What does AI actually mean — for your organisation, your sector, and the next ten years?
For senior leaders, board members, and policy makers. The mental models to understand what AI is, where it’s going, and what it means — for your sector, your workforce, and your teams. How to drive adoption effectively, how to govern it responsibly, and how to make good decisions when the landscape keeps shifting.
“This is the first time I have felt that I am really working together with AI. It changed how our leadership team thinks about strategic decisions.”
AI for Leadership participant
AI is reshaping knowledge work, competitive dynamics, and the policy landscape — and the pace is accelerating. The senior people making the most consequential decisions about this often have the least structured understanding of what’s actually happening. Not because they lack access to AI, but because nobody has given them the conceptual foundations to interpret it: what’s real, what’s hype, what it means for their workforce and teams, and what good governance actually looks like. This course gives leaders durable understanding — the kind that holds even as the tools and headlines change.
Built for
- C-suite executives navigating strategic decisions in an AI-shaped landscape
- Board members who need to understand and govern AI
- Senior public servants and policy leaders
- Anyone who needs to steer the ship, not operate the engine
Not the right fit if...
- People wanting hands-on AI practitioner skills (see Foundations to Fluency)
- Those seeking domain-specific analysis (see AI for Investment)
Where AI is and where it's going
Cut through the hype. Understand how AI enables, accelerates, and transforms work — and why the gap between tool access and effective use keeps widening.
The human role and the future of teams
The shift from athlete to coach, from actor to director, from writer to editor. How to lead when everyone becomes a manager and orchestrator of AI agents — and how that changes teams and organisations.
Governance, security, and ethics
Practical approaches to privacy, bias, hallucination risk, and accountability — including the 'use it to govern it' principle.
- What AI is, how it works, and what's changing — cutting through the hype
- The capability gap: why technique matters more than tools
- The exponential improvement curve — and why the gap between tool access and effective use keeps widening
- What's real today vs. what's coming: agents, multi-agent systems, and the evolving AI landscape
Anthea Roberts
CEO, Dragonfly Thinking
Professor at ANU. Has lectured at Harvard, LSE, and Columbia. Built the Dragonfly platform and methodology.
Half-day
~3 hoursThe natural format for executives. Strategic understanding, the future of work, and governance in a single session.
- Core frameworks and mental models
- Live demonstrations
- Certificate of completion
Extended
Multi-sessionMulti-session deep dive for leadership teams wanting comprehensive coverage with hands-on experience.
- Full coverage of all four modules
- Hands-on platform experience
- Certificate of completion
| Format | Individual | Group (≤15) |
|---|---|---|
| Half-day | $950 | $10,000 |
| Full-day | $1,595 | $15,000 |
| Full-day + platform | $1,995 | $20,000 |
All prices AUD, ex GST. Enterprise invoicing and purchase orders supported.
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Standalone — for senior leaders and boards. No prerequisites.