Step 1 of 7 · Leadership alignment

Align your leadership team before anything is switched on.

A facilitated engagement for boards and senior teams. It establishes a shared view of where AI will create value, what it will require and how success will be measured, before any team is asked to change.

Why it comes first

Momentum depends on a shared view at the top.

AI programmes lose momentum when senior leaders hold different views of the opportunity, the risk and the investment required. Adoption appears in individual functions, but the organisation does not move together.

Leadership alignment resolves those differences at the outset. Your leadership team agrees the priority to address first, the controls it expects, and the team that will prove the value.

What leaders align on

Six questions, one agreed answer.

Before the engagement, these questions tend to sit in separate heads. Afterwards, your leadership team shares a single view of each.

1

Opportunity and priority

Where AI will change the economics of your business, and which pressure to address first: capacity, cost or growth without additional headcount.

2

Risk and control

How AI is approved, overseen and switched off, and what your leadership expects to see in place before any wider roll-out.

3

IT, security and data

How your IT and security teams take part in decisions, and which systems and information co-CEOs may access.

4

Investment and return

What deserves time and investment over the next two quarters, and how the return will be measured.

5

Ways of working

Where people remain in control, where co-CEOs and Connected Colleagues take on recurring tasks, and what changes for each role.

6

Sequence and roll-out

Which team goes first, and how the platform extends across functions once the value is proven.

How the engagement works

Built on evidence, shaped around your business.

1

Evidence first

We begin with the evidence available: leadership priorities, survey findings and, where it has been completed, the AI Opportunity Report.

2

Sponsor and leadership conversations

We scope the engagement with your sponsor and, where helpful, hold short one-to-one conversations with senior leaders.

3

A working session on your business

Leaders see co-CEOs applied to their own context, test the questions that matter to them and agree the first moves.

4

Agreed next steps

Your leadership team leaves with a shared direction, named owners and the first team for the AI Opportunity Report.

Our track record

In the room, in their own words.

Spoken reactions from senior leaders at a £200m professional services firm during a leadership session.

“It's mind-blowing, really, in terms of what we can do.”
Senior leader, £200m professional services firm
“The challenge now is getting it on as quick as we can.”
Senior leader, £200m professional services firm
“We've got to make a start.”
Senior leader, £200m professional services firm
Formats

Shaped to the audience and the decision in front of it.

Board

Direction and oversight

For chairs, non-executive directors and chief executives agreeing direction, oversight and the investment case.

Executive team

Priorities and the first team

For chief executives and their direct reports agreeing priorities, ways of working and where to begin.

Function leadership

One function, done well

For the leadership of a single function, such as finance, operations, sales or HR, before work begins within it.

What your leadership team takes away

A clear direction, and the first move agreed.

  • A shared direction across the senior team
  • Agreed priorities for the next two quarters
  • Named owners for the decisions that follow
  • A clear view of the time and investment required
  • The first team and the first tasks, ready for the AI Opportunity Report

Start with one conversation.

Tell us about the priority you would most like to address, whether capacity, cost or growth, and we will show you where a co-CEO would create value first. No platform commitment is required.