Become the leader your company needs, before they hire someone else to be it.
An executive leadership accelerator for newly promoted leaders, first-time VPs, and scaling executives who need to lead with authority, retain top talent, and deliver board-ready results — without burning out, and without guessing.
- THE PATTERN WE SEE
You weren't given a leadership job. You were given a title and a head start on figuring it out.
Nobody trained you for this. So you're improvising in public, in front of the people you need to trust you most — your team, your peers, and a board that doesn't do second chances.
01 / OVERWHELMED
You're great at the old job. That's exactly the problem.Design
You got promoted for being the best individual performer in the room. Now your job is to make everyone else the best performer in the room, a completely different skill nobody taught you.
02 / ISOLATED
You can't say "I don't know" to the people below you, or those above you.
Your team needs you certain. Your board needs you in control. There's no one left to ask the dumb question to except, quietly, your peers who are in exactly the same spot.
03 / EXPOSED
The feedback is starting to say what you've been afraid of.
A rough 360. A direct report who quit and told you why on the way out. A board member's pointed question in the all-hands. The gap between your title and your readiness is becoming visible.
- THE OUTCOME, NOT THE CURRICULUM
Three things change in 90 days. Everything else follows from them.
This isn't a content library. It's a guided transformation with a start date, an end date, and three outcomes we put our name behind.
CLARITY
You'll know exactly what kind of leader this role needs.
A structured leadership diagnostic and a 90-day action plan that replaces "winging it" with a clear sequence of moves, tailored to your actual team, your actual board, your actual trigger event.
CAPABILITY
You'll have 12 high-impact skills your old job never required.
Strategic communication, team design, delegation that actually delegates, feedback that lands, and an AI-leadership track most of your peers are quietly avoiding because no one taught it to them either.
CONFIDENCE
You'll go from performing competence to owning the room.
Not bravado. Earned confidence, built session by session, with a cohort of peers who are watching you become the leader the role requires — and holding you to it.
CLASSIFICATION EXECUTIVE BRIEFING
Leadership AI Readiness Training, for executives who can't afford to be the one who doesn't get it.
72% of CEOs fear AI obsolescence. Boards are no longer asking what your digital strategy is — they're asking for your AI roadmap and who owns it. This track closes that gap before it costs you the boardroom, the contract, or the job.
72%
of CEOs fear AI obsolescence
PwC Global CEO Survey, 2025
3.4X
faster revenue growth at AI-fluent companies vs. peers
McKinsey, 2025
41%
of boards now require AI literacy from C-suite hires
Gartner Board Survey, 2025
Real Consequence
In Q1 2025, a Fortune 500 retail CEO was replaced — not for poor financial performance, but because the board cited a "lack of strategic vision around AI-driven operations" in the transition announcement. This is no longer theoretical.
THE GAP
01 Can't articulate AI strategy
02 Signed off on AI tools without understanding them
03 Delegated AI entirely to IT
04 Dismissed AI as hype
05 No AI governance policy
HOW IT SHOW UP
Stumbles in board Q&A, investor meetings, or agency orals
Data breach, bias incident, or regulatory violation surfaces
No strategic alignment; AI projects fail or stall
Competitors deploy; customers and talent migrate
An employee misuses AI; sensitive data exposed
THE COST
Loss of board confidence, passed over for promotion or contract
Legal liability, personal reputational damage, termination
Wasted budget, missed competitive window, blame falls upward
Market share erosion, inability to retain top performers
Compliance violation, client loss, regulatory scrutiny
Where executives land on the scale
- 48–60 AI-Fluent — ahead of most peers.
- 32–47 Developing — has a foundation.
- 20–31 At Risk — meaningful exposure.
- <20 Critical Gap — significant blind spots
Find out where you actually stand, before your board does.
The AI Readiness track opens with the Executive AI Blind Spots Self-Assessment. Twelve honest statements. Your score sets your 90-day action plan.
? I can explain what a large language model is to a non-technical board member.
? My organization has a written AI use policy that employees have acknowledged.
? I know what the NIST AI Risk Management Framework requires.
- HOW THE GAP GETS CLOSED
90 MINUTES
AI-Ready Executive Briefing
A live or virtual session with Fox AI's co-founders, customized to your industry and your leadership team's specific blind spots. Includes pre-reads and a post-session action plan.
TIERED CURRICULUM
AI Literacy Training Program
Executive awareness, managerial application, and operational proficiency — built as one system. SCORM-packaged for your LMS or instructor-led. GovCloud hosting available.
GOVERNANCE
AI Governance Starter Package
A complete AI Use Policy, Vendor Vetting Checklist, Incident Response Procedure, and Board Briefing Template — customized and reviewed for alignment with NIST AI RMF.
HALF DAY WORKSHOP
Executive AI Strategy Workshop
A working session to build your organization's AI roadmap: use cases, ownership, governance, and the board narrative — delivered by Fox AI's leadership team.NIST AI RMF.
6-12 MONTH RETAINER
Ongoing AI Advisory
Monthly sessions to stay current on AI developments, review vendor proposals, respond to regulatory change, and coach your internal AI champion.T AI RMF.
FEDERAL CONTRACTORS
GovCon AI Capability Statement
An AI capabilities narrative aligned to the DoD AI Strategy and NIST AI RMF — ready for RFP insertion, capability statements, and orals presentations.
- BUILT FOR YOUR SITUATION, NOT A GENERIC TITLE
Five leadership situations. One accelerator, built for each.
Generic leadership training assumes everyone's problem looks the same. Yours doesn't. We design your cohort track and coaching focus around the specific pressure you're actually under.
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You're leading inside a portfolio company on a board-mandated timeline. We work directly with PE and VC operating partners to run leadership acceleration across multiple portfolio companies at once — with the same outcome reporting your investors already expect.
You're the next generation stepping into a business someone else built — with all the emotional weight that comes with it. This track is built for the specific dynamics of leading family, founders, and tenured staff who remember when you were a kid in the office.
Engineer, doctor, lawyer, or scientist promoted into an executive seat — with zero formal leadership training, ever. We speak your language: precise, evidence-based, allergic to fluff, and built around the specific blind spots technical leaders walk into.
You're managing managers for the first time — too senior for entry-level training, not yet C-suite enough for executive coaching budgets. Most programs skip you entirely. This is the track built specifically for that frozen middle.
You're leading at the pace of a surging market — Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa — where most premium leadership programs are built for a different context entirely and simply don't translate. This cohort is built around your market, your culture, and your growth curve.
HOW THE PROGRAMS WORK
A structured arc, not an open-ended subscription.
Every leader who starts has an end date and a defined set of wins to show for it. Here's the shape of the 90 days.
DAYS 1–30 · DIAGNOSE
Find out exactly where you're exposed.
A full leadership diagnostic and 360 feedback debrief, benchmarked against the realities of your specific role and trigger event, not a generic competency model.
- Leadership diagnostic assessment
- 360 feedback tool + 1:1 debrief
- Your written 90-day action plan
Days 31-60 | Build
Install the skills your old job never taught.
Live, bi-weekly cohort sessions with 15–20 peers at your level, covering the leadership capabilities that actually move the needle at your altitude — including AI leadership readiness.
- Live cohort sessions, bi-weekly
- Peer accountability pods
- Group coaching with your facilitator
DAYS 61–90 · PROVE IT
Walk into the boardroom with results, not theory.
You leave with three specific, named leadership wins, a result your team produced, a conflict you resolved, a strategy you executed, that you can put in front of your board.
- Board presentation prep
- Documented leadership wins
- Outcome pledge (see guarantee)
FROM LEADERS WHO'VE BEEN EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE
"I was four months into a VP role, managing managers for the first time, and quietly convinced I'd be found out. The cohort made the gap between title and readiness feel solvable instead of shameful."
RM
VP of Operations
Series C logistics scale-up
"Our PE firm needed leadership readiness across six portfolio companies on the same timeline our board was tracking. This was the first program built like it understood that pressure."
JK
Operating Partner
Growth equity firm
"I went from staff engineer to engineering director with zero leadership training, ever. This was the first program that didn't make me sit through generic management theory I'd already outgrown."
TS
Director of Engineering
Series B tech company
THE NEXT 90 DAYS ARE HAPPENING WITH OR WITHOUT A PLAN
The gap between your title and your readiness closes either way. Make sure you're the one who closes it.
Book a 20-minute readiness call. We'll diagnose your situation, tell you honestly which track fits, and you decide from there — no pressure, no generic pitch.
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