This 2.5 hour summit is designed for leaders who carry responsibility for people, decisions, and outcomes – and who understand that sustainable AI adoption requires more than tools, prompts, or policies. It requires clarity, regulation, and leadership capacity.
This 2.5 hour summit is being held 4 times so you can choose the date that best aligns with schedule. The DATES to choose from are either: Friday 13 February; Tuesday 17 February; Friday 20 February or Friday 27 February 2026. The TIME is the same for all the dates. That is 10am-1230pm ET.
THE PROBLEM the summit is ACTUALLY SOLVING
AI adoption is not failing because leaders lack talent. It is stalling because leaders are being asked to govern powerful systems without the human and regulatory foundations required to hold them. It is often framed as a skills or technology gap. In reality, it is a leadership and regulation challenge.
Capable leaders are being asked to: Remain accountable for outputs they did not directly produce; Validate systems they were never trained to evaluate; Lead teams through change while managing their own uncertainty; and Maintain trust, safety, and performance under sustained complexity.
Without structure, all this creates quiet strain. Not failure — but hesitation, over-control, hidden AI use, and stalled momentum. When leaders do not feel grounded or clear, teams do not feel safe to learn openly.
And when learning becomes unsafe, AI adoption happens in private instead of improving in public. This summit addresses this real constraint: AI CANNOT SCALE WHERE THE HUMAN SYSTEM IS UNDER-RESOURCED.
CURRENT DATA FROM INDUSTRY LEVEL RESEARCH is showing that +70% of AI challenges are human related:
you will leave with
This summit is designed to build Leadership-level AI literacy, not technical depth. This means that you will leave with both the: Human prerequisites for safe adoption, and Operational clarity needed to guide teams responsibly; i.e.:
- Foundational AI literacy for leaders responsible for outcomes
- Prompting and context-engineering as leadership communication skills
- Validating AI outputs and managing hallucinations without technical expertise
- Data protection, privacy, and risk as leadership guardrails
- Psychological safety and identity-safe learning as adoption enablers
- Practical AI governance and policy leaders can own
- A clear, staged roadmap from experimentation to standards
WHAT THE SUMMIT is not – BUT IS
IT IS NOT ❌ a prompt engineering workshop, ❌ a tools demo marathon, or ❌ a hype-driven AI trends session.
IT IS ✔️ A Leadership-level foundation for responsible AI adoption; ✔️ A Human-First framework that allows AI capability to scale safely; ✔️ A Practical Roadmap for leaders who must guide others, not just themselves.
IMPLEMENTATION ASSETS
Alongside the leadership foundations that you will leave with, you will be given practical implementation assets designed to reduce ambiguity and cognitive load for teams including:
✔️ Clear mental models for governing AI outputs; ✔️ Language and structure to lead AI conversations without triggering defensiveness; ✔️ Practical frameworks that reduce risk while increasing performance; and ✔️ A deeper understanding of how emotional regulation enables ethical, visible AI use
These assets are designed for non-technical leaders and managers; and are Immediately adaptable to SMBs and complex institutions.
Most AI education teaches tools. This summit teaches Containment — the human, strategic, and operational capacity required to use AI responsibly at scale. This means that from this summit, you gain at both personal and organizational level. We address your emotions PLUS your AI Foundational skills.
ready to MEET YOUR HOSTS?
Dr. Barbara Mutedzi, Ph.D is an Executive Advisor, who supports influential leaders & leadership teams whose decisions carry real human and systemic consequences. Her work focuses on strengthening leaders’ internal architecture — nervous-system regulation, ethical coherence, and psychological safety — so organizations can sustain clarity, accountability, and performance under complexity. Her approach positions leadership as the enabling infrastructure for strategy, culture, and AI adoption.
Dr. Emma Farquharson, Ph.D. She is the Co-founder of SharedIntel AI and specialist in translating AI capability into practical, repeatable systems leaders and teams can actually use. Emma focuses on operationalizing AI literacy: helping leaders understand how AI works, where it adds value, how to validate outputs, and how to build safe standards that scale beyond pilots.
WHY THIS PAIRING IS GOLD
| This pairing reflects how AI adoption succeeds in real organizations: Human readiness first, Technical capability second — held as a single system. | Barbara is the conceptual, ethical, and leadership anchor. Emma is the implementation and AI reality anchor. |
| Together, they address BOTH SIDES of the equation: the technical system and the human nervous system that must hold it. | The pairing is intentional, rare, and serious. It’s simply – GOLD. |
| Barbara brings the neuroscience-informed leadership work that removes the human blockers – fear, shame, over-control, and silence – that prevent real adoption. | She will address the human, ethical, and leadership preconditions — how leaders regulate themselves, create psychological safety, and govern responsibly under complexity. |
| Emma brings the AI foundations, validation methods, and operational guardrails leaders need to work with AI as a thinking partner. | She will address the technical and operational realities — how AI actually behaves, how to prompt and validate it, and how to move from experimentation to standards. |
THIS summit IS FOR YOU IF YOU ARE:
A leader or group of leaders who: ✔️ Leads teams of one or more people; ✔️ carries accountability for decisions, risk, and outcomes; ✔️ operates in complex, high-consequence environments; ✔️ already high-performing — but know that your current leadership model is being stretched.
You do not need to be or become a technical expert. You do need a foundation strong enough to lead others through AI adoption. This summit is about building that capacity — once — so it can scale across your organization.
Because when leaders are calm and clear: ✔️ Teams feel safe to learn; ✔️ AI use becomes visible; ✔️ Standards replace guesswork; and ✔️ Performance improves without burnout.
Become a real organizational capability; not a side experiment happening in private tabs. This is the foundation leaders look for and rarely find.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
| AI Foundations (Emma) | Human Foundations (Barbara) |
|---|---|
| ▸ How to move from “AI as a toy” to “AI as a managed teammate” ▸ How to validate outputs without slowing teams down ▸ How to reduce hallucinations and compliance risk ▸ How to create a shared source of truth for teams ▸ How to design guardrails that enable speed instead of constraining it | ▸ Why emotional regulation is a leadership requirement in the AI era ▸ How psychological safety directly impacts performance, visibility, and ROI ▸ The difference between emotional intelligence and emotional agility ▸ How shame and fear quietly block adoption — and how to remove them ▸ How to lead learning without losing authority |
FAQ
Is this technical training? No. This is leadership-level AI literacy designed for those accountable for decisions, standards, and people — not code.
What if my team is already using AI quietly? You’ll gain the language and structures needed to bring AI use into the open without fear, shame, or over-policing — raising quality and safety at the same time.
testimonials
Thank you Barbara for going beyond and being resourceful with lots of practical information critical for my growth in this Leadership Journey. Gillian. R. An HR Business Partner at a Financial Institution
With her [Emma]’s guidance, I scaled my marketing and lead gen without adding noise. I got practical wins fast, and a framework I can run everyday. If you want results you an measure-clear, actionable, and built for real work – Emma’s the one you call. ES – SharedIntel.com client.
Barbara …helps you to realise your full potential through her thought provoking yet inspiring and interactive sessions. Her unique approach provides a convenient platform for enhancing self awareness and emotional intelligence, both at a professional and person level. Farai. W. An Information Systems Auditor.
I’ve worked with other AI-harnessing masterclasses that charge thousands a month, but nothing compared to the value Emma provided. In a couple of hours we were able to execute a project that I expected to take days. It has totally changed how I use AI platforms and has dramatically improved the results I’ve gotten… TR – SharedIntel.com client.
I have had the awesome and blessed opportunity of working with Barbara on various levels. She has an extraordinary way of relating, encouraging and making it possible for people to see the talent they have within themselves. With so much ease, she makes it possible for people to harness that talent and move forward with it toward the life they want to lead. Cynthia. C. An Organizational Development Consultant & Founder.