1-Day Workshop Leadership Teams £100M–£1BN UK · Europe · US

You've Invested in AI. The Returns Aren't There. Here's Why. And What Changes It.

The 1-day workshop for leadership teams between £100M and £1BN who've invested in AI and aren't seeing the returns.

90% of organisations are spending millions on AI, measuring activity, calling it progress, while the 10% generating real returns compound their lead.

Most leaders already know which side of that line they're on.

90% Stuck in AI illusions
Where you want to be 10% Generating real returns
1 Day
Your team What it takes to cross the line.

The Problem

It's Not Your Team. It's Not Your Budget. It's Not the Tools.

If you're reading this, you've already tried at least one of these.

Failed

AI training workshops

Your team attended. They learned to write better prompts. Two weeks later, they were back to their old way of working. The workflow didn't change. The P&L didn't move. The cost stayed on the balance sheet.

Why it failed

Training changes individual skill, not organisational workflow. Giving someone a better tool and putting them back into a broken process produces better-looking output of the same broken process, not returns.

Failed

Enterprise AI licences

You bought Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, or something similar for the whole company. 35% of your team tried it for two weeks. 65% never opened it. Within three months, usage dropped to almost nothing, and the CFO started asking questions you couldn't answer.

Why it failed

Tools require workflow redesign to deliver value. Without that decision, they become optional add-ons. People default to what works, and what works is what they've always done.

Failed

Digital transformation consultants

Three months. Workshops. Stakeholder interviews. A 60-page AI strategy delivered. An "implementation phase" that required another 6-month engagement. £500K billed. The board asked what changed. You couldn't point to anything on the P&L.

Why it failed

Strategy without implementation accountability is a document. No P&L accountability, no transformation.

Failed

Internal AI champions

You found the AI enthusiast. Gave them the title. They ran sessions, built a Slack channel, identified three high-value opportunities. Every single one required cross-functional sign-off that never happened. They burned out. Nothing changed.

Why it failed

AI transformation is a leadership decision that cascades down, not a grassroots movement that bubbles up.

The Shared Root Cause

Every solution above failed for one reason.

They treated AI adoption as a capability problem, when it is a leadership identity, decision-making, and workflow design problem.

01Training addresses capability. Not the root cause.
02Tools provide capability. Not the root cause.
03Strategy decks describe capability requirements. Not the root cause.
04Internal champions build capability. Not the root cause.
AND THE ONE REASON THAT ACTUALLY EXPLAINS IT
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The root cause

Leadership identity determines who owns AI outcomes. And that owner can only be you.

The root cause: no one at leadership level has claimed ownership of AI outcomes, made a clear decision about where in the business AI creates structural value, redesigned the workflows to embed it, and built accountability for measurable results. That decision, and that identity shift, cannot be delegated. It can only happen with the people in this room.

AI Evolution Workshop

More Than Training. More Than Tools.

Most AI workshops stop at training your team and pointing them at tools. The AI Evolution Workshop starts there, and goes much further. Because skills without workflow redesign don't change results. And tools without leadership decisions don't get used.

We work directly with your leadership team to do three things no training or tools programme touches:

What Happens on the Day

One Day. Built Around Your Team.

Core skills. Real AI opportunities. Board-ready deliverables.

Morning

Build the skills to embed AI into how your team actually works

How to use AI effectively, make it part of daily operations, and build the habits that turn AI from a novelty into a productivity multiplier. All grounded in your industry and your organisation. Not generic use cases.

Afternoon

Map the real AI opportunities in your organisation

The moves that would actually change the numbers. The governance gaps already costing you. Where AI should be embedded to reduce cost, increase speed, and protect margin. What the board needs to see.

The result: a team that uses AI in their work, not adding to the AI noise, and the deliverables to defend every decision to the board.

What You Walk Away With

Everything you need, the same week.

AI Fundamentals & Core Skills

The team equipped to embed AI into their day job, not more AI noise.

AI Opportunity & ROI Map

The specific moves in your organisation that would influence the numbers, prioritised by impact and feasibility.

Shadow AI Governance Protocol

Most workshops ignore this. AI use without real governance is one of the most common C-suite blind spots. You leave with a clear framework for what's allowed, what isn't and why, so the organisation is protected.

Board-Ready Summary

Current AI posture, top 3 risks, recommended priority action. The answer to "where are we on AI?", ready to use the same week.

Specific Recommended Next Step

A single, clear, prioritised recommendation for what this organisation should do next, based on everything surfaced on the day. Something you can act on immediately.

Want to understand if this is the right fit for your organisation?

Is This the Right Fit for Your Organisation? Schedule a Call

Who It's For

This Is Not For Every Organisation.

Designed for leadership teams, CEO, MD, CFO, CIO, or the executive committee, in organisations between £100M and £1BN.

This is for you if you say yes to 2 or more
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We have AI licences running that most of our team don't use

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We've done AI training and nothing in the business fundamentally changed

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When the board asks what our AI investment is delivering, the honest answer is we're not entirely sure

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We're worried competitors are pulling ahead and we don't have a clear answer on where we stand

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We're stuck in "pilot purgatory", endless testing that never integrates or delivers

This is not for you if

You're an early-stage startup (under 200 employees or £10M revenue)

You haven't yet invested in any AI tools or training

You're looking for a generic AI course your team can attend online

Coming Soon, Client Story

From pilot purgatory to board-ready in a day

We'll share the full story here, which path they were on, what the workshop surfaced, and what changed in the numbers.

Case Study, Add When Available

Why Simona + Laura

The market is full of people selling AI tools and training tactics. That's not what this is.

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Simona Stoytchkova

Two decades in capital markets, trading floors, board rooms, executive committees. She's been the person at the table making the board-level strategic decisions about where technology goes and why.

She knows what questions get asked after the consultant leaves. She knows what actually makes a leadership team move.

Not an AI vendor. Not a trainer. Someone who has sat where you sit, and made the calls you are being asked to make.
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Laura Chattington

The architect. Takes a strategic direction and turns it into something the organisation can actually run, not just something that sounds right in the room.

Multi-million dollar global programmes for billion-dollar organisations across tech, finance and professional services. The operational reality that strategy-only speakers miss.

Between them, they've been on both sides of every conversation in this room.

Why Now

The Gap Is Compounding.

Every quarter you stay in "pilot purgatory," the compounding gap widens. The organisations generating real AI returns right now aren't just 10% ahead. They're changing their entire cost base, restructuring how work gets done, where value gets created, what their P&L looks like in 18 months.

See where the gap to AI leaders is headed.

By 2028, the top 5% "future-built" organisations are projected to grow AI-driven revenue 2x faster and cut costs 40% more than everyone else. Source: Boston Consulting Group, "The Widening AI Value Gap," 2025

Where you sit today
Time horizon
AI leaders Your path THE GAP 2025 2028
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60% of organisations are here today. BCG calls this a widening gap, not a stable one.

Illustrative visualisation, not a company-specific forecast. Segment sizes and the widening trend are drawn from published 2024 to 2026 research by BCG, PwC, and Accenture on AI leaders versus laggards.

That gap doesn't just grow. It compounds.

We take a maximum of 4 organisations per month. Each workshop is built specifically around the organisation, the industry, the team, the decisions that need to be made. That takes time to do properly.

If you're considering this, the right time to act is before your next board meeting, not after it.

Ready to find out which side of the gap you're on?

Is This the Right Fit for Your Organisation? Schedule a Call

Questions

Frequently Asked

Yes, and no. Training is part of what we do, because your team needs real AI skills. But training alone has never been enough to change results, and the data backs that up. The AI Evolution Workshop combines hands-on skills with leadership-level diagnostic work, workflow redesign, governance, and board-ready deliverables. It's AI training built into a day that actually changes how the organisation works.
The difference is accountability. Consultants are paid for the output, the strategy document. We're accountable for the outcome, your leadership team leaving with clarity, skills, and board-ready deliverables they can use the same week. If they can't answer "where are we on AI?" with confidence, we work with you until they can.
No. This workshop is for leadership teams, CEOs, MDs, CFOs, CIOs, not technical staff. The diagnostic requires business context, not technical knowledge. Your IT team doesn't need to be in the room.
We work with organisations across the UK, Germany, Europe, and the US. The workshop can be run in-person or as an intensive virtual session.
We take a maximum of 4 organisations per month. Contact us to check availability.

Ready to go from AI illusions to measurable returns?

One day. Built around your team and your organisation.

The answer to "where are we on AI?", ready for the board.

AI Evolution · Simona Stoytchkova + Laura Chattington · 2026