Lead AI. Build Trust.

How do you lead when AI leads with you?

AI governance is leadership work.

SOTRAI supports leaders and executive bodies in governing AI responsibly, building trust and staying accountable – research-based, practical, and at decision level.

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The Challenge

The biggest AI risk isn't the technology.
It's leadership.

Boards and executive management carry full accountability for AI-driven decisions – and have no instrument to exercise it.

AI systems already prepare, prioritise and make decisions in organisations – often before it's clear who is accountable, where the risk limits lie and how to escalate. Accountability cannot be delegated to a model: it remains legally and fiduciarily with the board and executive management. A gap opens between formal accountability and actual control – an accountability gap.

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Who is accountable when an AI-supported decision goes wrong?

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Where must human judgment be preserved – and is that clearly defined?

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When the AI is wrong: who decides on stop, correction or escalation?

Few leadership bodies can answer these questions today. It's not the will that's missing – it's the instrument.

And the pressure is growing: with the EU AI Act, the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI and Switzerland's revised data-protection law (nDSG/nDSV), responsible AI governance becomes an explicit leadership task. Your advantage comes from clarity: who decides, who is accountable and where human judgment stays.

Trust in AI-shaped organisations is led before it is legislated.
What SOTRAI offers

From a technology question to a clear leadership decision.

Confidential, as equals, in-house with your leadership team. The outcome is the SOTRAI Governance Decision Pack – concrete, immediately applicable decision rules at board/executive level, built around three promises.

Govern AIClarity on what we decide

  • Steer AI deliberately
  • Tie AI use cases to corporate strategy
  • Prioritise AI opportunities and risks
  • Define risk appetite and stop, scale and pivot criteria

Build TrustAccountability, who carries it

  • Clarify roles, responsibilities and decision paths
  • Define human monitoring and escalation paths
  • Develop trust and sovereignty structures

Lead ChangeCapacity to act, what to do now

  • Map regulatory and legal fields of action
  • Prepare a 90-day roadmap
  • Review governance continuously as technology and business evolve
Service in AI Governance
1. Assessment · 2. Working out the decisions · 3. Anchoring as a 90-day roadmap
confidential, under the Chatham House Rule
Book me for:
A) Governance mandate · B) 1:1 support for leaders · C) Keynotes & talks
AI Governance & Leadership Workshop with Discoveries Inc., Tokyo
References

AI governance in practice.

How leadership teams govern AI responsibly – including with Discoveries Inc. (Tokyo), a Japanese IT company that develops AI agents.

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About

Dr. Jacqueline Kucera

CEO SOTRAI · 20+ years of leadership · research at the University of Tokyo · practice in Japan and Switzerland – research-based, internationally tested, academically anchored.

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Voices

What others say

„As a business leader actually driving AI transformation in my own company, the scenarios discussed reflected my current reality. This experience reinforced my hypothesis that we may need to fundamentally redesign not only organisational structures, but also business processes and evaluation systems."

Yuichiro ShimadaYuichiro Shimada · CEO & Founder, Discoveries Inc. (Tokyo)

„A particularly enriching coaching for me – also because Jacqueline Kucera knows the Federal Administration and its particularities inside out. She doesn't lecture or give quick answers; instead she asks exactly the right questions: precise, empathetic and at the right moment."

Senior leader, Swiss Federal Administration

„The parliamentary library – a dry subject? Not when Jacqueline Kucera speaks about the challenges and opportunities AI brings. She managed to captivate our participants and inspire them to use AI in a targeted and informed way."

Prof. Dr. Kuno Schedler · University of St. Gallen (HSG)

HerImpact: „Three experienced women in leadership shared from their daily work – enriching to listen to them and learn from them. It felt good to see that you're not alone with your experiences. I can recommend the event to anyone interested in new leadership and New Work."

Laura BarchiLaura Barchi · elbecom.ch · HerImpact
Why we do this

Strengthening leaders, preparing teams to shape AI: human, clear and trustworthy.

Next step

One conversation is enough to know if it fits.

What matters is the real AI challenge you want to tackle for your organisation.

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