How to turn literacy into impact

Why it matters

You’ve assessed your readiness, chosen a learning path, scoped an AI use case and built a foundation for governance and compliance. Now it’s time to put it all together and drive real change.

This final section helps you chart a clear course forward, aligning stakeholders and creating a living roadmap for building and sustaining AI literacy across your organization.

Worksheet: Build your AI literacy roadmap

Set 30-60-90 day milestones

30 days: Identify champions, finalize one AI use case and begin role-based training
60 days: Launch pilot governance framework and track initial feedback
90 days: Evaluate progress, close compliance gaps and scale literacy efforts across teams

Define accountability
Who owns each milestone? Assign responsible leads for training, governance and oversight.

Plan for continuous learning
Integrate ongoing education using the 70/20/10 model, including on-the-job learning, peer collaboration, formal training, even ideation workshops where you and your colleagues can learn by doing.

Don’t forget the top.
Executive literacy and AI governance council.

To build lasting AI literacy, start at the top. Executives set the tone for how AI is prioritized, governed and resourced. Yet many leadership teams lack foundational AI knowledge, creating a gap between ambition and execution.

Create an AI governance council to:

Align business, technical, and compliance priorities
Oversee use case evaluation, risk classification and
ethical guardrails
Promote transparency and accountability across functions

And most critically: Onboard your executives.

Provide them with targeted training on AI fundamentals, governance frameworks (like the EU AI Act) and the strategic value of responsible AI. When leaders are informed, they become champions, instead of blockers, for AI success.

Output: Organizational AI Literacy action plan

Capture your goals, roles and timelines in a one-page plan. Revisit it quarterly. Update it as your AI maturity grows. Most of all, make it actionable and make it stick.