our most in-demand business course
AI for Business Leaders
An expert-led, 6-week programme designed for immediate business impact. Gain hands-on capability with custom AI tools and walk away with a complete strategic toolkit, costed business case, and 90-day action plan.
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Mark
Head of B2B
Code Institute
6 Weeks | Expert-led
18h contact hours
Strategic Toolkits per Module
The AI Gap
Most organisations are using AI.
Very few are getting value from it.
Yours doesn’t have to be one of them.
82%
of organisations now use AI regularly, but nearly two thirds have not begun scaling beyond pilots – McKinsey
95%
of enterprise AI deployments produce no measurable P&L impact. – MIT NANDA study
3x
High performers are 3x more likely to use AI for enterprise-wide transformative change – McKinsey
Why this course?
If your team is running AI pilots without clear ROI, or you have a list of AI ideas and no way to evaluate them, this is where that changes.
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What You Will Achieve
A practical programme that gives you a proven framework to identify where AI creates the most value, hands-on experience so you understand the technology from the inside, and a complete Execution Toolkit (planning tools, playbooks, and cheat sheets) for immediate action.
Prioritised AI Opportunities
Identify your high value AI initiatives classified by strategic value type: protect, optimise, or differentiate.
Learn to Build AI Tools
Build a Custom GPT or Gemini Gem yourself during the programme — and learn the skills to create more.
Data Readiness Assessment
Data is the fuel of AI – know exactly what data gaps to close and what’s needed to make AI work in your context.
Augmented Workforce Design
Redesign how your teams work alongside AI — refactoring workflows, roles, and oversight for this new world.
Governance Framework
Establish practical governance that lets you scale AI adoption safely and compliantly.
Business Case with ROI
A quantified business case with costed roadmap, ready to present to key stakeholders for approval.
90-Day Action Plan
Immediate next steps with owners, timelines, and accountabilities to maintain momentum.
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Curriculum
A clear path from where you are to where AI takes you
Gain essential AI skills to build implementation strategies, structure teams efficiently, assess risks, and ensure responsible AI practices.
The programme follows a single arc from assessment to execution. You begin by establishing where your organisation actually stands on AI and immediately translate that into a prioritised set of initiatives worth investing in. From there the programme moves into hands-on doing, building your technology understanding from the inside rather than from a vendor slide deck.
That understanding then shapes the harder questions: whether your data and infrastructure can support what you want to achieve, how your teams need to work differently alongside AI, and what governance and workforce changes need to happen before you can scale. The final week brings it all together into something ready to act on.
You leave equipped to drive high-value AI initiatives in your organisation — not with theory, but with a prioritised portfolio of AI opportunities classified by strategic value, a quantified business case with ROI projections ready for sign-off, an augmented workforce model for how your teams work alongside AI, and a 90-day action plan with named owners, timelines, and accountabilities. Every output is built around your own organisation, not a generic case study.
Using the AI Readiness Assessment and Initiative Planner, you establish an honest baseline across six dimensions.
Build your first AI tool and understand the limits You build a Custom GPT or Gemini Gem tailored to your role
Know what your data can and can’t support. Data is the fuel of AI.
With priorities, technology, and data readiness clear, you redesign how work gets done.
Build governance that enables speed, not bureaucracy
You produce a quantified business case with costed ROI projections, a Roadmap Template, a Stakeholder Map, and a 90-day Action Plan with named owners, timelines, and accountabilities. You leave with something ready to present for sign-off.
This course equips you with the knowledge and practical tools needed to identify high-impact initiatives and collaborate effectively with technical partners.
Identify your high-value AI initiatives, classified by strategic value type: protect, optimise, or differentiate.
Build your own AI tool during the programme — and leave with the skills to create more, without writing a line of code
Practical governance that lets you scale AI adoption safely.
A quantified business case with costed roadmap and a 90-day plan with named owners — ready to present for sign-off.
This course goes beyond simply explaining the benefits of AI, and provides leaders with the necessary practical skills and understanding required to weave AI into their business.
Students will learn how to build AI implementation strategies, structure teams efficiently, assess risk and ensure the execution of responsible AI practices.
Gain the expertise to deploy state-of-the-art AI solutions that set your organisation apart, ensuring you stay ahead in a competitive landscape.
Discover and prioritise AI opportunities that align with your business goals, unlocking new revenue streams, driving innovation, and boosting customer satisfaction.
Master techniques to streamline operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity, allowing your team to concentrate on high-value activities and strategic growth.
Develop a thorough understanding of AI’s capabilities and limitations, enabling you to make more informed decisions and plan strategically for future initiatives.
Implement AI initiatives that adhere to ethical standards and regulatory requirements, fostering trust with stakeholders and customers.
Cultivate a data-driven leadership culture that embraces AI, encouraging cross-functional collaboration and driving innovation throughout your organisation.
The programme follows a single arc from assessment to execution. You begin by establishing where your organisation actually stands on AI and immediately translate that into a prioritised set of initiatives worth investing in. From there the programme moves into hands-on doing, building your technology understanding from the inside rather than from a vendor slide deck.
That understanding then shapes the harder questions: whether your data and infrastructure can support what you want to achieve, how your teams need to work differently alongside AI, and what governance and workforce changes need to happen before you can scale. The final week brings it all together into something ready to act on.
You leave equipped to drive high-value AI initiatives in your organisation — not with theory, but with a prioritised portfolio of AI opportunities classified by strategic value, a quantified business case with ROI projections ready for sign-off, an augmented workforce model for how your teams work alongside AI, and a 90-day action plan with named owners, timelines, and accountabilities. Every output is built around your own organisation, not a generic case study.
Using the AI Readiness Assessment and Initiative Planner, you establish an honest baseline across six dimensions.
Build your first AI tool and understand the limits You build a Custom GPT or Gemini Gem tailored to your role
Know what your data can and can’t support. Data is the fuel of AI.
With priorities, technology, and data readiness clear, you redesign how work gets done.
Build governance that enables speed, not bureaucracy
You produce a quantified business case with costed ROI projections, a Roadmap Template, a Stakeholder Map, and a 90-day Action Plan with named owners, timelines, and accountabilities. You leave with something ready to present for sign-off.
This course equips you with the knowledge and practical tools needed to identify high-impact initiatives and collaborate effectively with technical partners.
Identify your high-value AI initiatives, classified by strategic value type: protect, optimise, or differentiate.
Build your own AI tool during the programme — and leave with the skills to create more, without writing a line of code
Practical governance that lets you scale AI adoption safely.
A quantified business case with costed roadmap and a 90-day plan with named owners — ready to present for sign-off.
This course goes beyond simply explaining the benefits of AI, and provides leaders with the necessary practical skills and understanding required to weave AI into their business.
Students will learn how to build AI implementation strategies, structure teams efficiently, assess risk and ensure the execution of responsible AI practices.
Gain the expertise to deploy state-of-the-art AI solutions that set your organisation apart, ensuring you stay ahead in a competitive landscape.
Discover and prioritise AI opportunities that align with your business goals, unlocking new revenue streams, driving innovation, and boosting customer satisfaction.
Master techniques to streamline operations, cut costs, and enhance productivity, allowing your team to concentrate on high-value activities and strategic growth.
Develop a thorough understanding of AI’s capabilities and limitations, enabling you to make more informed decisions and plan strategically for future initiatives.
Implement AI initiatives that adhere to ethical standards and regulatory requirements, fostering trust with stakeholders and customers.
Cultivate a data-driven leadership culture that embraces AI, encouraging cross-functional collaboration and driving innovation throughout your organisation.
Execution toolkit
Every module delivers a complete Execution Pack
Do it now
Planning Tools
Templates and working documents you complete during each session using your own organisational data. They become real artefacts you use back at the office.
Learn How
Playbooks
Step by step procedural guides to execute with confidence. Follow them during the session, then rely on them to accelerate adoption. Modify them to suit your organisational needs for repeatable process.
Look it up
Cheat Sheets
Glossaries, explainers, checklists, comparison guides, and further reading. The reference layer that helps you navigate the problem space long after the programme ends.
Meet the Experts
Designed and delivered by practitioners with direct experience leading AI transformation
Peter O’Connell
Head of Product @ Code Institute
Peter is responsible for product strategy, curriculum innovation, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver industry-standard education. He draws on extensive corporate experience with major tech firms (including Dell, Quest, Intel, and HP) to drive development and ensure learning outcomes meet the demands of the modern workforce.
David Kelly
Data & AI Strategy Transformation @ AXA Ireland
David Kelly is a senior executive with over 25 years of experience leading digital and AI transformations. His career is defined by high-stakes leadership across the aviation, logistics, and tourism sectors. As the advisor behind Code Institute’s AI for Business Leaders program, David focuses on factual, logic-based implementation.
WHY US
Why choose Code Institute
We collaborate with industry leaders to design courses that align with the latest trends in technology and business. Our programs equip professionals with in-demand skills and hands-on experience using enterprise-grade tools.
Code Institute adheres to the highest standards, working with accreditation and awarding bodies across Europe. This guarantees quality programmes, and quality outcomes for our students and Education partners.
Supporting online delivery, our proprietary student analytics and learning tools provide our teaching and support teams with an in-depth understanding of student progress, to allow early assistance and intervention.
We collaborate with industry leaders to design courses that align with the latest trends in technology and business. Our programs equip professionals with in-demand skills and hands-on experience using enterprise-grade tools.
Code Institute adheres to the highest standards, working with accreditation and awarding bodies across Europe. This guarantees quality programmes, and quality outcomes for our students and Education partners.
Supporting online delivery, our proprietary student analytics and learning tools provide our teaching and support teams with an in-depth understanding of student progress, to allow early assistance and intervention.
Testimonials
What leaders say about the programme
I would recommend this course to other business leaders, particularly because of the structured approach, the hands-on assignments and access to tools as well as the interactive nature of the classroom experience. It was great to have the course delivered by an experienced tutor as well as the opportunity to hear from peers about the challenges they face in their organization
David Murray, Principal Product Manager
I would recommend this course to all business leaders as everyone needs to understand the urgency of the time we are in with AI and how critical it is that we start integrating it in the business to stay relevant in this very fast-moving space. It is important to comprehend its opportunities but also the risks it poses and do our best to develop ethical & safe AI for all doesn’t matter which industry you are in.
Boris Geršić, Head of Design & Development
It’s a great course, really comprehensive. It covers almost every base and equips you to help your company navigate the AI journey ahead. Whether you’re in a leadership team, representing one, or selling into leadership teams, it provides fantastic frameworks for structuring and preparing for those conversations.
Markham Nolan, Co-founder
The course structure was excellent! AI is essential for future business success, and this course empowers leaders to implement AI effectively within their organisations. Proper implementation allows businesses to fully harness the potential of AI and achieve their goals.
Niall Collins, CEO
Pricing
Programme investment
€250 Off
When paying upfront
- Code Institute Certificate
- No prior experience required
- 6-Week Programme
- Complete Execution Pack per module
- Build a Business Case with ROI projections
- Custom 90-Day Action Plan
Flexible Plan
x 3 months
- Code Institute Certificate
- No prior experience required
- 6-Week Programme
- Complete Execution Pack per module
- Build a Business Case with ROI projections
- Custom 90-Day Action Plan
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before you register.
AI training for business leaders typically attracts three profiles: owner-managers and MDs whose teams are already using AI tools without governance; senior leaders who have been asked to build an AI business case without the framework to do so; and frontline managers who can see where AI would create value in their function but cannot get stakeholder alignment or budget approval. No technical background is required. If you manage people, hold a budget, or are responsible for AI decisions in your organisation, this programme is relevant to you.
By the end of Week 6, you will have: a prioritised portfolio of AI opportunities classified by strategic value; a working AI tool you built during the programme; a data readiness assessment; a governance framework and EU AI Act compliance review; and a quantified business case with ROI projections, stakeholder map, and 90-day action plan. Every output is based on your own organisation, not a generic case study.
The programme addresses the most common AI failure mode: investing in initiatives without a framework to evaluate them. You leave with the tools to identify where AI creates the most value in your organisation, build the governance to scale it safely, and produce the business case to get leadership sign-off.
18 contact hours over 6 weeks. There will be two half-day sessions (4h) and four evening sessions(2.5h) across the six weeks.
Most laptop computers are perfect for this programme. However, we recommend that the device has at least 4Gb RAM – 8Gb RAM is even better.
Cohort start dates are confirmed once the minimum cohort size is met. Dates and availability may be subject to change, and all registered learners will be notified in advance of any updates.
