The AI Leaders Journey is a five-week working program for leaders in large organizations. You leave with real AI skills, a plan for your team, and one initiative your organization will notice — built alongside leaders from other companies who sit exactly where you sit.
The application takes three minutes. We review every one to protect the seniority level of the room, and confirm your seat within two working days.
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We have trained more than 80,000 people inside 30+ enterprises. This is the program we built for the people who lead them.
The situation
Your board has bought the tools and announced the strategy. Your team is somewhere between quiet skepticism and secretly pasting company data into free chatbots. And you sit in the middle, expected to turn one into the other.
You are not the exception. And the gap doesn’t close with another keynote — it closes when your team watches you use the tools yourself. That is exactly what this program trains.
of German executives say their organization lacks basic AI competence.Stifterverband / McKinsey, January 2025
of CEOs have seen neither revenue gains nor cost savings from AI so far.PwC Global CEO Survey
jump in positive team attitudes when leaders visibly work with AI themselves.BCG, AI at Work 2025
And from August 2026 it’s a compliance question too. Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires organizations to ensure sufficient AI literacy among staff working with AI systems. Week 4 covers the obligation, and your certificate is usable as evidence toward it.
What changes for you
This is not a strategy seminar. It starts with your own hands on the tools, because nothing downstream works until that part is true.
You bring your real leadership work — the decision memo, the team briefing, the difficult conversation you have to prepare — and rebuild it live with AI. Three of your weekly routines come back running differently. A leader who doesn’t use AI can’t credibly ask anyone else to.
Week 2What are we allowed to use? What happens to our data? Am I going to be replaced? You stop deflecting these and start handling them — with guardrails people actually follow, a position on shadow AI, and a straight answer on what agents will and won’t change next year.
Weeks 1 & 4Not a list of ideas — a prioritized map of where AI creates value in your area, and one scoped initiative with a baseline and a 90-day plan. Written in language your management will take seriously, and pressure-tested by peers before anyone in your company sees it.
Weeks 3 & 5What you leave with
This is a working program, not a lecture series. Each of the five sessions produces something you take back into your organization the next morning.
An honest baseline of where you and your team actually stand — including the AI use nobody has told you about.
Three of your real leadership tasks now run with AI, because a leader who doesn’t use AI can’t credibly ask anyone else to.
A prioritized view of where AI creates value in your area, written in language your management will take seriously.
A practical plan for resistance, guardrails, shadow AI and the EU AI Act training obligation — the unglamorous work that decides whether anything sticks.
One concrete, scoped project for your organization, pressure-tested by leaders from other companies before anyone in your company sees it.
An AI tool without a trained user is a very expensive screensaver. The same is true one level up: an AI strategy without a trained leader is a very expensive slide deck.
How it works
Each session combines short input with hands-on work on your own material and a moderated exchange in your peer circle, cameras on. Between sessions you apply what you built inside your real team, not in a sandbox.
You map where AI genuinely stands in your team, including the shadow use, and where you stand yourself. We cut through the vocabulary so you can hold your own in any AI conversation, from your board to your most technical hire.
You leave with your AI Leadership Map and a clear picture of the gap you’re closing.
You bring your actual leadership work: the decision memo, the team briefing, the preparation for a difficult conversation. You rebuild it live with AI, hands-on and independent of any specific tool. This is the week the program pays for itself in hours.
You leave with three working AI routines in your own calendar.
You scan your team’s work for the use cases that matter, and you learn to separate the impressive from the valuable. We give you the same impact-versus-feasibility method we use inside enterprise rollouts.
You leave with the AI Opportunity Map for your team, ready to share upward.
You deal with the human part: the skeptics, the overwhelmed, and the enthusiasts who are three prompts away from a compliance incident. You set guardrails that people actually follow, you cover the EU AI Act’s Article 4 training obligation, and you take an honest look at what AI agents will and won’t change in your team next year.
You leave with your adoption playbook.
You turn the map and the playbook into one initiative that is scoped and measurable, with a baseline and a 90-day plan. Then your peer circle takes it apart before your organization gets the chance to.
You leave with an initiative that survives scrutiny — and you pick up your certificate on the way out.
Two hours live per week, plus roughly one hour of transfer work. That transfer work isn’t homework on top of your job — it is your job, done with new methods.
Sessions run 09:00–11:00 CET, deliberately early, so they sit before most calendars fill up.
The peer circle
Every participant joins a fixed peer circle of four to six leaders from different companies, matched by seniority rather than industry. The circle meets inside every session and stays connected between them.
This is where the program stops being a course. You will hear how a logistics leader handled the resistance you are facing right now, and what a bank did about the tool your team already uses in secret. Everything runs under the Chatham House Rule — you can use everything you learn, but you never attribute it to a person or a company.
The cohort is capped because working sessions stop working much beyond that, and a peer circle only has value if everyone in it actually talks.
Industries we work in
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Who teaches
Co-founder & CEO, Bots & People
Nico has spent the last five years building AI programs inside Europe’s largest organizations, from Deutsche Telekom to Daimler Truck. Before founding Bots & People he taught at a vocational school and later consulted for corporates like Bayer and Henkel, which is where he learned that companies rarely have a tool problem and usually have a training problem. He leads the strategy and leadership sessions himself.
Senior AI Trainer, Bots & People
Two or three sentences of enterprise delivery track record — for example “has delivered 200+ leadership sessions at Siemens Energy, Pfalzwerke and Innomotics” — plus one human detail. Real photo required; no stock.
Between them, the trainers run this format inside DAX and Fortune 500 companies every single week. You get the same people, without needing a framework agreement first.
Proof
People trained across 30+ enterprises
Average learner satisfaction, with an NPS of 59
Saved per employee per day at Deutsche Telekom
Increase in AI adoption at Daimler Truck, across 40,000 employees in six countries.
AI upskilling participations at Daimler Truck within six months.
These numbers come from our enterprise programs and were measured together with our clients. The founding cohort of this open program will be measured the same way — and that is part of why the seat price is what it is.
“We got exactly what we wanted. It was strongly practice-oriented and that is exactly what I appreciate so much about Bots & People. For me, that’s what sets it apart from other providers.”
“The practical examples and real-world use cases helped our team better understand how to leverage AI tools for day-to-day challenges. It was both insightful and directly applicable to our work.”
“Our colleagues were given a holistic view of the topic, and the opportunity to discuss their challenges together with the experts and work out possible solutions.”
Quotes from Bots & People enterprise programs. The founding cohort of this open program hasn’t run yet.
Who this is for
Details & price
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Three minutes, no payment now. We review every application to protect the seniority level of the room and confirm within two working days. By applying you agree to our privacy policy.
Full refund up to the halfway point of the programme, or move to a later cohort at no cost.
Bringing colleagues? Save 20% on two or more seats.
Already work with Bots & People? Your company may have seats already — worth asking your L&D team first.
Comparable leadership programs in the US charge $5,000 and more for content you watch. This is the founding cohort price for a program you work in, and most participants expense it against their training or transformation budget. We send an invoice your procurement team won’t blink at.
Paying for it
It sits comfortably inside a typical L&D or leadership-development budget. Here’s everything you need to get it signed off.
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Send two or more people from the same organization and every seat drops by 20%. Leaders who go through it together tend to actually act on it — one person coming back with a plan is easy to ignore, three is not.
Apply for multiple seatsTraining your whole leadership team? We run this as a closed cohort built around your industry, your tools and your strategic priorities — the way we deliver for Daimler Truck and Deutsche Telekom.
Talk to usQuestions
No. You need a team, a calendar, and the willingness to work hands-on. Everything technical is explained in plain language and practiced live.
We are deliberately tool-agnostic. You work with the tools your organization allows, and the methods transfer across all of them. If your company is mid-rollout on a specific platform, bring it.
Two hours live per week, plus roughly one hour of transfer work inside your normal job. The transfer work is not homework on top of your job. It is your job, done with new methods.
Sessions are designed as working sessions, so recordings can’t fully replace them. If you already know you will miss more than one, wait for the next cohort — your peer circle will thank you. You can move to a later cohort at no cost.
Yes. The whole cohort operates under the Chatham House Rule, and the peer circles agree on confidentiality in the first session. You control what you share, and most participants find the honesty is exactly what they can’t get internally.
Yes, and it usually does. You receive a proper invoice, and the certificate plus the Article 4 relevance make the internal approval conversation short. There’s a ready-made approval email in the Paying for it section above.
Because this is our founding cohort and we measure it like an enterprise program. Early participants get the full format at a price that is a rounding error in most transformation budgets. That won’t stay this way.
The open cohort runs in English. For in-house cohorts we deliver in German and six other languages.
Yes. This open cohort runs the same format we deliver in-house for leadership teams at large organizations, adapted to their tools and context. Talk to us after Week 1, or before.
The founding cohort has 20 seats, and leaders from different companies fill them. The application takes three minutes.
Confirmation within two working days · Invoiced to your company · Full refund up to the halfway point
We deliver in-house executive programmes customized to your industry, your tools and your strategic priorities — the same way we work with Daimler Truck, Deutsche Telekom and Siemens Energy.