AI Masterclass - Dr Chris Meah

Take a step back so that you can move at speed. Build an intuition for how AI works, and leave with the confidence, capability, and curiosity to make strategic decisions and explore more

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Summary

Take a step back so that you can move at speed. Build an intuition for how AI works, and leave with the confidence, capability, and curiosity to make strategic decisions and explore more

Who is it for?

Credentials

I’ve worked with all sizes of companies, from global corporations to start-ups, from charities to government

“Thank you so much Chris. I found the whole session so interesting, informative and accessible. I now have a better understanding of AI and its capabilities and am very excited to continue the conversation with my team”
– Rachel Overfield, CEO Compton Care

  • AI 100,
  • UK Digital Leader of the Year,

Activity overview

Most organisations know they need to embrace AI, but few know where to start. The gap between hearing about AI's potential and actually using it effectively is where most businesses stall — and then there is how to build a strategy and plans for the future in a world where the speed of AI development seems to change things every day.

That's exactly the gap our AI Leadership Retreat is designed to close.

 

This immersive experience that takes your senior leadership team from wherever they are on the AI confidence spectrum to a place of genuine understanding, strategic clarity, and hands-on capability.

 

We combine deep AI literacy — demystifying how the technology actually works, separating reality from hype — with practical experimentation using the tools your team can start applying the very next day.

 

The retreat is built around a simple philosophy: AI should make us more human, not lesser beings. That means we don't just talk about efficiency gains and automation. We explore how AI can free your people for the higher-value, more creative, more human work that drives real competitive advantage. We address fears honestly, celebrate curiosity, and build a shared language your leadership team can use to guide the rest of the organisation.

 

Every retreat is customised to your organisation's context. The morning focuses on building a shared foundation of AI literacy through interactive demos and hands-on experimentation. After a break to process and recharge, the afternoon shifts to strategy: establishing a vision and mapping AI opportunities specific to your business, drafting your organisation's AI policy, and identifying concrete quick wins each leader can take back to their team immediately.

 

Your team leaves not just informed, but aligned — with a shared understanding, a draft AI policy, individual experiments to run, and a follow-up accountability check-in to ensure momentum continues long after the day itself.

Agenda

Welcome & Scene-Setting
 Breakfast, arrivals, and framing the day. Setting expectations and establishing psychological safety so people feel comfortable asking “basic” questions. 

AI Literacy Deep-Dive:
Demystifying how AI actually works, separating reality from hype. Interactive demos showing what’s genuinely possible today. This is where you build the shared language.

Q&A:
Explore all aspects of AI and how what you’re learning is relevant to your business context.

Working Lunch:
Conversation continues informally. This is often where the best insights surface once people have had time to process the morning.

Break & Processing Time:
 Walk, fresh air, spa, breathing room. Deliberately designed in — people need space to absorb before switching to strategic thinking

Strategy Session:
Applying the morning’s learning to their specific organisation. Opportunity mapping, drafting an AI policy, identifying where AI fits their competitive landscape and strategic priorities.

Quick Wins & Accountability:
Each participant commits to 2–3 concrete experiments they’ll run in the next two weeks. Wrap-up includes a commitment to a follow-up check-in to maintain momentum.

Informal Close:
 1-to-1 questions, personal AI chat, space for the conversations people didn’t want to have in front of the group.

Locations available

Hertfordshire, Hampshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Cheshire, Kent, Derbyshire

Length of session

Full day

Max capacity

20

Cost

  • Cost £1000 pp

    Minimum £10,000