Who is the Executive AI Alignment training designed for?

The training is designed for executive and senior leadership teams across any industry, including manufacturing, healthcare, media, financial services, and nonprofits. It is built for organizations that are just getting started and need a clear direction, as well as those that have already tried AI and are not seeing consistent, scalable results.

What does a leadership team walk away with after the training?

Leadership teams walk away with three things. First, a prioritized heat map of real business problems surfaced and validated in the room that becomes the starting point for their AI roadmap. Second, strategic context assets including roles, problems, objectives, and glossary that the organization owns and can put to work immediately. Third, AI assistants for every executive, tuned to their role, their priorities, and their organization.

How is the training structured?

The training runs in three parts. Part One teaches the Seven Principles of AI Leadership, an evergreen framework for how AI actually works in an enterprise. Part Two has the leadership team create organizational context together in the room, including roles, objectives, terms, and problems. Part Three uses a structured problem curation process to identify and prioritize the AI opportunities worth pursuing, grounded in the organization and validated by the people in the room.

How is this different from a typical executive AI workshop?

Most executive AI workshops are passive. Someone presents, people take notes, and the insight fades before the follow-up email arrives. The Executive AI Alignment training is a full day of active work, intentionally hands-on and ideally analog. Leadership teams are not watching someone explain AI, they are building their own understanding of it together using their own organization as the material. Everything they learn is repeatable and everything they build is theirs.

What is the Seven Principles of AI Leadership?

The Seven Principles of AI Leadership is the foundational framework taught in Part One of the training. It is not a prompt engineering course and not a tool tutorial. It is an evergreen framework for how AI actually works in an enterprise and what leadership must understand to make it deliver, built to survive every model release, every new tool, and every shift in the market.

How do we know if our organization is ready for the training?

Kendall offers a free 11-question AI Readiness Assessment that delivers a scored report to your inbox. It takes a few minutes and gives leadership a clear picture of where the organization stands before scheduling a consultation.

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Beyond
the Tools.

AI training that delivers immediate and lasting impact.

Built on Kendall's 7 Principles of AI Leadership, every participant leaves with an evergreen understanding of AI that outlasts any tool or model release and a trained AI assistant ready to deliver immediate impact. The organization gains teams that speak the same language, know how to create value with AI, and surface the real business problems worth solving.

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57%

of AI projects stall before reaching meaningful ROI

Gartner, 2026

77%

of AI failures rooted in organizational gaps, not technology

Stanford, 2026

1.9x

more value delivered when teams have the foundational skills to use AI effectively, not just access to the tools.

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Why AI training falls short

Your people have access to AI. That's not the same as making AI deliver business value.

Most organizations have deployed the tools. Most are not getting the results they expected.

Not because the tools are wrong. Because access without understanding produces inconsistent results at best and real risk at worst. The organizations winning with AI are the ones where every employee understands the same foundational principles.

Read: What happens when businesses don't invest in AI Literacy The risks of skipping the foundation, and what it costs to catch up.

Just getting started

Leadership is aligned, teams are not yet
A shared foundation is what closes the gap

Tool training isn't delivering

Employees know how to search with AI, not how to create value with it
The fix is not a better tool. It is a better foundation

Doing it right from the start

Tool-first approaches produce adoption without alignment
The organizations pulling ahead built the foundation first

Whatever brought you here, the answer is the same. Your people need to understand the principles behind how AI works, and how to make it work for them now and as AI continues to evolve.

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What your organization walks away with

A workforce that knows how to put AI to work.

The difference between organizations that get real value from AI and those that don't is rarely the technology. It is having team members with the foundational skills to put it to work.

Kendall AI Literacy and Foundations Training builds the capability, the productivity habits, and the shared language that turns AI access into AI performance, across every role, every team, and the entire organization.

Every Employee

01

Evergreen AI understanding built on Kendall's 7 Principles of AI Leadership, foundations that outlast any tool or model release
A personal AI assistant trained to their role, ready the moment training ends
An immediate productivity boost that compounds as their understanding deepens

Every Team

02

A shared vocabulary that makes AI collaboration consistent and effective
A common understanding of how to work together to create value with AI
Aligned practices that reduce risk and increase the reliability of AI outputs

Entire Organization

03

Every team member contributing shared vocabulary, real-world problems, and role insight
A foundation that accelerates every AI effort that follows
The more people who go through this, the smarter your AI gets about your organization

The training ends. The capability, and the context, stays.

The intellectual foundation behind the training

Kendall's 7 Principles
of AI Leadership

The evergreen framework your employees will learn, apply, and build on. A practical guide to context, operating discipline, and enterprise AI that scales. Yours to keep.

Download the eBook The foundation behind
everything we teach.

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The training experience

This is the day your AI engine starts.

Every participant leaves with a shared vocabulary, an evergreen understanding of AI, and a clear sense of how to create immediate and ongoing business value, at the individual level and across their team.

Part One

Demystifying AI and the Seven Principles

Participants learn how AI actually works, clearly, practically, without the hype
Kendall's 7 Principles of AI Leadership give every employee an operating framework that works across every tool, every platform, and every model release
The understanding they leave with does not expire when the next AI trend arrives

Part Two

Context that makes AI work for them

Every participant builds context about their role and real challenges during the session
That context trains their personal AI assistant, so it is ready to help as soon as they leave the room
The productivity gains are immediate, individual, and do not require weeks of trial and error

Part Three

AI opportunities the company can actually act on

Every participant describes a real business challenge in structured, AI-friendly language
The team leaves with a shared dataset of validated problems, framed by the people closest to them
It does not expire. Every new team that participates makes it more complete

The engine does not stop when the session ends. It is just getting started.

Live and interactive, by design. The breakthroughs happen when teams work through this together. Ask about async support.

Read: Beyond AI Literacy Why the foundation matters more than the tools -- and what happens when organizations skip it.

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Your people have access to AI. That's not the same as making AI deliver business value.

A workforce that knows how to put AI to work.

This is the day your AI engine starts.

Demystifying AI and the Seven Principles

Context that makes AI work for them

AI opportunities the company can actually act on

Your team is the AI engine. Ready to give them the foundation they need?

Common Questions About The Kendall Project

Insights from the Frontline of Enterprise AI

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