Redefining how leaders think and act on AI

Build the essential capability and confidence your leaders need to turn AI potential into real, organisation-wide impact.

Our new AI Leadership Apprenticeship Units give senior people an exceptional learning experience. One designed for how leadership development actually works.

Blended. Practical. Worth a senior leader's time.

Learning tailored for busy leaders. Shaped by real-world practice. Designed for impact.

A high-impact blended experience

Expert-led, live sessions where they have greatest impact – real-world peer challenge, sharing expert knowledge and debate. Asynchronous time for reflection, self-paced learning and application. Driving genuine behaviour change.

Exclusive Imperial Masterclasses

Access to the best minds from Imperial Executive & Professional Education. Gain advanced insights from world-class academics and industry experts at the forefront of research in AI, leadership and data.

Tangible, business-ready outputs

Creates a board-grade, functional Decision Pack. Going beyond a standard skills test to give leaders an evidence-led strategy and a ready-made, actionable way forward.

The AI strategy leader

Our first available apprenticeship unit is AI Strategy and Opportunity.

The leaders most suited to this programme are senior strategists, functional leaders and decision-makers with genuine influence on where, when and how to invest in AI.

This isn't for technical AI specialists or practitioners. Nor is it for operational managers or team leads whose main focus is to implement in-flight AI-driven initiatives.

This is for leaders who are determining what the strategy should be. Leaders with the autonomy to translate organisational ambition into an actionable plan.

The Essentials

Fully-funded by Corndel

Limited availability. Open to employers based in England.

Who it's for

Leaders responsible for shaping what their organisation does with AI.

Duration

30 hours of blended learning delivered over 6 weeks.

Delivery model

Live, expert-led sessions alongside flexible, self-paced online learning and workplace application.

Partnerships

In partnership with Imperial Executive Education, supported by Microsoft.

Content covered

AI Leadership – AI Strategy and Opportunity Level 5 Apprenticeship Unit

Fully-funded by Corndel

Limited availability. Open to employers based in England.

Who it's for

Leaders responsible for shaping what their organisation does with AI.

Duration

30 hours of blended learning delivered over 6 weeks.

Delivery model

Live, expert-led sessions alongside flexible, self-paced online learning and workplace application.

Partnerships

In partnership with Imperial Executive Education, supported by Microsoft.

Content covered

AI Leadership – AI Strategy and Opportunity Level 5 Apprenticeship Unit

Curriculum: AI Strategy and Opportunity

Weeks 1-2

The AI opportunity is real. So is the risk of getting it wrong. Leaders build a clear, leadership-level understanding of what AI can and cannot do, where the real opportunities sit, and the risks that matter. Enabling them to tell a genuine opportunity from an expensive distraction and identify the viable bet.

Learn: AI capabilities and their limits; the benefits, risks and ethics of adoption; the impact on people and culture.

Apply: Leaders take an opportunity from their own organisation and build the case for it (with AI) in a live session.

Weeks 3-4

Adopting AI is a leadership call, not an IT one. Leaders work through the values, policy and reputational questions that they own, and turn a promising idea into a strategy their organisation can actually deliver. Risk and quality questions are answered, not deferred.

Learn: The leaders role in setting values, policy and strategy; the business case for responsible AI; how to develop and resource an AI plan.

Apply: Leaders stress-test their approach and design the governance to prevent failure, in a hands-on, live session.

Weeks 5-6

The most critical aspect of AI leadership isn't the vision, it's the decision. Leaders will learn to judge whether an AI solution is genuinely viable; the data, the testing, the human oversight that make it real. They then present a recommendation to take to their own stakeholders, sharpened by peer challenge and ready to act on.

Learn: How to assess viability and feasibility; testing in practice; what genuine human oversight of AI really requires.

Apply: Leaders present their recommendation to the cohort and coach, learn from their peers, and scan the horizon for what's coming next.

Imperial Masterclasses

Offering a powerful lens to the toughest challenges leaders face in their roles. Exclusive Masterclasses from Imperial's world-class academics and industry experts unlock advanced insights and spark new thinking.

Exploring global trends, tools and strategies that sharpen personal development or technical skills, each session is available live and on-demand.

Discover more about Imperial Masterclasses

A high-level look at our masterclasses – blending insight from Imperial faculty with Corndel’s business-relevant, human-led perspective to challenge thinking and inspire action.

Discover more about Imperial Masterclasses

A high-level look at our masterclasses – blending insight from Imperial faculty with Corndel’s business-relevant, human-led perspective to challenge thinking and inspire action.

Real outcomes. Real transformation.

Confident AI decisions

Builds leaders' capability to engage in AI conversations at exec level with confident, credible challenge. Empowers them to reach defensible adoption decisions, including “not yet” or “not this”, backed by clear evidence.

Strategic synergy

Ensures AI deployment is aligned to enterprise strategy, priorities and governance. Refines leaders' proficiency in engaging sceptical stakeholders, regulators and boards, with informed argument.

Future-ready leadership

Builds expertise in leading people successfully through AI change – balancing roles, culture and morale. Sets leaders on a path to continuously test, adapt and refine decisions as technology, regulation and evidence evolve.

We know what works.

We have over a decade of experience and expertise in real-world leadership practice.

We’ve trained more than 40,000 professionals, including over 28,000 leaders, across the UK’s biggest organisations.

Our AI Leadership Apprenticeship Units are shaped by employer research, academic insight and our market-leading track record in practical leadership development.

We know what makes leaders engage, and what actually sticks.