The AI-Ready Executive
Lori Lalonde
CEO & Founder - Her Executive Ascent
Built for women and non-binary leaders who intend to lead the AI conversation.
Most AI training teaches awareness. It doesn't teach you to govern, evaluate risk, or walk into a board meeting and defend a position with the precision that earns a mandate. So you stay fluent and stay peripheral at the exact moment your organization is scrambling to identify who actually owns AI strategy at the executive level.
The AI-Ready Executive was built for that gap. In one 4-hour live intensive, you'll move from AI-literate to AI-authoritative: you'll apply frameworks to evaluate a real initiative, make a defensible build/acquire/partner recommendation, and draft your Board Readout.
You leave with three working artifacts that you can use immediately.
1) AI Readiness Scorecard: an evidence-backed score of your organization across five dimensions — data, talent, processes, culture, and governance.
2) Strategic Decision Matrix: a build / acquire / partner recommendation on a real initiative evaluated for strategic fit, capability, speed, cost, and the risk that survives scrutiny.
3) Board-Ready One-Pager: A single-page narrative connecting your decision, value, and risk posture into the message a board can act on tailored to your primary stakeholder.
What you’ll learn
Learn to govern AI risk, score real initiatives, and brief boards — and leave with three artifacts you can use immediately.
Apply the VFR framework and 12-question toolkit to score any AI initiative across five readiness dimensions.
Map data quality, talent, processes, culture, and governance against a structured rubric.
Complete a hands-on scenario sprint evaluating a real initiative during the session.
Apply the Six Risk Buckets framework to classify and size any AI risk across your organization.
Run a pre-mortem, score risk severity, and define controls using the full AI Risk Playbook.
Build a scored risk register for a real initiative during the session — ready to present on Monday.
Use the Strategic AI Decision Matrix to compare options across timeline, risk, and strategic fit.
Pressure-test your recommendation against the criteria boards and CFOs actually challenge.
Leave with a completed Decision Memo — a structured, shareable rationale for your recommendation.
Use the Four-Stakeholder Communication framework to tailor one AI narrative for four audiences.
Draft your Board Readout in real time using a structured template and leave with a polished, presentation-ready document.
Learn what boards expect on AI: what to lead with, what to quantify, and what to leave out entirely.
Workshop agenda
Frame the stakes
The regulatory clock, why AI governance is now a board mandate, and the three-pillar literacy frame — awareness, application, accountability — you'll use all morning.
Segment 1 - Readiness
Score your own organization live across the five readiness dimensions, with evidence behind every number.
Segment 2 - Govern & Risk
Why AI risk isn't regular tech risk. Map a real use case across the Six Buckets of AI Risk and run the full AI Risk Playbook — frame, pre-mortem, score, control, monitor.
Segment 3 - Decide
Apply the Strategic AI Decision Matrix to your initiative and land a defensible build / acquire / partner recommendation.
Segment 4 - Position
Draft your board one-pager using the Four-Stakeholder Communication framework. Read it to a room that reacts like a board.
Commit
Name the one move you'll make in the next 30 days — and walk out with the artifacts to make it.
Learn directly from Lori
Lori Lalonde
Executive Coach | ex-Microsoft & Manulife | AI Leadership
Who this workshop is for
Women and non-binary leaders at the director, VP, or senior IC level who want a voice in AI decisions.
Leaders who are past "what is AI" and ready for governance — how to assess it, evaluate risk, and communicate it at board level
Leaders whose organizations are actively making AI decisions and who want to show up with a framework, not just an opinion.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Lori Lalonde in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
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