Executive AI Builder Program · Silent Partners × Gallup

Stop Delegating AI.
Start Leveraging It.

Three days of total immersion. Cities across the United States and Europe. Sixteen executives. Build with AI. Stop theorizing about it. A hands-on intensive that turns senior leaders into AI Builders, with the skills to orchestrate, the framework to deploy, and the capability to lead adoption across their organization.

3
Day Intensive
4
Week Follow-Up
16
Executives per cohort
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Most executives are briefed on AI. Very few can build with it. That gap is the difference between leading the transformation and watching it happen.

What You Walk Away With

By Day Three, Nine Tangible Outcomes.

This is not a lecture series. It is not a certificate you hang on a wall. You will build real AI applications, deploy them, and walk out with the capability to do it again on your own.

Outcome 1

A Personal Productivity System

Your own productivity stack, or a personal build of your choice. Research, decision support, communications, workflows. Built to your spec, not ours.

Outcome 2

A Proof of Concept AI Application

A real solution built against a real friction point from your own business. Scoped, built, and deployed before you leave.

Outcome 3

The Ability to Evaluate AI

A working understanding of the landscape, the players, the capabilities, and the limits. A practical framework for evaluating vendor claims and selecting the right models.

Outcome 4

A Framework for AI Adoption

Where AI should live in your organization, how to hire for it, and how to deploy it — without creating expensive, performative initiatives that produce nothing.

Outcome 5

Org Design for an AI-Ready Future

A framework for mapping your current roles to their AI-enhanced future state. Which positions change, which emerge, how to restructure teams around AI capability.

Outcome 6

Change Management Index & Leading Through Change

Grounded in Gallup’s research on what makes organizational change succeed. A diagnostic lens for your organization and a playbook for guiding your teams through AI adoption.

Outcome 7

An IT Partnership Narrative

A framework to engage your IT and security teams as design partners, not obstacles. Understanding their incentive structures, risk perspectives, and how to propose governed innovation.

Outcome 8

A Peer Network of Executives Who Build

A cohort of leaders who can build with AI, support one another, and operate as a resource long after the program ends.

Outcome 9

A Rollout Plan, Coached Weekly

A concrete plan for driving AI adoption inside your organization: deployment, IT and governance alignment, and the org-chart moves that follow. Supported 1-on-1 every week for the four weeks after you return.

45%

of employees now use AI at work

up from 33% in 2024

23%

don’t know if their org has adopted AI

the awareness gap

36pts

higher AI use with manager support

leadership matters

77%

engaged under top change leaders

change management impact

Source: Gallup, 2025

The Intensive

Three Days. Every Hour Counts.

Start at 1 PM on day one. Leave at 1 PM on day three with a working application, a personal AI operating system, and an organizational deployment plan. This is not a conference. There are no panels. You build.

Day One · Afternoon

Context & Self-Interview

You land at lunchtime and start immediately. Mental models for building with AI, the orchestrator/conductor operating philosophy, then a structured interview that captures how you actually work. Friction points surface from writing it down. Dinner off-site.

AI Mental ModelsThe AI LandscapeWork Self-InterviewFriction Points

Day Two · Morning

Personal Build

Validate a friction point against all five SCORE dimensions, design the approach one-on-one with your build coach, and build. A working artifact against your own friction point, not a mockup and not a plan.

SCORE MethodologySolution Architecture4D Build CyclePersonal AI Systems

Day Two · Afternoon

Organizational Design

Now that you have built something real, the organizational conversation lands differently. Gallup-led org chart design for an AI future, and the governance and IT questions answered from experience rather than theory. Dinner on-site, then an evening build session.

AI-Ready Org DesignChange Management IndexLeading Through ChangeAI GovernanceThe IT Partnership

Day Three · Morning

Share & Commitments

Show the cohort what you made, name the experiment you will run, and say when. You draft a 90-day adoption roadmap and leave before the afternoon with commitments the cohort holds you to.

Cohort ShareROI StorytellingExperiment Design90-Day Roadmap

Zero-miss policy.

Three days, no exceptions. The value of this program comes from full immersion — from giving yourself permission to shut everything down and build. No emails. No calls. No half-attention. That is what makes this different from every conference and executive program you’ve attended.

The Follow-Up

Four Weeks. From Building to Leading.

The intensive gives you the skill. The follow-up turns it into momentum. Two weeks of individual builder coaching while you start building, then two weeks of organizational adoption with your key leadership, ending on the real business problems worth solving.

Week 1 · Coaching

Start Building

Sixty to ninety minutes, one-on-one, while the momentum is hot. Your coach is beside you as you build for real inside your own environment, so the intensive becomes a working tool, not a souvenir.

Week 2 · Coaching

Refine & Deploy

Tighten what you built and get it into real use. You prove the value to yourself before it ever goes in front of the organization.

Week 3 · Adoption

Leadership Debriefs

Your key leadership joins. Debrief what you built and what it means for the business, and align the people who control budget and headcount on what AI actually changes.

Week 4 · Adoption

The Friction-Point Exercise

Map where AI creates real leverage across the organization. Separate the problems worth solving from the noise: the ones your competitors haven't cracked yet.

The organizations that will lead in AI are not the ones with the most tools. They are the ones with leaders who can build with the tools they have.

Program Structure

Three Days. Four Weeks. One Transformation.

The program moves from personal mastery to organizational leadership. Each phase builds on the one before it. By the end, you are not just someone who understands AI. You are someone who builds with it and leads others to do the same.

The Intensive · 3 Days · Half-Day Start

3 Days at Gallup

Start at 1 PM on day one, wrap at 1 PM on day three. Three days of hands-on building at Gallup, across cities in the United States and Europe. Personal AI systems, a real application built against your own friction point, and organizational leadership frameworks. Zero distractions. Zero exceptions.

The Build · Core of the Intensive

Your Friction Point. Your Solution.

Identify a friction point using SCORE methodology. Scope and design with your dedicated build coach. Build through the 4D Cycle — Discover, Design, Develop, Deliver. You leave with something that works. Not a mockup. Not a plan.

The Follow-Up · Weeks 1–4 Post-Intensive

4 Weeks of Support.

Two weeks of individual builder coaching, then two weeks of organizational adoption with your key leadership: leadership debriefs and the friction-point exercise.

The Experience

3 Days

In-Person Intensive

A 1 PM start on day one through a 1 PM finish on day three. Hosted at Gallup, full immersion, hands-on building with your cohort. Zero-miss policy — this demands your full attention.

1-on-1

Solution Engineering

Dedicated technical support for your build. Not group instruction — personal guidance from senior build coaches through every stage of the 4D Build Cycle.

4 Weeks

Structured Follow-Up

Weekly sessions to deploy, refine, and lead. Gallup change management curriculum. Organizational AI adoption strategy. Cohort accountability.

The Frameworks You’ll Use

SCORE

Speed · Cost · Operations · Risk · Earnings

Validates every AI opportunity against five dimensions of ROI before you build.

4D Build Cycle

Discover · Design · Develop · Deliver

The sprint execution framework. From friction point to deployed solution in days, not months.

Friction Point Assessment

Identify · Scope · Prioritize

Systematic discovery of where AI creates real leverage in your organization. Not pain points — friction points.

Independence Guarantee

Capability · Not Dependency

Your team builds and owns solutions independently. No vendor lock-in. No consultant dependency. Lasting competence.

Who It’s For

Built for Executives Who Want to Lead, Not Watch

VP-level and above. CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CTOs, SVPs. The people making AI decisions for their organizations. This program is designed for leaders who are ready to step away from everything for three days and build real AI capability. Not awareness. Not familiarity. Capability.

You’ve been briefed on AI, but you can’t build anything yourself. You approve budgets and vendor contracts for AI initiatives without ever having built something with your own hands.

You’re making AI decisions for your organization without AI experience. That gap is affecting every decision — hiring, tools, strategy, deployment.

You want three days of total immersion — no emails, no calls, no half-attention. You need permission to shut everything down and build.

You’re ready to walk out with a working application, the capability to do it again, and a framework for driving real adoption across your organization.

We create AI Builders, not AI users. Building capability, not dependency.

The Partnership

Two Organizations. One Mission.

Silent Partners brings the AI methodology, the builder framework, and the solution engineering. Gallup brings 90 years of research into what makes people and organizations perform. Together, this program develops executives who can build with AI and lead the human side of adoption.

Silent Partners

AI Builder Methodology

The SCORE framework for ROI validation. The 4D Build Cycle for sprint execution. Friction Point Assessment for discovery. Hands-on building that produces working applications, not presentations.

Gallup

CliftonStrengths

Self-awareness as a leadership tool. Understanding how you’re wired to navigate ambiguity, build coalitions, and sustain momentum through the intensive and beyond.

Gallup

Leading Through Change

77% of employees are engaged when they rate their leaders in the top quartile on change management. This curriculum teaches you to be that leader when AI is the change.

Gallup

Change Management Index

Measures the four conditions that determine whether change takes hold: supervisor support, open communication, employee input, and leadership vision. Applied to your organization.

Apply for the Waitlist

Cohorts are limited to 16 executives. Tell us which cohort(s) you'd like to attend and we will be in touch with program details and pricing.

We review every application individually. Expect to hear from us within 48 hours.