Shadow AI in Organisations: Risks, Detection, and Responsible Enablement
- Understand Shadow AI use and respond with clarity, confidence, and control.
- Learn about unsanctioned AI, its risks, and how to detect it in your teams.
- Practical governance strategies for policy design and transparency.
- Support safe innovation without slowing down your organisation.
- Designed for IT, compliance, HR, and departmental leadership.
Overview
This executive workshop focuses on understanding and responding to the hidden use of unsanctioned AI tools in organisations. Participants will learn about Shadow AI, its risks, detection methods, and governance strategies to protect their organizations without hindering innovation. The course is designed for IT leaders, HR professionals, compliance officers, and department heads, emphasizing practical case studies, group activities, and policy templates. The workshop covers topics such as Shadow AI detection, risk analysis, governance strategies, and enabling safe innovation.
Who should attend
IT, compliance, HR, digital transformation, departmental leadership
Understand the hidden use of unsanctioned AI tools in your organisation and how to respond with clarity, confidence, and control.
Why This Executive Workshop?
AI tools are now freely available and widely used, often without IT or compliance approval. This is Shadow AI. And it’s happening in your organisation, whether you’ve authorised it or not.
This workshop helps you understand Shadow AI, why it’s spreading, and how to respond without killing innovation. You’ll leave with tools to protect your organisation without slowing it down.
What You’ll Learn
- What Shadow AI is and how it differs from Shadow IT
- Why unsanctioned AI use is rising (and why people bypass policies)
- The key risks: data privacy, compliance, security, and reputational damage
- How to detect and assess AI use in your teams
- Practical governance strategies: policy design, approval processes, transparency
- How to support safe, controlled innovation with examples from real organisations
- Immediate next steps using a Shadow AI Response Checklist
- Shadow AI in Organisations: Risks, Detection, and Responsible Enablement
Who It’s For
- IT leaders and digital transformation leads
- HR and L&D professionals
- Compliance, governance, and risk officers
- Departmental heads managing data, clients, or operations
- This is not a technical course; it is built for people responsible for policies, people, and business
outcomes.
What’s Included
- Practical case studies and scenarios
- Group activity: spotting Shadow AI in your context
- Policy templates and governance examples
- Shadow AI Response Checklist (customisable for your organisation)
- Summary handouts and action planning tools
Course Outline
- What is Shadow AI and Why It Matters (30 minutes)
Definitions, drivers, and early warning signs - Risk and Impact Analysis (45 minutes)
Security, compliance, and operational risks—with real case studies - Detection and Governance Strategies (45 minutes)
From audits to approval workflows how to make AI use visible and safe - Mitigation and Enablement (45 minutes)
Balancing innovation with control safe sandboxes, policy design, and awareness - Action Planning Workshop (15 minutes)
Participants co create next steps using the Shadow AI Response Checklist
Locations
In person venues:
Newcastle, Manchester, London, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow (Also available for inhouse delivery at your organisation)
Online:
Live via Microsoft Teams or Zoom
