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The AI Leadership Series - Level 5. Three units mapped to AI in your business

The AI Leadership Series is a set of accredited Level 5 units for the people who have to lead AI, not just use it: the leaders who prepare the organisation to make the climb. It shares its shape with Acclimatise, the leadership stage of The Climb, so the strategic work your leaders do is credentialed at Level 5. It is 100% tutor-driven and delivered live online through our CLIMB framework. You do not leave with a certificate and nothing to show for it. You leave with three strategic documents your organisation can act on immediately.

Who It Is For

For the people who have to lead AI

This is for leaders, not end users. The people accountable for AI strategy, governance and delivery, in the sectors where getting it wrong carries the most risk.

  • Senior leaders and heads of function accountable for AI decisions.
  • Risk, governance, procurement and transformation leads.
  • A strong fit for the NHS and public sector, financial services, energy and engineering, and professional services.
  • Levy-paying employers who want accredited capability, not just a workshop.
What You Study

Three units, three artefacts you keep

Each unit is 30 hours of tutor-led learning, and each ends with a finished, board-ready document. Take a single unit or the full series.

01
AU0009 · AI Strategy and Opportunity

Find the real AI opportunities in your organisation and build the case for them. You produce your AI Strategy Document, grounded in your own numbers.

02
AU0010 · AI Adoption, Procurement and Governance

Set the guardrails: how AI is bought, governed and kept safe. You produce your AI Governance and Procurement Framework.

03
AU0011 · AI Delivery and Organisational Transformation

Turn strategy into change your organisation can actually absorb. You produce your AI Transformation Leadership Plan.

Part of The Climb:

The AI Leadership Series is the accredited leadership pathway of The Climb. It sets the direction that Basecamp, Elevate and Summit then deliver against, right across your organisation.

How It Is Delivered

Live, tutor-led, contextualised to you

Delivered through our CLIMB framework: Contextualise, Learn, Iterate, Measure, Build. Every unit is 30 hours, and a dedicated Skills Coach makes it specific to your sector and your role.

  • Per unit. Live workshops, tutor-facilitated online modules, one-to-one Skills Coach sessions and peer review, adding up to 30 guided hours.
  • Your Skills Coach. A named coach, your guide through the series, who contextualises the learning to your organisation and measures your progress, one to one.
  • Accredited. Level 5, accredited against Skills England apprenticeship units.
  • Flexible. Take a single unit, or the full series of 90 hours across twelve weeks.
  • Funded. Fully Funded for levy payers
Outcomes

What you walk away with

As a learner: an accredited Level 5 credential and the confidence to lead AI at a strategic level, funded where the levy applies. As an organisation: three finished, board-ready artefacts, a strategy, a governance and procurement framework, and a transformation plan, plus leaders who can deliver them.

Get Started

Lead AI properly

Enquire about the AI Leadership Series for your leaders. Ready when you are.

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AI Essentials

Step 1: Basic Information

Step 2: Assessment