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
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
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 real solution built against a real friction point from your own business. Scoped, built, and deployed before you leave.
Outcome 3
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
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
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
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
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 cohort of leaders who can build with AI, support one another, and operate as a resource long after the program ends.
Outcome 9
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 five weeks after you return.
The Intensive
Arrive Sunday afternoon. Depart Wednesday 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.
Sunday
Executives arrive and hit the ground. Afternoon establishes mental models, the AI landscape, and the orchestrator/conductor operating philosophy. Personal AI systems begin. Friction points surface and the cohort forms.
Monday
A dense day. Morning finishes personal AI systems and validates friction points against all five SCORE dimensions. Afternoon designs solutions 1-on-1 with your build coach and starts the first hands-on build block.
Tuesday
Peak intensity. Three continuous hours of building, then completion and deployment. Afternoon covers the IT Partnership Framework — now that you’ve built something real, the conversation with IT and security lands differently. Governance mapped to your proof of concept.
Wednesday
Organizational leadership day. ROI storytelling, cohort demos, and Gallup-led org chart design for an AI future. Change Management Index applied to your organization, Leading Through Change internalized, and a 90-day AI adoption roadmap drafted before departure.
Zero-miss policy.
Four 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
The intensive gives you the skill. The follow-up turns it into momentum. Two weeks of individual builder coaching while you start building, then three weeks of organizational adoption with your key leadership, ending on the real business problems worth solving.
Week 1 · Coaching
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
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
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
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.
Week 5 · Adoption
Turn IT and security from blockers into partners. Lock in the governance and guardrails that let adoption scale without a legal fire drill.
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
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 · Sun–Wed · 4 Days
Arrive Sunday afternoon, depart Wednesday. Four days of hands-on building at Gallup, across five cities in 2026. 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
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 1–5 Post-Intensive
Two weeks of individual builder coaching, then three weeks of organizational adoption with your key leadership: leadership debriefs, the friction-point exercise, and IT and governance alignment.
The Experience
Sunday arrival through Wednesday departure. Hosted at Gallup, full immersion, hands-on building with your cohort. Zero-miss policy — this demands your full attention.
Dedicated technical support for your build. Not group instruction — personal guidance from senior build coaches through every stage of the 4D Build Cycle.
Weekly sessions to deploy, refine, and lead. Gallup change management curriculum. Organizational AI adoption strategy. Cohort accountability.
Who It’s For
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 four 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 four 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.
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.