Executive Readiness Room

Project Glasswing made the urgency visible.Now build the governance response.

A four-hour, live, hands-on working session where senior leaders begin building the AI governance artifacts their organizations need to manage vendor exposure, operational risk, incident readiness, and board defensibility.

Wed, August 19, 2026/12:00–4:00 PM Central/Application-Based/40 Seats
Project Glasswing clock: the compressed timeline leaders now face to govern AI-era cyber risk
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Why this room exists

The Briefing created awareness. This is where the work begins.

The Direnzic Briefing showed leaders what changed. The Executive Readiness Room is where they begin doing something about it. Most organizations have no one clearly accountable for AI risk. Tools, vendor platforms, third-party systems, and AI-assisted workflows are entering faster than leadership can govern them responsibly, and Project Glasswing put a clock on the gap. Platforms may help identify exposure, but they cannot decide who is accountable, document the decision, prioritize the response, or defend it. That work belongs to leadership.

01

Who owns AI governance?

02

Where are we exposed?

03

Which vendors are introducing AI-related risk?

04

What decisions have we documented?

05

What would we tell the board, regulator, insurer, customer, or public if asked to defend our posture?

The Executive Readiness Room is where a leader stops wondering whether the organization is exposed and starts building the structure to govern it.

What it is

A working room, not a presentation.

Four hours, live and hands-on. Participants spend the session actively building the core governance documents their organization needs, guided by a Direnzic advisor who works with critical infrastructure and regulated organizations, alongside a small group of peers facing similar pressures.

Format

Four-hour live working session. Hands-on from the first block.

Access

Application-based. Reviewed for fit, not first-come.

Capacity

Capped at 40 seats. Small enough to do real work.

Audience

Built for senior leaders responsible for systems others depend on.

Guidance

Guided by Direnzic. An executive lens on AI, not a tool demo.

Focus

Governance artifacts across readiness, continuity, vendor risk, and board defensibility.

What this is not

If you are looking to watch slides, this is the wrong room.

A webinar
A technical vulnerability walkthrough
An AI productivity workshop
A vendor pitch
A generic cybersecurity training
A compliance certification course
A substitute for the full ACRA™ Comprehensive Assessment or ARG-CRP™
What you will build

You leave having started four real artifacts.

Not notes. The first working versions of the documents your executive team and board will expect you to have.

01

AI Governance Charter & Decision-Rights Map

Who can say yes, no, pause, escalate, document, and report.

02

AI Use & Vendor Exposure Register

Where AI lives, which vendors use it, and where your data touches it.

03

Board-Ready Readiness Posture One-Pager

A defensible statement of where you stand and your top gaps.

04

Incident-Response Gap List

What your playbook is missing under AI-accelerated velocity.

You also receive
A sector-specific governance workbook to keep working from.
A guided view of where you stand across the nine readiness domains.
Peer perspective from leaders facing similar governance pressure.
A clear understanding of what must be completed, evidenced, tested, and operationalized next.

The work does not start with a tool. It starts in this room.

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The four-hour working agenda

Built on the four functions of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage, mapped to the nine readiness domains. All times Central.

12:00 – 12:20 PM

Opening & Working Contract

Settle in over lunch, then set the frame. This is a working session, and you will leave with drafts.

12:20 – 1:05 PM
Govern

Ownership & Decision Rights

Draft your AI Governance Charter and decision-rights map. No vendor can own this for you.

1:05 – 1:50 PM
Map

AI Use & Vendor Exposure Visibility

Start your exposure register and confront how much AI risk you inherit from others.

1:50 – 2:05 PM

Break

Reset and informal peer conversation.

2:05 – 2:50 PM
Measure

Readiness to Board Defensibility

Translate your readiness picture into a board-ready posture statement.

2:50 – 3:40 PM
Manage

Incident Readiness Under AI Velocity

A sector-specific tabletop. Walk the first sixty minutes and find the gaps.

3:40 – 4:00 PM

Close — From Drafts to Defensible

What you built, and what must happen next to operationalize it.

Who should apply

Leaders of organizations where AI governance, cyber readiness, continuity, and public trust matter.

Sectors · Core
Critical Infrastructure Water & Wastewater Treatment Manufacturing Aerospace & Defense Suppliers Transportation & Logistics
Sectors · Also serving
Municipal & Public Sector Healthcare Technology Fintech & Regulated Mid-Market MSPs & vCIOs

Roles in the room: CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, board members, legal leaders, risk officers, compliance leaders, operations leaders, and vendor-management leaders.

Who this is not for

This is a serious room for serious leaders.

A beginner AI tools class
A passive webinar
A technical exploit walkthrough
A software demo
A generic AI ethics discussion
A low-commitment networking event
The desired outcome

By the end of the session, you will be far better prepared to answer the question your board is about to ask: who owns our AI governance, what are we exposed to, and can we defend it?

You will not leave with a fully operationalized governance program. You will leave with the beginning of the governance structure, the first version of critical artifacts, a clearer view of your readiness gaps, and a practical understanding of what must happen next.

How this fits the Direnzic pathway

The paid bridge between awareness and transformation.

Step 01

The Direnzic Briefing

Creates awareness.

Step 02 · This Room

Executive Readiness Room

Creates activation.

Step 03

ACRA™ Comprehensive

The defensible baseline.

Step 04

ARG-CRP™

Operationalizes governance.

Step 05

Continuity

Keeps the work current.

The Executive Readiness Room is where awareness becomes activation.

Application & seat details

Why the room is capped, and how seats are chosen.

Application-based, reviewed for fit and seriousness.
Capped at 40 seats so the work stays real.
One seat per senior leader. Organizations may request multiple seats when cross-functional participation is needed.
Priority to organizations with operational scale, public-trust exposure, regulated environments, critical infrastructure responsibilities, or a named executive sponsor.
Accepted participants receive access instructions and pre-work.
Limited by design

Forty seats. One cohort.

The room is small on purpose. Real governance work cannot happen at webinar scale, and the cohort is sized to the leaders we can guide closely in a single working session.

Tuition is shared privately upon acceptance, not posted publicly.

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Apply for the August 19 Working Session

Move before the list goes public.

Enrolling early secures priority placement to address the exposures ahead. Capacity is real and finite, and the organizations that move first are positioned to respond first.

Applications are reviewed for fit. The Executive Readiness Room is a paid working session; tuition is confirmed privately upon acceptance, along with access instructions and pre-work.

Confidentiality Because participants may evaluate internal governance, vendor, operational, and cyber-readiness conditions, submitted readiness information is treated as confidential intake information and used only to prepare the Executive Readiness Room experience and recommended next steps.

Project Glasswing made the urgency visible. The Executive Readiness Room is where leaders begin building the response.

Wednesday, August 19, 2026 · 12:00–4:00 PM Central · 40 Seats

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