Part one
Outside-in
How customers, channels and competitors in your industry use AI, and what the most advanced companies do differently.
The flagship board session
Request a board session.
A half-day working session built around your company. We look at how AI is changing your customers, channels and competitors, show directors the tools live, and agree how the board oversees AI.
Scoped with the Chair.
Who it is for
Chairs, corporate secretaries and full boards
- Full boards and board committees
- Chairs who want AI treated as a competitive question in the boardroom
- Corporate secretaries and general counsel who write it into the governance documents
The session in three parts
Part two
A live demonstration
How a director can use AI to prepare for a board discussion, using public information only.
Part three
Oversight with STAR
The STAR framework, where oversight sits across the board and its committees, and the questions directors ask management.
How it works
Preparation
- Designed with the Chair and the corporate secretary.
- Short conversations with the CEO and senior management.
- Management checks the facts on the company slides.
- An optional pre-read for directors.
- Short opening and closing words for the Chair.
What the board leaves with
Three drafts to take forward
- Where AI oversight sits across the board and its committees.
- A directors’ AI policy.
- A short list of questions for management.
Also: a one-page quarterly AI report format for management, and a possible twelve-month path.
For the corporate secretary
What the corporate secretary gets.
- A draft directors’ AI policy to adapt: tools, information, judgment, records and annual review.
- A clear view on AI in board work: what helps with agendas and pack summaries, and why AI note-takers and transcripts are a records risk. In Delaware in August 2026, an AI transcript of a board meeting was read next to the official minutes, and they did not match.
- A suggested split of AI oversight between the full board and each committee, ready to write into the governance documents.
- A one-page quarterly AI report format for management and a possible twelve-month path, so AI becomes a regular agenda item without adding work.
Other formats
Keynotes and management workshops
For leadership teams, offsites and strategy days, the practice also delivers the formats below. Choose them under “Other formats” in the form.
AI Private Briefing
A sharp, current read on where AI is and where it is going, for executive teams and leadership offsites.
AI Wargaming Session
A strategic exercise on how AI-first players could attack your moats, for strategy offsites and PE operating partners.
Gold Standards Fade
A keynote on why market leaders fall, from Nokia to today, for board retreats and CEO offsites.
Future-Back AI Strategy Workshop
A facilitated session with a written strategy deliverable, for executive teams and management strategy days.