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AI Leadership Accelerator: a private 12-week programme

A private 12-week programme across six focused conversations, grounded in the decisions and work already on your desk.

  • Six focused conversations over twelve weeks
  • Hands-on work with the current generation of models
  • A roadmap ready to fund and execute

What you get

  • Executive AI playbook

    Your own tested workflows, prompts and judgement calls in one place.

  • 90-day action plan

    A prioritised, board-ready plan for the next phase of adoption.

  • Opportunity and ROI prioritisation

    Where to invest first, and an explicit stop-doing list.

  • Access between sessions

    Review of live materials, decks and experiments as the work moves.

02 / Private programme

AI Leadership Accelerator

A private 12-week advisory engagement. Across six focused conversations we apply AI to real executive work, explore opportunities and risks, challenge assumptions, and define a practical direction for the next phase of organisational adoption.  AI models, licences and pricing are changing faster than most leadership teams can evaluate them. The result is often hesitation: unclear priorities, conflicting supplier claims and no agreed way to decide. The AI Leadership Accelerator gives one senior leader the understanding and judgement to decide with confidence. Over twelve weeks and six focused conversations, we work on your real decisions, test the current models hands-on, and finish with a 90-day plan the board can act on.  We have created this bespoke program to resolve exactly that. Made up by both practical hands-on reviews on the latest and greatest models together with indepth insights defining a clear roadmap ready to be executed.   

Executive reality

The challenge is not access to AI. It is knowing how to lead with it.

  • The board wants answers
  • Teams are experimenting without direction
  • Suppliers make conflicting claims
  • AI investments are difficult to evaluate
  • Governance feels unclear
  • Productivity gains remain unproven
  • Competitors appear to be moving faster
Who it is for

Leaders accountable for the decision, not the demo.

Business owners & Founders
Managing directors
Chief executives
Professional services partners
Senior executives
Advisory and consulting leaders

This programme is designed for leaders who recognise AI matters but want a more confident, practical and commercially grounded approach to the decisions ahead.

Programme structure

The 12 week journey

01

Leadership Agenda and Baseline

OutputOne-page leadership brief

02

Personal AI Leverage

OutputOne tested executive workflow

03

Strategy and Value

OutputPrioritised opportunities and stop-doing list

04

Risk, Governance and Judgement

OutputDecision guardrails and challenge framework

05

Leading Adoption

OutputLeadership narrative and stakeholder plan

06

Board-Ready Direction

Output90-day action plan and leadership playbook

Between sessions
  • Tailored briefings
  • Practical experiments
  • Review of live materials
  • Focused advisor access
  • Reflection and challenge
What leaders leave with

Work you can use in the next board meeting.

01

Executive AI Playbook

02

Practical AI Usage Framework

03

AI Governance and Risk Guardrails

04

AI Leadership Narrative

05

AI ROI Opportunity Prioritisation

06

90 Day AI Action Plan

07

Executive AI Decision Framework

08

AI Policy Definition

09

AI Best Practices

10

AI Adoption Roadmap underpinning all of the above

Outcomes

Outcomes that matter to leaders

  • Better AI-related decisions
  • Greater confidence in executive conversations
  • Improved judgement around investment opportunities
  • Clear understanding of risks and governance
  • More effective use of AI in executive work
  • Stronger ability to challenge suppliers and advisors
  • Clear leadership direction for organisational adoption
How this fits with the Stellance Method

The bridge between personal capability and organisational action.

Private advisory establishes the leader’s own judgement first. Everything that follows becomes easier to direct, fund and sustain.

Private Executive Advisory
Leadership Advisory & AI Strategy
Workforce Enablement & Capability Building
AI Adoption Roadmaps & Change Programmes
Long-Term Organisational Adoption
Questions

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from AI training?

Training teaches tools. This is advisory: the work is your work, the outputs are your decisions, and the measure is the quality of the judgement you can hold in front of a board.

Do I need technical knowledge?

No. The engagement assumes commercial and operational fluency, not technical background. Anything technical is translated into the decisions it affects.

Is this focused on one AI tool?

No. Tools change. We work with whatever is appropriate to the task and keep the focus on judgement, value and governance rather than a single platform.

How much time is required between sessions?

Typically two to three hours across a fortnight — applied to work you already have, not additional coursework.

Can this support board-level conversations?

Yes. Several outputs are built for exactly that: the leadership brief, the governance guardrails, the narrative and the 90-day plan.

What happens after the programme ends?

You hold a defensible position and a plan. Where organisational activity follows, it can be supported through the wider Stellance engagements — with no obligation to continue.

The goal is not to become an AI expert. The goal is to become a leader who can make confident decisions about AI.

AI is now part of the leadership agenda.

The question is not whether it matters. The question is whether you feel equipped to lead the decisions that follow.