For C-suite, heads of department and transformation leads.
Agentic AI for Leadership: Strategy, Governance and the Build-vs-Buy Decision
- 1 day
- HRDC claimable
- Advanced
In short
What is the Agentic AI for Leadership: Strategy, Governance and the Build-vs-Buy Decision program?
Agentic AI runs multi-step work on its own, which moves three questions onto your desk: build or buy, how to govern it under PDPA, and how to make adoption stick past the pilot. This one-day masterclass answers all three. You leave with a board-ready one-page adoption roadmap and governance playbook scoped to your next 90 days.
89% of Malaysian employers prioritise AI-skilled talent and 81% cannot find it. The build-vs-buy decision runs straight through that shortage, which is why it belongs on the board agenda now, not after a vendor picks it for you. Source: AWS and Access Partnership, 2024
A Malaysian manufacturer’s operations team built a defect-detection pilot into their existing QA process, which is the kind of scoped, governed pilot this roadmap is designed to produce. See the case study.
Want this for your whole team? See the in-house program: Agentic AI for Workflow Autonomy.
What your team will be able to do
- A board-ready one-page AI adoption roadmap with your 90-day priorities and KPIs.
- A build-vs-buy decision matrix you can reuse to audit future AI investments.
- An AI governance checklist covering data handling, anonymisation and approval gates.
- An internal-champion rollout kit for building in-house capability and managing change.
30 minutes with a practitioner. We map your team’s use case and tell you straight if this course fits.
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GrowthPro Asia is an HRDC-registered training provider. Every program is run by practitioners who build these systems for clients, not career trainers reading slides.
Who runs it
This program is run by industry practitioners who have shipped AI inside regulated enterprises across banking, government, manufacturing, and telco. It is led by Peter Kua, our AI and data science lead, a core contributor to Malaysia’s National Big Data Analytics Framework under MDEC and co-author of Malaysia’s AI Adoption Blueprints in 2019 and 2020. You are learning from people who have built this in production, not read about it.
Who this is for
C-suite, heads of department and transformation leads who are being pitched agents from every direction and need to make the call with confidence: where AI fits, what to spend, and how to govern it. Not a hands-on build course, a decision-making one.
“What is agentic AI, and how is it different from a chatbot?”
You see a live multi-agent workflow and trace how agents plan, use tools and hand off tasks, so you can tell real autonomous systems from vendor hype before you sign anything.
“Should we build our own agents or buy a vendor tool?”
You work through a build-vs-buy model with your own resource and scale numbers, weighing speed, cost, trade-secret protection and vendor lock-in. You leave with a recommendation you can defend to a board rather than a gut call.
“How do we govern this without a compliance disaster?”
You run a crisis simulation covering data residency, PDPA, hallucination risk and human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and map the exact controls your organisation needs before anything autonomous goes live.
“How do we make adoption actually stick?”
Most corporate AI initiatives stall after the pilot. You build the rollout on an internal-champion model, planned with HRDC-claimable training and tracked against milestones, then finalise your one-page roadmap.
What you leave with
A finished one-page corporate AI adoption roadmap and governance playbook, board-ready, built around your organisation’s next 90 days. You finish it in the room, not as homework.
Prerequisites
No technical or programming background. Bring a laptop or tablet with internet access for the live scenarios.
Common questions
Is this executive AI masterclass HRDC-claimable?
Yes. GrowthPro Asia is HRDC-registered and this program is claimable under SBL-Khas. Leadership teams can attend at net zero for levy-paying employers, and we handle the claim paperwork.
Is this a hands-on technical course?
No. It is a strategy and governance masterclass for decision-makers. You interact with a live agent system to understand it, but the day is spent on the build-vs-buy call, governance, and your rollout plan, not on writing code.
What will I leave with?
A board-ready one-page AI adoption roadmap scoped to your next 90 days, plus a reusable build-vs-buy decision matrix, a governance checklist and an internal-champion rollout kit. You finish the roadmap in the room, ready to take to your board.
What is agentic AI and why does it matter for leaders now?
Agentic AI runs multi-step processes on its own, using tools and memory rather than answering one prompt at a time. That changes the risk and the ROI maths, which is why the governance and build-vs-buy decisions now sit at leadership level.
How do you handle the build-vs-buy decision?
You run a structured model with your own numbers: resources, scale, infrastructure. It weighs speed to market, cost, trade-secret protection and vendor lock-in, and produces a recommendation you can defend to a board rather than a gut call.
Does it cover PDPA and governance?
Yes, in depth. A crisis simulation walks through data residency, PDPA, hallucination risk and human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and you leave with a governance checklist mapping the controls your organisation needs before it deploys anything autonomous.
Can you run this privately for our leadership team?
Yes. We run it as a closed session for a leadership team, built around your organisation’s real decisions. Book the Free AI Strategic Briefing to scope it.
How long is it and how is it run?
One day, 9am to 5pm. It is a working session built on decisions, scenarios and your own roadmap, run peer-to-peer among senior leaders, not delivered as a lecture.
What it costs
From RM2,500 per participant.
100% HRDC-claimable under SBL-Khas. For levy-paying employers the real cost is usually zero: the levy you already pay covers it, and we handle the claim paperwork with your L&D team.
Related
- AI Capstone, the pilot a roadmap leads into.
- HRDC-claimable AI training, how the claim works.
- AI consulting, strategy, governance and pilots.
- AI for Business Leaders, a related program.
- Data and AI Strategy, a related program.
- AI Change Management, a related program in Leadership & Executive AI Strategy.
- AI for Business Leaders, a related program in Leadership & Executive AI Strategy.
Turn AI strategy into a working pilot, and prove the ROI.
Start with the free 3-hour AI Strategic Briefing. See agentic AI run real workflows, and leave with an automation roadmap, a prompt library, and a pilot playbook.