Do I need a technical background?

No. You need a team, a calendar, and the willingness to work hands-on. Everything technical is explained in plain language and practiced live.

Five Weeks to Finally Think About AI as a Leader

Q: How do I learn to use AI as a leader if I am not technical?

You start with the decisions you already own, not with the technology. In this programme you learn AI by using it on your own work during live online sessions: your reporting, your meeting preparation, the recurring tasks your team keeps redoing. There is no coding and every technical idea is explained in plain language. Five weeks, two hours live per week, plus roughly one hour of transfer work inside your normal job.

Q: Are the sessions live or self-paced?

Every session is a live virtual session. You join on video with a trainer and the other leaders in your cohort, and you work during the session instead of watching a recording afterwards. Sessions run on Fridays from 09:00 to 11:00 CET, once a week for five weeks. Roughly 80 per cent of the time you are working on your own case, not listening to slides.

Q: What does a seat cost?

A seat in the open cohort is 2,190 euro excluding VAT, invoiced to you or directly to your employer. That covers all five live sessions, the working materials, the peer circle between sessions, and the certificate. Most participants expense it through their learning and development budget.

Q: Which AI tools do you use?

We are deliberately tool-agnostic. You work with the tools your organization allows, and the methods transfer across tools.

Q: What is the real time commitment?

Two hours live per week, plus roughly one hour of transfer work inside your normal job. The transfer work is applied to work you already have.

Built by the team behind AI programmes at

We have trained more than 100,000 people inside 30+ enterprises. This is the programme we built for the people who lead them.

Work with a maximum of 19 other team leads or department heads to use AI yourself and also support a team using it.

The situation

Your own career benefits

Your management announced an AI strategy. Some people in your team already use AI. You are expected to show results with a technology that you never had a free afternoon to look into. So the topic gets postponed and you wonder where to start.

Using AI for real, high-value work Licence bought but only basic use

79%

of German executives say their organisation lacks basic AI competence.Stifterverband / McKinsey, January 2025

56%

of CEOs have seen neither revenue gains nor cost savings from AI so far.PwC Global CEO Survey

15% → 55%

jump in positive team attitudes when leaders visibly work with AI themselves.BCG, AI at Work 2025

What changes for you

It pays off in three directions.

For youYou stay relevant

Leaders who can work with AI progress their careers. In five weeks you move from talking about AI to using it in your own work every day.

For your teamYou can lead through the transformation

What are we allowed to use? What happens with our data? You leave with answers to these questions.

For your companyYou support your organisation

You leave with an AI opportunity map for your area and a concrete initiative.

What you leave with

Five sessions, and five things you keep.

Each of the five sessions produces something you can work with.

Your AI Leadership Map

You can show your management exactly where your team stands with AI.

Your leadership workflow, rebuilt

Your recurring leadership tasks run with AI.

The AI Opportunity Map for your team

You show where AI creates value in your area.

Your adoption playbook

You can bring your team along.

Your AI initiative

You have one project in the end that you can drive after the training.

Details & price

Details and price

€2,190

per seat, excl. VAT · invoiced to your company

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We review every application to protect the seniority level of the group and confirm within two working days.

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.

What the seat includes

Five live working sessions2 hours each, one per week, capped at 20 leaders
Your fixed peer circle4–6 leaders from other companies, matched by seniority, under the Chatham House Rule
All five deliverablesLeadership Map, rebuilt workflow, Opportunity Map, adoption playbook, scoped initiative
Every template and working material
The AI Enabled Leader Bootcamp certificateIssued by Bots & People and ready for LinkedIn

How it works

You meet once a week for two hours.

Each session consists of a short input, hands-on work on your own material and working in your peer circle. Between the sessions you apply what you built.

5 weeks5 live sessions10 hours live~1 hr/week on your own workMax 20 leaders

Cohort 1 · Fridays · 09:00–11:00 CET · in English

The dates

Thu 5 Nov

Kick-off · 45 minutes

Fri 6 Nov

Week 1 · AI Landscape

Fri 13 Nov

Week 2 · Using AI tools

Fri 20 Nov

Week 3 · AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Fri 27 Nov

Week 4 · AI Transformation

Fri 4 Dec

Week 5 · Get one project approved

Registration closes Wednesday 28 October 2026. All sessions live online, in English.

Kick-off · Thu 5 November · 45 minutes

45 minutes the day before we start. You meet the trainers and your peer circle.

1
Week 1 · Fri 6 Nov
AI Landscape
You heard about AI. This week we show you the landscape.
What you learn
Explain the different AI tools in enterprises
Who in your team needs which tool and why
You leave withYour AI Leadership Map
Before week 2Pick one weekly team task.
2
Week 2 · Fri 13 Nov
Using AI tools for yourself
Bring your tasks and integrate AI into your day-to-day work as a leader.
What you learn
Integrate AI in your work
Build your own usable Skills
You leave withWorking AI routines
Before week 3Show your use cases to your peer circle and learn from theirs.
3
Week 3 · Fri 20 Nov
AI Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
As a leader you learn here what Agent use cases can be scaled across your team.
What you learn
Explain what an Agent is
Solve problems with agents
Decide about the technology to implement them
You leave withThe AI Opportunity Map for your team
Before week 4Show your top three to the team and get feedback.
4
Week 4 · Fri 27 Nov
AI Transformation
You know how to support the pioneers in your team and also how to deal with resistance.
What you learn
Lead conversations about AI with your team
Set up rules and governance within your team
You leave withYour adoption playbook
Before week 5Start preparing your capstone project.
5
Week 5 · Fri 4 Dec
Develop a project
Come up with one idea that is ready to be presented to your management.
What you learn
Build a business case for AI and present it
You leave withOne initiative that is ready to start
In the sessionYou present it and collect your certificate.

You finish with the AI Enabled Leader Bootcamp certificate

You can put it on LinkedIn and share it with your peers.

The time commitment

You spend two hours per week in the live session and roughly one more hour on work that you already have. That hour is not homework on top of your job. It is your job, done with new methods.

The sessions run on Fridays from 09:00 to 11:00 CET. We put them early in the day on purpose, so that they sit before most calendars fill up.

The tools

You use the tools you already work with

The methods transfer across all of them, so you spend the five weeks in whatever your organisation already allows.

Bring your own stack

Who teaches

Who teaches you about AI

Stefanie Knoren

Interim & Fractional CXO, Knoren X Company

Anna Schwarz

AI & Leadership Enablement, bettercoach

Hannes Müllner

Head of Training, Masterschool

Giuseppe Perrone

Learning Designer, Bots & People

Niels Brabandt

Leadership Expert, NB Networks

Avishek Chatterjee

Creative Technologist, Bots & People

Proof

We have done it before since 2023

100,000+

People trained across 30+ enterprises

4.8

Average learner satisfaction, with an NPS of 59

1.9 h

Saved per employee per day at Deutsche Telekom

+85%

Increase in AI adoption at Daimler Truck, across 40,000 employees in six countries.

20,000

AI upskilling participations at Daimler Truck within six months.

These numbers come from our enterprise programmes and we measured them together with our clients. We measure this open programme in the same way.

Learner voices

Enlightening. With increased usage of AI, it was great to sit under the tutorship of Bots & People and learn more about how AI can enhance my work. It was an engaging session where participants had hands-on exercises.

Funmi Akande

Finance Director, Siemens Energy

Ich bin sicherer beim Umgang mit KI.

Sven Erwerle

Leiter Verkauf, MediaMarkt

Who this is for

This is for leaders who are in the middle of it

This is for you if

✓You have been meaning to get properly into AI but lacked the time
✓You’re a VP, director, head of function or team lead.
✓You want to build something concrete
✓You can commit two hours a week for five weeks, live

This is not for you if

×You want tool tutorials.
×You want to delegate the thinking.
×You need a keynote for your next town hall.
×You’re an individual contributor

The peer circle

Work with peers

Two colleagues working in a shared workspace.

4–6 leaders per fixed peer circle

20 seats in the cohort, capped

We cap the cohort because working sessions stop working much beyond that number, and a peer circle only has value if the people in it talk. Every participant joins a fixed peer circle of four to six leaders from different companies. We match the circles by seniority.

Industries we work in

AutomotiveTelcoInsurance & bankingEnergyIndustrial manufacturingRetailAviationPharma & health

Paying for it

Most companies pay for this

Get your company to pay

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Subject: Approval request — AI Enabled Leader Bootcamp (€2,190)

Hi [Manager],

I would like to join the Bots & People AI Enabled Leader Bootcamp.

Why it is worth it:

• There are five live sessions of two hours, from 09:00 to 11:00, plus about one hour a week on work I already have. It fits around delivery.

• I come back with an AI opportunity map for our area, an adoption playbook, and one scoped initiative with a baseline and a 90-day plan.

• It gets me genuinely using AI in my own leadership work.

• I would be working alongside leaders from other large companies. Bots & People have trained 100,000+ people at Deutsche Telekom, Daimler Truck, Siemens Energy and 30+ others.

Cost: €2,190 excl. VAT per seat, invoiced to the company. If two or more of us join, it is 20% less each.

Happy to share what I learn with the wider team afterwards.

Thanks,
[Your name]

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Team discount

If you send two or more people from the same organisation, every seat drops by 20%.

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Private in-house cohort

Are you training your whole leadership team? We run this as a closed cohort, built around your industry, your tools and your strategic priorities.

Talk to us

Do you need to run this past somebody first?

We send you the full curriculum as a PDF that you can forward to your manager or your L&D team. That is the whole exchange.

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Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be able to code?

No. There is no code in the programme. You do work directly with the tools though, on your own material, in every session, so expect to get your hands dirty. We explain everything in plain language and you practise it live.

Which AI tools do you use?

We are deliberately tool-agnostic. You work with whatever your organisation already allows, and the methods transfer across all of them. If your company is in the middle of a rollout on a specific platform, then bring that one.

What is the real time commitment?

You spend two hours per week in the live session and roughly one more hour on work that you already have. That hour is not homework on top of your job. It is your job, done with new methods.

What if I miss a session?

These are working sessions, so being there matters more than the recording does. If you already know that you will miss more than one, then wait for the next cohort. Your peer circle will thank you. You can move to a later cohort at no cost.

Is what I share confidential?

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 that this is the one place where they can be straight about what is going wrong.

Can my company pay for this?

Yes, and it usually does. You receive a proper invoice, and the certificate makes the internal approval conversation short. There is a ready-made approval email in the Paying for it section above.

Why is this cheaper than comparable programs?

Because we measure this like an enterprise programme and we price it for the people who join early. The price goes up with the later cohorts.

What language is it delivered in?

The open cohort runs in English. For in-house cohorts we deliver in German and six other languages.

We might want this for our whole leadership team. Is that possible?

Yes. This open cohort runs the same format that we deliver in-house for leadership teams at large organisations, adapted to their tools and their context. Talk to us after week 1, or before it.

How do I learn to use AI as a leader if I am not technical?

You start with the work you already own. You learn AI by using it on your own material during the live sessions. That means your reporting, your meeting preparation and the recurring tasks that your team keeps redoing. There is no coding involved and we explain every technical idea in plain language, but you should expect to be hands-on. You need enough direct experience with the tools to judge what your team tells you about AI. It runs over five weeks with two hours live per week, plus roughly one hour on work you already have.

Are the sessions live or self-paced?

Every session is live. You join on video with a trainer and the other leaders in your cohort, and you work during the session itself. The sessions run on Fridays from 09:00 to 11:00 CET for five weeks. For roughly 80% of the time you are working on your own case.

How is this different from a self-paced online AI course?

A self-paced course gives you videos and leaves the application to you. Here you get a trainer, a fixed weekly slot, and up to 19 other leaders from large organisations working on the same problem in the same five weeks. You leave with an AI opportunity map for your team and one initiative that you can put in front of your management.

What does a seat cost?

A seat costs €2,190 excluding VAT, and we invoice it to you or directly to your employer. It covers all five live sessions, the working materials, the peer circle during and after the programme, and the certificate.

Can I join from outside Germany?

Yes. The programme is fully virtual, so you join from wherever you work. The sessions run on Central European Time and the open cohort is delivered in English, which is what most leadership teams across Germany, Austria and Switzerland already work in.

In five weeks you can have an initiative on the table, instead of another AI article in the team channel.

And you will be one of the leaders who made the time.

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Training your entire leadership team?

We deliver in-house executive programmes that are customised to your industry, your tools and your strategic priorities. It is the same way we work with Daimler Truck, Deutsche Telekom and Siemens Energy.

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Five weeks to finally think about AI as a leader