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AI Management Training

AI Training for Business Leaders

Build the confidence and practical skills to make sound decisions about AI. Private training for business owners and senior managers, built around your own business.

Three standalone programmes, each with defined learning outcomes, a final applied exercise and a record of the skills each participant demonstrates.

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Clients across New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore

  • Hunter Campbell
  • Potentia
  • Evergreen Landcare
  • Quantem
  • Nomadtika
  • Bridge It NZ
  • Nilo
  • OT&P Healthcare
  • Stoneview Capital
  • Niatross Investments
  • Business Succession Partners
  • OP Investment Management

What Participants Learn

Management Skills for Leading AI

Each programme builds the judgement leaders need to adopt AI well, practised and assessed on your own business.

  1. Evaluate AI Opportunities

    Weigh opportunities against your business goals, costs and risks, and challenge vendor or tool claims that the evidence doesn't support.

  2. Manage Information Risk

    Set information-handling rules and human review standards, so the team knows what can go into AI and who checks the output.

  3. Plan and Lead Adoption

    Compare use cases with a framework you can reuse, then build your own adoption plan with responsibilities and measures of progress.

  4. Show the Skills

    Every participant completes a final applied exercise and keeps a record of the skills shown, the learning materials and their own action plan.

Every programme is standalone and delivered privately to one business, in person or online, across New Zealand and Australia.

Programmes

Three Private Programmes

Each includes an AI Fundamentals Workshop and applied learning on your own work, delivered privately to one business.

AI Foundations Training
for Business Leaders

NZ$10,000plus GST per business

  • 12 taught hours over 4 weeks
  • Owner and senior managers, 1 to 5 people
  • In person or online

What You'll Do

  • Weigh AI against goals, costs and risks
  • Challenge vendor and tool claims
  • Set rules for information and review
  • Build your own adoption plan

AI Readiness and
Operations Training

NZ$10,000plus GST per business

  • 12 taught hours over 4 weeks
  • Owner and senior managers, 1 to 5 people
  • In person or online

What You'll Do

  • Map a workflow and its information
  • Assess how ready your information is
  • Compare options on cost, time and risk
  • Set a baseline to judge an AI trial

AI Training for
Owner-Operators

NZ$5,000plus GST per business

  • 6 taught hours over 2 weeks
  • One owner-operator
  • In person or online

What You'll Do

  • Weigh up one AI opportunity
  • Decide what information to use
  • Weigh the value against time and cost
  • Leave with your own action plan

Prices in New Zealand dollars. Each covers preparation, learning materials and assessment. Software licences and travel are separate.

Learning Outcomes

What Each Programme Covers

The defined learning outcomes for each programme, assessed in a final applied exercise.

AI Foundations Training for Business Leaders: 12 taught hours over 4 weeks

By the end, each participant can:

  • Evaluate AI opportunities against business goals, costs and risks
  • Explain AI limitations and challenge unsupported vendor or tool claims
  • Apply information-handling rules and human review standards
  • Compare use cases using a prioritisation framework you can reuse
  • Create your own adoption plan with responsibilities and measures of progress
  • Demonstrate your decisions independently in a final applied exercise
AI Readiness and Operations Training: 12 taught hours over 4 weeks

By the end, each participant can:

  • Map a workflow yourself and identify its information and decision requirements
  • Assess the readiness of your information and working practices for AI use
  • Compare improvement options using explicit cost, time and risk assumptions
  • Define review responsibilities and information-handling practices
  • Set a baseline and decide how to evaluate an AI adoption trial
  • Present and defend your own operational improvement plan
AI Training for Owner-Operators: 6 taught hours over 2 weeks

By the end, the owner-operator can:

  • Evaluate one AI opportunity against your business priorities, costs and risks
  • Decide what information to use and how to check the output
  • Compare the likely value with the time and cost of adoption
  • Create your own action plan with a measure of success
  • Demonstrate your decisions in a final applied exercise

Programme Structure

Inside the Four-Week Programmes

Four sessions with 4 to 6 hours of practice between them. You do the work and explain your decisions, and the trainer teaches the methods and gives feedback.

  1. AI Fundamentals Workshop

    4 hours

    A skills baseline, then what AI does well and where it falls short, prompting and responsible use, applied to your business.

  2. Applied Learning: Your Workflow

    3 hours

    Use the framework on your own work. You do the analysis and make the decisions, with feedback from the trainer.

  3. Applied Learning: Governance and Value

    3 hours

    Practise setting review responsibilities, weighing evidence and estimating value without mistaking forecasts for results.

  4. Capability
    Review

    2 hours

    Present your own plan and complete an independent exercise, then compare the result with your starting baseline.

Your Trainers

Who Delivers the Training

Trainers with senior operating and delivery experience. ELab is a member of the Auckland Business Chamber.

Meet the Senior Team
  • Antoni Tisot
    Antoni TisotManaging Director and Founder

    Head of Innovation at Downer New Zealand, then senior product and growth roles at EquipmentShare across APAC. Leads AI Foundations workshops and executive training.

  • Tushar Singh
    Tushar SinghHead of AI and Data

    Over 12 years in enterprise AI, including Head of Customer Analytics at Capgemini Invent in London. Teaches AI strategy, data readiness, governance and responsible AI.

  • Natalia Mungall
    Natalia MungallHead of Delivery

    Over 15 years delivering technology programmes at Vodafone, Unilever, ASB, KiwiRail and Fulton Hogan. Teaches workflow mapping and practical AI adoption in teams.

  • Andrew Meakin
    Andrew MeakinHead of Go-to-Market

    Over 15 years in technology and traditional businesses, from product marketing at Electronic Arts to running a US wholesale business with field teams. Teaches AI for sales and growth.

Training in Practice

What Teams Learned and Applied

Each began with the AI Fundamentals Workshop, then applied learning on the team's own work.

Specialist Recruitment · Auckland

AI in the Work of All 22 Consultants

22consultants applying AI in their work

Applied sessions and two learning clinics on candidate summaries, meeting notes and output review, for a 22-person team including leadership. All 22 consultants went on to apply AI in their work.

Read the Workshop Case Study

…we absolutely backed the right horse. We couldn't be happier.

Lee Marshall, Managing Partner

In Their Words

In Their Own Words

When you have 5 to shortlist it would normally take me hours but now is taking me under an hour.

Eden McKee, Senior Consultant

I've bashed two quotes out of it this morning. It's really good for those ones, one to five line items.

Ben Cunningham, Managing Director

When you walk around the office you can see the AI tools on people's screens all the time. It's exponential.

Susanne, Team member

Practical Questions

Format, Timing and Cost

Who is the training for?

Business owners and directors, managers with operational responsibility and leaders responsible for AI adoption. No technical background is needed. We confirm what each person needs to learn before booking.

Is the training in person or online?

Both. Every programme runs in person or online across New Zealand and Australia, delivered privately to your business.

How long does the training take?

The four-week programmes have 12 taught hours plus 4 to 6 hours of independent practice. AI Training for Owner-Operators has a 3-hour workshop and a 3-hour applied session over two weeks, plus 1 to 2 hours of practice.

What does the training cost?

AI Training for Owner-Operators is NZ$5,000 plus GST for one participant and six taught hours. The two four-week programmes are NZ$10,000 plus GST per business, for 12 taught hours and one to five participants. Each price covers preparation, learning materials and assessment. Software licences and travel are separate.

How is learning assessed?

Each programme ends with a final applied exercise on your own business. Participants keep the learning materials, their completed worksheets, their own action plan and a record of the skills they demonstrated.

New Zealand Only

For New Zealand Businesses

This training is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. To explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor here: Find your local Regional Business Partner

How RBP Funding Works With Our Training

Management Capability Development funding can help small businesses pay for training that builds the management skills of owners and key managers. It's arranged through Regional Business Partner growth advisors and can be used with registered providers. Read about the fund on business.govt.nz.

A Good Place to Start

Bring the Work You Want to Improve

Thirty minutes on your team and the decisions you need to make about AI. We'll recommend the programme that fits.

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