Sensemakers Academy

The capability to lead it yourselves.

Leadership cohorts and workforce skill-building on one curriculum: Direct, Judge, Own, Adopt. Not prompt training. The judgment and the habits that make AI compound.

On site or online.

The curriculum

Four muscles, not a tool tour.

Every format teaches the same four capabilities, applied to the participants' own work. Leaders get the strategic version; teams get the hands-on one. The vocabulary is shared, so the organisation can talk about AI the same way from the boardroom to the desk.

Direct

Brief, orchestrate and redesign work around AI and agents. Using it well, not just prompting it.

Judge

Evaluate output, see where it fails, avoid overreliance. Knowing how hard to check before you act, and when not to bother.

Own

Decision rights, accountability and cost. Who owns which tool and agent, and who answers for its output.

Adopt

Change behaviour and ways of working so the new habits hold, rather than fading three weeks after the launch.

Formats

Four ways to build it.

From ninety minutes to a company-wide programme. All of them work on real tasks from your organisation, never on demos. Prices on request.

For leadership teams

Leadership cohort

Two half-days plus toolkit
Up to 16 leaders
Your leadership team, or an open cohort with peers from other companies

How AI changes decisions, ownership and the operating model, and what that asks of the people at the top. Leaders work on their own area: where AI already is, who owns it, how far to take it, what to deliberately leave alone.

  • Half-day one: the landscape, the ownership shift, and a readiness read of your own organisation.
  • Half-day two: judgment under AI-shaped inputs, and the ambition and decision rights for your area.

You leave with: an ambition statement for your area, a readiness read, and the scrutiny habits to judge AI output before you act on it.

For one team

Team workshop

One day, on site
One team, up to 14 people
Built on their real work

Direct, Judge, Own, Adopt applied to the team's actual tasks. Experience first, theory second: participants work with AI on their own material, then red-team each other's output, then decide together where AI sits in the work and where it doesn't.

  • Exercises drawn from the team's live workflow, not from a slide deck.
  • Where the checkpoint sits for every task, and how hard to check.

You leave with: role playbooks and output checks the team keeps, and a shared view of who owns what.

For a leadership team or an event

Executive briefing

60–90 minutes
Keynote or closed-door briefing
Tailored to your sector

What is real and what is a wrapper, how the ownership of AI is shifting inside organisations, where the value is showing up and where it isn't, and where to start. A straight read, with a stance.

You leave with: a shared picture across the leadership team, and three questions to take back to your own organisation.

For a department or the whole company

Workforce programme

Blended, 6–10 weeks
Short live sessions, practice on real tasks
Champions in every team

Skill-building at scale, designed to run without a consultant in every room. Short live sessions per role, practice on the participants' own tasks between them, champions trained to keep it going, and adoption measured against a baseline rather than counted in attendance.

  • Role-specific tracks: what a finance analyst needs is not what a sales rep needs.
  • An adoption funnel with a real denominator: aware, tried, active, embedded.

You leave with: a workforce that changed how it works, champions who own the next wave, and the numbers to show it.

How it's different

Judgment, not prompts.

Experience before theory

Do it, then name it.

Participants work with AI on their own tasks first, and get the framework afterwards. The lesson lands because they just lived it.

Real work, not demos

Your files, your workflows.

No generic exercises. Every session runs on material from the participants' actual jobs, so what they learn on Tuesday they use on Wednesday.

Measured

Adoption, not attendance.

We baseline before and measure after: who is using what, how often, and whether it is embedded in the work. Attendance is not the metric.

Start with your people

Tell us who needs to get better at this, and at what.

A leadership team, one team that is stuck, a whole department. We'll propose the format that fits, and say so if a workshop alone won't fix it.

Often combined with
1

A team engagement

The workshop runs inside the work being changed, so the skills land where they are needed.

2

A leadership cohort before the roadmap

Leaders decide ambition and ownership with a shared vocabulary, before anyone builds anything.

3

A workforce programme after the first wins

Once two or three teams have proof, the rest of the organisation follows on the same curriculum.