Overview
As artificial intelligence accelerates the velocity of change, CEOs and senior executives are increasingly required to lead across organizational boundaries, competing priorities, technological discontinuities, and compressed transformation cycles.
AI Champion for Non-Technical Decision Makers (AICNT) is a 1.5-day executive program that combines leadership transformation with technology immersion.
Day 1 — 10 Dec 2026 (Thursday), led by KORNERSTONE, focuses on how executives must think, decide, mobilize, and lead differently in the Intelligence Era — moving progressively from insight and reflection toward transformation and action.
Day 2 — 11 Dec 2026 (Friday), an on-site executive journey at ASTRI Technovation Centre, led by ASTRI, shifts from leadership to technology, providing participants with direct exposure to emerging technologies, research capabilities, and technical expertise through an on-campus immersion experience.
Together, the two days connect a critical leadership question: How should we lead transformation, and what emerging capabilities could make that transformation possible?
Designed for leaders who do not need to build the technology but must understand, evaluate, and act on it, this program helps non-technical decision makers translate AI’s possibilities into confident, well-judged, and influential leadership.
Why Choose KORNERSTONE
- Elite Industry Collaboration
- Dual Focus on Leadership & Tech — balances the “soft” skills of executive leadership with the “hard” skills of technology immersion
- Action-Oriented Curriculum — moves beyond theory and ensure practical application.
- World-Class Trainer
- Strategic Networking — Engage with a cohort of senior decision-makers and technical experts
Skills Covered
- Strategic Leadership in the AI Era: Understanding the evolution of AI (Generative, Agentic, AGI) and its implications for competitive advantage.
- Cognitive Reframing: Moving from a fixed to a growth mindset and applying higher-order judgment to distinguish incremental optimization from true transformation.
- Stakeholder Mobilization: Navigating visible and invisible power dynamics to build coalitions and align stakeholders beyond formal authority.
- Enterprise Orchestration: Converting strategic intent into coordinated action using “Art of War” principles and the 4 AI Pillars.
- Executive Persuasion: Crafting compelling narratives and using structured communication to drive organizational conviction.
- Technology Immersion: Gaining firsthand exposure to emerging technologies at the ASTRI campus to identify capabilities that reshape value creation.
Prerequisites
- No programming, data science or prior AI experience is required.
- Participants should have an interest in how AI and emerging technologies may affect their organization or industry.
- The program is best suited to people with decision-making, leadership or transformation responsibilities.
Target Audience
- C-Suite Executives: CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and CTOs.
- Senior Decision Makers: VPs, Directors, and Heads of Strategy, Innovation, and Digital Transformation.
- Functional Leaders: HR, Marketing, Operations, and Finance leaders looking to integrate AI into their business units.
- Aspiring AI Champions: Executives tasked with leading AI initiatives or digital transformation projects within their organizations.
Training Highlights
- Leadership-first approach to AI: Focus on how decision makers can think, decide and lead differently—not on technical training.
- A practical transformation journey: Explore how to identify meaningful AI opportunities and move from strategic intent towards organizational action.
- Hands-on leadership exercises: Take part in reflection activities, stakeholder simulations and team presentations based on enterprise challenges.
- Technology immersion with ASTRI: Connect leadership questions with emerging technologies, research capabilities and expert perspectives.
- Responsible leadership commitments: Conclude by identifying personal next steps and questions to guide responsible AI adoption.
Course Curriculum
Day 1: KORNERSTONE | Leading the AI Transformation
Theme: How should I think, decide, mobilize, and lead differently?
0. Opening Icebreaker | The Leadership Reality Check
1.Reframe | Leading Oneself Before Leading Transformation
Examine how leadership mindset and cognitive adaptability shape an organization’s capacity to navigate uncertainty and transformation.
- Growth vs. Fixed Mindset as an executive leadership posture
- Bloom’s Taxonomy and the changing hierarchy of human value
- Higher-order judgment, synthesis, and creation
- Transformative leadership mindset
- Identifying and overcoming personal and organizational blind spots
2.Anticipate | Leading Through the Intelligence Revolution
Examine how successive technological shifts reshape competitive advantage and explore the leadership implications of an increasingly intelligent and autonomous operating environment.
- Industrial Revolutions 1.0–5.0 and the Intelligence Revolution
- Evolution of AI: Generative AI, Agentic AI, Personal AI, AGI, ASI, and Singularity
- Obsolete by Abstraction and organizational redesign
- Strategic Mindset and Four Levels of Strategic Thinking
- Incremental vs. Transformative AI
- Enterprise case discussions and strategic application
3.Mobilize | Leading Through Power, Stakeholders & Influence
Explore how enterprise leaders create alignment and mobilize stakeholders when transformation extends beyond their direct authority.
- Stakeholder strategy and organizational interdependencies
- Visible and invisible power
- Authority, execution, and narrative influence
- Coalition building and stakeholder alignment
- Cross-industry executive leadership simulation
4.Orchestrate | From Strategic Intent to Transformation Movement
Explore how leaders convert strategic intent into coordinated enterprise movements by combining transformation strategy, organizational influence, and intelligence advantage.
- Art of War principles for business transformation
- Building an Intelligence Advantage through the 4 AI Pillars
- Identifying genuine transformation opportunities through the 4 AI Discovery Lenses
- Alliance building, sequencing, and organizational momentum
- Enterprise Transformation Simulation
5.Persuade | From Strategic Logic to Organizational Conviction
Strengthen their ability to translate complex transformation strategies into clear, credible, and compelling narratives that mobilize different stakeholders.
- Minto Pyramid Principle for executive communication
- Strategic storytelling and narrative
- Adapting communication to stakeholder context
- Enterprise Transformation Blueprint
- Team executive presentations
6.Commit | From Executive Insight to Leadership Intent
Participants convert the day’s insights into individual leadership intent and identify the transformation questions they want to carry forward.
- Reassessment of leadership assumptions
- Key leadership and transformation insights
- Personal leadership reflection
- Individual commitments and next actions
- Identification of strategic and technology questions to explore during Day 2
Day 2: ASTRI | Experience the Technology
Theme: What emerging capabilities could make that transformation possible?
Visit ASTRI at ASTRI Technovation Centre for an introduction to emerging technologies, research capabilities and technical expertise. The day is intended to connect the leadership and transformation questions raised on Day 1.
Dates & Locations
December 10, 2026 - December 11, 2026
Examination Highlights
No formal written exam. Participants will be assessed based on active participation and the development of an “Enterprise Transformation Blueprint” presented during the program.
Trainer for this course
Ms. A Ho
- Adjunct Professor at HKUST, Visiting Lecturer at HKU, and Success Coach for for CDOs/CAIOs at NUS
- Co-Founder of AllStarsWomen DAO
- Former Head of Digital Transformation & Innovation at Great Eagle Group
- Globally recognized speaker featured on Bloomberg and Fox International
- Global Executive MBA holder of USC
- Expertise spans AI Strategy, Digital Transformation Leadership, AI Governance, and Responsible AI
Ms A Wang
- Director, CCG CLI, ASTRI AIPS Group
- Over 20 years of industry R&D experience across telecommunications, consumer electronics, and AI.
- Leads research in Natural Language Processing, Speech Recognition, and Computer Vision.
- Holds B.S. from Sichuan University and MA from South China University of Technology.
Mr. R Hung
- Senior Manager, Artificial Intelligence Platform and Solutions Division, ASTRI
- Holds five U.S. patents and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
- MPhil from HKUST
Dr. T Yu
- Chief Technologist, Data Analytics, AI Platform and Solutions, ASTRI
- Over 20 years of R&D experience in AI, big data analytics, and distributed systems.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.
