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The Connectors Code, an executive intelligence platform operating across Africa and the UK, is betting that the AI capability gap at the leadership level is the real bottleneck slowing enterprise adoption. Its AI Literacy Sprint ran through July, drawing more than 500 professionals through daily learning across 20-plus topics, and closed with a live webinar attended by over 70 participants from Nigeria, the UK, and beyond. Speakers from Maplerad and ENGIE Energy Supply UK anchored the session around applied AI use cases in financial services and energy.
What this means for your business
The organisations most exposed to AI disruption right now are not the ones without AI tools, they are the ones with AI tools and executives who cannot critically evaluate them. If your leadership team is consuming vendor pitches without the baseline to interrogate assumptions about governance, data security, or workforce impact, you are effectively outsourcing your AI strategy to the people selling it to you. That is the gap The Connectors Code is positioning against, and whether you use their programme or build your own, the problem they have named is real.
The sprint’s framing, that AI should augment human judgement rather than replace it, is the correct starting position for any CHRO designing a workforce AI strategy, but it can also become a comfortable excuse for inaction. The recurring failure mode looks like this: organisations declare that “humans stay in the loop,” invest nothing in training leaders to actually use that loop well, and then wonder why AI adoption stalls below the C-suite. Executive AI literacy is not a one-month sprint problem; it is a continuous capability infrastructure problem, closer to how you think about financial reporting fluency than a one-off workshop.
The signal worth watching is not this programme specifically but the supply signal it represents. When a Nigerian-UK cross-sector platform can fill a webinar with professionals from Amazon, Bolt, and BudPay on the strength of executive AI education alone, that is evidence of demand that formal business schools and internal L&D functions are visibly not meeting. If your organisation’s AI upskilling budget still sits below your AI tooling budget by an order of magnitude, that ratio is the thing worth revisiting before the next vendor renewal, not after.
Based on reporting from The Connectors Code advances AI leadership capability through executive AI literacy sprint, originally published 2026-07-31 15:56:00.
