Five live online sessions with a maximum of twenty leaders. You bring your own work, and you leave with three things: skills that make you more employable, a way to lead a team that uses AI, and one initiative that your company can actually fund.
The application takes three minutes, and payment comes after we confirm your seat. You get a full refund up to the halfway point of the programme, or you can move to a later cohort at no cost. We read every application 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 programme we built for the people who lead them.
In plain terms, this is five weeks in which you finally deal with AI properly. Five live online sessions, a maximum of 20 leaders, and you work on your own topics in every session. It is built for team leads, heads of department and directors who have to use AI themselves and also decide how their team uses it.
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The situation
Your management announced an AI strategy. Some people in your team use AI and others do not, and both groups think they are right. You are expected to show results with a technology that you never had a free afternoon to learn. So it stays on the list, quarter after quarter, while the leaders who did make the time are already being treated differently.
This is the normal situation in the companies we work with, and it is the reason their teams are still waiting. This is easy to postpone and expensive to postpone. The moment you notice it is in a room, in a conversation you can only half follow.
of German executives say their organisation 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
There is a compliance side to it as well. From August 2026, Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires organisations to make sure that the people working with AI systems have sufficient AI literacy. That obligation lands on you before it lands on your team.
What changes for you
This is a working programme. You work on your own material in every session, and what you build is worth something to you, to your team and to your company.
Leaders who can work with AI are already being treated differently, and that gap widens every quarter. In five weeks you move from talking about AI to using it in your own work every day. This is the part that shows up in your next role, and it is the part that gets harder to catch up on the longer you wait.
Weeks 1–5What are we allowed to use? What happens with our data? Am I going to be replaced? You leave with answers to those questions and with rules that people follow. And when your team sees you working with AI yourself, the same request from you lands differently. BCG measured that jump: positive team attitudes go from 15% to 55%.
Weeks 1 & 4You come back with an AI opportunity map for your area and one initiative that has a cost, a baseline and a 90-day plan. That is the thing your management was asking for when they announced the AI strategy.
Weeks 3 & 5What you leave with
Each of the five sessions produces something you can work with.
You can show your management exactly where your team stands with AI, with numbers behind it.
Three of your recurring leadership tasks run with AI, in a form that you can repeat next week.
You can show where AI creates value in your area, and you can explain why you left the other ideas out.
You can bring your team along with rules that are short enough for people to use.
You have one project with a cost, a scope and a 90-day plan, and you can put it in front of your management on Monday.
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 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.
45 minutes the week before we start. You meet the trainers and your peer circle, so week 1 begins with the work.
Week 1 · Tue 13 OctYou heard about AI. This week we show you the landscape.
Different AI tools in enterprises, and what each one does
The words you need to spot bullshit bingo in a meeting
Who in your team needs which tool and why
You leave withYour AI Leadership Map
Week 2 · Tue 20 OctBring real tasks and integrate AI into your day-to-day work as a leader.
Write prompts that work the same way every time
Build your own usable Skills and Agents
Make a plan on how to change your way of working
You leave withWorking AI routines
Week 3 · Tue 27 OctA chatbot answers questions. An agent does the job. As a leader you learn here what use cases can be scaled across your team.
Prompt, skill, agent, multi-agent: what each one is
Which one your problem actually needs
What it costs to run, before you commit
You leave withThe AI Opportunity Map for your team
Week 4 · Tue 3 NovYou know how to support the pioneers in your team and also how to deal with resistance.
Which tasks change, and which stay the same
Conversations you will definitely have
Set up rules and governance within your team
You leave withYour adoption playbook
Week 5 · Tue 10 NovCome up with one idea that is ready to be presented to your management.
Build the business case
Defend it against people at your own level
Plan the first 30 days
You leave withOne initiative that is ready to start
You can put it on LinkedIn and share it with your peers.
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 Tuesdays from 09:00 to 11:00 CET. We put them early on purpose, so that they sit before most calendars fill up.
The tools
These are the ones we see most often. They are examples, not a syllabus. The methods transfer across all of them, so you spend the five weeks in whatever your organisation already allows, and nothing you build dies when your IT department picks a different vendor.
The peer circle
Every participant joins a fixed peer circle of four to six leaders from different companies. We match the circles by seniority, so the people in your circle carry comparable scope. The circle meets inside every session and stays connected between the sessions.
This is where the programme stops being a course. You will hear how a logistics leader handled the resistance that you are facing right now, and what a bank did about the tool that your team already uses in secret. Everything runs under the Chatham House Rule, so you can use anything you learn, but you never name the person or the company it came from. And the circle outlasts the cohort. It keeps running after week 5 with asynchronous exercises, and we help you hold each other to what you said you would do.
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.
Industries we work in
We send you the full curriculum as a PDF, together with a one-page business case that you can forward to your manager or your L&D team. That is the whole exchange.
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Who teaches
CEO, Bots & People
I built the AI programmes that Deutsche Telekom, Daimler Truck and Siemens Energy run internally, which is more than 80,000 people in over 30 enterprises. I host this cohort: I run the kick-off, I keep the group on track, and I read every application myself. The teaching is done by the specialists below.
Why I built this: every enterprise rollout we do runs into the same wall. The tools arrive, somebody pays for the licences, and then it stops at the team leads. They want to do it. They just never got the time to learn the thing themselves. So I wanted a version of that programme that a single leader can join, without waiting for the company to buy it for five thousand people first.
Executive Coach & Fractional HR, Silver Lining
Mike works with tech leaders on building high-trust teams, as an executive coach and fractional HR lead out of Amsterdam. He takes the parts about what AI does to the way you lead people, rather than to the work itself.
AI & Leadership Enablement, bettercoach
Anna designs AI-powered learning cultures that stay human-centred, with a background in Gestalt and psychological safety. She is the one who pushes on whether your team will actually adopt the thing you just designed.
Head of Training, Masterschool
Hannes runs training at Masterschool and works on AI strategy and agentic AI. He covers the week on agents: what they actually are, and which of your use cases genuinely needs one.
AI Trainer
Jonas is the founder of Wengel AI. He builds the practical workflows that the tasks between the sessions are based on, and he helps you rebuild your own in week 2.
Leadership Expert, NB Networks
Niels has spent his career on leadership development across German and English-speaking markets, and holds an EMBA, an MBA and an MSc. He takes the harder conversations: what changes for roles, and how you say it without losing the room.
Director, AI at Ciklum
Enver leads AI at Ciklum and works with organisations on the gap between having an AI strategy and having evidence that it works. He is there so the question “can this actually be built?” gets an engineer’s answer.
Between them they cover leadership development, applied AI research, agent engineering and adoption. You get the same people we put in front of enterprise teams, and you can book a single seat.
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 programmes and we measured them together with our clients. We measure this open programme in the same way.
“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 AkandeFinance Director, Siemens Energy“Ich bin sicherer beim Umgang mit KI.”
Sven ErwerleLeiter Verkauf, MediaMarktThis is the first open cohort, so the quotes above come from our enterprise programmes. The price reflects that.
Who this is for
Details & price
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Paying for it
It sits comfortably inside a normal L&D or leadership development budget. Here is everything you need to get it signed off.
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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. It runs on five Tuesday mornings from 13 October to 10 November.
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 do not come back with notes. 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, which is the part our team is currently waiting on. BCG found positive team attitudes jump from 15% to 55% when leaders visibly use AI themselves.
• The certificate is usable as evidence toward our AI literacy obligation under Article 4 of the EU AI Act, which applies from August 2026.
• I would be working alongside leaders from other large companies. Bots & People have trained 80,000+ 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.
Full programme: [link]
Happy to share what I learn with the wider team afterwards.
Thanks,
[Your name]
If you send two or more people from the same organisation, every seat drops by 20%. Leaders who go through it together tend to act on it. One person coming back with a plan is easy to ignore. Three people with the same plan get a decision.
Apply for multiple seatsAre you training your whole leadership team? We run this as a closed cohort, built around your industry, your tools and your strategic priorities. It is the same way we deliver for Daimler Truck and Deutsche Telekom.
Talk to usQuestions
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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 Tuesdays from 09:00 to 11:00 CET for five weeks. For roughly 80% of the time you are working on your own case.
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.
Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires organisations to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among the people who use AI systems on their behalf. This programme is built to serve as evidence for that obligation. You receive a certificate of participation and a documented record of what was covered, which your HR, compliance or legal team can file. If you need the documentation in a specific format, tell us before the cohort starts.
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.
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.
And you will be one of the leaders who made the time.
Three minutes to apply · Payment after we confirm your seat · Full refund up to the halfway point
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.
