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Your leaders are ready to lead the AI revolution.
AI isn't replacing great leadership — it's amplifying it. Three focused, apprenticeship-funded 30-hour units that equip your leaders to champion AI confidently, embed it meaningfully, and elevate every part of your business.
+ Levy & Non-levy
30 hrs
Per unit
6 weeks
Unit duration
90 hrs
Full pathway
Funded
Apprenticeship units
// THE OPPORTUNITY
The opportunity is here. Your
leaders just need to
step into it.
AI is already changing how organisations operate, communicate and grow. The businesses making the most of it aren't necessarily the biggest or most tech-savvy — they're the ones investing in their people first. Imagine your leaders being able to:
Unit 1:Strategy & Opportunity
Spot where AI can add real value and build a clear plan to pursue it with confidence.
Unit 2:AI Adoption & Governance
Put the right structures in place so AI is used responsibly, consistently, and in a way your whole team can trust.
Unit 3:Delivery & Transformation
Drive meaningful change, inspire teams to embrace new ways of working, and make AI a natural part of how your business operates.
// THREE UNITS
Built for leaders like yours.
Each unit runs over six weeks as a focused 30-hour apprenticeship programme. Take the one that fits your moment, complete them in any order, or bring all three together into a full 90-hour pathway.
// 30 Hours - 6 Weeks - Funded
AI Strategy and Opportunity
Help your leaders see the full picture and build a strategy that turns AI potential into real organisational value.
- Define a clear, value-driven AI strategy aligned to organisational goals
- Identify and prioritise the AI opportunities that will make the biggest difference
- Evaluate the viability of AI initiatives with confidence before committing investment
- Make go/no-go decisions using a practical pilot viability scorecard
- Produce a working AI strategy covering principles, priorities and governance
// 30 Hours - 6 Weeks - Funded
AI Adoption & Governance
Give your leaders the knowledge to choose the right AI tools, set up smart governance, and create a culture where AI is used safely and effectively by everyone.
- Assess organisational readiness and prioritise high-value, low-risk use cases
- Compare centralised vs federated adoption and build vs buy vs partner models
- Procure AI responsibly — due diligence, contracts and spotting 'AI washing'
- Design a governance model covering risk, ethics, bias and explainability
- Monitor performance, model drift and incident response over time
// 30 Hours - 6 Weeks - Funded
Delivery & Transformation
Turn ambition into action. Equip your leaders to roll out AI across your organisation, bring their teams with them, and build lasting habits that keep improving how your business works.
- Lead AI rollouts that land with people, not just systems
- Embed responsible AI practice into business-as-usual
- Coach teams through new ways of working and capability shifts
- Measure adoption, value and continuous improvement
- Build long-term leadership accountability for AI outcomes
// FULL PATHWAY
A full transformation, from strategy to delivery.
When your leaders complete all three units, they develop genuine end-to-end capability: the vision to set direction, the confidence to govern responsibly, and the skills to lead real, lasting change at scale.
// 90 Hours - Full AI Leadership Pathway - Funded
// BESPOKE DELIVERY
Built specifically for your organisation.
Your business is unique, so your training can be too. Alongside our standard apprenticeship units, ELA designs fully bespoke AI leadership programmes tailored to individual employers.
Shaped to your goals
Content built around your organisation's AI goals, culture and sector.
Cohort delivery
Your leadership team learns and grows together, building shared language.
Flexible formats
Intensive, modular or blended, designed to fit around real working life.
Your strategy, not ours
Delivery reflects your priorities, never a one-size-fits-all syllabus.
Your organisation isn't behind. I'ts ready.
Whether you're an HR or L&D professional building a forward-thinking upskilling programme, or a senior leader ready to deepen your own AI capability — this is the moment to act.