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    Transform Your Leadership Team with AI

    Choose the perfect programme to build a clear, actionable AI strategy for your business.

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    Criteria

    NZ business owners
    $3M+ turnover

    Time

    15 days over 5 months
    Plus an Implementation Day

    Format

    Group sessions
    In-person (residential)

    Programme overview

    Transform your leadership team and future-proof your business with AI.

    A.icehouse is offering two high-impact programmes designed to help Senior Leadership Teams (SLTs) move beyond awareness and into action.

    Whether you prefer a flexible, four-week blended cohort or an immersive, two-day leadership retreat, we have the perfect solution to help you develop a clear, actionable AI strategy and empower your entire organisation.

    AI Traction Programme

     

    A 4-Week Cohort for Your SLT

    The AI Traction Programme is a complete organisational adoption package that equips your leadership team to set AI strategy and empowers your people to put it into action. This four-week programme blends senior leadership strategy sessions with hands-on capability building.


    Who It’s For

    Senior Leadership Teams ready to move beyond awareness into action. Organisations wanting to embed AI skills across both leadership and operational levels.

     

    What's Included?

    1. Leadership Track 4-Week SLT Cohort: Use case identification, adoption priorities, and a 90-day AI Action Plan.

    2. Organisation-Wide Track AI Academy Professional Certificate for all roles, with on-demand learning, live webinars, and practical exercises.


    Key Outcomes

    A prioritised, actionable AI adoption plan tailored to your organisation. Leadership-led change that sticks. Whole-organisation enablement builds capability where it matters.


    Programme Fee $13,795 +GST per company (Includes up to 10 attendee seats per company)


    Delivery: Online

     

    Dates: Launches 1st October 2025

    AI Live Intensives

     

    A 2-Day Leadership Retreat

    A high-impact, live-in leadership programme where SLTs step away from daily operations to design a costed, phased, and realistic 24-month AI enablement roadmap. This residential format condenses and intensifies the training into an immersive two-day experience.


    Who It’s For

    SLTs wanting to accelerate AI adoption planning. Organisations seeking an immersive off-site environment to build alignment and momentum.

     

    What's Included?

    1. Condensed Leadership Track Everything in the Traction Programme's SLT track, condensed into 2 days.

    2. Immersive Experience

    • Premium Venue & Accommodation – Two days, 2 nights.
    • Strategic Deep-Dives on AI adoption pathways.
    • Hands-On AI Exploration of tools, frameworks, and applications.
    • Expert Facilitation for tangible outputs.

    Key Outcomes

    A fully costed 24-month AI roadmap with clear ROI pathways. A shared vision and commitment for AI adoption. Increased confidence in leading AI-driven change.


    Programme Fee $5,995 +GST per person (Minimum of 2 attendees per company)


    Delivery: In person

    1. Auckland - 29 & 30 October 2025
    2. Christchurch - 18 & 19 November 2025

    Skills

    • New skills, techniques and frameworks to apply to your business
    • Improved work/life balance and a new approach to your mental and physical health
    • Confidence, motivation and enhanced leadership

    Clarity

    • A new business growth plan critiqued by leading business experts
    • Better awareness of what drives business growth and how to analyse and fine-tune your business to solve problems
    • Clarity on the future and a better understanding of yourself as the leader of the business

    Support

    • A room full of owners going through the same stuff you are, and who keep you accountable to delivering on what you say you will.
    • A safe space to unload, share war stories, ask for help, and talk about the challenges of being a business owner without fear of criticism.

    The Owner Manager Programme is a 16-day programme that takes you out of your business to focus on your learning. It is held over five months, in blocks of three off-site (residential) days per month where you will stay together with your fellow programme attendees. This is followed by a single-day implementation workshop approximately three months later.

     

    The teaching format of the Owner Manager Programme includes small and large group sessions, as well as one-on-one discussions. Case Studies and real-world examples are used to complement academic theory.

     

    We use “The Four Circles” to understand the context of the Owner Manager and their business. This unique approach sets our programmes apart because we get that for owners, business is personal.

    • You
    • You in the business
    • the business
    • community & macro environment

     

    To assist you in focussing on particular areas of growth or development, you’ll have access to a dedicated business coach for five one-on-one sessions prior to attending, during attendance or following block five. We’ll match you with someone from our wide selection of specialist business coaches who can help you focus on the areas most important to you.

    On each Owner Manager Programme, two facilitators guide the learning experience and provide a good mix of academic and practical expertise. Their common sense and business acumen is supported by specialist professionals, experienced entrepreneurs and business leaders who share their real-life experiences in a flexible learning environment.

     

    Each block features an owner-manager guest speaker. This creates an opportunity to share in another owner-manager’s business experience and gain insights and learnings to apply to your business.

    You'll be joined by up to 25 fellow business owners at a similar stage in their journey as you. Throughout the programme, you'll grow close, learn from each other, be accountable to each other, and value the external perspective that other owners can offer you.

     

    We'll make sure there's no direct competitors in  the room, meaning everyone is comfortable speaking freely. This also ensures the room is full of people from different industries, as often the ideas that create the greatest positive change come from places you wouldn't normally look or have access to.

    What will you get from registering?

    Clear AI Strategy

    Move beyond awareness to create a clear, tailored AI strategy that fits your organisation.

    Actionable Roadmap

    Walk away with a prioritised and actionable plan to guide your organisation's AI adoption.

    Leadership Alignment

    Build a shared vision and get full buy-in from your leadership team on the path forward.

    Tangible Results

    Identify clear ROI pathways and apply practical frameworks to turn AI into a competitive advantage.

    Expert-Led

    Leverage the expertise of industry leaders to guide you through strategic deep-dives and hands-on exploration.

    Lasting Impact

    Future-proof your business by equipping your team to embrace AI and drive organisation-wide capability.

    Upcoming Programmes

    Kick-off: 1 October 2025

    Register Your Interest

    Our free AI for SMEs webinar series is part of the public launch point of the Icehouse + Ten Past Tomorrow pilot.

    Each 60 minute session gives business leaders and their teams a fast, practical introduction to generative AI: what it is, why it matters, and how Kiwi SMEs can start using it today.

    The series will cut through hype and provide trusted, real-world guidance, building confidence ahead of deeper training opportunities. Participants will leave each webinar with clear next steps they can apply immediately inside their business.

    Your first step into the intelligence era starts here.

    🔸 A.icehouse Webinar: Intro to AI with Mark from Ten Past Tomorrow
    🔸 60 minutes (35 mins plain-English intro + 25 mins live Q&A)
    🔸 Free, practical, designed for busy SME leaders.

    Learn More

    Auckland: 29-30 October 2025

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    AI in Action: How NZ SMEs Are Already Using It

    AI isn’t just for corporates. Hear how Kiwi SMEs are using AI today to lift productivity, sharpen customer experience, and grow smarter — with real case studies, lessons learned, and practical next steps you can use tomorrow.

    Hosted jointly by Icehouse and Ten Past Tomorrow, each meetup blends short, sharp insights from experts in a particular area of AI, with open discussion and peer connection.

    Free to attend.

    Learn More

    Christchurch: 18-19 November 2025

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    "The Owner Manager Programme helps you focus on your goal-setting and visualising where you want to be. It taught me that I need to work ON the business and not IN the business and that’s a great discipline. If you follow the process of the Owner Manager Programme, it’s phenomenal."


    Carmen Vicelich
    Data Insight & Valocity
    Owner Manager Programme Alumni

    Meet the Facilitator

    Don't just take our word for it...

    The Owner Manager Programme has allowed me to get out of my own way. After the second session we hired three new people.

    We decided we’re going to go hard or go home!

    Sam Colthurst

    Colthurst Flooring

    Succession planning, recruitment, staffing, were always major issues for everybody that sat around the table. So you realise quickly that despite being from different backgrounds and businesses, we're all facing similar problems.

     

    Rewa Willis

    Sherson Willis

    It was an investment in myself but now when I look back at the amount of business understanding and connections I gained it makes that cost look insignificant and it’s helped me shape the business to where I need it to go.  

     

    Jade Fonotoe

    Absolute Traffic

    The Owner Manager Programme has allowed me to get out of my own way. After the second session we hired three new people.

    We decided we’re going to go hard or go home!

    Sam Colthurst

    Colthurst Flooring

    Succession planning, recruitment, staffing, were always major issues for everybody that sat around the table. So you realise quickly that despite being from different backgrounds and businesses, we're all facing similar problems.

     

    Rewa Willis

    Sherson Willis

    It was an investment in myself but now when I look back at the amount of business understanding and connections I gained it makes that cost look insignificant and it’s helped me shape the business to where I need it to go.  

     

    Jade Fonotoe

    Absolute Traffic

     

    Register your interest

    Frequently Asked Questions

    • SME owners who want clarity, not promises.

    • Senior leadership teams and boards needing a shared baseline for decision-making.

    • People leaders seeking do-and-don’t basics for everyday use.

    • Anyone feeling AI overwhelm who wants practical and pragmatic answers, not hype.

    Not for: tool buyers, automation chasers, or those looking for push-button “AI magic”.

    Before A.icehouse After A.icehouse

    Every week brings new tools, claims, and acronyms.

    Plain-English understanding of what AI is and what it isn’t.

    It feels like everyone else is ahead, but no one admits their doubts.

    Confidence to say “we don’t know yet” and why that’s the necessary start point.

    Leaders are expected to know answers before they themselves are AI literate and skilfull.

    A shared language and AI skillset so leadership teams can finally have aligned conversations about what AI truly means for their people and company, together.

    Decisions are being made based on hype and fear, not collective understanding.

    Calm, informed choices that outlast today’s tools and trends.

     

    • What AI is, what it isn’t, and when it matters.

    • How to cut through hype and noise with practical frameworks.

    • How to build common AI literacy and skill across your leadership team.

    • How to approach AI opportunities and risks with clarity, not guesswork.

    • Why it’s necessary to be honest about unknowns in the AI era.

    SLT Traction Programme is a series of online self learning modules taking place of a period of 4 weeks followed by an extension of AI academy online access

    AI Live Intensive is two days & nights. 

    We also are running free 60 minute webinars and Monthly Meetups. Learn more about these free to attend events here.

    Not at all.

    At A.icehouse we're not about the very basics and we're not highly technical either.

    All our programmes are designed for leaders who are already experimenting with AI in their day-to-day work and want to build shared understanding of 'what’s next' — strategy, governance, and confident decision-making. 

    We are also running free Webinars and Monthly Meet Ups. These are a great way to keep up with the latest knowledge and take some of your first steps into the intelligence era.

    SME leaders across NZ, from small teams to larger businesses. You’ll learn alongside peers with similar questions. 

    After you register your interest, you’ll receive an email confirming your submission and we will be in touch to discuss your programme.

    Payment Plans

    We may be able to offer flexible payment plans to make it easier for your business to access our programmes and invest in your growth.

    Airpoints™

    You can earn 1 Airpoints Dollar™ for every $50 spent the Owner Manager Programme, plus 500 bonus Airpoints Dollars!

     

    Learn More Here