AI LEADERSHIP ACADEMY

You've Mastered Every Strategic Tool That Mattered. AI Is Next.

You've built genuine fluency with complex tools throughout your career. Financial modeling, analytics platforms, CRM systems - each time developing the strategic understanding that lets you guide, evaluate, and optimize with confidence.

AI is your next tool to master. And we have the systematic approach designed specifically for leaders like you.

  • In Person

    limited to 12 leaders

    In Daikanyama

  • Program Starts

    August 22

    4 Fridays

    9:00 am - 1:00 pm

  • Program Focus

    Executive Approach

    AI Fluency for Strategic Leaders

The Leadership Evolution That's Already Happening

Future-ready leaders are adding AI fluency to their strategic toolkit. Not because it's trendy, but because it's becoming as essential as financial literacy or data analysis.

They're the ones who can:

  • Evaluate AI opportunities with systematic frameworks

  • Guide technical teams with genuine understanding

  • Make AI investments with confidence

  • Lead organizational transformation from the front

Will you be ready when AI fluency becomes table stakes?

Why Strategic Leaders Choose Our Academy

From Tokyo to São Paulo, Berlin to San Francisco
We've trained thousands of professionals across the globe.

Our innovation and AI methodologies have transformed teams at Nissan, Dell Technologies, Mastercard, and hundreds of organizations.

Now we're bringing that same systematic approach to individual leaders.

AI for Business Leaders

    • Master key AI concepts through business applications, not technical theory

    • Understand the AI landscape: capabilities, limitations, and realistic timeline expectations

    • Learn the human-centered evaluation framework that guides enterprise AI decisions

    • Applied Exercise: Evaluate your current AI opportunities using systematic criteria

    • Advanced frameworks for identifying high-value AI opportunities through human problem analysis

    • Risk assessment and ROI evaluation methods proven with enterprise AI investments

    • Technical feasibility evaluation without needing technical expertise

    • Applied Exercise: Build your AI opportunity pipeline with confidence rankings

    • Understand AI high level architecture for strategic decision-making (not development)

    • Balance vendor evaluation and technology selection

    • Learn to guide technical conversations and evaluate engineering recommendations

    • Applied Exercise: Create technical evaluation criteria for AI initiatives

    • Advanced AI roadmap development that drives organizational results

    • Team structure and stakeholder management for AI initiatives

    • Change management strategies that ensure AI adoption and user success

    • Capstone Presentation: Your systematic approach to discover AI opportunities

    • Day 15 , 30 and 4Check-in: Strategic refinement session with instructor

    • Day 30 Follow-up: Implementation troubleshooting and progress review

    • Day 45 Mastermind: Case study sharing and collective problem-solving with cohort

    • Alumni Network: Alumni network and quarterly framework updates

THIS IS FOR LEADERS WHO RECOGNIZE THEMSELVES HERE:

✓ You have AI initiatives in planning or development
✓ You approve technology budgets and make strategic decisions
✓ You want genuine understanding, not just delegation frameworks
✓ You believe AI should solve real problems, not showcase technology
✓ You're ready to invest 4 Fridays mornings to master your next strategic tool

Not sure if you qualify? If you have AI projects in running or to be designed and decision-making authority, you're ready.

The Strategic Value of This Program

Navigating AI strategy is a high-stakes imperative. This program is designed to provide a direct and significant return on your investment.

  • Prevent Costly Mistakes: A single strategic misstep in AI can easily cost ¥25,000,000 - ¥80,000,000.

  • Secure Your Market Position: A delay in your AI initiatives can put you 6-12 months behind your competition.

  • Drive Positive ROI: The insights gained will enable one sound decision that pays for this program 100x over.

  • Save Months of Research: Instead of spending months gathering fragmented insights across departments and platforms, get the complete Human Centered AI strategy framework delivered in one cohesive program.

Program Investment & Enrollment

Program Investment: ¥200,000

We provide flexible pathways for this essential investment:

  • For Corporate Sponsorship: Net-30 terms are available to support your company's procurement process.

  • For Individual Leaders: Your investment can be structured over a 3-month period.

  • Decisive Action Bonus: Commit within 48 hours of acceptance for a 15% tuition reduction.

CLAIM THESE BENEFITS.

THE FOUNDING MEMBER ADVANTAGE

As one of our first 12 participants, you'll receive:

  • Direct access to curriculum development

  • Unlimited instructor consultation

  • Premium workspace access every Friday

  • Founding alumni status as program expands

  • First access to our AI framework library

This level of access won't exist again.

Founding Member Guarantee

We're Taking Responsibility for Your Success:

If you complete all the Academy and don't feel confident evaluating your next AI opportunity

  • Full refund of your investment

  • Personal consultation on your initiatives

  • Free access to future programs until you're confident

This guarantee covers your learning experience and confidence building. We stand behind the systematic approach that's guided enterprise AI decisions worth hundreds of millions.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This is designed for strategic thinkers, not developers. We cover technical concepts at the decision-making level you need.

  • We do not set offical homework but you may find an additional 2-3 hours of applying frameworks to your real initiatives beneficial.

  • We provide a stakeholder presentation positioning this as strategic capability building with clear ROI. Most organizations see this as essential leadership development.

  • All sessions are required for founding cohort. We keep it small so everyone contributes. Upcoming cohort may offer flexibility.

The Choice Is Simple

Continue navigating AI decisions with incomplete frameworks, or develop the systematic approach that lets you lead with confidence.

August Founding Cohort

  • Applications close: August 18

  • Notification: with in 12 hours of application

  • Program starts: August 22

  • Limited to 12 leaders

Next Academy: October 2025

Submit your application or schedule a 15-minute program overview: hello@designthinkingjapan.com

Important: This program provides systematic frameworks and strategic AI understanding. Business outcomes depend on many factors including participant engagement, market conditions, and application of concepts. Individual results will vary based on effort and implementation.