, elsewhere in the EU, or online.
Why leadership teams book this
The board wants an AI plan with results. Employees are trying AI on their own and asking what it means for their jobs. Customers expect more, and competitors keep announcing new AI services. The leadership team is expected to answer all four, and the answers only hold if the team agrees on them first.
It starts with where you are
We don't arrive with a fixed program. Before the day, we hold discovery calls with the sponsor and, where useful, a few members of the team. If it helps, participants can also answer a short optional survey. That tells us where you are with AI, what the team agrees on and what it doesn't, and what AI transformation should mean for you. The day is built from that.
Who it is for
Leadership teams and management teams in companies in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and elsewhere in the EU who are starting an AI transformation, or have started and feel stuck. Typically 5 to 15 people. No prior AI knowledge needed.
What you leave with
- A shared view of what AI transformation means for your business
- Job aids and frameworks, with examples adapted to your industry, your context and your company
- Your own hands-on experience of working with AI on real tasks
- Agreement on what changes and what stays
- A clearer split between challenges a tool can solve and those that need people to learn new ways of working
- A plan for bringing managers and employees along, with the next steps owned by named people
Formats
- Short session
- 3 to 4 hours. The essentials: where you stand, AI shown and tried live, what changes and what stays, next steps.
- Full day
- About 9 to 5. Adds time for hands-on work and for the leadership team's own role in the change.
- Program
- Several sessions over a few months, for example with a manager workshop for the next level and optional follow-up sessions with the leadership team.
An example full day
Every day is designed for the team in the room. This is one example.
How we choose the methods
We pick the frameworks to fit your situation, not the other way round. Depending on the team, that can include adaptive leadership (Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow and Marty Linsky), to separate technical problems from the ones that ask people to learn and adapt, and Amazon's Working Backwards, to start from the customer when you decide where AI should create value.
Read the framework behind it: Leading AI transformation, on thinkbigleaders.com
Before, during and after the day
- Before
- Nothing for participants to prepare. We hold discovery calls with the stakeholders, and you can share any AI work or programs you have already done. If useful, we add a short optional survey for participants. For longer programs, we may also hold preparation calls with participants.
- During
- Short inputs, and most of the time working: hands-on with AI on real tasks, and in small groups on your own challenges.
- After
- Job aids and frameworks with examples from your industry and company, a written summary of what the team agreed, and optional follow-up sessions to support you and address challenges. For larger programs, we can also prepare facilitator guides for your internal co-facilitators and build a companion AI app for the program.
When this may not be the right fit
- The leadership team itself will not be in the room
- You need someone to choose or build AI tools for you
- You want a talk rather than a working day. See talks by Amir Elion.
Questions
How is this different from an AI training course?
A training course teaches tools. This workshop is about leading the change: the leadership team uses AI so it knows what it is asking of others, and spends most of the day agreeing how to lead the transformation.
Do we need prior AI knowledge?
No. We adapt the day to the group's experience, and everyone tries things themselves.
Can our managers do it too?
Yes, there is a separate workshop for managers, Leading change in the age of AI. Many companies start with the leadership team and then run the manager workshop.