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Executive AI literacy
Fluency - AI Training
A hands-on executive AI literacy programme tailored to the audience and the organisation, its tools and its priorities.
- Executive teams and senior leaders
- Tailored to the organisation
- In person
Programme overview
Confidence comes from using the tools, not watching them.
Fluency is NxtLab's facilitated AI literacy programme for executive teams, senior leaders, boards, executive PAs and other organisational cohorts. It is bespoke to the audience and client requirements rather than a one-size-fits-all offer. NxtLab has delivered training to executive teams and boards of ASX companies, as well as executive PAs and other organisational cohorts. Professor Amy Shi-Nash leads the sessions in person, using the organisation's own tools and real examples; follow-up support can continue by Teams or Zoom.
Why it matters
The licence is not the capability.
Many organisations have rolled out AI licences, but leaders need hands-on time with the tools in their own context. Fluency closes that gap and helps teams build practical confidence and shared judgement.
Outcomes
Three outcomes.
Improve personal productivity
Learn how to make AI writes like you, thinks with you, and works for you
Set direction with confidence
From lived experience to enterprise thinking. Discuss opportunity, risk, governance and the operating model with teams, peers and the board.
How it works
Three principles.
In their own work
Every exercise uses a real document or task each executive brings, so the learning lands immediately.
Confidence before complexity
Personal fluency first, then scaling that fluency into reusable AI agents and shared governance.
Safe to experiment
Sessions run as a coached peer-learning environment, not a lecture.
The programme
An illustrative sequence, tailored to the cohort.
The topics below are a starting point, not a fixed three-workshop package. We shape the order, depth and pacing to the organisation, and can revisit the work days or weeks later for practice and questions.
Topic 1 — Personal fluency
- What participants do
- Work live on a real document or recurring task, testing core concepts, prompting and critical review of AI output.
- What they leave with
- A personal prompting pattern, a review habit and a task they can repeat immediately.
Topic 2 — Agents and governance
- What participants do
- Build a reusable AI assistant for a recurring task, then discuss opportunity, risk and governance in a facilitated roundtable.
- What they leave with
- A working assistant for the portfolio and a clearer view of the decisions it creates.
Topic 3 — Strategic direction
- What participants do
- Work through strategic AI direction and the operating model needed to scale adoption responsibly.
- What they leave with
- A draft direction and operating-model decisions to take into the leadership team.
Programme at a glance
The practical details.
The programme is agreed collaboratively after discovery meetings and customised to the organisation.
- Target audience
- Executive teams and senior leaders, tailored also to boards, executive PAs and other organisational cohorts.
- Session duration
- Usually a morning or afternoon, tailored to client needs.
- Participant numbers
- Usually around 15 or fewer for personalised work and peer learning; larger awareness groups or smaller technical deep dives as appropriate.
- Delivery format
- In person, delivered by Professor Amy Shi-Nash.
- Customisation
- Tailored to the organisation's tools, priorities, experience and real examples, including Copilot, Claude, GPT, Gemini or other tools.
- Preparation
- Discovery meetings to understand goals, systems and guidelines, then a bespoke programme agreed collaboratively.
- Follow-up
- Sessions can be arranged days or weeks later, with individual support available via Teams or Zoom for practice and questions.
Fluency programme
Bring us the problem worth solving.
Bring the leadership team, the tools you already use and the work that needs to get easier. We will shape the programme around that, and continued support and further strategy or development consulting can be tailored to your needs.