EXECUTIVE EDUCATION · OPEN ENROLMENT
AI for Leaders.
Most operators are using AI as a better search box. There is more it can be.
A focused group programme to build the AI system that runs your working week: seven live sessions and five AI Clinics.
Taught live by Pawel Majak, who ran operations across Europe for Airbnb before he built his own AI consultancy.
Format
Live & online
Structure
7 sessions + 5 clinics
Next cohort
20 October 2026
Entry
Open
// 01 · The Programme
Seven sessions, five clinics to build a working system.
For the operator who has decided AI is a capability worth owning. Build on your own business throughout and leave with a working AI ecosystem, a defensible deployment position and a rollout plan for your team.
// 02 · Curriculum
AI for Leaders - The Programme
Seven sessions, Five clinics to build a working system.
Seven bi-weekly interactive sessions structured around a learning and implementation arc.
Live support in the form of AI Clinics to deliver coaching support you while you implement.
Step 01
Lessons 1 & 2
Step 02
Lessons 3-6 · You build
Step 03
Five AI Clinics
Step 04
Show and Tell
CALIFORNIA
08:00
UTC-7
New York
11:00
UTC-4
London
16:00
UTC+1
Paris
17:00
UTC+2
Dubai
19:00
UTC+4
Singapore
23:00
UTC+8
Tokyo
00:00+1
UTC+9
Sydney
02:00+1
UTC+11
Auckland
04:00+1
UTC+13
- AIL.01 · Tue 20 Oct 2026
Working with AI, Properly
- What a model is actually doing when it answers, why fluency is not accuracy, and the difference between asking it for the answer and thinking alongside it — Oracle mode versus Companion mode, and which the task in front of you deserves.
- AIL.02 · Thu 22 Oct 2026
Cracking Hard Problems with AI
- Do not ask the model to be creative — it is structurally bad at it. Use it to stimulate your own thinking instead: perspective sweeps at volume, moves that break its pattern, expand then contract. Closes on a hot-seat clinic on one real problem from the room.
- CLINIC · THU 29 OCT 2026
AI Clinic 01
- 1 hour AI Clinic. Bring your challenges, share your screen and get an AI Expert to review your setup and configuration in a small group setting. The cohort is kept small to ensure personal attention.
- AIL.03 · Thu 5 Nov 2026
Your Personal AI Ecosystem: the Target Picture
- A real ecosystem demonstrated live, then you map your own working week against five worlds — calendar, email, tasks, documents, meetings and draft your blueprint. Context is king: connecting what you already pay for beats building something new.
- CLINIC · THU 12 NOV 2026
AI Clinic 02
- 1 hour AI Clinic. Bring your challenges, share your screen and get an AI Expert to review your setup and configuration in a small group setting. The cohort is kept small to ensure personal attention.
- AIL.04 · Thu 19 Nov 2026
Building the Ecosystem
- Where AI stops explaining and starts doing. Constraint-solving in the open, a personal brain kept separate from any vendor's memory, and assistants built for one job each. Closes on personal IP: the stack is parity — your methods are the advantage.
- CLINIC · TUE 24 NOV 2026
AI Clinic 03
- 1 hour AI Clinic. Bring your challenges, share your screen and get an AI Expert to review your setup and configuration in a small group setting. The cohort is kept small to ensure personal attention.
- AIL.05 · Thu 3 Dec 2026
Deploy Safely
- The lethal trifecta as the organising frame, the five ways an open agentic system goes wrong, and maker–checker as the management control. The honest position is that no configuration is leak-proof, so you decide what you accept.
- CLINIC · THU 10 DEC 2026
AI Clinic 04
- 1 hour AI Clinic. Bring your challenges, share your screen and get an AI Expert to review your setup and configuration in a small group setting. The cohort is kept small to ensure personal attention.
- AIL.06 · Thu 17 Dec 2026
Running AI in Your Business
- From personal capability to organisational capability. Reversibility as the lens for where AI belongs and where it does not, structured debate on the real judgement calls, and your rollout plan drafted including the human fallback for every automated step.
Festive break
- CLINIC · THU 14 JAN 2027
AI Clinic 05
- 1 hour AI Clinic. Bring your challenges, share your screen and get an AI Expert to review your setup and configuration in a small group setting. The cohort is kept small to ensure personal attention.
- AIL.07 · Thu 21 Jan 2027
Show and Tell
- Graduation. Present your ecosystem, defend the design decisions, take the room's challenge — and leave with a plan for staying current when the tools change again in six months.
CONTACT HOURS
15.5
Live hours across the cohort — seven 90-minute sessions plus five one-hour AI Clinics, all taught live rather than recorded. Plan for roughly two to three hours a week on your own systems between sessions. The build is the programme; the sessions are where it gets unstuck.
// 03 · Outcome
You leave with the system, not the notes.
The Programme is assessed on what you built, in the same spirit as the Institute’s other programmes. The final session is the assessment: you present the ecosystem you are running and defend the decisions inside it, in front of people who will ask why. Nothing here is examined on a quiz.
- 01
A running personal AI ecosystem— connected to the calendar, mail, tasks, documents and meetings you already work in, built on tools you mostly already pay for.
- 02
A defensible deployment position— where AI is allowed in your business, where it is not, what the human fallback is, and what risk you have consciously accepted.
- 03
A rollout plan for your team, with the failure modes named in advance and the measurement defined before anything ships.
- 04
A staying-current practice — the test you apply before adopting anything new.
// 04 · Lecturer
Taught by an operator who builds these systems.
Operator · AI systems · Germany
Pawel Majak
Pawel spent his career running operations at scale before he ran them with AI — Head of Operations for Europe at Airbnb, Chief Operating Officer at bookingkit, VP of Operations at ERGO Technology & Services. He now builds AI operating systems for founders and leadership teams through his own practice, and is a venture partner at Nordstar in Germany.Pawel has carried an operational P&L, so he knows the difference between a capability that returns time and one that just moves the work somewhere less visible. The programme is a distillation of his AI Skills. He has some interesting opinions: models are bad at creativity, that context beats tooling, that no configuration is leak-proof — and he will argue them with you.
- AI operations
- Automation
- Founder systems
- Leadership
Career
Now | Independent AI systems practice, Germany · Venture Partner, Nordstar |
Before | Head of Operations, Europe — Airbnb |
Before | Chief Operating Officer — bookingkit |
Before | VP Operations — ERGO Technology & Services · Head of Ops — iCracked |
At the Institute | Leads AI for Leaders; the Coworking MBA's AI strand is built on his curriculum |
// 05 · Who it’s for
Executive Education is the elective route.
Not everybody needs a ten-month MBA. The Programme is self-contained: no application and no prerequisites. You go deep on AI as one capability and build it into your own operation.
Profile 01
The experienced operator
You have been running your space for years. You do not need fundamentals — you need to close the specific gaps where your business is genuinely behind.
Profile 02
The corporate flex team
You run flex or workplace inside a larger real estate or corporate business, where an AI policy already exists and you have to work within it. You need applicable skill, not theory.
Profile 03
The MBA graduate
You have finished the Coworking MBA and want to go deeper than the AI strand allowed — or to stay current as the ground keeps moving. Graduates pay the reduced rate.
// 06 · Access & pricing
Open to anyone. Members pay less.
The Programme requires no membership and no application — if you want the course, you can take the course. Institute members and Coworking MBA graduates receive a reduced rate.
| Tier | What it means | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Non-member | Open enrolment. No application, no prerequisites. Course fee includes three months of Institute membership so you keep the community access the course opens up. | Full price |
| Institute member | An active Institute membership. The reduced Programme rate applies at booking. | Member rate |
| MBA graduate | You hold the CMBA credential and a graduate membership. The graduate Programme rate applies at booking. | Graduate rate |
Full price is USD 4,800 for the Programme, and non-member pricing includes three months of Institute membership. Member and graduate rates are confirmed at booking. Teams booking three or more places should get in touch directly.
// 07 · Register
Apply for the Programme.
Register your details, then choose to pay in full or in four monthly instalments. You will be taken to secure checkout to confirm your place.
// 08 · Questions
Frequently asked questions.
How technical is this? I am not a developer.
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Neither is most of the room. The Programme is written for leaders, not engineers — the emphasis is on judgement, ecosystem design and deployment risk, not code. Session four asks you to assemble a system from tools you already have, and the whole point of session three is mapping your working week before you build anything — you pick the lightest thing that does the job. If a job needs code, you will learn to recognise that and not do it yourself.
How much time does the Programme really take?
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Fifteen and a half live hours — seven 90-minute sessions and five one-hour AI Clinics, running 20 October 2026 to 21 January 2027 with a festive break from 18 December to 13 January — plus roughly two to three hours a week building on your own systems. The build time is not optional; the sessions assume the previous one is running.
Is it recorded if I cannot make a session live?
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Yes, recordings go to the cohort. But this is a working room rather than a video course — the AI Clinics in particular only do their job if you are in them with your own stuck problem. If you expect to miss more than one or two sessions, take a later cohort.
What tools will I need to pay for?
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The programme's position is that connecting what you already pay for beats buying something new. Most participants build on a mainstream AI subscription they already hold plus the calendar, mail, task and document tools already in their business. You will not be asked to buy a stack, and no vendor sponsors this course.
Will this tell me whether AI is safe to use in my business?
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It will tell you how to decide. Session five is built on the honest position that no configuration is leak-proof — so instead of a false guarantee you get the lethal trifecta as a working frame, the five ways these systems fail, maker–checker as a management control, and a risk position you can actually defend to a member, a landlord or an insurer.
How is this different from the AI content in the Coworking MBA?
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The MBA runs AI as a strand woven through every module — how AI bears on positioning, on sales, on operations — and assesses it at the capstone. Executive Education goes the other way: AI is the whole subject, and you leave with a system running rather than an understanding of where it applies. Graduates who want the depth take this at the graduate rate.
What time do sessions run?
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The Programme runs in the Atlantic window: every session is at 17:00 Central European Time, which is 16:00 London, 11:00 New York and 08:00 San Francisco. It is anchored to Central European Time rather than to UTC so the hour does not shift under you when clocks change mid-programme. Asia-Pacific operators should look at those times honestly before booking this cohort.