Directors do not need to code; they need to govern, and Dr Kate Barker’s research shows how far there is to go: 62% of directors lack the information to oversee the AI systems their organisations already run. AI for board directors, as Dr Kate Barker delivers it, is the working knowledge a chair or committee actually requires: what the technology genuinely changes about risk and strategy, which questions surface hidden exposure, what good oversight information looks like, and where the line sits between governing AI and operating it.
Sessions run as board briefings, director education modules and full retreats, calibrated with the Board AI Index so a board can see its own level and the path upward. Dr Kate advises boards and sovereign institutions directly, is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and brings the rare combination directors trust: governance literacy and genuine AI authority, as the world’s No.1 ranked Chief Futurist and a TIME100 AI Impact Award honouree.
Closed-door board briefings and retreats across the Gulf, Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America · The Economist Impact Summit · World Government Summit, Dubai
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Not technical training but governance capability: how AI changes risk, strategy and accountability, what oversight information to require, and which decisions must remain owned by humans. Dr Kate’s director sessions are built on the Board AI Index and delivered at board level.
Through the Board AI Index, a five-level diagnostic from Reactive to Integrated covering readiness, decision accountability and strategic oversight, applied by Dr Kate in board engagements and set out in Hidden Power.
Twelve weeks minimum lead time. Eighty bookings a year. Every enquiry is read personally.