AI-Native Leadership
3-Hour Intensive

Three hours is deliberate. Executives don’t need a semester — they need a forcing function. This workshop is structured so you spend every minute doing the work: diagnosing your specific friction points, calculating your actual Legacy Tax figure, building your EDGE implementation calendar, and drafting your 90-day action plan. You leave with four concrete artefacts, not a set of slides to review later. The constraint is the point.

Not at all. This workshop is designed for executives, not engineers. Every concept is explained in business terms with real-world case studies. The 13 interactive tools do the heavy lifting — you provide the strategic context and organisational knowledge. If you can run a P&L review, you can do this workshop.

Most AI courses teach you about AI. This one makes you do the work with your own numbers and your own organisation in mind. You’ll calculate your actual Legacy Tax, build your real EDGE implementation calendar, and draft the three messages you’ll actually send on Monday morning. The output is artefacts you take away and act on, not theoretical frameworks you forget by Friday.

The Five Frictions framework and the EDGE Method are industry-agnostic — they apply to professional services, manufacturing, financial services, education, government, healthcare, and everything in between. The workshop uses your specific organisational context throughout, so the artefacts you produce are tailored to your situation, not generic templates. If your organisation has workflows, meetings, and decisions, this is relevant.

That’s the ideal format. The workshop is designed for facilitated group sessions where leadership teams work through the tools together, building shared understanding and alignment on the 90-day plan. When your CFO has calculated the Legacy Tax alongside you and your COO has mapped the beachhead workflow, you leave with collective commitment — not a lone champion trying to convince everyone else.

The workshop is built on the frameworks from The AI-Native Playbook by Rupert Chesman — the Five Frictions, the Organisational Fork, Loop Compression, the EDGE Method, and the Inaction Tax. The book provides the full depth: 211 pages of data, case studies, and implementation detail. The workshop takes those frameworks and turns them into an interactive working session. You don’t need to read the book first, but many participants find it valuable as a reference for implementation afterwards. The book is available on Amazon in 14 countries.

Four executive-grade artefacts: your Friction Fingerprint (a diagnostic of the five frictions costing your organisation 97% of its workflow time), your Legacy Tax Figure (a dollar estimate of what inaction is costing you), your EDGE Implementation Calendar (a phased 90-day plan with specific milestones), and your 90-Day Action Plan (including Week One actions, your beachhead workflow, and the team you’ll assemble). These aren’t aspirational documents — they’re working tools built from your real numbers.

Most organisations using AI are patching — bolting AI tools onto existing workflows without rethinking the workflows themselves. This workshop helps you assess whether you’re genuinely AI-native or just AI-assisted, measure the gap, and decide where to make the architectural leap. The Five Native Tests in Module 2 will tell you exactly where you stand. Many participants discover that what they thought was an AI strategy is actually a tool adoption programme.

The plan is designed to start on Monday. The first EDGE cycle takes approximately 16 weeks, but it begins with Week One actions you can take immediately — running the Inaction Tax calculation with your CFO, naming your beachhead workflow, and assembling a four-person team. The second cycle compresses to 10–12 weeks as your organisation builds the muscle. By your fifth cycle, you’re running 4–6 week iterations.

The 3-hour intensive is self-contained — you leave with everything you need to execute. However, organisations often find value in follow-up sessions to review progress against the 90-day plan, recalibrate priorities, and plan subsequent EDGE cycles. Get in touch if you’re interested in ongoing advisory support or want to run the workshop across multiple leadership teams in your organisation.