Every day brings new breakthroughs and corporate announcements about AI that flood the news and social networks. It behooves every individual to learn the benefits and practical applications of this technology, but it’s been difficult to parse signals from noise, fact from fiction, and reality from hype. The stakes are high, and so are the chances you’ll be led astray or persuaded to overspend on inappropriate solutions with no clear ROI. 

Leaders are struggling to know why, how, when, or even if their organization should embrace AI. There’s so much uncertainty around how AI will impact employees, customers, and the balance sheet, that leaders are making unfortunate errors in communication and judgement. 

The pervasive Fear Of Missing Out that drives the “AI-first” narrative is resulting in expensive failures and is having an extremely dehumanizing and demotivating effect on the workforce.

It may seem like all this upheaval and confusion is inevitable and the price of progress, but this course aims to show you that it’s not the only path: what happens next is really more in our control than we are sometimes led to believe.

Who is this course for?

● Anyone who is in a leadership role (or contemplating one) and working for a company in the midst of AI transformation.

● Leaders with an open mind and a growth mindset who believe in asking tough questions, challenging the status quo, and learning from trainers who do the same.

● Non-leaders who want to better understand what is happening right now and why some leaders all seem to be reading from the same playbook. 

What you’ll get out of it:

● Permission to embrace non-conformity and to question the popular narrative.

● Evidence-backed research, case studies, and common sense talking points that will steer you in the direction of reality and reason and away from hype and disinformation.

● A better understanding of the origins of AI, the benefits and risks of AI in proper context, and the role we play in shaping the future.

● A better way forward: one that’s grounded in individual empowerment, ethics, and human-centered leadership. 

This course promotes critical thinking and provides some historical as well as practical grounding to examine the nature of Generative AI and Large Language Models, where it came from, how it relates to the larger field of AI, and how we perceive its abilities versus what it's actually capable of.

We’ll identify and mitigate fear-based based decision-making; we’ll pull apart the hype and try to quantify what problems we’re really trying to solve versus expensive distractions; we’ll identify the major ethical, legal and security risks of AI adoption; and we’ll rekindle an appreciation for human brain power despite all the fanfare about so-called thinking machines. 

This course gives you permission to ask “why are we doing this?” and “should we be doing this?” instead of glossing over the issues and assuming the all-too-common, reductionist attitude of “adapt or die”.

The utopian optimism of most AI training courses gives rise to groupthink and conformity, but since when was business success the result of blindly following trends? 

Let's get back to the roots of human leadership: even against the backdrop of increasing automation, you have to be human to lead humans.

Low time commitment: this course has been designed to pack as much information and food-for-thought as possible into 2, 2-hour sessions over 2 days.

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Even in the age of AI, knowledge is still power, technology is always a choice, and people still matter.

This is an antidote for the fear and hype-fueled AI marketing frenzy. Re-center your leadership by balancing rationality with moral fortitude. Wake up from robot dreams to remember the mission you started before chatGPT took over your thoughts.

Get back to building your vision of the future, not somebody else’s.