Leading with AI
For leaders, managers and MBA students who decide where AI goes. Six Skill Packs on choosing use cases, the business case, data and risk, governance, leading the change and buying well, then an AI plan for your own organisation that a mentor reviews with you.
Included in your AiTeky Pass, mentor review and all.
New to AI? Start here
A one-pack overview of AI for leaders. Skip it if you already use AI at work.
The six packs
Each lesson has reading, a practice task on your own organisation and a self-check. Every pack ends with a piece of the plan you will bring to the capstone.
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LWA-01Beginner
AI strategy and use cases for leaders
What AI can do for a business today, where it creates value across your value chain, and how to find, score and choose the first use cases for your function.
13 hours 6 lessons 🎓 2 free certifications 📚 8 library resources
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LWA-02Beginner
The AI business case: value, cost and ROI
Building a business case a finance team will accept: a baseline, the benefits, the full cost including model usage, ROI, payback and NPV, the big unknowns, and the KPIs a pilot must hit.
13 hours 6 lessons
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LWA-03Beginner
Data readiness and AI risk
Whether your data is ready for AI and what can go wrong: data quality and ownership, personal data under India's DPDP Act, how AI systems fail, AI security risks, and a risk register with controls.
13 hours 6 lessons 🎓 1 free certification 📚 8 library resources
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LWA-04Beginner
AI governance: policies, approvals and the law
Governing AI so teams can move fast safely: principles, the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act and Indian law, an AI policy and approval process, and monitoring after go-live.
13 hours 6 lessons 🎓 1 free certification 📚 8 library resources
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LWA-05Beginner
Leading the change: people, skills and adoption
The people side of AI: why projects fail on adoption, change models that work, redesigning roles and skills, champions and training, measuring real use, and communicating AI to the board, teams and customers.
13 hours 6 lessons
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LWA-06Beginner
Buy, build or partner: AI vendors, platforms and contracts
Getting AI from the market wisely: when to buy, build or partner, the landscape of models, platforms and copilots, running an RFP and a proof of concept, the contract terms that matter, and avoiding lock-in.
13 hours 6 lessons 🎓 1 free certification 📚 8 library resources
The capstone: your organisation's AI plan
Bring the six Leading with AI packs together in one AI plan for your own organisation or a company you know well, reviewed by a MentorMesh mentor in writing and then in a 45-minute session.
1. Write it
Eight sections, from the goal and use cases to a 12-month roadmap, written in the portal.
2. Book the review
Once it has its badge, offer your times. A mentor who knows AI strategy and governance claims it.
3. Written review
The mentor reads your plan and writes what is strong, what is missing and what to change.
4. 45-minute session
They walk you through it on video. Accepted plans earn the capstone certificate.
Where it leads
Job Ready Path · 11 packs · 186 hours
AI Transformation Leader
Sets where AI goes in an organisation, funds and governs it, and leads people through the change, with results the board can see.
Job Ready Path · 11 packs · 194 hours
AI-ready Manager (MBA)
Runs a team or function with AI: picks the use cases worth doing, makes the business case, buys well and gets people to use it.