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Lead with confidence in an AI-enabled world.
AI is changing how financial services firms work, compete, serve customers and manage risk. Senior leaders now need more than a high-level awareness of AI. They need to understand what AI can do, where it creates value, what risks it introduces and how to lead responsible adoption across their organisation.
The AI Leadership Academy, delivered in partnership with CFTE, is designed to help senior financial-services leaders build the judgement, confidence and practical understanding needed to lead in an AI-enabled world.
The Academy combines strategic briefings, AI-in-action demonstrations, leadership application exercises, use-case discussion, governance reflection and operating-model thinking. It is not intended to turn senior leaders into technologists. It is designed to help them make better leadership decisions about AI, use AI more effectively in their own work, and create the conditions for responsible adoption across their organisation.
The Academy also creates a senior peer forum. Participants will learn alongside other leaders facing comparable questions across financial services, giving them space to compare perspectives, pressure-test assumptions and discuss how institutions are responding to AI.
If you have any questions or need help booking onto the Academy, be sure to email us via training@ukfinance.org.uk.
If you are interested in upskilling multiple employees within your organisation, we can arrange a tailored in-house training session. Please complete the form, and a member of our training team will be in touch.
The workshops run from 09:00 - 12:30.
Monday 19 OctoberWorkshop one: The New AI Reality for Financial Services Leaders. A strategic opening on what has changed, why AI now matters at the executive level, and what kind of leadership judgement is required in a changing financial services landscape.
Tuesday 20 OctoberWorkshop two: AI in Action: Experiencing the Capabilities and Limits A hands-on session that allows senior leaders to see real AI examples, experience the technology directly, and better understand both its power and its limits.
Monday 2 NovemberWorkshop three: Agentic AI and the Next Wave of Strategic Choice A forward-looking session on how AI is evolving, what agentic AI changes, and what new opportunities, risks, and executive choices may emerge from greater autonomy and orchestration
Tuesday 3 NovemberWorkshop four: AI Use Cases and PrioritisationA practical session on understanding what strong AI use cases look like, identifying opportunities and challenges for the organisation, and applying a prioritisation process to focus on what matters most.
Monday 9 NovemberWorkshop five: Governing AI at Scale: Risk, Trust, and Executive Control A senior-level discussion on governance, accountability, oversight, responsible adoption, and how to scale AI with confidence in a regulated environment.
Tuesday 10 NovemberWorkshop six: Redesigning the Operating Model: People, Talent, and Execution A closing session on what AI means for workflows, roles, capability building, organisational design, leadership, and the practical conditions required to capture value.
CFTE is a global capability platform helping financial institutions, regulators and governments build the human capabilities required for the AI era.S...
CFTE is a global capability platform helping financial institutions, regulators and governments build the human capabilities required for the AI era.
Since 2017, CFTE has supported more than 200,000 professionals across 130 countries and worked with 100+ leading organisations, including banks, central banks, regulators, technology firms, sovereign institutions and public-sector bodies.
CFTE’s work is focused on the development of Supercharged Professionals: people who can combine domain expertise, sound judgement and AI-enabled ways of working to perform at a higher level.
Through proprietary frameworks, practitioner-led programmes, capability diagnostics and scalable learning models, CFTE helps institutions develop future-ready talent and translate technological change into responsible adoption, stronger capability and organisational performance.
This Academy is designed for senior leaders responsible for setting direction, making strategic decisions, sponsoring transformation, overseeing risk and governance, or leading teams through change.
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