Who is BOARD designed for?

BOARD is designed for non-executive directors, board members, trustees, and advisory board members who govern AI strategy but need to understand it first-hand. The session is delivered with a Clearhaven NED advisory perspective, so the governance framing is authentic to board-level concerns.

Why does TIP say boards should stop asking the right questions?

AI can generate every governance question a board has ever asked. The value of a board in the AI era is not asking the right questions about today. It is asking tomorrow's questions: the ones that AI cannot yet frame because they require judgement, foresight, and the human capacity to challenge assumptions. BOARD equips NEDs to make that shift.

BOARD — AI Fluency and Governance for NEDs and Board Members

Q: What happens in a BOARD session?

BOARD is an accelerated version of TIP's TEAM session, designed for non-executive directors and board members. The first half builds genuine AI fluency through hands-on use. The second half is a governance deep-dive where board members work on their own company data to reimagine oversight, risk, and strategic questioning for the AI era. No slides. No Mentimeter. No feedback forms. Real work, real output.

Who it's for

Non-executive directors, board members, trustees, and advisory board members. People who govern AI strategy and need to understand it first-hand before they can challenge it.

Most board AI briefings are passive: a management presentation, a few slides, a Q&A where nobody wants to look uninformed. You leave with opinions but no capability. BOARD is different. You use AI. You see what it can do. You experience the shift your leadership team is going through. Then you spend an hour redesigning governance for your company, using your data, with a Clearhaven NED advisory lens shaping the conversation.

The shift boards need to make

AI can generate every governance question your board has ever asked. It can produce risk registers, compliance checklists, and oversight frameworks in seconds. That means "asking the right questions" is no longer a differentiator. It's a commodity.

The value of a board in the AI era is asking tomorrow's questions: the ones that require judgement, foresight, and the willingness to challenge assumptions that haven't been challenged before. Questions like: "What does our operating model look like when 40% of our current work is automated?" or "Which of our competitive advantages survive when every competitor has the same AI tools?"

BOARD equips NEDs to make that shift. Not through a briefing. Through doing the work.

What happens in a BOARD session

Two parts. No Mentimeter. No feedback forms. Hands-on work from the first minute.

Part 1

Accelerated TEAM Session

An intensive version of TIP's TEAM session, built for board-level participants. You use AI tools directly, on real tasks, in real time. You experience the productivity shift, the pattern recognition, the moment where your assumptions about what AI can and cannot do start to change. This is fluency through doing, not through watching.

Part 2

Reinventing Governance for the AI Era

One hour. Clearhaven acts as a board/NED advisory lens. You work on your company, with your data: what governance looks like when AI is embedded in operations, where oversight needs to change, what the board's role becomes when AI can generate the questions you used to ask. You leave with a governance perspective that's specific to your organisation, not a generic framework.

What you leave with

AI fluency: You have used AI yourself. You understand what it does, what it doesn't, and why your leadership team's experience matters. You can challenge from experience, not from briefing notes.
Tomorrow's questions: Not a checklist of governance questions AI could generate. A perspective on the questions only your board can ask: about the operating model, competitive position, and strategic bets that haven't been framed yet.
A governance view specific to your company: Built during the session, using your data, shaped by Clearhaven's NED advisory lens. Not a template. An output you can act on at your next board meeting.

Evidence

"Within just a week, I've gained substantial efficiency and newfound time capital that allows me to focus on more impactful work. Their approach doesn't just save time; it's already redefined how I am thinking about and approaching the work I do."

— Sir Jeremy Darroch, Chair, Reckitt / ex-CEO, Sky

Sir Jeremy's experience reflects what BOARD delivers: not a briefing, but a shift in how you think about the work. Board members leave understanding AI from the inside, not from a management presentation.

"This session took generative AI from something abstract to something highly practical for us as a leadership group. It focused on applying GenAI to our real-world challenges such as board governance. It gave us the opportunity to test ideas, challenge assumptions, and begin to think through where and how GenAI might be useful for CRUK. While we're still early in our thinking, the session provided a structured and engaging provocation."

— Michelle Mitchell, CEO, Cancer Research UK

FTSE-250 Global Insurer — Programme Evidence

£513k invested across 350+ leaders over 18 months. £1.8M–£3M in-year returns. 3.5×–6× ROI. Average NPS 8.6. BOARD sits within this evidence base: the same methodology, accelerated for board-level participants.

Stop asking yesterday's questions.

BOARD gives your NEDs the fluency and the governance perspective to lead in the AI era. Two hours. Real work. Real output.

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Questions? Contact info@incrementalpathway.co.uk or call 07766 321 999

Your board's job isn't asking the right questions. AI can do that.