If you're piloting AI (or thinking about it) and wondering what "excellence" really looks like... If you're ready to go beyond basic ChatGPT prompts to structured, disciplined AI augmentation that drives tangible value... If you want to build a cohesive vision for your audit function's future...
This Isn’t Your Average Internal Audit or AI Workshop
This first-of-its-kind course fuses deep audit expertise with practical generative AI techniques to both educate and inspire internal auditors.
Today’s CAEs, audit managers and internal auditors must navigate increasingly complex organizational risks, evolving professional standards, and what is arguably one of the most disruptive technologies of our time.
Then this flagship masterclass is for you.
Led by two former CAEs, you’ll discover how to leverage AI across the full audit lifecycle — while maintaining rigour, compliance with Global Internal Audit Standards, and professional scepticism.
Who Should Attend
- Internal auditors ready to be part of AI-enabled transformation
- Senior Audit Managers ready to lead an AI-enabled transformation
- Chief Audit Executives seeking to combine operational excellence with innovation
- Innovation Leaders tasked with modernising audit delivery
What Makes This Different
✅ Assignment-Focused, Not Theory-Driven: Every technique is grounded in real audit delivery challenges -scoping dilemmas, work programmes, root cause analysis, reporting issues
✅ Multi-Platform Mastery Hands-on practice with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot — no vendor lock-in
✅ Dual Facilitator Model James Paterson (author of Lean Auditing & Beyond the Five Whys) and Stephen Foster (CIA tutor, AI specialist) provide expert guidance and perspective
✅ Immediate Implementation: Leave with ready-to-use templates, prompts, workflows, and custom GPT/CoPilot/Claude agent templates to deploy immediately
Hands-On, Practical, Transformative
- Small cohorts (max. 20 participants, 2 facilitators)
- Case studies drawn from participant experience and tutor examples
- Breakout sessions for peer learning and benchmarking
- Live AI demonstrations applied to real audit tasks
- Take-home toolkit with prompts, templates, workflows
- Post-course support network for continued learning
Key Outcomes
By the end of this masterclass, you will:
- Master structured AI prompting for consistent, high-quality results.
- Build custom AI tools aligned to your audit methodology.
- Assess your AI adoption «maturity» — speed up, slow down, or pause where necessary.
- Accelerate key audit phases through lean, agile applications — without compromising quality.
- Lead AI transformation credibly — recognising both opportunities and risks.
«This isn’t about using AI occasionally — it’s about embedding AI excellence into every aspect of audit delivery.» — Stephen Foster
«We won’t just be AI cheerleaders. We’ll show you its power — and the risks if it’s not implemented with discipline.» — James Paterson
CPE
You will receive 21 CPE for CIA, CRMA and Diplomert internrevisor for attending the course.
Instructors
James Paterson is former head of audit for AstraZeneca PLC and has been consulting and training for the past 10 years for the IIA in Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.
He is the author of the book “Lean Auditing” and Root Cause Analysis and System Thinking and has spoken at several IIA International Conferences and also the ECIIA conference. He contributed to the IIA global team that worked on developing practice guidance for internal audit plans.
Full Bio: Stephen Foster
NB
This training is in Euro, not kroner.
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