Wherever your institution is with AI, we can help you take the next step.
Some institutions are still creating their AI strategy. Others already have one and need help putting it into action. The T3 Institute is built for both, grounded in T3's research and work with institutions across the country.
Most AI work stalls between strategy and execution.
Like all major initiatives, AI work needs both a clear strategy and the ability to carry it out. A strategy without an institutionally prioritized action plan stalls. Action without a strategy can drift. The programs in T3's T3 Institute help close that gap.
The T3 Institute includes two programs. One helps your institutional leaders build the strategy. The other helps your leaders turn a strategy into tangible actions with targeted results. They are designed to be experienced sequentially, but because not all institutions start in the same place, you do not have to take them in order.
Need a strategy? Start with the AI Strategic Planning and Development Program.
Already have a strategy, or a clear charge to act? Start with the AI Stewardship and Implementation Program.
Either way, you leave with something useful and ready to use.
AI Strategic Planning and Development Program
For executives
You have been asked to produce your institution's AI strategy. This is where you build it.
Core question: Are we ready, and where do we begin?
You leave with a board-ready AI strategy for your president, board, or chancellor.
Explore Program 01 →AI Stewardship and Implementation Program
For operational leaders
You have been handed a strategy and asked to make it real. This is where you do it.
Core question: I have a strategy. What does it mean for my part of the organization?
You leave with a department-ready plan your sponsor and team can act on.
Explore Program 02 →One shared model. Built to fit a leader's actual week.
Both programs run for about four months, one module at a time. You complete the reading, videos, and tools on your own schedule. Most modules take about three hours. Then you meet live with a T3 coach and peers from other institutions to apply the work. These sessions are designed for discussion and progress, not lectures.
For the Institution
Institutions enroll a team of three to five leaders who can collectively deliver for and on behalf of their organization, and learn alongside peers from other institutions in the same section. In the AI Strategic Planning and Development Program, each participant needs an executive sponsor, such as a president or chancellor, who supports the work and protects the time. Your cohort also meets on its own to align before sharing work with a T3 facilitator for feedback.
For the Individual
You do not need to be an AI expert. You come in with a real assignment and a basic understanding of the technology, and the program helps you decide what to do next. Each module gives you one part of your final deliverable, with short written feedback within seven days. You build the document as you go, so you finish with a draft in hand.
How a Module Works
Start where you are
Module 1 uses T3's AI Adoption Rubric to help you understand your starting point. Then you choose the path that fits.
Build in steps
Each module creates one part of your final deliverable through a short assignment. The prompts match your path, so the work fits your situation.
Get it ready
By Module 5, most of the deliverable is done. Module 6 helps you improve it, and your final coaching session confirms it is ready to share.
A deliverable you can present, not a program you completed.
Each program ends with a finished work product. The format depends on the path you choose in Module 1. Both paths are serious and useful: one starts with the basics; the other goes deeper and covers more ground.
A Board-Ready AI Strategy
A strategy document you can share with a president, board, or chancellor. In most cases, it is the document you were already asked to create.
Foundational AI Strategy. Helps leaders decide to act, choose a clear starting point, and plan a strong first phase.
Comprehensive AI Strategy. Brings separate AI efforts into one institution-wide strategy, with a rollout plan, governance, and a clear case for funding.
Built across six parts: readiness, outside trends, vision and priorities, governance, implementation and change management, and the budget case with an executive summary.
A Department-Ready Implementation Plan
A plan you can take to the sponsor who gave you the strategy and to the team you lead. In most cases, it is the plan you already need to produce.
First-Phase Implementation Plan. Helps you launch a first capability or pilot in your area, with guardrails, early champions, quick wins, and a realistic budget request.
Integration and Scaling Plan. Connects existing AI work, builds your team's skills, spreads the work beyond one person, and strengthens the budget request.
Built to continue the strategy: its priorities become your projects, and its rules become your guardrails.
The two programs are designed to connect. A strategy built in the AI Strategic Planning and Development Program gives operational leaders enough direction to know what it means for their area. The AI Stewardship and Implementation Program helps them turn that direction into action.