WORKSHOPS · 01 · HALF-DAY PROGRAMME
AI Governance & ROI Executive Programme
A four-hour session for executives who approve AI budgets, sign off on AI projects, and answer to boards and regulators. Participants leave with a scored readiness report, a governance checklist, and a Return on Employee worksheet built for their own organisation.
Duration
4 hours, single session
Format
In-person or virtual
Cohort size
Max 30 participants
Requires
No prior technical knowledge
Facilitator credentials
RMC, ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Auditor, Certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP)
Worked with
Ministry of Defence, IMDA, UN ESCAP, CDO Vision Singapore
Independent research from 2026 points to the same three concerns among executives: whether the organisation is ready to use AI, how to govern AI agents operating with less human oversight, and how to prove an AI programme is worth the money three years in. This programme addresses all three in one half-day session rather than three separate ones, using frameworks already taught to companies and governments: five parts of the Eight-Dimension AI Readiness Assessment from Terence Kok's book AI at Scale: From Pilot to Production, the TRACE framework for delegation decisions, and the Return on Employee measurement method.
Learning outcomes
What you leave able to do
Five outcomes, each tied to a documented output produced during the session.
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Find the one constraint holding back AI in your organisation, whether it is data, process, governance, team skills, or how results are measured.
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Use a three-level model to sort AI decisions: ones AI can make alone, ones a person must check, and ones AI should never make.
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Separate how well an AI model performs from what it actually does for the business, and build the case on the Return on Employee framework instead of headcount reduction.
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Answer, for your own organisation, the four governance questions required by Singapore's IMDA framework and comparable rules used elsewhere.
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Leave with a twelve-week plan, ordered by impact and by how easy each step is to reverse, ready for a board or executive committee.
Programme structure
Six segments across four hours
Diagnostic assessment through governance design to measurement and action planning. Each segment produces a documented output that feeds the final roadmap.
- 09:00 to 09:15
Framing and objectives
The group states the AI already in use, the questions the board is asking, and what today needs to produce.
Output: Session objective statement
- 09:15 to 10:00
The readiness constraint
A live check across five areas, data, process, governance, team skills and measurement, to find the one constraint holding the organisation back before any tool or vendor is discussed.
Output: Scored readiness baseline
- 10:00 to 10:45
Governing agentic AI systems
The TRACE framework for judging whether a task is right for AI, the three-level delegation model, audit trails and escalation steps, and the shift from a person in every loop to a person watching over the loop.
Output: Delegation tier map for one live use case
- 10:45 to 11:00
Break
- 11:00 to 11:45
Measuring AI ROI
Separating model performance from business outcome, the Return on Employee framework as an alternative to a headcount-reduction case, and the baseline measurement step most programmes skip.
Output: RoE calculation worksheet
- 11:45 to 12:30
Four governance questions, applied
IMDA and EU AI Act requirements translated into four questions every decision-maker must be able to answer, applied to a real use case each participant brings.
Output: Completed governance checklist
- 12:30 to 13:00
Roadmap and close
The scorecard, delegation map, RoE worksheet and governance checklist are brought together into one twelve-week plan, ordered by impact and reversibility.
Output: Twelve-week improvement roadmap
Who should attend
Budget authority, operational ownership, or sign-off responsibility
- CEOs, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Information Officers and Chief AI Officers who approve AI budgets.
- Business-unit heads and directors testing or already running AI agents in their team.
- Risk, compliance and governance leads who must sign off on AI projects.
Sending a team of two to four from the same organisation produces a more useful roadmap, particularly for the governance segment.
Terence is a visionary leader with the capacity to translate complex ideas into executable plans. He has an innate ability to understand the technology and is a systems thinker, but most importantly he is a selfless collaborator. When committed to a project or undertaking, you can be assured of Terence's full commitment to see the project through to fruition. Lawrence Ng, Head of Training Analysis, Ministry of Defence
Facilitator
Terence Kok
Enterprise AI Strategist, Author, Keynote Speaker, Registered Management Consultant (RMC)
Twenty-five years leading AI and digital transformation programmes across Asia and the Middle East, including national smart city projects, critical infrastructure programmes, and a retrieval-augmented generation platform used by more than 6,000 engineers with zero security incidents. Creator of the Return on Employee framework.
Read the full profile ›Common questions
Before you book
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Do participants need technical knowledge to attend?
No. The session looks at how ready your organisation is and how well you govern AI. It does not cover coding, data science, or prior AI experience. Every framework works through simple questions that any business or operations leader can answer.
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How does this differ from a standard AI awareness or literacy course?
Most executive AI courses just explain what AI can do. This one checks whether your organisation is ready to use it responsibly and measure the results. You walk away with a scored diagnosis of your own organisation and use case.
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Why should I do this now rather than wait?
Because the questions this programme answers, whether your organisation is ready, how you govern AI agents, and how you prove ROI, are also the ones boards, regulators, and customers are already starting to ask. Waiting doesn't remove the pressure, it just means you answer those questions without a framework, in the moment, instead of before you need one.
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What should participants prepare in advance?
Bring one AI use case, real or planned. You should be able to describe the task, the data involved, and who makes the final decision. No reading or technical prep needed.
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Is the session available virtually, or in-person only?
Both. In-person sessions are based in Singapore, with regional delivery available on request. The virtual version uses a structured format that still gives you your own individual score within the four-hour window.
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Why is the cohort limited to 30 participants?
Each person gets a scored assessment for their own organisation, plus feedback on their own use case. A bigger group would turn this into a lecture and take away the hands-on value.
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Should one individual attend, or a team?
Either works. If governance sign-off, budget approval, and day-to-day ownership sit with different people in your organisation, we recommend sending a team of two to four. The governance part of the session works better with input from different roles in the room.
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How does this relate to the Two-Day Masterclass?
This is a half-day diagnostic. In one session, you get a scored baseline, a governance checklist, and an RoE worksheet. The Masterclass is a deeper, two-day programme that rebuilds your whole business model with AI built into every layer. Many people take this programme first, then move on to the Masterclass once they are ready to redesign, not just diagnose.
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What happens to the data and use cases discussed during the session?
We only use what you share to build your own scorecard and roadmap. We do not keep, publish, or share your data, use case details, or governance checklist beyond your own output documents.
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What support is available after the session?
You leave with all five outputs written down: a scored baseline, delegation map, RoE worksheet, governance checklist, and twelve-week roadmap. If you want more structured follow-up, that's available through the Two-Day Masterclass and consulting work, at separate rates.
Investment
Open cohort or corporate in-house
Open cohort
On enquiry
Per participant, max 30 places
- Scored readiness baseline
- Delegation tier map (TRACE)
- RoE calculation worksheet
- IMDA-aligned governance checklist
- Twelve-week roadmap
Corporate in-house
On enquiry
Fixed programme fee, max 16 participants
- Everything in the open cohort
- Dedicated session for one organisation
- Fixed fee, not priced per head
- Group rates with the Two-Day Masterclass
- One round of post-session clarification