Course Focus

AI Digital Transformation Course For Consultants and Senior Leaders

Become That Trusted Advisor

Course dates

W/C 26 Jan 2026

Duration

5 days

8am - 3pm Ireland

Fees

£2,500 / €3,000

Group discounts available

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Course Tutor: Niall McKeown

Course Registration Closes

03Days/02Hours/52Minutes

Live over Zoom

Closes 23 January 2026 at 5pm (UK/Ireland time)

How The Course Works

The same delivery model and teaching style we use for our AI Leadership course.

Delivery Model

In person, live
Online via Zoom
Approximately 10 participants
Interactive, group based engagements
Recorded for personal use

Audience

Who Should Attend

Senior leaders involved in strategy and business transformation
Career business consultants
Career switchers and movers
Those that want to become a business transformation trusted advisor

Duration

Format

5 consecutive days
Runs from 8am to 3pm (Ireland/UK time zone)
Highly engaging from the get-go
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Style

Teaching Style

Case study inspired
Scenario-led
A balance of practical and theoretical

Prerequisites

Skills Needed

Technical skills helpful but not essential
Leadership experience essential
Ability to move from big picture to detail

Language

Delivered in English
Real-time translation and AI assisted summary available.

Course Curriculum & What You’ll Be Able to Do

Structured over 5 days with clear outcomes for consultants, senior advisors, and career switchers.

Day 1

Becoming a Trusted AI Advisor

What You Will Learn

How AI is reshaping digital transformation and why old advisory models no longer work
Where to start as a Digital Transformation Trusted Advisor
How to use data and LLMs effectively to accelerate analysis, insight, and advisory impact
Case studies of AI-transformed organisations and the role the trusted advisor played

Day 1 Outcome

By the end of Day 1, you will be able to position yourself as a credible, confident trusted advisor in the era of AI.
You will know how to reframe digital transformation conversations away from tools and platforms, use LLMs to strengthen your thinking rather than replace it, and engage senior leaders with clarity, authority, and commercial relevance from the very first interaction.

Day 2

Vision & Strategy in the AI Era

What You Will Learn

Why most organisations are digitising rather than transforming - and how to change the conversation
The essential role of senior leadership teams in AI-enabled transformation
How to set vision and strategy using data-driven, AI-powered strategy frameworks
Group work to build a strategic direction for an organisation leveraging data and AI

Day 2 Outcome

By the end of Day 2, you will be able to help leadership teams define a clear, credible AI-era vision and strategy.
You will know how to diagnose strategic confusion, challenge shallow ambition, and guide executives toward a small number of decisive strategic plays grounded in data, market reality, and organisational capability.

Day 3

Restructuring & Embedding Automation

What You Will Learn

How to choose from proven operating and business models - and understand their real impact
How to modify existing business units, teams, and structures to accelerate AI adoption
The eight biggest leadership decisions and trade-offs when adopting AI at scale
How to improve skills, redesign roles, and create credible career pathways

Day 3 Outcome

By the end of Day 3, you will be able to translate strategy into organisational reality.
You will understand how to redesign operating models for AI, advise leaders on difficult structural trade-offs, and address political and human resistance by creating future-state roles people can realistically move towards.

Day 4

Innovation in the Era of AI

What You Will Learn

Why most organisations believe they are innovative - and why they are not
How AI increases the speed, scope, and success rate of innovation by an order of magnitude
How to build disciplined, evidence-led innovation into sustained competitive advantage
How to reposition value propositions using AI-enabled insight

Day 4 Outcome

By the end of Day 4, you will be able to guide organisations from innovation theatre to real market impact.
You will know how to identify high-value opportunities, test risky assumptions quickly using AI, and help leaders reposition products, services, or business models to create genuine differentiation.

Day 5

From Transformation Idea to Reality

What You Will Learn

How to present a compelling case for AI-powered transformation using data and evidence
How to create adaptive roadmaps using AI-powered frameworks
The phases and processes required to implement change effectively
How to scale initiatives, build momentum, and avoid transformation stall

Day 5 Outcome

By the end of Day 5, you will be able to lead a transformation journey from start to finish.
You will know how to build executive confidence, sequence initiatives intelligently, maintain momentum through uncertainty, and position yourself as the ongoing trusted advisor who helps the organisation navigate what comes next.

Overall Course Outcome

By completing this programme, participants will be able to:

Act as a Digital Transformation Trusted Advisor in the era of AI
Confidently advise senior leaders on strategy, structure, innovation, and execution
Use AI and LLMs to amplify insight, not chase tools
Navigate organisational politics, fear, and resistance with credibility
Design and guide AI-enabled transformation that delivers real competitive advantage

Who Should Attend & Why?

Why Take This 5 Day Intensive Course?

Become an AI Powered Digital Transformation Expert - Be That Trusted Advisor

Become the trusted advisor leaders turn to for complex problem solving by bringing clarity and evidence.

Learn how to guide transformation conversations beyond tools, platforms, and shallow AI hype.

Upgrade your relevance as AI reshapes IT leadership, business consulting, and Digital Agencies.

Gain practical frameworks that use AI. Not outdated academic or theoretical models.

Learn how to design strategy, operating models, and innovation in the era of AI.

Understand the upcoming corporate skills gap and how to fix it.

Understand how to embed AI and automation without triggering organisational resistance or failure.

Accelerate insight, analysis, and decision-making using AI without becoming tool-dependent.

Position yourself for higher-value advisory work as demand for trusted transformation leaders grows.

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What Clients Say

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5.0

Tim Ellis

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“A superb course expertly guided by the brilliant Professor Niall McKeown. Hugely practical, rich and rewarding this course will equip you with the knowledge, methodology and frameworks to guide your customers to success in their digital transformation endeavours. Niall himself is a tour de force engaging, full of insights, knowledge and passion for the subject of which he without doubt a master.”

5.0 / 5

Kidane Mairiam

Recent

“The Digital Transformation Consultants Course surpassed my expectations with its comprehensive curriculum, expert instruction, and practical approach. Professor Niall was engaging and responsive, while the hands-on exercises enhanced my expertise. The user-friendly platform and outstanding support made the learning experience seamless. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to expand their knowledge in Digital Transformation.”

5.0 / 5

Khairi Odeh

Recent

“I enjoyed the digital transformation course for consultant with Prof. Niall and I beliefe the value of the course far excceds its cost and I dont think there is any other course with the same rich content and full of insight and experience as the one Prof. Niall offer. If you really like to have a deep understanding of digital transformation and learn from a leader who is in the field backed with many years of experience then this is the right course for you, I highly recommend this course.”

5.0 / 5

Course Tutor

Course Tutor: Niall McKeown

Niall McKeown is the founder of Ionology and the creator of Ionology’s Digital Transformation Frameworks. For over 25 years, Niall has helped organisations rethink how they compete, operate, and grow in the face of technological change.

His experience comes from working directly with real businesses, not analysing academic case studies. Everything taught on this course is drawn from first-hand experience helping organisations navigate complex transformation challenges under real commercial pressure.

Niall has advised and worked with organisations across banking, insurance, technology and telecoms, science and pharma, engineering, and media, supporting leadership teams as they redesign strategy, operating models, and value propositions in the digital and AI era. Under his leadership his business has been commissioned to create strategic and transformative corporate plans for large, complex organisations and has worked with over 200 organisations globally that demand measurable results.

Alongside his consulting work, Niall has lectured internationally on digital transformation and AI, including appointments as a Visiting Professor at Ulster University and lecturer at the University of Cambridge. However, his teaching is firmly grounded in practice, not just theory. Over 1,000 leaders, consultants, and transformation professionals have attended Ionology courses, consistently valuing the practical frameworks, real-world insight, and honest discussion of what transformation actually takes.

This course reflects how transformation really happens — inside organisations, with real constraints, real politics, and real consequences.

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