6 Organizations Per Year · EU AI Act Enters Full Effect August 2, 2026
The Executive Program for Board Members & C-Suite Principals
There is one problem no university, no consultant and no Big Four firm can solve today. Boards of directors must govern AI — not understand it superficially, not approve budgets for it. Govern it — with the same fiduciary authority with which they govern financial, regulatory and strategic risks.
Investment
$250,000 / year
Format
Private · By Referral Only
Capacity
6 Organizations / Year
Duration
4 Modules · 6 Months
The Incident That Changed Everything
46.5 million messages exposed. The firm that tells the world how to govern AI did not have the correct governance architecture in its own house.
That is what happens when the board approves the AI platform without having the capacity to govern it.
Most boards approve AI investments without knowing how many AI systems are already operating
AI is making autonomous decisions affecting clients, employees, regulators and investors — without the board having the framework to evaluate them
No existing executive program teaches boards to govern AI with their own criterion — only to understand it superficially
Who This Program Is For
Board Members / Independent Directors
Who have fiduciary responsibility over organizations with significant AI investments — and need the capacity to evaluate, question and govern those investments with genuine criterion, not with management notes.
C-Suite Principals: CEO, CFO, COO, General Counsel
Who present to the board or form part of it — and need to master the language of AI governance to lead that conversation in the right room, with the right authority.
Chairs / Audit & Risk Committees
Who need to understand what questions to ask, what answers to accept, and when the CIO report is not sufficient.
Not For
CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, IT professionals. For them, the Enterprise Architecture Mastery with AI program exists. This program is exclusively for those who govern them.
Access requirement: Minimum organization revenue of $500M. Preference: $1B+, public companies, financial sector, health, critical infrastructure, government.
Program Architecture
Each module is one high-density in-person day with Leonardo Ramírez, followed by 30 days of guided implementation in the organization.
The Fiduciary AI Audit
The Board as First Governing Authority
Session 1
The Real Map of AI in Your Organization
How many AI agents are operating in production today? Which ones make autonomous decisions? What is the accountability chain for each one? Most boards approve AI investments without knowing how many AI systems are already operating. The AI Fiduciary Audit produces that map for the first time.
Session 2
AI Risk Exposure Matrix
ISO 42001 framework applied specifically to the board's role — not as technical certification, but as a supervisory tool. Five risk vectors every board must evaluate: autonomous decision exposure, data sovereignty, model drift liability, vendor lock-in architecture, and agent cascade failure.
Session 3
The Board Question Framework
The 12 questions every board member must be able to ask in any AI presentation — and the answers they should accept and reject. This is the framework that replaces the passive nod.
AI Governance Architecture for Boards
The Language the Board Must Own
Session 1
ISO 42001 for Directors, Not Engineers
The AI management systems standard — explained in the language of fiduciary responsibility, not technical language. What the board can demand. What it must verify. How to distinguish a genuinely compliant system from one that only appears to comply.
Session 2
EU AI Act: Board Responsibility
August 2, 2026: EU AI Act enters full effect. Penalties up to €35 million or 7% of global annual revenue. Boards of organizations with European operations have direct fiduciary responsibility for compliance. This session delivers the oversight framework the board needs.
Session 3
Designing the AI Governance Committee
How to structure the AI governance committee in the board. What capabilities it must have. How it relates to audit, risk and compensation. What metrics it reports to the full board. What questions trigger an independent investigation.
Agentic AI Strategy Intelligence
The Board as Strategist, Not Spectator
Session 1
What a Winning AI Strategy Looks Like
The McKinsey case vs. the NTT DATA + NVIDIA case vs. EXL in production. The patterns that distinguish organizations that lead from those that produce press releases. A board that can recognize these patterns asks the right questions when management presents the AI strategy.
Session 2
The Agentic Architecture Evaluation Framework
Not for the board to design architectures — but to evaluate the one being presented. Five indicators that distinguish genuine enterprise AI architecture from AI sprawl with sophisticated nomenclature: agent coordination, governance by design, data architecture coherence, audit trail completeness, and human override architecture.
Session 3
The AI Presentation the Board Must Demand
The standard format every strategic AI presentation must have to be approved by a board with genuine criterion. What is missing from most management decks — and how to request it without generating defensiveness in the CIO.
The Paradigm of the AI-Governing Board
The Board's Identity in the Agentic Era
Session 1
Thinking Into Results: The Governing Board Paradigm
Bob Proctor's methodology applied specifically to the board collective. The paradigm that produces a board that arrives at AI conversations with genuine authority versus the paradigm that produces passive approval. This is not motivational coaching. It is the installation of a collective thinking pattern.
Session 2
The Board Transition: From Approver to Governing Authority
What a board that genuinely governs AI looks like. Real cases. The difference in language, in questions, in follow-through and in oversight culture.
Session 3
Board AI Authority: External Communication
How the board communicates its AI governance capability to regulators, investors and the market. The reputational differentiator that will produce value for the organization over the next 3 years.
Beyond the 4 Modules
Direct Access to Leonardo
WhatsApp/Slack, 24h SLA, for the full 6 months of the program. Not with a team. With Leonardo.
AI Incident Response Protocol™
The protocol the board activates when an AI incident occurs in the organization. Designed specifically for board communication with regulators, investors and media.
Quarterly Board AI Intelligence Brief
Each quarter, Leonardo delivers a 10-page intelligence brief on the most relevant developments in AI governance, regulation and competition. Strategic context, not newsletter.
AI Governance Peer Network
Access to the private group of boards and C-suite who have completed the program. Confidential conversations between peers on AI governance in comparable organizations.
Board Presentation Co-Facilitation
Leonardo co-facilitates the first presentation of the AI Governance Charter to the full board. Present in the room. Not as a consultant — as co-author of the framework.
Full CLU Ecosystem Access
Full access for up to 5 C-suite executives to all Coach Leonardo University programs during the year of the program.
The Economics of the Program
Big Four Engagement
$2M+
9-month AI governance engagement. Produces a report. Does not install capacity. The report gets archived.
Independent AI Board Member
$150K–$300K/yr
One person with one point of view. Not a governance system. Insufficient supply for current demand.
AI Boardroom Authority™
$250K/yr
Installs capacity in the board itself. When the program ends, the board governs with genuine authority — permanently.
Target ROI: 20x in year one
The installed capacity in the board itself.
When the program ends, the board does not depend on Leonardo. Does not depend on any external consultant. It has the framework, the methodology, the documents and the genuine criterion to govern AI with genuine authority — permanently. $250,000 is the price of board independence in the most regulated and most dangerous era in the history of enterprise AI.
Why This Cannot Wait
Genuine Scarcity
6 organizations per year. Not as a marketing mechanism — because the modules are in-person and Leonardo facilitates them personally. The capacity is physical.
The Incident Window
The EU AI Act enters full effect August 2, 2026. Organizations entering before that date can design their AI Governance Charter before the deadline. Those entering after do so with the clock running.
The McKinsey Effect
After the Lilli hack, boards of all major organizations are being pressured by regulators and investors to demonstrate AI governance competence. The first to demonstrate it in their industry captures a permanent reputational advantage.
Peer Network Lock-In
The AI Governance Peer Network closes to new organizations once the annual capacity is filled. Organizations that enter first select their peer network.
The Manifesto Window
The Board AI Leadership Manifesto™ has the greatest impact on investors and regulators when published in the first months of the regulatory governance boom. There is a 6-9 month window where being among the first boards to publish this document has differential value.
Before the Program
$15,000 — Single 90-minute session + deliverable
This is not an exploratory conversation. It is a structured diagnostic with Leonardo Ramírez that produces a concrete deliverable: the AI Governance Exposure Report — an 8–10 page document that maps:
Fully Creditable
If the organization advances to the full program within 30 days, the $15,000 is deducted from the program price.
If You Don't Continue
The report is yours permanently — with real value to present to your audit committee. You leave with a documented AI governance exposure map regardless of next steps.
Only 6 diagnostic slots available per year. The session is conducted exclusively by Leonardo Ramírez — not delegated.
Creditable against the full program · Permanent deliverable regardless of next steps
Positioning in the CLU Ecosystem
AI Boardroom Authority™
The board that governs the AI the organization built
Strategic Partner / Total Transformation
The organization that builds AI capability
Corporate Platinum
The teams that execute the AI transformation
Professional All Access
The professional who leads AI architecture
Application Process
AI Boardroom Authority™ only accepts organizations by referral or direct contact with Leonardo.
STEP 01
Referral or Direct Contact
By referral from a CLU alumni or direct contact with Leonardo via LinkedIn or info@coachleonardo.university
STEP 02
90-Minute Diagnostic
With the CEO or Chair of the organization. Not with L&D. Not with the VP of AI. With whoever will make the decision to commit the board.
STEP 03
Personalized Proposal
If there is fit, Leonardo sends the formal proposal within 72 hours.
STEP 04
Onboarding & Pre-Module Audit
Before the first in-person day, Leonardo's team conducts a preliminary diagnosis of the organization's AI landscape.