Path to AI Emergence | Ten Past Tomorrow

You've Had the Traction. Here's What Comes Next.

Rapid AI Traction gave your senior leadership team a shared understanding of what AI can do and first-hand experience with the frontier tools. You've seen the five strategic building blocks. You've sensed the potential. That was the starting line.

Path to AI Emergence is the full transformation. Ten months of structured work, where you're guided step-by-step by Mark through strategy, culture, policy, skill development, and your AI roadmap. It's where traction becomes real, organisation-wide AI capability.

TRACTION IS JUST THE START

AI is not a tech challenge. It's a culture and leadership challenge.

The real work with AI is the transformation work. The change management, the leadership, the training of your people, the skilful management of how they react to unprecedented change like this.

It's embedding AI into the rhythms of the company, the processes, the operational changes, the strategic changes. Possibly even revenue model changes (if you trade time for money). And adapting to your customers and wider your industry, which are also adapting to this technology.

Try to do it too quickly and you'll skip vital steps. Parts of the system will break. Either your people will suffer or get left behind, or your operational DNA will change too much, or the culture won't be able to keep up.

This is a concerted, consistent challenge. It takes 10 months of focused work with a structured programme and an experienced guide.

AI transformation across organisational layers

10 MONTHS. ONE THEME PER MONTH. REAL TRANSFORMATION.

Path to AI Emergence is a structured programme that moves your senior leadership team through every element of AI adoption and transformation. Here's how it works.

Structured Async Content

Frameworks, readings, and case studies delivered through Maven. Around 1 - 1.5 hours per week of self-directed content, with a progress dashboard to track completion. Your team works through these at their own pace.

Monthly Live Session

60 minutes each month with Mark. Strategy, Q&A, working through your specific challenges.

These sessions are where the programme adapts to your organisation.

Always-On Access to Mark

Between sessions, your leadership team has async access to Mark for the questions that can't wait.
Plus a monthly executive briefing on what happened in AI that matters for your organisation.

Around 1 to 1.5 hours per week of self-directed content, plus one 60-minute live session per month.

The FIVE STRATEGIC BUILDING BLOCKS

The curriculum is built around our five strategic building blocks that, together, form the foundation for AI Emergence:

Five Strategic Building Blocks: 1. AI Education & Training, 2. Cultural Change, 3. AI Usage Policies, 4. AI Impact Assessments, 5. 12 to 24 Month AI Roadmaps

Your people get practical, always-on AI skills training that stays current as the technology evolves. Your culture shifts so AI becomes part of how the organisation actually operates. Your policies enable adoption instead of blocking it. You map the real opportunities and risks across your people, processes, customers and industry. And you build a roadmap that connects all of it to your business strategy.

Month 1 starts with an active discovery phase. It's a baseline assessment, and it's itself a learning experience. By Month 10, your organisation will have completely addressed every best-practice element of AI adoption and transformation.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Senior leadership teams who have had a taste of what AI can do and know the real work is ahead. You've seen the potential. Now you need a structured path to actually get there.

Your CEO needs to be engaged. This isn't something that can be delegated. AI Emergence is a leadership and culture challenge, and it requires senior leaders who are willing to invest the time and attention.

Team composition is up to you. Your SLT is the core, and you can include the layer below if that's where the action happens in your organisation. What matters is commitment, not hierarchy.

"How can you possibly be too busy for a
once-in-many-generations technology that is changing every role, team, business model and industry, right under our feet in real time?"

- Mark Laurence

A learner engaging with AI tools in a vibrant workspace

MEET MARK LAURENCE

Mark is the founder and CEO of Ten Past Tomorrow. He's a trained futurist from the Institute for the Future, Silicon Valley.

He's worked with senior leadership teams from over a hundred New Zealand organisations, as well as three of our universities, helping them move from AI curiosity to real AI capability. His approach is practical, balanced, and built around real workflows and outcomes.

Mark leads every Path to AI Emergence session personally. Your team works with him directly for the full 10 months.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Does our CEO need to be involved?

Yes. AI Emergence is a leadership and culture challenge. It requires the CEO to be engaged and visible. This isn't something that can be delegated.

What if we haven't done Rapid AI Traction yet?

R.A.I.T is the entry point. It's a one-month programme (~4 hours per week) that gives your leadership team the shared understanding and first wins they need before starting the Path. We'll start you there.

How much time does it take?

Around 1 - 1.5 hours per week of self-directed content, plus one 60-minute live session per month. It's designed to fit around real leadership schedules.

How many people can join from our organisation?

Your senior leadership team is the core. You can include the layer below if that's where the action happens in your organisation. What matters is commitment, not hierarchy.

What's the investment?

We discuss pricing in conversation so we can understand your organisation first. Get in touch and Mark will personally respond.

Can we start at any time?

Path to AI Emergence runs in boutique cohorts (much smaller than the R.A.I.T cohorts). Get in touch to find out when the next one begins.

READY TO TALK?

If your senior leadership team is serious about AI and you want to understand whether Path to AI Emergence is the right fit, get in touch. Mark will personally respond to every enquiry.

Enquire About the Programme

Or book a 30-minute conversation with Mark directly

The PATH TO AI EMERGENCE