Your AI Strategy in Five Moves.

Start with what your business is trying to achieve. Then decide where AI belongs in it.
Three hours, your own business, and the five decisions that make up an AI strategy. 12 October 2026, 9.00 am to 12.15 pm. Greenmeadows Centre, Stoke. $195 incl GST.

Start with the business. What are you trying to do more of, do better, or do at all? That question comes before any question about AI, and it is what makes the rest of the decisions answerable.

An AI strategy is a set of decisions about where AI belongs in what you are already trying to achieve, and they are far easier to get right in the right order. This three-hour workshop walks you through them on your own business. You bring your organisation, not a hypothetical, and you make each decision as the session goes.

By the end you will have made all five calls on your own business, and you will have the competence to make them again. That is the point. It is what you run next quarter with your team, when the first move is working and you are deciding what comes next.

Tool agnostic, not tool free. Bring a laptop and an AI tool you can log into. Whichever one you already use is the right one. You work inside an interactive workshop page in your own browser, and alongside it in your own AI, throughout the three hours. Everyone leaves with their own first draft, in their own words, about their own business.

Agenda: the five moves

• Direction and guardrails. What are we trying to achieve, where does AI belong, and where do we keep it out.
• Set the priority. Of everything on the table, what earns the first move.
• Define success. How will we know it worked.
• Ownership. Who runs it, and who stands behind the result.
• Governance and adoption. What rules do we run by, and what happens when this works.

 

Facilitator

Nina O’Donohue is co-founder of Cogrounding and works with businesses on making AI a competence in the organisation. She spent close to nine years at the LEGO Group with global marketing responsibility and has built two businesses of her own. She starts with what needs to be achieved and for whom. The technology follows.

FAQ

Do I need to be technical? No. You bring your business, not a tech background. The workshop is about the decisions a leader makes, not about operating a particular tool.

Which AI tool do you use? Whichever one you already use. The workshop is tool agnostic, so bring a laptop and the AI you work in. You do need one on the day, because you work with it throughout.

Is three hours enough? Yes, to leave with a first draft of all five decisions and the competence to keep going. It is a working session, not a lecture.

Can I bring someone from my team? Yes. Some businesses send two people from the leadership team. There is a two-person rate of $350 incl GST, and you will each work through the decisions and compare at the end.

I have been to a Sandbox session or two. Is this the next step? Yes. You have the tools. This is where you decide what your business is trying to achieve and where AI belongs in it.

We already use AI. Is this still for us? Yes, and it is often more useful. You bring what is already running, including the things people started on their own, and the workshop puts the decisions around it in order: what is worth keeping, where it belongs, and who owns it.

What do I walk out with? Your own answers to all five decisions, and the competence to run them again with your team: how to weigh a new piece of work before you commit to it, what goes into an AI tool from your business and what stays out, and who owns what once AI is in the picture.

Book your place. 12 October 2026. $195 incl GST.