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AI Leadership Academy

Your leadership team has led every technology shift of the last two decades. This one rewards the teams who understand it deeply.

A programme run inside your organization, for the people who approve, direct, and deliver AI. In English and Japanese — at your office, in Daikanyama, or virtual. We also provide executive programmes on cybersecurity in the age of AI.

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The Case

Most executive AI programs deliver vocabulary.

This one builds judgment — the ability to evaluate an opportunity before committing, hold an engineering team accountable to outcomes, and recognize when you’re looking at real capability versus theater.

Leadership teams who complete this programme lead AI conversations with clarity. They direct. They decide.

Inside Your Organization

One programme. Layered by altitude.

AI decisions break down when the people who approve, direct, and deliver don’t share the same judgment. We run the programme across all three.

01
Approve
Board and C-suite
Judge AI investment and risk before committing capital.
02
Direct
Senior management
Set priorities, evaluate proposals, and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
03
Deliver
Builders and product leads
Turn direction into working AI, with clear criteria for what good looks like.

A typical format. Every in-house programme is designed around your organization.

Duration
16 hours
4 sessions of 4 hours, scheduled around your team
Scale
Sized to your team
Typically up to 12 per cohort — customized to your needs
Delivery
In-house or open
English and Japanese
Location
Your office or ours
On-site, Daikanyama, or virtual
Platform
The AI Cards↗
1-year unlimited access
Materials
The Playbook
Frameworks, templates & tools
What Your Leadership Develops

Four capabilities. Measured in decisions made with confidence.

01
A systematic framework for evaluating AI opportunities — applied to your actual business context, not hypothetical cases.
02
Technical fluency at the decision-making level. Enough to lead engineering conversations, evaluate recommendations, and ask the right questions under pressure.
03
Judgment on AI risk and investment — from practitioners who’ve deployed AI at enterprise scale across manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and financial services.
04
A shared language and decision framework across your leadership team — so AI proposals are judged the same way from the board to the build team.
Explore the Framework

Get familiar with how DTJ maps AI capability to business problems.

Our AI Cards tool lets you explore the same framework your leadership team will apply to your real challenges. Interactive, free, and built by the same team who runs the Academy.

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AI Capability Cards
100+ AI capabilities mapped to real business problems
Used by teams across 14 countries to run internal AI discovery sessions. Built by DTJ. Free to use.
Who This Is For

Three signs your leadership team is ready.

Your organization has AI initiatives running or in planning.
Your leaders approve or direct technology investment.
You want the leadership team aligned, not just briefed.
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For Founders and Owners

You run the company. You make the call.

Small open cohorts of around twelve founders and business owners. Tokyo or virtual. For leaders who decide for themselves — learning alongside peers facing the same shift, in the same market.

How It Starts

Built around your organization from the first conversation.

01
A conversation with your sponsor
We map the AI initiatives and decisions your leadership is facing.
02
A programme built around them
Your real cases, not hypothetical ones — sized and scheduled to your team.
03
Delivered across your leadership
From the people who approve, to those who direct, to those who deliver.

Let’s design the programme for your team.

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