Professionals
Trained around the world
Participants
Come from Tier 1 institutions
Satisfaction rate
In client delivery
C-level leaders in financial services are positioned to become strategic advisors, with outcome-driven goals, employee engagement, and solid governance frameworks
Managers level need a deep understanding of industry-specific use cases to identify potential risks and opportunities
Employees require practical training on the latest AI and digital tools, enabling them to automate routine tasks and deliver more efficient and higher-quality work in the financial sector
Who This Is For?
Leadership Programme | Financial Institutions & Central Banks
Senior Leadership
Alignment Programme
Turn AI ambition into clearer leadership decisions, sharper priorities, and stronger execution.
The Challenge
The cost of inaction is rising
AI is moving at extraordinary speed. New capabilities such as agentic AI are changing what organisations can automate, redesign, and scale. Ambition is rising everywhere. Yet execution is proving much harder than expected. Many organisations have launched pilots and generated momentum, but turning that momentum into coherent transformation requires leadership direction. Without that, institutions risk energy without coherence, activity without prioritisation, and ambition without execution.
What often happens today
Awareness has increased, experimentation has started, and teams are discussing AI. But senior leaders often still hold uneven assumptions, fragmented views of risk and value, and no shared basis for prioritisation.
Why that creates execution drag
When leadership judgement is not aligned, organisations struggle to decide which opportunities matter, where governance should sit, which issues need board attention, and how to translate AI ambition into coordinated action.
"The challenge is not a lack of information. It is a lack of coordinated leadership judgement."
Why CFTE
Why CFTE is trusted for this
CFTE was built at the intersection of financial services, technology, and capability-building. Senior leadership teams need more than AI commentary. They need guidance from someone who understands executive decision-making, emerging technology, and how organisations build capability at scale.
Business-first, not technology-first
The objective is not to impress leaders with tools or jargon. It is to help them make better business decisions. Every session is anchored in business outcomes, not technical capability.
Impartial, not vendor-driven
CFTE is not a technology provider and not a consulting firm trying to create implementation dependency. There is no product to sell and no follow-on engagement to pitch.
Built for serious institutions
The approach is designed for financial institutions and central banks where leadership choices carry strategic, operational, and governance consequences — not generic enterprise settings.
Focused on execution
The aim is not better awareness alone. It is clearer priorities, ownership, and next steps. Participants leave with decisions made, not just discussions had.
"CFTE is not positioned as a consulting firm selling implementation work or a technology provider pushing tools. Its role is to help institutions build stronger internal capability and make better leadership decisions on AI."
The Opportunity
What this programme helps structure
Identify what matters
Which AI opportunities are most relevant now and which are distractions. A sharper basis for prioritisation across strategy, risk, governance, and operating model.
Clarify ownership
What requires board oversight versus management ownership. Where decisions, follow-up, and governance should sit across the institution.
Align on execution
How to translate momentum and experimentation into clearer priorities and next steps. A stronger basis for coordinated action rather than fragmented discussion.
Outcomes
What leadership teams leave with
Not awareness alone. Clearer decisions, structured priorities, and a stronger basis for coordinated execution.
Clearer decisions
A sharper group view of the most relevant opportunities and challenges facing the institution.
Priority mapping
A more structured picture of where leadership attention should focus next, with rationale.
Ownership clarity
Greater clarity on where decisions, follow-up, and governance should sit across the organisation.
Execution direction
A stronger basis for coordinated next steps rather than fragmented discussion and competing priorities.
Audience
Who is this for?
Senior leadership teams at financial institutions and central banks
Executive committees that have begun AI experimentation but lack alignment
Leadership groups preparing for board-level AI governance discussions
Management teams seeking a structured basis for AI prioritisation
Heads of business units with cross-functional AI execution responsibility
Teams where uneven AI assumptions are creating execution drag
Your leadership team has started AI pilots but lacks coherent direction
Executives hold different views on AI risk, opportunity, and priority
Ambition is high but execution is fragmented across the institution
Board members need better questions to ask about AI governance
You need a structured intervention, not another AI awareness session
You want external perspective without vendor or consulting dependency
Methodology
How the programme works
Concise leadership briefing
A focused view on what matters, what does not, and what has changed. Designed for leadership teams, not technical audiences.
Practical examples
Relevant patterns from strong organisations including where momentum builds and where it stalls.
Structured decision-making
Frameworks that turn complex AI issues into leadership decisions rather than technical debate.
Alignment on next steps
Facilitated discussion that produces priorities, ownership, and clear direction for the institution.
Format Options
Choose the right format
All formats are delivered in-person and tailored to your institution's context, audience, and priorities.
| Format | Description | Best suited for |
|---|---|---|
| 90-minute briefing | A focused format for initial orientation, executive alignment, or targeted decision cycles. | Initial leadership orientation or a specific, time-bounded decision moment. |
| Half-day session | Allows more challenge, interpretation, and discussion of opportunities, risks, and strategic implications. | Teams needing deeper exploration without a full-day commitment. |
| One-day programme | The deepest format, designed for richer opportunity identification, priority mapping, and alignment on next steps. | Full leadership alignment with structured outputs and clear ownership. |
■ For boards
Emphasis on strategic implications, oversight, governance, risk, and the questions board members should be asking of management.
■ For management teams
Emphasis on priorities, operating model implications, capability-building, ownership, and execution choices.
Led by Senior Leaders in Finance
Huy Nguyen Trieu is Co-Founder of CFTE, a global capability platform focused on AI and workforce transformation, with over 200,000 participants across 130 countries. He advises governments, central banks and financial institutions on building AI capability at scale. He is the author of The AI-fication of Jobs, a former Managing Director at Citi, and Associate Fellow at Oxford Saïd Business School. He is a graduate of MIT and École Polytechnique.
The Opportunity for Leaders
Industry Shapers
Enable leaders to position themselves as industry shapers, setting direction and driving innovation rather than simply following market trends
Strengthen Risk Management
Enhance risk management and governance oversight for responsible and resilient AI adoption in finance.
Supercharge Decision
Supercharge decision-making and enhance strategic agility to anticipate change and drive value in an AI-enabled financial landscape.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your questions answered
What Will You Gain
This workshop delivers tangible, strategic outcomes to lead with confidence.
Mindset Shift
Build the strategic mindset to navigate how AI is transforming finance, leadership, and decision-making
Define an AI Strategy
Understand the structural shifts AI is driving in banking operations, talent, and governance, as part of understanding the competitive landscape
Change Management
Witness live demos and learn from strategic case studies, providing practical insights to drive successful change management
Asking the Right Questions
Walk away with a readiness heatmap of your organisation, a clear set of priorities, and a plan to cascade down the changes across the enterprise
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Designed exclusively for senior leaders, this workshop equips you to stay ahead of disruption, harness AI for strategic advantage, and shape the future of your organisation with confidence
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New Mindset.
New Finance.
Technology is already 80% of Finance. Most of the jobs in financial technology are those found in tech companies. To navigate this new digital world, we provide courses to prepare your team for the future of finance.
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Helping talent build skills to lead in the future of finance
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More than 200 leading experts from institution like Mastercard, UBS, Starling Bank, IBM, Google and Spotify teach the future of finance at CFTE.
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Completion rate, when the market average is 10%
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