Your team is already using AI.
The question is whether you are leading it.
A 1–2 day intensive workshop for Nigerian CEOs, founders, senior managers, and boards. Built around three things every leader now has to do well: set an AI strategy for the business, work fluently with AI tools yourself, and lead adoption across your teams without burning trust or money.
What the Programme Covers
Four things every Nigerian leader
now has to do well.
This is not an AI tools demo. It is a working session for the people who set direction. Mixed cohorts of founders, senior managers, and board members work through four modules, with case material drawn from Nigerian businesses — your sector wherever possible. The curriculum is anchored to the Microsoft Business Leader AI framework and translated into the operating reality of running a business in Nigeria. Every module ends with a deliverable you take back to the office on Monday.
Where AI actually creates value in a business like yours — and where it does not. We work through your operating model, identify the two or three places AI can shift cost, speed, or revenue this year, and stress-test them against the realities of running in Nigeria. You leave with a one-page AI strategy for your business, drafted in the room.
Hands-on time with the tools you will actually use as a leader — ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini — applied to the work you already do. Drafting board papers, summarising long reports, preparing for negotiations, structuring strategic thinking. For organisations on Microsoft 365, we go deep on Copilot across Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams — because it is the productivity surface your team is already paying for. By the end of day one, you will have a personal AI workflow that saves real hours every week.
How to roll AI out across your organisation without losing control of cost, quality, or data. We cover the practical questions: which roles get access first, how to write a usage policy your team will actually follow, what to budget, how to measure whether it is working, and how to handle the staff conversations that come with it.
Every module uses worked examples from Nigerian operating environments — SMEs scaling, family businesses professionalising, corporates transforming. You see how the principles play out in the cash flow rhythms, infrastructure realities, and regulatory frame your business actually lives in.
A focused working session on the data, regulatory, and reputational risks of AI use in Nigeria. We cover NDPR implications, the principles behind responsible AI (transparency, accountability, fairness, privacy), what your contracts and usage policies should say, where the real exposure is, and how to ask the right questions of vendors and your own teams. You leave with a draft AI usage policy framework you can hand to your legal team for finalisation.
The workshop closes with a structured planning session. Each leader leaves with a written 90-day action plan covering the personal workflow they will adopt, the team rollout they will sponsor, and the strategic question they will answer next. We follow up at 30 days to see how it is landing.
1–2 day intensive workshop. In-person in Abuja or Lagos, on-site at your offices, or live online for distributed leadership teams.
CEOs, founders, MDs, senior managers, department heads, and boards. Mixed cohorts work well — the conversation across roles is part of the value.
A one-page AI strategy. A personal AI workflow that saves hours every week. A 90-day adoption plan for your teams.
Capped at 12 leaders per session. Small enough that every participant works through their own business, not a generic case.
Group call 30 days after the workshop to surface what is working, troubleshoot what is not, and adjust your action plan.
One hour with the Microsoft Business Leader AI Learning Path before the workshop — freely available, optional, and significantly improves what you take from day one.
Who It Is For
Built for the leaders
making the calls. All of them.
You set the strategy. The board is asking what your AI plan is. Your competitors are moving. You need a working point of view, not another report.
Your team is asking for AI tools. Your CFO is asking what they cost. Your peers are quietly experimenting. You need clarity on what to back, what to block, and what to measure.
You need enough fluency to ask the right questions of management — on strategy, on risk, on spend, on whether the AI investment your CEO is proposing is the right one.
Mixed cohorts work especially well. Some of the most useful conversations in our workshops happen between a founder and an NED, or a CEO and a head of operations, who would not normally sit in the same training session.
Why Alakemere
Practitioners. Not evangelists.
There is no shortage of people willing to speak about AI. What is in short supply is consultants who have actually built data systems inside complex businesses, sat in the executive room when the numbers had to be defended, and understand both what AI can do and what it cannot. Our principal consultant has held analytical and governance roles across defence infrastructure, global FMCG, and food manufacturing — managing datasets across four global platforms and driving measurable operational improvement. The view we bring to AI is the view of someone who has spent a career making data trustworthy enough for senior people to act on. AI does not change that standard. It raises it.
The Framework Behind the Workshop
Anchored to Microsoft.
Translated for Nigeria.
Microsoft publishes a four-module learning path for business leaders adopting AI — Transform Your Business with AI. It is well-structured, vendor-credible, and freely available online. We use it as the foundation reference for this workshop, then do the work that self-paced online learning cannot do: translate the principles into the operating reality of running a business in Nigeria, anchor them to your specific company, and turn them into decisions you make in the room.
Each of our four workshop modules maps directly to a module in the Microsoft framework. The Microsoft path teaches the concepts. The Alakemere workshop applies them — to your business, your data, your team, your sector, your regulators.
Microsoft module: Leverage AI tools and resources for your business
We translate the tools chapter into your daily executive workflow — what Copilot in your existing M365 estate actually changes, what to budget, and what a working leader's AI routine looks like at the end of day one.
Microsoft module: Create business value with AI
We move from the global frame to your operating model — identifying the two or three places AI can shift cost, speed, or revenue this year, then stress-testing them against Nigerian cash flow rhythms, infrastructure, and customer behaviour.
Microsoft module: Embrace responsible AI principles and practices
We take Microsoft's responsible AI principles — fairness, accountability, transparency, privacy — and walk them through the NDPR, Nigerian contract law, vendor management practice, and the staff conversations that adoption forces.
Microsoft module: Scale AI in your organization
We translate the scaling chapter into a practical 90-day rollout plan: which roles get access first, how to write a usage policy your team will follow, what to budget, how to measure it, and how to handle the change-management conversation in a Nigerian team.
The Microsoft Business Leader AI Learning Path is freely available at learn.microsoft.com. We recommend participants spend an hour with it before the workshop — arriving with the vocabulary already loaded means more of our time together is spent on your business, not on definitions.
Answer it.
Book a 30-minute discovery call to discuss running the Leadership AI Programme for your team, or to reserve a place in the next open cohort. No slides, no obligation.