It's 11:47 PM and You're Staring at Your 2026 Planning Document. You're still drafting an answer that doesn't make you sound incompetent or undervalued.

Your team is experimenting chaotically, on their own. No governance. No shared language. No way to evaluate what's working. And in less than six weeks, you present budget requests for 2026: Tools? Training? New roles?

You're guessing.

And the truth is, Design Leaders have less than 6 months to see measurable progress or your AI strategy will be dictated to you by CTO or CPO.

One day. One canvas. From overwhelm to strategic clarity.

How This Works

BEFORE WORKSHOP ( < 30 minutes)

Complete the AI Maturity Assessment. We'll map your team across our 5-phase AI Adoption maturity model and your team's four response types (Early Adopters, Fast followers, Sceptics, Traditionalists).

You'll arrive knowing exactly where your team is now.

DURING

Morning: Diagnosis & Intelligence

- Understand your maturity results and what they mean for your strategy

- Explore researched based insights into AI's current and projected impact in your industry vertical (Financial Services, Healthcare, Tech, Retail etc. )

- Build the Collective Intelligence Wall: Twenty leaders sharing learnings on AI's impact on different sectors. Patterns emerge. Early warnings surface. Strategic priorities crystallise.

Afternoon: Strategic Planning

- Maturity-cohort breakouts (Phase 1-2 teams have different needs than Phase 3-4 teams)

Build your Strategic Clarity Canvas across four dimensions:

People: Orchestrating diverse team responses (early adopters through sceptics)

Process: Creating psychologically safe experimentation with appropriate governance

Practice: Designing learning rituals that actually stick

Platforms: Tool evaluation and investment priorities matched to your maturity

Peer review, final refinement, commitments

AFTER (7 days)

Implementation sequence featuring decision frameworks and mental models from our 5-week transformation programme. Alumni access for 30 days.

What You Leave With

Your Strategic Clarity Canvas – completed, defensible, ready to present Monday morning.

Built on:

- Actual assessment of where your team is now

- Research into AI's impact on your industry - Peer intelligence from 20 design leaders

- Maturity-appropriate frameworks validated across contexts

- Future-back planning (start with 2028, work backwards to identify 2026 priorities)

Taking into account : team orchestration framework. Psychological safety protocols. Governance considerations by maturity phase and Industry intelligence synthesis.

The Monday Morning Test: Can you present this canvas to your CPO, CFO, and team - and defend every decision?

Yes. Because it's not guesswork.

To be clear - this is not a workshop designed to help you articulate an AI Product Strategy - it is a Team & Operational AI Adoption into your teams ways of working.

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