AI for Executives and Leadership Teams
Better People delivers hands-on AI training for executives and leadership teams, covering how to use AI on your own work, what to ask of the AI work that reaches you, and how to set the standard for your organisation. Sessions run onsite or live online, usually as a focused two-hour session, priced per cohort from $5,000.
Our team has trained:
Why do leadership teams need hands-on AI training?
Leaders are approving AI budgets, policies and rollouts, often without having used the tools in earnest themselves. That makes it hard to judge what is realistic, what is risky and what good looks like.
Executives also set the tone. When a leadership team uses AI visibly and well, staff follow. When it stays at arm's length, adoption stays private and uneven.
An hour or two on the tools changes the quality of every later conversation about AI. Leaders know what the tools do well, where they fail, and which questions to ask.
Where this shows up in the room
Catching up on a long thread or board paper before a decision
Building a briefing from several reports, with sources you can check
Asking a multi-source research question and judging the answer
Querying a live dashboard in plain English
Testing what a confident but wrong answer looks like, and how to catch it
How a session runs
Executives use the tool themselves from the first minutes. The session is short and practical, built around the reading, briefing and decision work leaders actually do.
The last part of the session is about oversight: what to expect from AI-assisted work, what to ask about how it was produced, and how to set expectations that encourage good use across the organisation.
What changes after the training
The outcome we design for is confidence: leaders who use AI themselves and lead its use with authority.
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Leaders use AI on their own reading and briefing work
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AI investment and policy discussions are grounded in first-hand experience
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Leaders know which questions to ask about AI-assisted work
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The organisation sees AI use modelled from the top
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Risk conversations are specific, not abstract
Want this built around your team?
A 30-minute call to scope the format, the tools and the group.
How it is delivered
Workshop
From $5,000 + GST
- Best for
- One team, one tool, a defined gap
- Shape
- Half day per level
- Lead time
- Usually a few weeks
- You keep
- Materials and the prompts built in the session
Custom program
From $5,000 + GST
- Best for
- A rollout across roles or sites
- Shape
- Designed around your workflows
- Lead time
- Four to eight weeks
- You keep
- All curriculum, materials and assessments
Both formats are priced per cohort, not per seat. Prices are AUD, excluding GST. Travel is billed at cost.
Built by practitioners
The people running your session have been AWS instructors and Canva learning designers, and our commercial director brings more than 20 years in technology and marketing leadership, including founder and CEO roles. We run dedicated leadership cohorts so executives can learn alongside peers.
Who delivers this training
Garret Blankenship, Co-founder
Co-founder of Better People. 15+ years building AI and cloud systems at AWS and Canva. Develops training courses for Databricks and holds four Databricks certifications.
LinkedIn →How other teams have done it
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Professional associations
NZVA gives 80+ members a professional framework for using AI safely
NZVA asked its members how they really used AI, then commissioned a live session built directly on what came back.
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Read →Common questions
How long is AI training for executives?
Usually a two-hour session, which suits leadership calendars. A half-day version allows more hands-on practice.
Is this AI strategy consulting?
No. This is hands-on training so leaders can use the tools themselves and oversee their use well. It works best alongside training for the teams they lead.
Do executives need their own session?
We recommend it. Leaders learn more freely among peers, and the demos are built around leadership work rather than day-to-day production tasks.
Which tools do you cover?
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat, Google Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude.
How much does AI training for a leadership team cost?
From $5,000 + GST per cohort, with no headcount limit.
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