April 2025 Cohort

Arming senior leadership teams with the AI literacy, practical skills and strategic acumen needed to guide their companies into the AI era.

Mark Laurence

Ten Past Tomorrow founder • Generative AI cognoscente • Futurist

Rapid AI Traction for Senior Leadership Teams

“We're going to get to AI systems that are better than almost all humans at almost all tasks... That's the thing I think we're quite likely to get in the next two or three years." - Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic), January 2025. However… ”Only 8% of employees reported they feel GenAI is already transforming their organisation.” - Deloitte -&nbsp;State of Generative AI in the Enterprise report, Q4 2024. Quite frankly, the gap between AI advancement and AI adoption that those two stats speak to is just too large. It’s no longer just a gap. It’s a chasm. And add to that… “In organisations where AI is openly embraced, the chance of developing 'AI Experts' and 'AI Practitioners' is halved when direct managers discourage its use, either directly or indirectly.” - Section School - The AI Proficiency Report, January 2025. Merging those three storylines and you get a headline that says that senior leadership is the bridge that connects AI aspirations to organisational reality, and ultimately the trajectory of its integration at every level. In other words; true organisation-wide AI adoption doesn’t begin with technology or tools. It begins with leadership. AI literate and AI skilled senior leadership. And that, in a nutshell is what this course is designed to achieve. To take you (a senior leader) and the rest of your exec team from AI novicehood to AI literacy in four weeks. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past 2 years with companies, through my consultancy, Ten Past Tomorrow. In doing so, I’ve seen first-hand what happens when those three quotes above play out. Without full commitment to AI from an AI-literate executive leadership team, AI adoption is hamstrung to the point of failure, without exception. This is a "zero-to-one" course. It's designed to take senior leadership teams from a cold start, to AI competence. Even if you've never used an AI tool, in four weeks you and your fellow senior leaders will get a world-class grounding in essential, foundational AI prompting skills, and also develop your competence to understand how AI will affect your company and industry from a strategic viewpoint. You and your executive team colleagues may still consider yourselves AI-novices. Or perhaps you feel you have 'some AI knowledge' but your company has stalled after taking your first experimental steps with AI and don't know what the path looks like from here? Or maybe you've mastered AI for yourself and your own role, know first-hand the power it has to radically ramp up efficiency and productivity, but are stuck as to how to create an AI roadmap to distribute that same knowledge across your workforce? If any of the above resonates with you and your fellow senior leaders in your exec team, this course is for you.&nbsp;&nbsp;Instead of reacting to AI disruption, you’ll soon be leading it... unlocking productivity gains, driving innovation, and making AI a competitive advantage for your company.

Close the AI capability gap: Exec-level training for senior leadership teams

Senior leadership teams wanting to collectively, confidently, knowledgeably, skilfully and ethically lead an AI-forward company.

SLT teams who sense AI is far more than a technical challenge, that it demands leaders step forward to lead comprehensive strategic change.

Leadership teams excited by making a genuine commitment to fundamentally reshape their people, processes and businesses.

Who is this course for?

What you’ll get out of this course

By the end of this course, you'll understand what the five strategic steps to AI adoption are and how to apply them. You'll leave with a clear roadmap to make your business AI-forward, as a leadership team that drives efficiency, innovation, and long-term competitive advantage.

Understand the 5 (tested and proven) strategic steps to build an AI-forward business.

You'll master AI prompting. Well enough in fact that you'll apply those skills to use your favourite LLM as your own personal strategic executive assistant. Then take those skills away to drive radical productivity in your own work tasks, and guide your employees toward the same.

Become a highly skilled AI prompt writer and use those skills to build your own personal "AI strategic thought partner"

Still wondering if you're ahead, on-track or behind your competition with AI deployment? Assess your company’s AI maturity using a structured matrix framework across 10 key AI KPIs. Benchmark progress, spot gaps, and confidently communicate AI readiness to your stakeholders.

Deploy a framework-led diagnosis of whether your company is behind, on-track or ahead with AI, in relation to 10 key AI KPIs.

Your leadership team will move from AI uncertainty to confidence. Gain the strategic and practical AI skills needed to drive adoption at scale, making your organisation AI-forward. Leave with the knowledge to lead AI initiatives, boost efficiency, and stay ahead in your industry.

Become an AI literate senior leadership team that collectively has the understanding and skillset to create an 'AI Emergent' organisation.

The hands-on skills to prompt off-the-shelf AI tools (like ChatGPT) so you can drive radical productivity and efficiency in your own role, and for your employees.

AI efficiency and productivity

Understand what state of the art generative AI can do right now, what developments are likely coming in 12-18 months from the major AI labs, and how to map them across your strategic plan to ascertain where AI represents strategic opportunities and threats to your business model.

Strategic clarity

Learn the major components needed to construct a clear AI roadmap for integrating AI into your business, using a proven five-step framework. This is the roadmap to build an AI-forward organisation.

What does an AI roadmap look like?

Note: The course price given on this page is not per person. It is one single payment, which enrols your entire executive leadership team together as one.

One price for your entire senior leadership team

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Course syllabus

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Each week you'll complete 2 x 1 hour blocks of self-directed learning, using a mixture of video and text-based course material. Compact learning design, for busy senior leaders.

Self-directed learning

Each week for the 4 weeks of the course, we'll gather live on Zoom (times listed below) as a cohort for discussions, activities and interactive thought experiments. New Zealand Time, Fridays, 9 - 10.30am US Time, Thursdays...5 - 6.30pm (EDT)4 - 5.30pm (CDT)2 - 3.30pm (PDT)

Live session days/times

While not designed to be taxing, short tests are included as part of your self-directed learning blocks each week. These are built with the objective of helping you to apply the principles you're learning to your own business and senior leadership practices.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

This course is for senior leadership teams to learn together, building on self-directed learning with live workshops and hands-on micro projects.

Active hands-on learning

While all of your learning is done within your own senior leadership team, you’ll also be interacting with senior leadership teams from the other companies in your cohort. It's invaluable to hear their perspectives and how they're applying the content to their businesses and industries.

Interactive practical learning

Each cohort on this Ten Past Tomorrow course becomes a community of like-minded senior leaders who want to learn and grow their AI competency and strategic insight, alongside you.

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