Your directors don't build the AI system. They're accountable for overseeing it.
Four ways to build the competency your board needs — from a 90-minute briefing to a two-day certificate. One standard, taught at board altitude: what to insist on seeing, what to ask management, and how to evidence that the board exercised care and diligence over AI.
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8 questions and red flags to open the AI oversight conversation with your board — free, from this program. Enter your email and we'll send the PDF straight over.
Get the checklist →Four offerings
Boardroom Briefing
Get AI onto the risk/audit committee agenda with the right framing. A single, high-impact session for the full board — awareness and direction.
Director Masterclass
The core program. All seven modules, including the boardroom incident tabletop — the board leaves with a working oversight operating model.
Board + ELT Intensive
Aligns board oversight with the management response. The masterclass plus live dashboard co-design, a two-round tabletop, and a working session that ships a real 90-day plan.
Certificate Cohort
Open-enrolment, cross-company directors. Two half-days, a between-days assignment, and an assessment — awarding a certificate of completion.
The Director's AI Question Bank
34 questions a board should ask management about AI — each mapped to the ISO/IEC 42001 clause it interrogates, the director duty it serves, and the red flag to watch for. Included with every engagement; available as a licensed standalone.
Kashif Naveed — PhD (AI) · MBA · MAICD, Smort's AI Governance practice lead
The rare combination board AI governance demands: genuine technical depth to challenge management (PhD), commercial and strategic judgement (MBA), and the governance training your directors have (AICD). Able to go as deep on the technology as on the fiduciary duty — a combination a pure technologist or a pure consultant can't replicate.