The Executive AI Intensive
A concierge AI practice for senior leaders
Four weeks. 1:1. In your environment, on your terms, at your pace. For senior leaders who are ready to move beyond slideware and achieve real-world results.
The Executive AI Intensive Program
Enterprise AI is moving faster than most organizations can absorb.
Foundational fluency
Deployed capability
Senior leaders constantly need to bridge the gap between the art of the possible and what is actually deployable. They are expected to build their own foundational fluency, manage programs that sometimes get stuck at proof-of-concept, and simultaneously craft a cohesive strategy that has to hold up in a board conversation.
The Executive AI Intensive is built to address these competing priorities.
Four private 75-minute sessions over four weeks, with artifact reviews and asynchronous questions answered within 48 hours.
No TAs, no cookie-cutter curriculum. Every engagement is scoped from the first conversation against your specific priorities.
Fill the gaps in your understanding of LLMs, agents, generative AI, governance, and the vocabulary that has appeared around AI in the last two years. Leave with a real mental model and intuitive understanding of core concepts.
Build something real in your actual environment. A custom GPT, a Claude project, a Cowork workflow, a NotebookLM instance, all configured with your domain or synthetic data and ready to use on day one.
Compress time-to-production on an AI initiative already underway. Integration architecture, governance approval paths, vendor evaluations, build-versus-buy decisions, and the detail-level execution questions that separate ambitious AI projects from shipped AI capabilities.
Accelerated Implementation
Pressure-test AI programs already underway against 25+ years of enterprise AI experience. Governance posture, portfolio decisions, vendor selection, CoE design, and any other essential AI building blocks coming across your desk.
Sharper strategy
How it works
Week 1: Scoping and Foundation
Our first session clarifies what you are actually trying to accomplish and establishes baseline fluency. By the end of week one, you have a clear four-week plan, and, depending on your starting point - either a greatly improved foundational literacy or a working tool already in progress.
Weeks 2 & 3: Hands-on Work
Two sessions focused on building, deciding, and sharpening. Async work and review of artifacts and documents between sessions means the 75 minutes we spend together are high-leverage, and we use our time together as productively as possible.
Week 4: Integration & Next Steps
Our final session consolidates what you have built and clarifies what comes next: whether that is extending the work yourself, onboarding your team, or moving into a different engagement shape.
What you will leave with
Tools you can use
Hands-on AI fluency
Actionable next steps
Pragmatic frameworks for thinking about AI in your organization: 4Ds, Five Pillars, and others, tailored to your context. You will have a structured way to evaluate ideas, make portfolio decisions, and pressure-test what your team proposes.
Hands-on fluency with at least one deployed capability in your environment: something you built, not something you watched someone else build. Usable today, extendable next month. Ready for a demo to your team or your board.
A clear-eyed view of what to do next: whether that is extending the work yourself, onboarding your team through a Beacon AI Seminar, moving into a retainer relationship, or simply proceeding with confidence.
Who this is for
You will get the most out of this if you are:
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A senior operator (CEO, CTO, CIO, CAIO, VP or above) who makes decisions that compound over time
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Working on a specific AI problem, question, or program - not just "AI in general"
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Willing to show up for four weeks and do the work, including between sessions
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At an organization where AI is (or will be) a meaningful priority
You will probably want a different engagement if you are:
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Looking for a cohort experience with other leaders
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Hoping to delegate AI literacy entirely to someone on your team
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Early in your AI journey and not sure yet whether you want to engage seriously
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Looking for the lowest-cost option
About Bjorn
I have spent 25+ years inside enterprise AI: machine translation in the 1990s, enterprise speech recognition in the 2000s, IBM Watson engagements from 2015 to 2019, and most recently generative AI transformation at Truist and Wells Fargo.
Today I run Kinetic Cognition, a private AI practice. The Executive AI Intensive is how I work 1:1 with senior leaders. I also deliver team seminars, retainer advisory, and occasional keynotes.
The frameworks I use - Five Pillars, 4Ds, Cognitive Courtesy - came out of real implementations and have delivered impact in companies ranging from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 50 companies.
Applying for the Intensive
The Intensive is designed for a small number of clients at a time. Before we commit to four weeks together, we have a 20-minute fit call. This is a frank conversation to help me understand what you are working on and to clarify whether I am the right practitioner for where you are.
The application below takes about two minutes. If it is a fit, I will send a Calendly link to book the fit call. If it isn't, I will tell you directly and point you to a more appropriate resource.