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, purpose-built for how you work. Research, decision support, communications, and workflows — built on day one, compounding from there.
Outcome 2
A real solution built against a real friction point from your own business. Scoped with SCORE methodology, built with the 4D Build Cycle, deployed before you leave.
Outcome 3
A working understanding of the landscape, the players, the capabilities, and the limits. You will know what is real, what is hype, and where the actual leverage is. No more vendor pitches. No more consultant slideware.
Outcome 4
How to identify where AI should live inside your organization, how to hire for it, how to manage it, and how to deploy it — without creating expensive, performative initiatives that produce nothing.
Outcome 5
A map of your current roles to their AI-enhanced future state. Which positions change, which emerge, how to restructure teams around AI capability instead of around AI tools.
Outcome 6
Ten executives who went through it together. A cohort forged in five days of intensive work that shares what’s working, what isn’t, and what’s coming next. The value compounds long after you leave.
The Intensive
Arrive Saturday 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.
Saturday
Check in at the venue. CliftonStrengths debrief — understand how you’re wired to navigate ambiguity, build coalitions, and sustain momentum. Meet your cohort. Set intentions for the week.
Sunday
How to think about AI as a builder, not a consumer. Mental models, not product demos. Build your personal AI operating system — research, decision support, communications, workflows. The landscape: players, capabilities, what’s real versus hype.
Monday
Identify a friction point from your own organization using the SCORE framework — Speed of Decision, Cost Reduction, Operational Efficiency, Risk Mitigation, Earnings. Scope and design a solution with your dedicated solution engineer.
Tuesday
Hands-on building. AI agents, large language models, document intelligence, automation. Your solution engineer works alongside you through the 4D Build Cycle: Discover, Design, Develop, Deliver. Late-night sessions available.
Wednesday
Morning session: organizational leadership. How to evaluate AI opportunities across your org. How to hire and manage in an AI-transformed landscape. Org chart redesign for AI-enhanced roles. You leave with a working application and a deployment plan.
Zero-miss policy.
Five 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 organizational impact. Weekly structured sessions to deploy your build, lead your team through change, and develop AI Builders inside your organization.
Week 1
Take your application from the intensive into your organization. Refine based on real-world feedback. 1-on-1 with your solution engineer to troubleshoot deployment.
Week 2
Apply the Change Management Index to your organization. Map the four conditions: supervisor support, open communication, employee input, leadership vision.
Week 3
Gallup’s change management curriculum. How to be the leader your organization needs when AI is the change everyone is navigating.
Week 4
The Independence Guarantee model: how to identify and develop AI Builders inside your organization. Building capability, not dependency.
Week 5
Present your deployed application and adoption roadmap to the cohort. Peer accountability. Activate the ongoing network. Plan your next build.
The organizations that will lead in AI are not the ones with the most tools. They are the ones with leaders who can build.
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 · Sat–Wed
Arrive Saturday afternoon, depart Wednesday. Five days of hands-on building at a premier venue. Personal AI systems, CliftonStrengths, and a real application built against your own friction point. Late-night work sessions. Zero distractions. Zero exceptions.
The Build · Core of the Intensive
Identify a friction point using SCORE methodology. Scope and design with your solution engineer. 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
Deploy your build. Apply the Change Management Index. Lead through change with Gallup’s curriculum. Develop AI Builders inside your organization. The Independence Guarantee: capability that doesn’t depend on us.
The Experience
Saturday arrival through Wednesday departure. Premier venue, 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 solution engineers 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 five 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 five 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.
Pilot Cohort Now Forming
Cohorts are limited to 10 executives. Apply for the pilot cohort and we will be in touch with program details and pricing.