AI Leadership Sprint | Helen Bryant
AI Leadership Sprint

Most managers know AI matters. Very few have worked out how to lead with it.

This six-week sprint embeds AI into the way your managers work and the way they lead, so they get genuinely ahead.

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15+ years senior corporate leadership
A decade coaching senior leaders
UEFA  ·  Hero UK&I  ·  Moy Park  ·  L’Occitane  ·  Cegos
Why this matters

The tools aren’t the problem. The workflow is.

Most managers have tried AI. A few prompts here, a summary there. It saves a bit of time, but it hasn’t changed how they lead.

That’s because the tools came before the system. You can’t embed AI into a workflow that isn’t working. And for most managers, the workflow isn’t working. Strategic thinking gets squeezed out by urgency. Preparation happens in the gaps. The important conversations get less time than the urgent ones.

When AI lands on top of that, it adds noise, not clarity.

The reframe

Fix the foundation. Then AI does something useful.

The sprint starts with the leadership workflow. How your managers are really spending their time, where thinking gets crowded out, and what a genuinely good leadership week looks like for them.

Then we embed AI into it. Around their voice, their context, and the reality of what they do every day. Not a generic toolkit. A system that actually fits how they lead.

How it works

Built for embedding, not just learning.

01
In person · Full day
The workshop

Managers arrive with their laptops. Helen shares the framework and the approach, and then they get started, step by step, building their AI workflow on the day. They won’t finish it in the room. That’s intentional. They leave with a personal action plan for completing it and embedding it into how they lead over the six weeks that follow.

02
Virtual · Six weekly sessions · One hour each
The coaching sessions

These aren’t topic-led. They’re built around each participant’s action plan and what’s actually happening as they put it into practice. Each session is part accountability, part problem-solving, part shared learning. What’s working. What isn’t. What to try differently.

Because when a group of managers are all doing this at the same time, the learning compounds. They hear what’s landing for someone else and try it themselves. They troubleshoot together. They build confidence not just from Helen, but from each other.

Throughout the sprint, Helen adds to what they know. New applications, better ways of using what they’ve already set up, things worth trying if it’s right for their context. The knowledge builds as they use it. That’s deliberate. You learn far more about what AI can do by actually doing it, week by week, than you ever would in a one-day session.

The other thing that becomes clear along the way: the leadership habits that need to be in place for any of this to work. AI won’t fix a manager who hasn’t worked out how to protect thinking time. Part of what the sprint does is surface that, and sort it.

What they’ll leave with

A system that keeps working after the sprint ends.

Six weeks of doing it, with others, with accountability, changes what your managers are capable of. They leave with:

  • An AI thinking partner set up around their own voice and context
  • An AI-enabled weekly leadership rhythm that protects strategic thinking time
  • Meeting prep and team communication they can run in a fraction of the time
  • Practical AI solutions embedded into the parts of their role where it saves the most time
  • The knowledge that only comes from using it properly, not just knowing it exists
  • The confidence to lead the AI conversation in their organisation, not just follow it
  • The foundations to build an AI team assistant that helps them prepare for one-to-ones and lead their team day to day
Is this right for your organisation

This works best when…

Your managers are already capable. They’re not behind on AI. They just haven’t had the structured time and support to work out how it fits their actual leadership role.

You want embedding, not awareness. The sprint is designed for implementation from the first session. Your managers practise with their real work throughout.

You want your managers ahead of the conversation, not reacting to it. Six weeks from now, they’ll be the ones who’ve actually done it.

If that sounds like where you are, let’s talk.

What people say

Trusted by the people who build leadership capability.

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I would definitely recommend Helen’s leadership programmes. You will not be disappointed in the knowledge you gain from her.

Fran Newman
People Director, Hero UK&I
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The SPRINT programme is truly a very well-designed learning journey. Session after session, we build valuable knowledge and have the opportunity to practise powerful questioning, which helps us progressively become more comfortable with a coaching approach. Trust develops week after week, and this has a strong impact on the acquisition of techniques. I must also say that you are very talented at engaging people online — well done!

Barbara Albertoni
HR Development Senior Expert, UEFA
Starting is simple

Every sprint starts with a conversation.

Helen takes time to understand your organisation, your managers, and what success looks like for you before anything is proposed. The sprint is shaped to fit your context, your teams, and your goals.

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About Helen

Helen Bryant

I’m not a technical person. What I am is someone who has spent the last few years genuinely embedding AI into the way I work, always asking the same question: if I were still a director in a fast-paced, complex business, would I actually use this? I’ve joined coaching programmes, experimented, got things wrong, and gradually worked out what actually helps.

What I’ve learned is that with a bit of knowledge and a bit of practice in the day-to-day, you can absolutely adopt AI into the way you work. For me, it has helped my thinking and saves me time. That’s what this coaching is built on.

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