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AI Leader: Generative AI & Agentic AI for Leaders & Founders

Name: AI Leader: Generative AI & Agentic AI for Leaders & Founders
Rating: 4.6 (7822 reviews)

From AI Strategist to AI Leader: An Actionable Workshop for Leaders & Founders to Deliver Measurable ROI with LLMs

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Created byEd Donner, Ligency

Last updated 6/2026

English

Arabic [Auto],Czech [Auto],

What you'll learn

Be an AI Strategist: a framework for your business to drive strategy and investment decisions.
Be an AI Decision maker: a framework for your business to drive commercial decision-making.
Be an AI Leader: a framework for leading AI initiatives with measurable commercial impact.
Your path to AI Leadership, driving change with measurable commercial impact.
The AI scaling laws and why they matter for your business.
5 core techniques for scaling AI performance with cost/benefit - from RAG to Reasoning.
Agents and Agentic AI - risks, benefits, opportunities.
AI Architecture from a commercial perspective - cross functional decision-making.
Gen AI as a competitive differentiator for your business - ideation and traps.
The case for R&D: committing to a Roadmap with uncertain outcomes.
Position yourself for change: opportunities & risks of Agents and workforce impact.

Course content

3 sections • 17 lectures • 3h 48m total length

Your Path from AI Strategist to AI Leader11:52
Advance from ai strategist to ai leader by applying a practical framework and roadmap to decide, invest in, and lead ai initiatives, measure ROI, and ensure adoption.
Your Path to Driving Real AI Impact3:42
Maps the six-course ai curriculum—from creating agents without coding to ai leadership and production deployment—showing how each course complements the others and how to become a proficient ai engineer.
Core AI Terms Explained: LLMs, Transformers, Gen AI18:05
Define key ai terms such as large language models, gen ai, and transformers, explain training versus inference, and map the frontier labs to cloud providers and business tools.
Frontier vs Open-Source Models & How Choose18:49
Explore frontier and open source language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Compare chat and reasoning models and evaluate on-premise versus API deployments for business use.
Commercial Applications of Gen AI: Strategic Implementation for Executives7:18
Evaluate AI providers across horizontal and vertical offerings, and implement internal or external AI solutions, such as a bank customer support bot, focused on automation, augmentation, and differentiation.
Gen AI Strategy Framework: Business Benefits, Risks, and Implementation Planning14:33
Explore the gen ai strategy framework to quantify automation, augmentation, and differentiation benefits, map technical, operational, and strategic risks, and plan data, talent, and change management for leaders.

AI Strategy for Executives: Adoption, Implementation, and Business Impact20:10
Explore how executives adopt and implement generative AI, from internal use to customer-facing solutions, leveraging prompting, fine-tuning open-source models, and Rag for context.
RAG and Fine-Tuning: Adding Domain Expertise to AI Solutions16:09
Apply rag and fine-tuning to inject domain expertise into ai solutions, using vector stores for context retrieval and encoding LMs to map data to meaningful vectors.
AI Agents vs Workflows: Understanding Autonomous Systems20:37
Compare workflows and agents, detailing how LLMs control tasks, use tools, and coordinate multiple models in autonomous systems. Explore patterns like prompt chaining, routing, and evaluator optimizer, plus guardrails.
AI Decision-Making: Cross-Functional Approach to Technical Choices9:02
Lead cross-functional AI decision making by evaluating model choices, encoders, Rag and agents, and optimization options through a science-led, iterative experiment process that weighs costs, risks, and business metrics.
Leading AI Decisions: Framework for Executive Decision-Making7:51
Apply a collaborative AI decision framework to guide stakeholder discussions and assess data, costs, risks, and metrics. Promote a science-led, experimental culture for responsible AI leadership.

AI Project Ideation: Finding Value in Predictive, Generative & Agentic Solutions21:02
Identify and ideate AI projects across predictive, generative, and agentic categories, then evaluate ideas by pain points, data readiness, and measurable ROI for practical, high-impact adoption.
Building AI Teams: Organizational Structure and Critical Skills for Success20:26
Build AI teams with clear organizational structure and critical skills—from data scientists, ML engineers, data engineers, and data analysts to governance, recruitment planning, and product leadership.
AI Project Roadmaps: Managing Uncertainty Through Strategic Planning14:21
Learn a practical AI roadmap with five phases - planning, research, build, deployment, and measure - plus a zero phase for business case, emphasizing uncertainty management, data quality, testing, and adoption.
AI Leadership: Fostering Adoption and Overcoming Implementation Barriers11:24
Lead adoption of major AI projects by addressing job displacement fears, building clear rationale, and fostering engagement through upskilling, governance, and transparent metrics.
Delivering AI ROI: Comprehensive Roadmap Framework for Project Success9:59
Apply a comprehensive roadmap framework to deliver AI initiatives, linking phase-based deliverables, cross-functional decision making, and ROI tracking from upfront planning to production.
Bonus Lecture - Your Exclusive Links2:42

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for this briefing, other than a desire to deliver business impact with AI! This briefing assumes no prior technical knowledge, but is well suited for non-technical and technical audiences.

Description

This workshop equips business leaders to champion AI initiatives, then deliver and deploy AI solutions, driving change across the organization with measurable commercial impact.

This is quite different from a traditional “course”!

It’s actually not a course at all: it’s a briefing. A comprehensive, action-oriented briefing on Gen AI, designed by leaders, for leaders.

We will cover:

AI expertise from a commercial perspective
Real-world use cases; with success stories and failures
Actionable toolkits to apply to your business
From Stealth Startup to Global Enterprise

We will not cover:

Technical detail; but sufficient to drive decision-making - so we do cover RAG, fine-tuning and Agents from a business point-of-view
Using different AI tools yourself; this briefing is about transforming your organization to use AI tools!

If you are an executive, an entrepreneur, a leader, or if you are on a path to become one, then this briefing will position you for commercial success with Generative AI.

What you will learn

AI strategy, AI decision-making and AI leadership

This workshop builds expertise through 3 modules:

Module 1: Become an AI Strategist

Your path to AI Leadership, driving change with measurable commercial impact
The big picture: AI, Gen AI, LLMs, Agents, Reasoning
The Models: Frontier, Open-Source, Cost / Performance / Security implications
Commercial details: GPT wrappers vs Proprietary Models, expert prompting, hallucinations, alignment risks.
Be an AI Strategist: a framework for your business to drive strategy and investment decisions

Module 2: Become an AI Decision maker

The AI scaling laws and why they matter for your business
5 core techniques for scaling AI performance with cost/benefit - from RAG to Reasoning
Agents and Agentic AI - risks, benefits, opportunities
AI Architecture from a commercial perspective - cross functional decision-making
Be an AI Decision maker: a framework for your business to drive commercial decision-making

Module 3: Become an AI leader

Gen AI as a competitive differentiator for your business - ideation and traps
Skills, roles, org chart, governance and common talent challenges
The case for R&D: committing to a Roadmap with uncertain outcomes
Position yourself for change: opportunities & risks of Agents and workforce impact
Be an AI Leader: a framework for leading AI initiatives with measurable commercial impact

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Who this course is for:

The workshop is suitable for all sizes and shapes of company, from early-stage startup to Fortune 500 enterprise and everything in between, in all industries and countries.
If you are a manager, a leader, an executive or a founder, or if you are interested in becoming one, and you want to achieve commercial results with AI – then this is designed for you. I’m excited to welcome you to the briefing, and I can’t wait to hear about the results you achieve afterwards.

AI Leader: Generative AI & Agentic AI for Leaders & Founders

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Course content

Become an AI Strategist6 lectures • 1hr 14min

Become an AI Decision Maker5 lectures • 1hr 14min

Become an AI Leader6 lectures • 1hr 20min

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