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LEADERSHIP AI FLUENCY · AI GOVERNANCE FOR BOARDS AND CXOSGovern the AI decisions you are accountable for.

Leadership AI Fluency builds AI judgment in boards, directors, CEOs, CXOs and business and operations heads: where AI fits, the risks it brings and which proposals to fund. Leaders learn by doing, with about 70% of each workshop hands-on. Formats run from a 90-minute board briefing to a two-day workshop, in person or live online, private to your organisation.

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  • Speaker, Institute of Directors (IOD), India
  • 70+ senior leaders at HDFC Bank
  • +102% top-area knowledge lift
For
Boards, directors, CEOs, CXOs, business and operations heads, and technology leadership teams
Format
AI risk and governance briefing, leadership workshop, technology leadership session
Duration
Briefing: 90 minutes, extendable to 3 hours. Workshop: half day, 1 day or 2 days. Technology session: half day
Delivery
In person or live online, private to your organisation
Location
In person across India, live online worldwide
Price
Quoted per organisation

THE QUESTIONS IN THE ROOM

The questions boards are asking now.

Where does AI sit in our risk register, and who owns it?

Which of these AI proposals is worth funding, and how would we know?

What do our regulators expect of us as individuals?

How will we know whether our AI spend is working?

Every briefing answers these for your organisation, with your industry and your regulators.

From a 90-minute briefing to a two-day workshop.

AI risk and governance briefing

For
Boards, audit and risk committees, directors and aspiring directors
Length
90 minutes, extendable to 3 hours
Formats
  • In person
  • Live online
Covers
  • What AI can and cannot reliably do today
  • Where AI risk enters: data, models, vendors and people
  • The oversight questions to put to management
  • What regulators expect
  • How to track AI spend against results
You leave with
  • The board's AI oversight questions, and a shared view of where AI sits in your risk register
Proof
Speaker, IOD India

RBI's FREE-AI committee recommends building AI capability at board and senior-management level; this briefing is designed for that.

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Leadership workshop

For
CEOs, CXOs, business and operations heads, leadership teams
Length
Half day, 1 day or 2 days
Formats
  • In person
  • Live online
Covers
  • The agenda below, tailored to your industry
You leave with
  • A personal AI playbook
  • A scorecard for AI proposals and vendors
  • A use-case shortlist
  • The story for your next board update
  • A quarterly 30-minute practitioner call for 12 months
Proof
HDFC Bank, with Visa
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Technology leadership session

For
Technology leadership teams, hands-on; or the whole technology organisation as a briefing, up to about 250
Length
Half day
Formats
  • In person
  • Live online
Covers
  • How AI is changing software delivery
  • Roles, skills and team shape
  • Quality, security and evaluation
  • Where to start next quarter
You leave with
  • Leaders: a 90-day plan for AI in software delivery, with quality and security gates.
  • The wider organisation: a shared view of what changes in their roles
Proof
Nuvama Group CIO organisation
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Leaders learn by building, too.

About 70% of each workshop is hands-on; about 30% is theory. Board briefings are discussion-led, with a live demonstration. Leaders use the tools their teams use and work on our platform. They build an AI-assisted workflow for their own function and test a vendor scorecard on a real proposal. They leave knowing what good looks like, not just what it is called.

Data and security

Workshops use anonymised or sample tasks, and nothing connects to your systems. Data and security →

Two days, end to end.

  1. 01Day 1 — Where enterprise AI really stands in your industry
  2. 02Day 1 — Hands-on with the tools your teams already use
  3. 03Day 1 — Regulation and risk, mapped to your function
  4. 04Day 1 — Evaluating AI proposals and vendors
  5. 05Day 2 — Building your personal AI playbook
  6. 06Day 2 — Hands-on: building an AI-assisted workflow for your function
  7. 07Day 2 — The board conversation: what you will report next quarter
  8. 08Day 2 — Playbook readout and commitments

The one-day version covers sessions 1, 2, 4 and 7; the half-day covers 1, 2 and 4.

The rules boards answer to, in India and beyond.

Each framework is taught with the obligations and the board-level questions it raises.

India, today

  • RBI FREE-AI framework: for boards and risk committees of banks, NBFCs and payment firms.
  • SEBI's proposed AI/ML guidelines: for asset managers, brokers and market intermediaries.
  • DPDP Act and Rules: for any organisation using personal data in AI.
  • IRDAI expectations: for insurers.

Outside India

We map each session to your regulators and to your own model-risk and third-party-risk policies. Tell us your jurisdiction.

FREE FOR DIRECTORS

10 questions a board should ask before approving AI.

A two-page guide for directors and audit committees: what to ask management about value, risk, data, vendors and accountability, and what a good answer sounds like.

When leaders are ready, take it to the teams.

The natural next step is Working AI Fluency for the functions that will use AI first: hands-on workshops, then self-paced learning that reaches the front line.

Working AI Fluency →

Questions we hear

We have done executive AI programmes before. How is this different?+

It runs on your agenda, not a generic syllabus: your industry, your regulators and the AI proposals on your table. About 70% is hands-on, a practitioner who has built AI leads it, and we measure what changed.

How much time does it take?+

A board briefing takes 90 minutes, or up to 3 hours. Workshops run half a day, one day or two days, in person or as live online modules.

Is a day or two enough for senior leaders?+

As a start, yes. Leaders don't need to build production AI; they need to ask the right questions, judge proposals and set direction. Two days leaves room for hands-on work and a written playbook.

Why YaaraLabs rather than a consulting firm or business school?+

Consulting firms advise on what to do, and business schools teach frameworks over months. We help leaders judge AI themselves, in a day or two, taught by people who have deployed it.

Do you run this for aspiring directors?+

Yes. The risk and governance briefing works for sitting and aspiring directors, in-company or with director bodies.

Can it be run confidentially, for our board only?+

Yes. Board and leadership sessions are private to your organisation, under the Chatham House Rule if you prefer, and we sign NDAs.

What should a board ask management about AI risk?+

Start with four questions: where is AI already in use, who owns each use, how is output checked before it reaches a customer, and what happens when it is wrong. The full ten are in our board guide, publishing in November.

Do you cover regulation outside India?+

Today the curriculum covers RBI, SEBI and DPDP in depth, plus IRDAI's expectations for insurers. Outside India, we map each session to your regulators and to your own model-risk and third-party-risk policies. Tell us your jurisdiction.

What will our CISO ask?+

Where data goes, who sees it and how long it is kept. The answers are in our Data and security note, and we complete your vendor questionnaire.

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