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Our Approach to AI Transformation

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

PeopleCert is a global leader in the assessment and certification of professional skills. When they reached out to us in May 2023, they had a clear vision that we loved: they wanted everyone in the organization to be proficient in AI.

We know that people need to find education relevant to spark a real change, so we started with an inspiration keynote to get everyone excited and aligned on a common vision. Then we identified 3 personas and designed custom trainings for each:
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- AI leaders: executives who needed to take strategic decisions on AI
- AI builders: product managers, heads of functions and developers who needed to design new internal and external products
- AI users: everyone else in the organization who needed to be proficient with AI

Today, Peoplecert is a true leader in AI, with industry-leading adoption rates and disrupting AI features embedded in their products.

We don't do generic "digital transformation" handwaving. We break AI adoption into practical chunks that actually make sense:

Executive AI Strategy Session
‍No buzzwords, just straight talk about what works to define your strategy.

AI Adoption Program
Skill-Up your workforce across all business units.

AI Agent Bootcamp
Build actual solutions that work without the need to code.

We have experience in training teams in ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, Claude, etc..

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Real Stories, Real Results

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

Ströer: From Ad Space to AI Innovation

Who They Are
An out-of-home advertising company that creates digital and traditional media campaigns. They know how to catch eyeballs on billboards and screens.

‍The Problem
They had an idea that AI could revolutionize their ad products, but weren't sure how to turn vague potential into something their clients would actually pay for.

‍What We Did
Ran them through our AI Agent Bootcamp, which helped them turn scattered ideas into a focused product concept.

‍The Win
They built "Creative Analyzer" – an actual working product that analyzes ad effectiveness. Not just a PowerPoint about what might be possible someday.

"Our journey in AI started with an AI Academy program for the Corporate Strategy and Innovation team.

We learned how to use AI and to stay focused on our journey, so now we develop several MVPs, test them, and then if we consider them for useful, we can spread them into our organization and share them also with clients."

Anke J. Pätzold

Head of Strategic Operations at Ströer

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PeopleCert: Surviving the ChatGPT Wave

Who They Are
Project management training company with 1,400 employees who suddenly faced an existential threat when ChatGPT appeared.

‍The Problem
Their CEO saw ChatGPT and immediately thought: "This will either kill us or make us the next Amazon." Classic moment of AI panic meets opportunity.

‍What We Did
We split their workforce into three groups with tailored training:
- 30 AI Builders (mix of business leaders and technical folks) went through our Bootcamp and built 10 functional prototypes
- All employees learned practical ChatGPT skills through our AI Adoption Program
- Executives got a 2-day strategy workshop to develop an actual plan (not just empty "AI transformation" talk)

‍The Win
Instead of getting blindsided by AI, they turned it into a competitive advantage with 10 working prototypes solving real business problems.

“We always strive to become better. Our journey with AI Academy began with a digital transformation project to train 1,000 people from 43 nationalities in AI, ChatGPT, and other AI tools. We started with top management to act as ambassadors and continued with digital training for everyone.

Tech-savvy individuals from each department worked on projects to make their jobs more efficient using AI tools. This ongoing effort has led to many prototypes, some of which are already making our work easier.”

Dimitra Karakosta

VP People & Culture at PeopleCert

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TÜV NORD: Creating Internal AI Champions

Who They Are
German technical inspection and certification company with over 150 years of history. Not exactly where you'd expect an AI revolution.

‍The Problem
After some successful AI projects, they realized the bottleneck wasn't the technology—it was having internal champions who could drive adoption.

‍What We Did
Ran our Changemaker Bootcamp focused on both AI skills and organizational change management—the human side of technology adoption that most programs miss.

‍The Win
Built a network of internal AI champions who now lead innovation across the company, ensuring their AI investments actually get used instead of collecting dust.

"AI Academy facilitated our AI journey by providing us with practical workshops and strategic guidance tailored to our needs. They enabled us to experiment with AI and effectively integrate it into our workflows.

Through their support, we were able to foster a culture of innovation and promote critical thinking across our organization, helping us stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Their approach has truly empowered us to leverage AI’s potential to its fullest."

Dietmar Schloßer

Director of Digitalization & Innovation at TÜV Nord Group

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Turner Construction: Building the Future

Who They Are
A major US construction company known for tackling massive building projects and infrastructure development.

‍The Problem
They wanted to see if AI could actually improve construction efficiency and safety—not just sound good in board meetings.

‍What We Did
We created a custom executive education program focused on practical AI applications in construction:
- Project management optimization
- Safety monitoring improvements
- Resource planning and allocation

We ran a compressed one-day bootcamp where their teams built working proof-of-concepts using no-code tools—showing value immediately rather than after months of development.

‍The Win
Their leadership team went from AI skeptics to champions in a matter of days, with actual prototypes showing tangible benefits for their specific industry challenges.

What we did with our clients

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

“We always strive to become better. Our journey with AI Academy began with a digital transformation project to train 1,000 people from 43 nationalities in AI, ChatGPT, and other AI tools. We started with top management to act as ambassadors and continued with digital training for everyone.

Tech-savvy individuals from each department worked on projects to make their jobs more efficient using AI tools. This ongoing effort has led to many prototypes, some of which are already making our work easier.”

Dimitra Karakosta

VP People & Culture at PeopleCert

Watch our interview with Dimitra

Ströer’s Innovation & Strategy team went from “what can AI do for us?” to a new disrupting product in weeks.

Ströer is a German leader in out of home advertising with 13k employees and revenues exceeding €1.5B. If you’ve been in Germany, chances are you’ve seen one of their billboards.

Their innovation and strategy team reached out to us to explore how AI could potentially help their organization and have some tangible outcomes, so we customized our training program to embed some applied workshops to identify opportunities and build prototypes together.

After just 4 sessions, the Stroeer team was capable to take the idea we had together from a simple prototype to a complete proof of concept they tested on the market. The result is creative analyzer: a simple automated process to help their customers get instant feedback on their creatives.

"Our journey in AI started with an AI Academy program for the Corporate Strategy and Innovation team.

We learned how to use AI and to stay focused on our journey, so now we develop several MVPs, test them, and then if we consider them for useful, we can spread them into our organization and share them also with clients."

Anke J. Pätzold

Head of Strategic Operations at Ströer

Watch our interview with Anke

TUV Nord brought an entire team together to build 20 AI prototypes in 8 weeks.

TÜV Nord Group is a German technical service provider with worldwide activities founded in 1869, with more than 10,000 people.

We wanted to get an entire team involved in learning about AI’s potential while building valuable AI projects together, so we enrolled a 20-people team in a custom edition of our Generative AI Project Bootcamp.

With an effort of less than 2 hours per week, everyone managed to build their own AI prototype while learning about AI and gave free space to their creativity by building valuable AI proof of concepts.

"AI Academy facilitated our AI journey by providing us with practical workshops and strategic guidance tailored to our needs. They enabled us to experiment with AI and effectively integrate it into our workflows, starting with small, manageable projects.

Through their support, we were able to foster a culture of innovation and promote critical thinking across our organization, helping us stay ahead in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Their approach has truly empowered us to leverage AI’s potential to its fullest."

Dietmar Schloßer

Director of Digitalization & Innovation at TÜV Nord Group

Watch our interview with Dietmar

Ströer’s Innovation & Strategy team went from “what can AI do for us?” to a new disrupting product in weeks.

TUV Nord brought an entire team together to build 20 AI prototypes in 8 weeks.

What We Actually Do

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

Executive AI Strategy Session

The Executive AI Strategy Session is a half-day, in person, hands-on working session designed to structure your AI Transformation journey and align leadership teams on what AI can realistically deliver, how it should be adopted responsibly, and where to focus investment for impact.

Through a combination of strategic framing, live application with enterprise-grade AI tools, and guided discussions on people, culture, and infrastructure, leaders leave with a shared understanding of AI’s capabilities and limitations, clear strategic priorities for the next 12 months, and concrete next steps to move from experimentation to measurable business value.

AI Adoption Program

We don't just talk about change, we make it happen. We map your workflows, find the AI opportunities others miss, and get your team using AI for real work, not just experiments. Includes workshops, capability mapping, and implementation planning.

At the end of the program, your team will be able to leverage generative AI in their job effectively and confidently, leading to positive outcomes in their efficiency and quality of their work.

AI Agent Bootcamp

AI assistants need proper setup. We teach your people to build AI agents that handle real work inside your business, freeing humans for the work that matters.

They will learn how to design, prototype, and deploy AI agents that are reliable, feasible, and revenue-generating.

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WHAT OUR clientS SAY ABOUT US

"AI Academy was excellent in the way he helped the team get up to speed and at the same level when it came to understanding the technology and was brilliant in helping the teams to think about the stuff they wanted to build."

Francesco Bellanca

Head Of Product @ Sifted

“Gianluca provided a unique experience in sharing both the fascination and the risks of AI in the same presentation.
He turned an impressive performance on stage into a rousing call to action.
His enthusiasm is simply contagious!”

Dietmar Schloßer

Director of Digitalization & Innovation @ TÜV Nord Group

"AI Academy helped us develop a data-driven and Machine Learning-based culture in our company. Their approach is strategic but also extremely concrete, and in a short time helped us take the key steps we needed to get results."

Fabio Pistilli

Head of Data & analytics @ Fater

"It's easy to get caught up on the AI hype, and just do "something with AI". Gianluca puts the user experience first, and he understands how AI can be a part of the solution - and when it can't or shouldn't. ”

Morten Bo Rønsholdt

Co-Founder & CEO @ Tjek

“If AI sounds like a different planet to you, AI Academy knows exactly how to make it THE tool from YOUR planet.”

Agatha Peptea

Strategy & Business Performance Director @ E.ON

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Companies We’ve worked with

Our Approach to AI Transformation

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

We don't do generic "digital transformation" handwaving. We break AI adoption into practical chunks that actually make sense:

We have experience in training teams in ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, Claude, etc..

Real Stories, Real Results

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

Ströer: From Ad Space to AI Innovation

PeopleCert: Surviving the ChatGPT Wave

TÜV NORD: Creating Internal AI Champions

Turner Construction: Building the Future

What we did with our clients

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

Ströer’s Innovation & Strategy team went from “what can AI do for us?” to a new disrupting product in weeks.

TUV Nord brought an entire team together to build 20 AI prototypes in 8 weeks.

Ströer’s Innovation & Strategy team went from “what can AI do for us?” to a new disrupting product in weeks.

TUV Nord brought an entire team together to build 20 AI prototypes in 8 weeks.

What We Actually Do

Peoplecert’s made no small plans and trained 1.400 people on AI.

Executive AI Strategy Session

AI Adoption Program

AI Agent Bootcamp

AI Changemaker Bootcamp

WHAT OUR clientS SAY ABOUT US

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