No slides. No tutorials. We start with your leadership and show them what AI can do on their own work. Then we empower the whole organisation through a train-the-trainer approach, by training champions.
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Stefano Piano
AI practitioner · Adjunct Professor · Former OECD expert
Stéphanie Ricci
Founder of Phoenix Advisory · Former Group Chief Learning Officer at AXA
of companies now use AI regularly.
of CEOs have seen an impact on both costs and revenue.
Professionals struggle to combine ambition for AI with the practical understanding to put it to work. Most AI adoptions fail because the training on offer comes in two flavours:
What we do is practical. We first show the leadership what AI can do, on their own work, so that they understand how to take action. Then we empower the whole organisation through a train-the-trainer approach, by training champions.
Companies pour 93% of their AI budgets into the technology and only 7% into the people expected to use it (Deloitte, 2026). AI does not pose a technological challenge. It poses a work redesign challenge, and that is the gap we close: Stefano's AI knowledge and future-of-work expertise, combined with Stéphanie's leadership, talent and organisational transformation experience.
AI adoption fails in predictable ways: no sponsor at the top, tools chosen before the work is understood, and nobody taught to carry the change into the teams. So we work in two steps. First we show your leadership what AI can do and train them to use it. Then we help the organisation adopt AI at scale through a train-the-trainer approach, by enabling champions.
No slides. We take a real strategic problem your organisation is facing and solve it live, on your tools. Your leadership team experiences what AI can do, learns to use it on their own work, and leaves aligned on what to do next.
What you leave with: a leadership team that has used AI on real work, a sponsor for adoption at the top, and an agreed set of priorities.
See Stefano in action at Pycon, a major tech conference with 250+ people in attendance.
The organisation adopts AI at scale through a train-the-trainer approach. We enable a cohort of champions from across your teams to build AI workflows, guide their colleagues and carry the adoption plan forward, with the sponsorship and governance it needs to stick.
Stefano brings the AI expertise. Stéphanie brings deep transformation expertise: how complex international organisations shift mindsets, behaviours and ways of working at scale.
What you leave with: champions who run their own sessions, workflows in daily use across teams, and an organisation that keeps learning after we step back.
See a short demo of AI applied to coaching.
A leadership session for the project financing division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
We ran Copilot live on the division's own work: the assessment of a wind farm.
A two-hour exercise in which the bankers used AI to solve a problem that mattered to them.
An open conversation on where this could be useful in their work.
I am an AI practitioner and economist. Most recently I led the world's largest practical AI community at Mindstone, where I designed, delivered and assisted with 20+ AI demos and workshops, including for HumanX, The Home Depot, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and the Pritzker Organisation.
I am an Adjunct Professor at ISEP, the top school for software engineers in Paris, and I have delivered lectures, panel interventions and AI demos at Harvard, Kedge, Pycon, Vivatech and SMAU, and other conferences, with live demos for 1,000+ people. I spent five years at the OECD working on the future of work, skills and new technologies, began my career as an economist at Frontier Economics, and hold degrees from the LSE, Cambridge and Warwick.
See me in action: a live demo on the future of work in Lisbon, and the Practical AI Summit I hosted with HumanX.
I am a Future of Work advisor and the founder of Phoenix Advisory. I partner with CEOs, ExComs and CPOs of global corporates, investment funds and scale-ups to future-proof their organisations: defining the operating models, capabilities and behaviours their strategy demands as AI transforms work. I lead the mindset and culture shifts that turn ambition into new ways of working, from the boardroom to the front line.
I know complex international organisations from the inside. As Group Chief Learning Officer at AXA, and before that at Kering, I helped drive large-scale transformations across countries, cultures and business models, and learned first-hand that strategy only delivers when leaders, skills and behaviours move with it. That is the lens I bring to AI: adoption is a leadership and culture shift before it is a technology one, and that is where it is won or lost. I am also a Venture Partner at Emerge, a European future-of-work fund, a strategic advisor to BetterUp and an investor, and I sit on the Board and ExCo of Bocconi Alumni Paris.
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A 30-minute call to tailor the leadership session to your priorities, your attendees and your timing, and to see whether a champions cohort makes sense afterwards. Includes pre-session consultation, full customisation and follow-up materials.
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