The AI-Ready
Executive
In one focused morning, move from using AI tools to governing AI at the table. Built for senior women and non-binary leaders who intend to lead the AI conversation in their boardroom — not sit through another literacy primer.
The EU AI Act's core obligations take effect August 2, 2026 — transparency rules and the high-risk regime become enforceable. The executives who can speak to this with authority right now are the ones who get the AI mandate.
Most leadership programs taught you AI literacy. Boards are now asking for AI governance.
You can already use the tools. That's table stakes. What separates the leaders who get the AI mandate from the ones who get talked over is the ability to assess organizational readiness, govern AI risk as its own discipline, make a defensible build-or-buy call, and frame all of it for a board.
Those are the exact capabilities that keep high-performing women and non-binary leaders sidelined from the conversations where AI strategy actually gets decided — not because of competence, but because the room wasn't designed for them. This intensive closes that gap in a single morning — with work you do on your own organization's real decisions.
Three artifacts, built on your own organization
This isn't a webinar you take notes on. You leave with three working documents you can use in your next leadership meeting — within the week.
AI Readiness Scorecard
An evidence-backed score of your organization across five dimensions — data, talent, processes, culture, and governance. You'll know exactly where you're board-ready and where you're exposed.
Strategic Decision Matrix
A build / acquire / partner recommendation on a real initiative you bring — evaluated for strategic fit, capability, speed, cost, and the risk that survives scrutiny.
Board-Ready One-Pager
A single-page AI narrative connecting your decision, value, and risk posture into the message a board can act on — tailored to your primary stakeholder.
A working session, not a lecture
Every segment ends with you having produced something. The governance hour — the heart of the day — is the depth most programs never reach.
Frame the stakes
The regulatory clock, why AI governance is now a board mandate, and the three-pillar literacy frame — awareness, application, accountability — you'll use all morning.
ReadinessArtifact 1
Score your own organization live across the five readiness dimensions, with evidence behind every number.
Govern & riskThe core
Why AI risk isn't regular tech risk. Map a real use case across the Six Buckets of AI Risk and run the full AI Risk Playbook — frame, pre-mortem, score, control, monitor.
DecideArtifact 2
Apply the Strategic AI Decision Matrix to your initiative and land a defensible build / acquire / partner recommendation.
PositionArtifact 3
Draft your board one-pager using the Four-Stakeholder Communication framework. Read it to a room that reacts like a board.
Commit
Name the one move you'll make in the next 30 days — and walk out with the artifacts to make it.
Frameworks boards recognize
Grounded in the standards your CFO and board already use — NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, OWASP's LLM Top 10, and MITRE ATLAS.
Executive AI Literacy
Awareness, application, and accountability — the three pillars that anchor credible technology leadership.
Five-Dimension Readiness
Data, talent, processes, culture, governance — a structured read on whether your organization can actually deliver.
Six Buckets of AI Risk
Model, security, privacy, ethics, legal, operational — every vulnerability mapped to an accountable owner.
The AI Risk Playbook
A lean, repeatable five-step method to frame, pre-mortem, score, control, and monitor any AI use case.
Strategic Decision Matrix
Build, acquire, or partner — an evidence-based call instead of a vendor-led default.
Four-Stakeholder Communication
Investors, employees, customers, regulators — the right message, precisely framed, for each audience.
Built for leaders already in motion
✓This is for you if
- ✓You're a director, VP, or senior IC being groomed for the next level.
- ✓Your organization is making AI decisions you want a real voice in.
- ✓You're past "what is a large language model" and ready for governance.
- ✓You want a deliverable you can use this week, not a certificate.
–This isn't for you if
- –You're looking for a hands-on prompt-engineering or tools tutorial.
- –You want a passive lecture with no work to do on the day.
- –You're new to leadership and not yet operating at a strategic level.
- –You're not willing to bring one real AI decision to work through.
Two ways to join
Seats are limited to keep the room senior and the work hands-on. Cohort dates open on a rolling basis through the summer.
Open-enrollment cohort limited seat availability
- ✓The full 3.5-hour intensive
- ✓All three working artifacts
- ✓Framework toolkit to take with you
- ✓Intensive-attendee credit toward the 12-week program
Run privately for your high-potential women, on your initiatives.
- ✓Delivered for your team, dates to your calendar
- ✓Worked on your organization's real AI decisions
- ✓Tailored regulatory lens for your jurisdiction
- ✓A natural pipeline into the full leadership cohort
- ✓Use-it-or-lose-it L&D budget welcome
This is the first room. The cohort is the full ascent.
You'll build three AI artifacts in one morning. The 12-week Her Executive Ascent program does this across enterprise financial acumen, power navigation, and board readiness — with a peer cohort, live executive coaching, and your own AI Coach. Intensive attendees enroll at a preferred rate.
Explore the 12-week programThe AI conversation is happening with or without you in the room.
Spend one morning, and walk in able to lead it.
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