AI Mastery for the Boardroom
Use AI Better. Lead AI Smarter.
A practical one-day programme for senior executives who want to save time, sharpen decisions, understand what AI now makes possible, and lead their organisation's AI agenda with confidence. Three sessions in 2026: Nottingham and London.
The ceiling most leaders have hit.
Most senior executives are already using AI. The problem is not access. It is the gap between what they think AI can do for them and what it actually can, and that gap is wider than most leaders realise.
This intensive one-day programme is designed for senior executives who have moved beyond the basics but know they are not extracting the full value. You can prompt a model. You can summarise a document. But there is a ceiling, and most leaders have hit it without quite knowing where it is.
This course breaks through that ceiling. Every session is built around what works in practice, drawn from active work with executive teams on AI adoption right now. Every exercise uses real challenges from your own business. You will not be working through hypotheticals.
By the end of the day
You will know how to use AI to synthesise competitive intelligence, stress-test strategic decisions before you are in the room, deploy agentic workflows that operate autonomously, and lead the AI conversation in your organisation with confidence. You will leave with skills you can use the next morning and a framework for building on them for months afterwards.
That was the best course I have been to in years. Really extremely useful and eye-opening. I thought I was using AI in the day job but realised I was only scratching the surface.
Five skills you take back to work.
Gain 01
Strategic AI Thinking
Move beyond basic prompting to using AI as a genuine strategic intelligence layer. Synthesise competitive insight across multiple sources and surface patterns no single document could reveal.
Gain 02
Sharper Decisions, Faster
Build synthetic executive personas to pressure-test decisions before you are in the room. Anticipate objections, identify blind spots, arrive better prepared.
Gain 03
Time Back for What Matters
Automate the executive tasks that consume your week and redirect that time to higher-value thinking and leadership.
Gain 04
A Clear View of the Threat
Understand what agentic AI means for your market, your operations, and the capability decisions you need to make now.
Gain 05
Confidence in the Room
Talk credibly about AI strategy at board and investor level, lead the workforce conversation your team is already waiting for, and respond to a regulatory regime that is already in force.
Agenda.
Morning
- 10.00-10.40 AI-Assisted Leadership The Executive AI Framework sets the architecture for the day. A structured task audit identifies where AI can recover the most time and energy in your specific role.
- 10.40-11.30 Automate: Time Back for What Matters Hands-on build of an AI admin assistant configured around your own tasks. The focus throughout is on automations you can take back and use immediately.
- 11.30-11.40 Break Coffee and informal conversation
- 11.40-12.55 Augment: AI as Strategic Thought Partner Build a strategic knowledge store, then construct synthetic executive personas modelled as your toughest board member, your sharpest competitor, or your most demanding customer. Used to stress-test strategy before the real conversation happens.
- 12.55-1.40 Lunch Working lunch with the cohort
Afternoon
- 1.40-2.45 Accelerate: Agentic AI and the Frontier The shift from prompted to agentic AI is the most important development now under way. We run a live multi-step agentic workflow and work through the build, buy or integrate decision every executive team faces.
- 2.45-3.10 Break Afternoon refresh
- 3.10-4.10 Accountability: Risk, Governance, People The three areas where senior executives are most exposed: regulatory compliance, the workforce conversation, and how to communicate a credible AI strategy at board and investor level.
- 4.10-4.45 Your AI Leadership Action Plan The day's learning consolidated into a Personal AI Action Plan and implementation roadmap. Quick wins identified, next actions structured. A plan you can act on, not notes you will not read.
Built from practice, not theory.
Built from practice
Every framework in this programme has been developed through active work with executive teams on AI adoption. The sessions reflect what actually works inside real organisations, not what works in theory. When something is in the agenda, it is because it has delivered results in the field.
One day. Real impact.
This programme respects the reality of how senior leaders operate. One focused day, no pre-reading, and skills you can apply immediately. The format is not a constraint. It is the point. Senior executive time is finite, and this programme is designed to make the most of it.
You build things, not just awareness
Every session includes hands-on practice with frontier AI platforms. You will leave with tools you have built, workflows you have configured, and methods you have practised on real problems from your own business. The learning is practical from the first session to the last.
Your problems, not hypotheticals
The exercises throughout this programme start from challenges you are actually facing. The knowledge store you build, the synthetic advisor you construct, the workflow you map: all of them begin with something real. The output of each session is something you can use the following week.
The session gave me space to step back and really absorb how AI can drive efficiencies across the business. I came away with a much clearer understanding of the practical implications of AI in my day-to-day role as a CEO. The course delivered insights that will more than repay the time invested. It was engaging, thought-provoking and highly relevant. I'd recommend it to any senior leader looking to get ahead of the curve on AI.
Three sessions, 2026.
- Friday 10 July 2026Macildowie Offices, Nottingham 6th Floor, Waterfront House, 35 Station Street, Nottingham
The 10 July session is sponsored by Macildowie Recruitment and Retention, who are providing selected leaders in their network with complimentary access to AI Mastery for the Boardroom.
Our commitment · 30-day money-back guarantee
Use what you learn. If it does not clearly and significantly enhance your productivity or strategic impact, you will receive a full refund. No conditions, no hassle.
If you're sitting on the sidelines with AI and want to understand more about its application, I'd highly recommend Adrian, Paul and the team. Really valuable insights and real-world experience.
Who you will learn from.
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Adrian Tripp
Partner
Experienced entrepreneur and management consultant with over two decades in business strategy, innovation, and technology-driven growth. Adrian founded and exited three media-tech businesses, the last to Informa Plc. He has spent the past seven years consulting with the London Stock Exchange Group and Umbra Capital Partners, and leads the business strategy practice at Prosper AI Consulting.
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Paul Bratcher
Partner
Senior technology and transformation leader with over twenty years in board-level roles at Howdens Joinery, Rexel UK, Travis Perkins, and Screwfix. Paul has led AI initiatives at board level since 2019, currently shaping business cases, developing AI-enabled solutions, and keeping people and culture at the centre of change.
It's rare to find a course on AI run by people who've actually been in the CEO seat and happen to be experts in AI. The examples were grounded in real business challenges, and sharing experiences with other CEOs made it even better.
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