Lead in AI

  • Start date: 5 Nov 2026
  • Duration: 4 Days
  • Location: IMI Campus, Dublin
  • Investment: €4775
  • Open

Course Overview

Become an AI Leader

Develop the strategy, confidence and leadership capability to successfully integrate AI across your organisation.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer simply a technology conversation, it’s a leadership challenge. Organisations need leaders who can identify where AI creates competitive advantage, redesign how work gets done, prepare their people for change and build a compelling business case for investment.

Lead with AI is a practical four-day programme designed to help senior leaders develop and present an AI strategy for their own organisation. Working on a live business challenge, you’ll leave with a practical roadmap for implementation, not just ideas.

As the final programme in the AI Learning Pathway, AI Leaders equips leaders to turn AI ambition into organisational action.

Just for your team

Every programme in our full suite of short programmes can be delivered exclusively to your staff. If you have 10 or more participants for a specific programme, we can partner with you to deliver it on our campus or at a location of your choice.

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Programme Highlights

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Business Value
Learn how to align AI initiatives with your organisation's strategic priorities, identify high-impact opportunities, and build a practical AI strategy that drives measurable business outcomes.
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Lead AI Transformation
Gain the frameworks and leadership skills to guide AI adoption across your organisation, redesign operating models, and enable people and AI to work together effectively.
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Responsible AI
Develop compelling business cases for AI investment while strengthening your understanding of AI governance, oversight, and risk to support informed executive decision-making.
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Actionable Roadmap
Complete the programme with a practical AI strategy, workforce and operating model roadmap, AI adoption and change plan, investment business case, and the confidence to lead AI transformation in your organisation.

Programme Faculty

Matthew Atherfold has more than 20 years of international experience spanning HR technology, SaaS, FinTech, and enterprise systems. His work focuses on helping organisations prepare for AI, with particular expertise in the future of work. He supports senior leaders in areas such as AI strategy, operating model development, and data-driven decision-making. He is also the founder of Future Academy, an initiative dedicated to equipping the next generation of leaders with practical, applied AI capabilities.

 

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