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Where capability is grown.

We coach boards, CEOs and executive teams to build judgement, develop fluency and lead the AI transition.

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Judgement to decide. Fluency to act. Capability that stays when we leave.

01Programmes

Three programmes. Three levels each.

Board, executive and leadership. Practical, advanced or enterprise, depending on where you are starting.

01Board fluency

Govern with confidence.

Build the understanding and judgement to oversee AI strategy, challenge management and govern intelligence with confidence.

Choose a level

  • Practical

    One session with the full board. For directors who need a working grasp of what AI changes and what it does not.

  • Advanced

    A short series run against your own board papers. For directors ready to interrogate strategy, risk and investment cases.

  • Enterprise

    Standing support across the year. For boards where AI oversight has become a permanent item.

Who this is for

Non-executive directors and board committees who have to test what management brings them.

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02Executive fluency

Lead with intelligence.

Develop the capability to use AI with confidence, sharpen executive decision making and find where intelligence creates value.

Choose a level

  • Practical

    A working session for the executive team. For leaders who want to use these tools themselves rather than delegate them.

  • Advanced

    A series built around your planning cycle. For executives applying AI to real decisions, priorities and trade-offs.

  • Enterprise

    Embedded through the transition. For teams building AI into how the executive meets, decides and reviews.

Who this is for

Chief executives and their direct reports, working on decisions they already own.

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03Leadership fluency

Build capability across teams.

Equip leaders to redesign work, lead adoption and help their teams do well as AI becomes part of the everyday.

Choose a level

  • Practical

    Cohort sessions grouped by function. For leaders who need working fluency before they ask more of their teams.

  • Advanced

    Applied to workflows your teams already run. For leaders redesigning how the work is done and taking people with them.

  • Enterprise

    Scaled across the organisation. For firms holding new ways of working in place long after the programme ends.

Who this is for

Senior leaders accountable for teams, workflows and adoption.

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02What you leave with

Capability, not attendance.

Every session is worked on your own decisions, not a case study. People leave with four things.

  • 01

    Judgement

    The ability to test a claim, price a risk and make the call without waiting for certainty.

  • 02

    Fluency

    Confident use of the tools in the work you actually do, not in a sandbox.

  • 03

    Design

    A view on which work should be rebuilt, in what order, and what that frees up.

  • 04

    Governance

    Oversight your board can rely on and your regulator can follow.

03The record

The test is whether it lasts.

Orla founded and built an enterprise Data and AI Academy. More than 22,000 employees have completed at least one course through it. The rate is still rising, three years on.

22,000+

Employees have completed at least one Academy course.

~9,000

Completions in the first half of FY26 alone.

Academy completion figures reported by the organisation, 2026. Orla founded and built the Academy. The figures are the organisation's own and were recorded after her tenure.

About us

Not everyone has the leadership to make it count.

That is what we build. Start with a conversation about where your board or executive team is starting from.

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