A New Course from LeaderFactor

Leading Through AI™

The first course that treats AI adoption as a leadership challenge — not a technical one. Because now humans are the bottleneck, not technology.

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$1.3T

spent on AI in 2026.

You're investing in AI. Your leaders are nodding along. And nothing's changing. Why?

What nobody's saying

Every previous technology wave changed what leaders used. AI changes what leaders do.

The tasks that filled most of their week — synthesizing, routing, reporting, deciding the same low-stakes thing thirty times — were scaffolding. AI handles it all now. That's not a productivity upgrade. That's an identity shift nobody prepared them for.

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The Course

The work. The people. The proof.

The AI Thinking Partner personalizes every exercise to each leader's actual role. This is what they move through.

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01

Define

Honesty

Leaders audit their actual week against three zones — human-only, partnership, and AI-ready — and confront how much of their calendar was inherited, not chosen. They leave with a Partnership Audit and an Identity Statement.

02

Discover

Possibility

A Discovery Sprint pushes leaders past "AI can summarize things" through three layers: efficiency, augmentation, and transformation. They build a Possibility Map across their highest-volume workflows.

03

Design

Agency

Leaders redesign their top workflows task by task — what AI owns, what they own, and what triggers human escalation. They leave with a Partnership Map that changes how their actual week works.

04

Develop

Trust

Leaders diagnose their team across four readiness gaps — psychological safety, conceptual understanding, technical skill, and identity integration — and build a plan to close the one that matters most.

05

Demonstrate

Proof

Leaders build a 90-Day Demonstration Plan with metrics at 30, 60, and 90 days — success thresholds, scale triggers, and the story that makes it real.

The thinking partner

Your leaders don't just learn AI.
They build with it. First your people clear the noise, then they lead in the space that opens up. They don't do it alone.

AI Thinking Partner

Meet Lumen.

Your leaders' AI Thinking Partner — personalized to their role, their team, and their actual workflows. Lumen walks each leader through every stage of the course and helps them build deliverables they can use the day the course ends.

Personalizes exercises to each leader's context

Guides them through all five stages

Helps build real, usable deliverables

Available on demand, before and after the course

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What they walk away with

Five deliverables. Built on their actual work. Usable 30 seconds after the course ends.

Deliverables

Where they're reacting, where they're leading, where there's a gap.

Leaders list their actual weekly tasks and classify each one: Human-only, Partnership, or AI-ready. The honest inventory that reveals where they've defaulted to manual effort on AI-ready work.

Where AI creates space in their actual workflows.

Leaders push each workflow through three dimensions — efficiency, augmentation, transformation — generating a wide map of possibilities. Quantity over quality. No commitments yet.

What AI handles, what they handle, task by task.

For each critical workflow: What does AI own? What does the human own? Where is the handoff? What's the escalation trigger? The Monday-morning artifact.

Trust gaps, capability gaps, and integration gaps — addressed.

Leaders diagnose their team across four readiness gaps and build a specific plan to close the one that matters most. The module nobody else would put inside an AI course.

Real metrics, scale/kill criteria, and a Week 12 reckoning.

A concrete plan with metrics at 30, 60, and 90 days. Success thresholds, scale triggers, kill criteria, and a Week 12 reckoning. The deliverable that turns a course into a case for investment.

The Landscape

Other courses teach AI. This one builds AI leaders.

Not all programs are created equal. Here's what to look for — and how Leading Through AI™ compares.

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Evaluation criteria		Our approach	Common alternatives
What to Look For	Why It Matters	Leading Through AI™	Elite University Programs	Enterprise L&D Providers	Online Content Libraries
Named AI leadership framework	A model you can teach, assess against, and build competency around — not a topic list	The 5D Model — a named, teachable framework	NoCase studies & topic modules, not a teachable model	RareMost embed AI into existing leadership content	NoCurated video playlists, no unifying model
Proprietary assessment (pre/post)	Measure where leaders stand before and after — data for your board deck	AI Leadership Index (ALI) with pre/post measurement	NoCompletion certificates, no measurement of growth	SomeGeneral leadership assessments, not AI-specific	NoQuizzes at best, no pre/post measurement
Behavioral deliverables	Leaders walk out with artifacts they use Monday morning, not just certificates	5 artifacts + 90-day action plan	NoCertificate of completion only	LimitedAdvisory outputs that require consultants to activate	NoNo applied work product
AI Thinking Partner	Personalized coaching during the course, not generic one-size-fits-all content	Lumen — AI coaching personalized to your context	NoLecture & discussion format	NoFacilitator-led only	NoPassive video consumption
Works across all leader levels	Same framework for C-suite, directors, and emerging leaders — one language across the org	3 calibrated tracks — same model, right altitude	NoTypically senior executives only	SomeMay offer tiers, but rarely with shared framework	NoOne generic version for everyone
Tool-agnostic / principles-based	Principles that outlast any platform or tool generation	Constitution, not case law	MostlyAcademic programs tend to be conceptual	MixedSome tie content to specific vendor tools	Often tiedFrequently vendor-sponsored content
Facilitator certification	Deploy internally at enterprise scale without ongoing vendor dependency	Certified Facilitator program	NoFaculty-delivered only	RareSome allow internal facilitation at added cost	NoSelf-serve only, no facilitation model
Respects executive time	Half-day, not half-year — impact without the calendar tax	4-hour core + 8-week reinforcement	No5 weeks to 7 months typical	Varies90 min modules to multi-week engagements	ShortShort modules, but low-impact passive viewing
Enterprise pricing & deployment	Built for the CLO buying for 500+ leaders, not individual enrollment	$399–499/leader at enterprise scale	No$1,850–$15,000 per individual seat	CustomEnterprise-ready, but often custom advisory pricing	AffordableLow per-seat, but low-impact content

Competitor buckets represent typical patterns across 30+ programs evaluated in the AI leadership training market as of 2026. Individual programs may vary.

Tool-agnostic by design

Tool-agnostic. Principle-driven. Compatible with whatever’s in your stack.

AI tools change every quarter. The 5D Model doesn’t. Whether your organization runs on ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, or something built in-house, the frameworks, deliverables, and leadership shifts work the same.

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Based on LeaderFactor’s full-stack leadership development methodology.

Leading Through AI follows LeaderFactor's full-stack development process — define, assess, learn, apply, prove, scale — so your people actually improve.

01

Define

Scope the change

02

Assess

Measure the gap

03

Learn

Build the skill

04

Apply

Do the work

05

Prove

Show the impact

06

Scale

Spread the change

How it works

Built to fit your team — not the other way around.

Self-paced. AI-guided.

Five stages, personalized to each leader's role. Ships first.

On-Demand Course

$249 per seat

Half-day. Five modules.

3h 45m, facilitator-led cohort experience. Certified or LF-direct.

Facilitated Workshop

$495 per seat (public) · Custom for private

Certify your L&D team to deliver it in-house.

Train-the-trainer program for internal facilitators. Full materials, facilitator guide, and ongoing access to Lumen.

Custom pricing

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Leading Through AI™—centered around the 5D Model of AI Leadership

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