2026 AI Foundations for Leaders

Built for managers and team leads responsible for quality, compliance, and team standards.

Next Live Session: 10am EST - Friday Feb 13th

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Foundations of AI Literacy

Begin your AI journey with confidence. This foundational summit demystifies artificial intelligence, introduces core concepts without jargon, and helps you recognize both the opportunities and limitations of today’s AI tools—all while building the emotional groundwork for healthy technology adoption.

Duration

2.5 Hours

Format

Live + Recording

Level

Built for non-technical leaders

Zoom link + prep email delivered 24–48 hours after purchase.

Friday 13th

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Tuesday 17th

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Friday 20th

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Friday 27th

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the Summit, you won’t just “know more about AI”—you’ll walk away with the skills, frameworks, and roadmaps to safely, strategically, and humanely deploy AI in your own work and across your team.

Write clear, structured prompts that consistently produce higher‑quality, more reliable outputs.
Explain what prompt engineering is and use a simple, reusable framework/rubric whenever you do something more complex than an “AI‑powered Google search.”
Have AI help you improve your own prompts—polishing your wording, adding placeholders, and turning one‑off prompts into reusable templates you can apply across similar tasks.
Tell AI the outcome you want and let it propose strong prompts for you, instead of starting from a blank page.
Use context engineering—the right sources, details, and files—to dramatically improve the accuracy, depth, and relevance of AI outputs.
Understand what minimum context is absolutely required for a task, how context decays over time in longer chats, and how files are handled by AI tools so you can design better, safer workflows.

Understand the real trade‑offs of using free AI tools and what they mean for your data.
Learn how to turn off data sharing and find where major platforms may be collecting or using your information.
Build practical habits and checks that protect sensitive data while still allowing your team to experiment with AI.

Learn to spot and manage hallucinations and sycophancy (over‑agreeable AI behaviour).
Use multi‑tool validation strategies, including Perplexity and Gemini’s source‑checking features.
Create closed, safer AI environments (e.g., Notebook LM) for rapid learning and asset creation from your own content.
Transform a single asset into multiple deliverables, such as taking a deep research report and turning it into internal briefs and guides, or into external, client‑facing pieces that drive reach, revenue, and growth.

Identify where and how to apply AI in your own work, team processes, and broader organization.

Clarify the three core expectations placed on them as leaders in the age of AI:

Use AI to enhance your own work with excellence, not just efficiency.
Know what to monitor in their own use of AI and their team’s use.
Understand and oversee how their people are using AI, instead of ignoring the issue.

Understand the business risk of “doing nothing”—every day without a clear AI approach and policy widens your exposure and makes the problem harder to fix later.

Understand what a modern AI policy must cover and what “gold standard” ethics and reporting look like.
Navigate AI adoption within a global legal and ethical landscape, with a working understanding of how AI regulation and expectations differ across: Australia, United States, Canada, European Union, and the United Kingdom.
Use checklists for leaders and employees to support consistent, responsible AI use.
Learn the extra steps required in regulated industries (finance, banking, healthcare, insurance, etc.) around SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR and more.

Get a step‑by‑step implementation guide and examples of compliance‑aligned tools to support your decisions.

Develop the emotional intelligence to communicate AI‑driven changes without creating panic or confusion.
Learn how to have difficult conversations about mistakes, skill gaps, and new expectations around AI.
Use neuroscience‑informed strategies to regulate yourself under pressure so you can lead with clarity and calm.
Create psychological safety so employees feel safe flagging “something might be wrong” early, instead of hiding issues.
Tame AI chaos and convert insights into action with the Mutedzi 3D Protocol.
Learn how to prioritize, focus, and sequence AI initiatives when everything feels urgent.

Walk away with three 30‑day roadmaps:

- One for you as a leader (how to embed these skills).
- One for AI policy (what to write, review, and implement first).
- One for employee AI onboarding (training, guardrails, and checklists).

Turn the Summit into a concrete implementation plan, not just inspiration. With these roadmaps, you will know what to do this week, next month, and beyond.

NotebookLM Workshop

This hands-on workshop is designed to turn NotebookLM into the strategic backbone for everything you do with AI going forward.

Instead of scattered docs, half-remembered prompts, and one‑off experiments, you’ll learn how to build robust “sources of truth” from your existing notes, research, and institutional knowledge.

These notebooks become your stable foundation for learning new topics, onboarding AI, and briefing your team—so every future AI project starts from accurate, organized, domain-specific context instead of a blank page.

Duration

3 Hours

Format

Live + Recording

Level

Built for non-technical leaders

Solidify your foundations with this hands-on workshop

Friday 6th

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

Friday 13th

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET

$289 per workshop · 25 seats per session

Meet Your Hosts

Dr. Barbara Mutedzi, Ph.D.

Barbara is an executive advisor and neuroscience-informed leadership strategist who specializes in the part most AI trainings ignore—the human reactions that decide whether adoption happens at all.
Because if people feel threatened, confused, or judged, you don’t get responsible AI use. You get Shadow AI, quiet resistance, “job hugging,” and a team that learns in private instead of improving in public. In that environment, even the best AI frameworks won’t land because the real usage stays hidden.

Emma Farquharson, Ph.D.

Emma is the co-founder of SharedIntel AI and an AI educator for team leaders and decision-makers who want practical adoption—not hype, chaos, or “random tool sprawl.” She helps leaders and teams turn AI into a reliable thinking partner, asset engine, and automation layer through clear use cases, safe data habits, prompt and context frameworks, and validation workflows that reduce risk while improving speed and quality. With a Ph.D. from Cornell University, Emma brings research-level rigor to everyday business decisions—so AI adoption is measurable, repeatable, and scalable across the organization.

Why this pairing works

This pairing is rare because it teaches AI capability PLUS human readiness together. These are the two conditions that real sustainable adoption requires.

Barbara helps leaders create the conditions where teams can use AI openly, responsibly, and consistently—so the organization can actually unlock AI’s upside. In this summit, she’ll show you how to:

Reduce fear-driven Shadow AI by building clarity and psychological safety
Lead the “why are we using AI?” conversation without triggering defensiveness
Apply her Define → Design → Display approach to turn goals into aligned expectations, day-to-day behaviors, and accountability—without drama

Is This Right For Me?

Who this is for

Leaders moving from AI guesswork to confident, repeatable use
Managers and department heads translating complexity into clear action
Teams who want safe adoption—and to prevent Shadow AI
Anyone who feels behind and needs a clear starting point

This is not for

People looking for a purely technical, developer‑level AI training
Leaders who want a one‑off inspirational talk with no implementation support

Choose Your Experience

Pick the option that matches how fast you want to implement

Summit 1

$189/ per session

2 hour live webinar with 30 minutes Q&A
Full session recordings
Learning resources including, prompt kit and workflow guides
AI Strategy Roadmap

Zoom link + prep email delivered 24–48 hours after purchase.

Workshop

$289/ per workshop

3 hour live hands-on workshop
Guided implementation + live build time
Translate learning into a practical rollout plan
Leave with working assets and next steps

Zoom link + prep email delivered 24–48 hours after purchase.

Your Complete Learning Toolkit

You’ll receive your Zoom link, prep instructions, and starter resources by email within 24–48 hours of purchase. Post-session materials (like the recording) are shared after your live date.

Summit Scribe Guide

Structured companion for capturing insights and action planning.

Session Recording

Full recordings for reference, review, and reinforcement

Prompt Library

Curated prompts for leadership and professional scenarios.

NotebookLM Toolkit

Build your personalized AI learning system. [Workshop Add-On]

Ready to implement AI at work...safely?

If you’re unsure where to start, we’ll point you to the right summit (or the right next step)

F.A.Q.

Fast answers for leaders deciding whether to attend

Is this technical training?

No. It’s built for managers and team leads who need practical AI fluency and safer team standards—without developer-level depth.

What if my team is already using AI “quietly”?

This session gives you language and guardrails to raise standards without shame—so you reduce risk and improve output quality.

Will you cover data protection?

Yes. You’ll get simple, practical rules for what should never be shared and how to reduce accidental exposure in daily work.

Can I attend if I’m not a manager?

Yes—if you influence workflows, quality standards, or rollout decisions. The training is designed for people responsible for outcomes.