Leadership in AI Transformation: From uncertainty to direction, momentum and impact

How do you lead people and organisations when AI is changing work, the organisation and the future faster than your strategy can keep up?

AI is not just changing technology and processes. It is changing how work is organised, how people collaborate and what skills organisations need. This two-day programme helps leaders steer that change in the right direction: providing direction when the future is still uncertain, engaging people in the change process and making informed choices about the role of AI in their organisation.

Day 1 - Leading through uncertainty

Part 1: Giving direction when you are not certain either

• Steering without a fixed future strategy, and still holding course

• Recognising your own reflexes under pressure (i.e. control, avoidance, deciding too fast)

• Staying stable and predictable for your team

Part 2: Bringing people along, from fear and resistance to momentum

• Taking doubt and objections seriously without bringing things to a halt

• Handling different speeds within your team

• Having the conversation that moves people

Day 2 - From you to your organisation

Part 1: The real value of your people and your business

• What remains distinctly human as AI takes over more of the thinking

• Making room for new skills without letting your current value erode

• A learning culture with psychological safety that keeps thinking critically without slowing down innovation

Part 2: Conscious choices and clear boundaries

• Keeping the AI enthusiasts on board without dampening their energy

• Where do you let AI think for you, and where not: your own red lines

After this two-day programme, you can:

• Give direction and hold course, even when the strategy is not yet fixed
• Bring along people with doubt or resistance and bridge differences in pace
• Articulate the lasting value of your people and your organisation
• Make conscious choices about where AI does and does not belong
• Build a learning culture with psychological safety that keeps thinking critically without slowing down innovation

You leave with one concrete first step.

A two-day programme on two consecutive days, classroom-based in Utrecht. Small group of 8 to 12 participants. Delivered in Dutch (open enrolment and in-company) and in English on request (in-company). No technical background required. On completion you receive the Highberg People & Organization certificate.

Pilot rate: 1695 euro per person (1960 thereafter), excluding VAT.

For people in a formal leadership role, from team lead to senior leadership, who have to navigate the impact of AI on their people and organisation. No technical background required. Relevant for team leads, line managers, directors and senior leaders, among others.

Lianne Swenne is a consultant at Highberg and guides leaders through the human side of AI transformation. She works systemically and focuses on leadership and cultural change: getting people moving, from boardroom to shop floor, so organisations meet their goals and become future-proof. Innovation is a particular interest of hers, and AI is the biggest one right now. She finds AI genuinely fascinating from an innovation perspective, but ultimately it is not about the technology for her: it is about people.

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