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AI Strategy and Governance

A once-in-a-generation moment to take board work to a whole new level. Over eight days, learn to govern AI, protect your company's competitive advantage, and turn it into value across every board you serve: better preparation, better questions, and better decisions. One short lesson a day, by email.

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What you will learn

Eight lessons, one a day. Each ends with a question to take into your next meeting.

AI is now a board responsibility

AI gives every board two new responsibilities: capture the opportunity and govern the risk. Learn the four questions that help boards move beyond AI tools and policies to the bigger questions of economics, competitive advantage, AI authority and control.

What does AI governance actually mean?

AI governance is not an AI policy. Learn what good governance actually looks like: what AI is allowed to do, who can override it, what evidence sits behind its outputs, how it is tested and monitored, and who remains accountable. With real examples of some of the world's most expensive AI governance failures.

Put AI governance in place

Turn governance from principle into an operating system. Learn how to build an AI inventory, classify risk, assign ownership, define authority, retain evidence, independently test systems, monitor them over time and create clear escalation and shutdown mechanisms.

Where can AI change the economics of your business?

Move beyond AI use cases. Learn to examine your strategy through five lenses (revenue, margin, speed, business model and competitive advantage) and identify which assumptions change when intelligence, labour and coordination become dramatically cheaper.

From AI adoption to an AI-native company

Using AI is not the same as redesigning a company around it. Learn the difference between Assist, Automate and Redesign, and the metrics boards should watch as AI begins to change workflows, organisational structure, decision velocity and economic output.

The AI risk already inside the boardroom

82% of directors already use generative AI for board work, while 54% say their organisation has given them no guidance on how to use it safely. Learn how to address Shadow AI in the boardroom without losing the enormous opportunity AI creates for better preparation and decision-making.

Protect your AI advantage

If everyone can access the same frontier models, where does competitive advantage come from? Learn how to distinguish commodity AI from proprietary advantage, decide what to build, buy or wrap, protect the learning created inside your business and avoid unintended strategic dependence on vendors.

The boardroom in 2030

What does an AI-native board actually look like? Explore how continuous intelligence, institutional memory, outside signals and AI-assisted preparation could shift board time away from information processing and towards judgement, challenge, discussion and better decisions, and build your five-year agenda for getting there.

Frameworks and concepts you will take away

Named frameworks and standards, so you can point to what you align to, not improvise.

The three lines of defence for AI risk
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO 42001
The EU AI Act risk tiers, and US enforcement (FTC, EEOC, SEC)
The failure-modes taxonomy: bias, hallucination, overreliance, data leakage, drift
Lifecycle governance: testing, red-teaming, monitoring for drift
The four responsible-AI principles: fairness, transparency, explainability, accountability
The build, buy, or wrap decision for AI vendors

Who it is for

Active independent board directors

PE and VC investors who serve on portfolio-company boards

Family officers and fund partners

This is written for leaders, board directors and investors. No technical know-how is needed.

Your certificate

Finish all eight lessons and claim your certificate. Add it to your LinkedIn profile under Licenses & Certifications in one click, or share it as a post so your network sees it. Every certificate has a unique ID and a public verification page.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is this course for?

It is written for active independent directors, PE and VC investors who serve on portfolio-company boards, and family officers. No technical know-how is needed.

Do I need a technical background?

No. This is written for leaders, board directors and investors. No technical know-how is needed.

How much time does it take?

A few minutes a day for eight days. One short lesson lands each morning and ends with a single question to take into your next board meeting.

What do I get at the end?

A certificate from BoardLens Academy, AI Strategy and Governance, that you can add to your LinkedIn profile in one click or share as a post.

Is it really free?

Yes. It is a free benefit of subscribing to The AI Leadership Edge, the newsletter for independent, PE and VC board directors.

What will I be able to do after?

Walk into your next board meeting with better questions, a clear read on where AI is an advantage and where it is an exposure, and, if you hold a portfolio, a way to see the pattern across all of them.

Who wrote this course?

Created by BoardLens in collaboration with The AI Leadership Edge, a community of 41,000 board directors and leaders with +13,500 newsletter subscribers.

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