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Executive Briefing

AI Literacy
for Leadership

Since February 2025, Article 4 of the EU AI Act obliges companies to ensure adequate AI literacy in their workforce — and that starts at the top. A focused briefing that gives your leadership real fluency instead of buzzwords.

Half-day (3h) Executives & senior management On-site or remote English or German

Why this workshop

You can delegate the implementation.
Not the accountability.

AI decisions are being made in your organisation right now — in procurement, in product, in every team that quietly adopted a tool. Whether those decisions are good ones depends on whether leadership can tell substance from hype, risk from noise, and a genuine capability from a well-produced demo.

The regulatory environment has caught up. Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires providers and deployers of AI systems to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in their staff — a duty that applies since February 2025 and that supervisory authorities expect management to own. "We didn't understand the technology" has stopped being an excuse and started being an admission.

This briefing is deliberately compact and deliberately honest: what current AI systems actually can and cannot do, where the real risks for your company sit, what the AI Act requires of you as an employer, and which questions separate serious vendors and teams from expensive theatre.


Agenda

What we work through

01

AI beyond the hype cycle

What today's systems genuinely can and cannot do — capabilities, failure modes, and the difference between a demo and a dependable system. Calibrated, not evangelised.

02

The regulatory landscape

EU AI Act timeline and risk classes, the Article 4 AI-literacy duty, how it interlocks with GDPR — and what supervisory authorities actually expect to see.

03

Risk ownership & accountability

When AI goes wrong: who is accountable, what governance structures work, and how to keep human responsibility explicit in AI-supported decisions.

04

Asking the right questions

The vendor pitch decoder: questions that expose weak foundations in minutes — on data, evaluation, security, lock-in and total cost.

05

Your 90-day leadership agenda

We close by mapping the briefing onto your organisation: the three decisions to take, the obligations to close, and the signals to start tracking.


Who it's for

C-level executives and managing directors who sign off on AI initiatives and carry the accountability
Senior management and division heads whose teams are adopting AI tools
Supervisory and advisory board members who need to challenge AI strategy credibly

What you leave with

A shared, precise vocabulary for AI discussions at leadership level
A checklist of your concrete obligations under EU AI Act Article 4 and GDPR
A decision framework for evaluating AI initiatives, vendors and build-vs-buy questions
Clarity on risk ownership: who is accountable for what when AI is in the loop
A prioritised 90-day agenda for closing your most important gaps

At a glance
Duration
Half-day (3h)
Group size
Leadership team
Location
On-site or remote
Pricing
On request

Good to know

Is this workshop off-the-shelf?

No. Before every workshop we run a 30-minute briefing call and tailor examples, exercises and depth to your industry, your stack and your team's starting point. The agenda above is the frame — the content inside it is yours.

What does it cost?

Pricing depends on group size, location and how much customisation your context needs. We'll give you a fixed quote after the briefing call — no surprises, no hidden day rates.

On-site or remote?

Both work. On-site tends to be stronger for group discussion and hands-on exercises; remote splits well into two half-sessions. We run workshops across Europe in English or German.

Is this too basic for a technical CEO?

We calibrate in the briefing call. For technically fluent leadership teams we compress the fundamentals and spend the time on governance, regulation and strategy — the parts that are new even for engineers.

Give your leadership
real AI fluency.

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