AI won’t replace your job. It slices tasks out of it, the narrow, repeatable parts, and leaves everything that actually requires judgement, trust and empathy sitting squarely with you.
Most executive education hasn’t caught up with that distinction.
The Digitally Curious® Executive has.
This is an executive education programme built around one idea: curiosity as a structured leadership discipline, not a personality trait.
The courses run across four tracks:
Track 2 — AI, Data & Technology
Covers practical AI literacy, risk and ethics regulation, trustworthy ecosystems, human-centred future of work, and an emerging tech radar.
6: Practical AI Literacy for Non-Technical Leaders: Understanding AI Without Becoming Technical
7: Governing AI Risk, Ethics and Regulation: Answering for AI When It Goes Wrong
8: Building Trustworthy Data and AI Ecosystems: Making Data Foundations Worth Trusting
9: Human-Centred AI and the Future of Work: Keeping People at the Centre of Transformation
10: Emerging Technologies Radar for Boards and C-Suite: Separating Signal from Noise
Track 3 — Organisation, Culture & Execution
Addresses reputation management, building a safe experimentation culture, designing curious organisations, and leading hybrid teams.
11: Trust, Safety and Reputation in a Digital World: Protecting Reputation When AI Gets It Wrong
12: Experimentation-Curious: Building a Culture of Safe Digital Experimentation
13: Designing Digitally Curious Organisations: Building Incentives and Rhythms That Reward Curiosity
14: Cross-Functional Collaboration in a Platform and Ecosystem World: Leading Across Silos, Partners and Platforms
15: Leading Hybrid, Distributed and AI-Augmented Teams: Building Presence and Trust at a Distance
Track 4 — Foresight, Strategy & Transformation
Explores strategic foresight, AI-era business model innovation, digital responsibility, and measuring transformation success.
16: Strategic Foresight for Digitally Curious Leaders: Spotting Digital Disruption Before It Arrives
17: Business Model Innovation in an AI Era: Finding New Revenue Through Curiosity
18: ESG, Sustainability and Digital Responsibility: Connecting AI Decisions to Societal Impact
19: Measuring What Matters in Digital Transformation: Scoring Success Beyond ROI Alone
20: Orchestrating Digitally Curious Transformation (Capstone): Turning Twenty Courses into One Roadmap
You can go deep on the one area that matters most right now, or work through the series as a complete leadership development programme.
Built by Andrew Grill, The Actionable Futurist®, drawing on 30 years in senior technology leadership, including as a Global Managing Partner at IBM, and 700-plus keynotes delivered in 50 countries.
Every course is grounded in real client patterns, not theory, and written for people who lead, executives, board directors and senior leaders who need to ask better questions of AI, not become technical experts in it.
Each course runs under an hour, with a self-reflection exercise, a short knowledge check, and the Curious 5, with five specific actions you can take before your next meeting.
Take any course as a standalone masterclass, or follow one of the bundled programmes built for board-level governance or senior executive leadership.
The course is also available via SCORM to plug into your enterprise LMS, so everyone in the organisation can benefit, using your existing training platform. Corporate volume pricing is available, or can be bundled into one of Andrew’s keynote engagements.
Start with Course One, and stay curious, Digitally Curious®.
Course 1 - The Curious Executive: Leading Through Digital Disruption
Complacency doesn't feel like a risk. That's exactly the problem. The Digitally Curious Executive is for senior leaders and board members who sense a gap in how confidently they're leading through AI and digital change.
Course 2 - The AI-Literate Board: Governing AI with Digitally Curious® Leadership
You don't need to be technical to govern AI well. You need the right questions. The AI-Literate Board is for board directors and executives who need to oversee AI without pretending to be data scientists.
Course 3 - Data Curious Leadership: Turning Data into Decisions
We're ten per cent up. Is that definitely good news? Most leaders can't actually answer that. Data-Curious Leadership is for executives, functional leaders and finance leaders who review dashboards every week but rarely interrogate them.
Course 4 - Curiosity Quotient (CQ) for Leaders: Turning Curiosity into a Measurable Capability
Curiosity isn't a personality trait. It's a capability, and you can measure yours. Curiosity Quotient for Leaders is for C-suite executives, senior leaders and board members ready to build curiosity as a deliberate skill.
Course 5 - Decision-Making Under Digital Uncertainty: Deciding well with Incomplete Information
AI-generated insight sounds just as confident whether it's right or wrong. That should worry you. Decision-Making Under Digital Uncertainty for C-suite executives, senior leaders and board members who have to decide fast with incomplete information.
Course 6 - Practical AI Literacy for Non-Technical Leaders: Understanding AI without Becoming Technical
AI doesn't replace your job. It slices tasks out of it. This course will help you focus on what you love and automate the rest. Practical AI Literacy for Non-Technical Leaders is for non-technical executives, functional leaders and senior managers who want a plain-English grip on AI.
Course 7 - Governing AI Risk, Ethics and Regulations: Answering for AI when it Goes Wrong
AI can hit every target and still cause harm. That's the risk most boards miss. Governing AI Risk, Ethics and Regulation is for board directors, C-suite leaders and risk, legal and compliance professionals who need more than a high-level briefing.
Course 8 - Building Trustworthy Data and AI Ecosystems: Making Data Foundations Worth Trusting
AI doesn't fix bad data governance. It industrialises it. Building Trustworthy Data and AI Ecosystems is for executives, data leaders and operations leaders who need AI built on data they can actually trust.
Course 9 - Human-Centred AI and the Future of Work: Keeping People at the Centre of Transformation
AI doesn't replace your people. It slices tasks out of their jobs, and what's left needs deliberate leadership, not a new tool and good luck. Human-Centred AI and the Future of Work is for HR leaders, people leaders, line executives and works councils navigating what AI actually does to roles and teams.
Course 10 - Emerging Technologies Radar for Boards and C-Suite: Separating Signal from Noise
Chase every new technology and you'll exhaust your board. Ignore them and you'll be blindsided. Emerging Technologies Radar for Boards and C-Suite is for board members, C-suite leaders and strategy leaders who need to separate signal from noise.
Course 11 - Trust, Safety and Reputation in a Digital World: Protecting Reputation When AI Gets it Wrong
Trust used to take years to build and weeks to lose. Now it can go in hours. Trust, Safety and Reputation in a Digital World is for board members, C-suite leaders, and communications, risk and legal professionals who need to protect reputation in a volatile digital environment.
Course 12 - Experimentation-Curious: Building a Culture of Safe Digital Explanation
Most executives either chase every pilot or approve none. Neither builds a culture of safe experimentation. Experimentation-Curious is for executives, business unit leaders and innovation leaders who want to sponsor safe, structured digital and AI pilots.
Course 13 - Designing Digitally Curious® Organisations: Building Incentives and Rhythms That Reward Curiosity
Culture doesn't change because you asked nicely. It changes because the structure rewards something different. Designing Digitally Curious Organisations is for C-suite executives, HR leaders and transformation leaders who want curiosity built into how the organisation actually runs.
Course 14 - Cross-Functional Collaboration in a Platform and Ecosystem World: Leading Across Silos, Partners and Platforms
Your org chart has edges. Your best opportunities usually sit right on top of them. Cross-Functional Collaboration in a Platform and Ecosystem World is for executives, transformation leaders and ecosystem and partnership leaders working across silos, partners and platforms.
Course 15 - Leading Hybrid, Distributed and AI-Augmented Teams: Building Presence, and Trust at a Distance
Your team's never all in the room anymore. Some of what's missing is people. Some of it's now an AI agent. Leading Hybrid, Distributed and AI-Augmented Teams is for line executives, people leaders and team leaders managing teams that are both hybrid and AI-enabled.
Course 16 - Strategic Foresight for Digitally Curious® Leaders: Spotting Digital Disruption Before it Arrives
By the time a disruption is obvious, the advantage is already gone. Foresight is what buys you the lead time. Strategic Foresight for Digitally Curious Leaders is for C-suite executives, board members and strategy leaders who want structured foresight, not guesswork, on digital and AI disruption.
Course 17 - Business Model Innovation in an AI Era: Finding New Revenue Through Curiosity
Your business model was built for a world without AI. Someone's already testing what replaces it. Business Model Innovation in an AI Era is for C-suite executives, strategy leaders and business unit heads who need to probe their own business model before a competitor does.
Course 18 - ESG, Sustainability and Digital Responsibility: Connecting AI Decisions to Societal Impact
Your AI strategy and your ESG strategy are on a collision course, whether or not anyone's noticed yet. ESG, Sustainability and Digital Responsibility is Course Eighteen is for board members, C-suite leaders, and sustainability and communications leaders who need digital and AI decisions to hold up against ESG scrutiny.
Course 19 - Measuring What Matters in Digital Transformation: Scoring Success Beyond ROI Alone
If ROI is the only number on your transformation scorecard, you're managing the past, not the change. Measuring What Matters in Digital Transformation is for C-suite executives, transformation leaders and strategy and finance leaders who need to report progress in terms that actually mean something.
Course 20 - Orchestrating Digitally Curious® Transformation (Capstone): Turning Twenty Courses into One Roadmap
Twenty courses. One transformation. This is where it all comes together. Orchestrating Digitally Curious Transformation is the capstone of the Digitally Curious Executive Series, for the full executive team and board ready to turn everything they've learned into one coherent roadmap.
