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AI Governance Strategy Intensive Live Online

Lead AI decisions.
With a clear plan to govern it.

Develop a working AI governance playbook for your organisation in 2.5 weeks. Set priorities, clarify accountability and assess the wider consequences of your AI decisions.

2.5 weeks Online Live + AI-guided

For leaders shaping AI use in their team or organisation. No technical background required.

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FormatOnline, 2.5 weeks, part-time
Live sessionsSix, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Next cohortStarts 20 October 2026
Fee£1,895 £1,445 early bird
Certificate of completionIssued by CISL

The work you take back

An AI governance playbook that turns individual decisions into a considered strategy.

Work on one sector, your function or your wider organisation. Build an approach you can explain to colleagues and put into practice.

Choose where AI should and should not be used. Weigh long-term value, risks and competing interests, not just immediate returns.
Make responsibility work in practice. Clarify who can shape, approve, challenge or stop AI. Align the controls and incentives that shape how people act.
Build support. Adapt as conditions change. Make the case to colleagues, set implementation priorities and review decisions as technology, markets and expectations evolve.

Plus a summary to take to your leadership team.

See an example: AI in recruitment

Inside the playbook · an example

AI in recruitment

An AI tool screens job applicants.
Your governance needs to answer:

  1. Does it improve hiring, rather than just speed up screening?
  2. Who might be excluded, and how can they challenge a decision?
  3. Who is accountable, and what evidence should trigger a review?

Illustrative questions, not a completed assessment. You work on your own organisational context.

Live sessions with faculty

Cambridge, academia and industry.

Thomas Lingard
Centre for Future Generations
CISL Senior Associate
Professor Gina Neff
University of Cambridge
Research on how technology changes power and work.
Professor Ramit Debnath
University of Cambridge
Research on AI that benefits people and the planet.
Professor David Leslie
The Alan Turing Institute
Author of UK public-sector guidance on AI ethics and safety.
Arun Biswas
IBM Consulting
AI strategy and transformation in banking, energy and public services

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How you learn

Personalised learning. Apply it to your organisation.

  • Live sessions with faculty.Six sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 60 to 90 minutes each. All sessions are recorded.
  • Personalised learning between sessions.Readings, AI tutorials and audio briefings shaped around the context you share. This work is yours to schedule.
  • Your playbook, built as you go.Develop its six sections, an implementation roadmap and a leadership summary with Paski, your AI tutor.

Learn alongside a cross-sector cohort, with a community space between sessions.

What you’ll cover in six stages
  1. Grounded in value

    Long-term value, principles and the people and systems affected.

  2. Orient to outcomes and trade-offs

    Opportunities, risks, obligations and competing interests.

  3. Vested accountability

    Ownership, decision rights, oversight and escalation.

  4. Embed in operations

    Processes, controls, incentives, capability and vendor standards, including cost and resource use.

  5. Review evidence

    Effectiveness indicators and an impact assessment of one system.

  6. Navigate change

    Implementation priorities, review triggers and the leadership narrative.

Five taught learning units cover these six stages, followed by a closing showcase. You develop one working playbook across the programme.

Why CISL

Make today’s AI decisions with the future in view.

CISL helps leaders turn complex challenges into practical organisational action. This programme applies its experience of leadership, systems change and business transformation to responsible AI governance.

Connect today’s decisions with long-term competitiveness and resilience your organisation depends on.

Consider who benefits, who bears the costs and what needs to change.

Before you decide.

Why CISL and why now?

AI adoption is already reshaping organisations and sectors, but its future is not yet determined. Without leadership, clear accountability and adaptive governance, there is a real risk that AI deepens systemic risks, cost and impact. The decisions leaders make today will determine what our future looks like. CISL brings three decades of experience working with business leaders and organisations to address complex, fast-moving systemic challenges into long-term, value-driven solutions for society and economies.

Is this the right level for me?

You should understand the basics of using AI and have responsibility or influence over how it is adopted or used. This may be in operations, finance, HR, procurement, technology or risk. You do not need technical expertise or a sustainability role.

How much time should I allow?

The programme combines six live sessions with work you schedule between them. Allow 75 to 90 minutes of applied work per learning unit, plus onboarding, readings and AI tutorials. There are five learning units.

Live sessions run at 12:00 UK time.

What does the early-bird fee cover, and when does it end?

The fee covers the full programme: six live sessions, the personalised learning between them, the AI tutor and your Certificate of Completion. The early-bird fee of £1,445 applies until 6 October, or until the early-bird places are taken, whichever comes first. After that the fee is £1,895.

Requesting the outline does not hold a place or commit you to payment.

Is this a compliance qualification?

No. This is a leadership programme, not legal advice, technical training or regulatory certification. You develop a working governance playbook for review and implementation within your organisation.

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