AI is already changing the context in which charities lead, decide and serve. For leaders of small and mid-sized charities, the challenge is not just technical. It is practical and human: how do you make sensible use of new technology without being swept along by hype, alarming your staff, or losing the human touch that matters so much to the people you serve?
In this session, Dr Andy Bass will offer a calm, practical guide to thinking clearly about new technology. He will explore how leaders can avoid the two unhelpful extremes of treating AI as either a threat to everything or the answer to everything, and instead take a more useful path: emphasising discernment about hype, better conversations, and confidence in the foundations that have produced results so far.
This session is designed to help leaders feel more informed, more in control and better equipped to talk with boards, staff and volunteers about what happens next. It will be especially useful for charities that want to benefit from AI without losing perspective, values or trust.
Presenter bio: Dr Andy Bass is a strategic leadership advisor and author who has helped organisations across thirty industries navigate change, innovation and the relationship between people and technology. He has taught and facilitated executive education at leading institutions including Oxford Saïd, Aston and Warwick Business Schools and is a Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University in Consulting Practice. Andy’s work focuses on helping leaders connect technology possibilities with existing, often undervalued resources, so that new developments enable better, wiser results. Alongside his consulting and speaking work,
Andy serves as a director of Upcycle, a charity that reconditions furniture to keep it in the community and out of landfill. He has delivered webinars for Cranfield for over ten years, bringing practical, accessible insight to leadership audiences.