A one-day workshop for your teams

Answers are abundant.Judgment is essential.

A one-day workshop for your leadership team and experienced managers. Develop a shared way to structure complex problems, communicate clearly and exercise judgment before acting, including when AI contributes to the answer.

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Private company workshops, built around shared leadership challenges.

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The human advantage

Take a day to examine how you reach a decision.

Who we work with

HEC Paris
London Business School
PwC
IDEMIA

A workshop for your company

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01 / Why now

More answers. More need for judgment.

AI can produce research, analysis, recommendations and polished communication. The value of senior judgment increasingly lies in defining the question, structuring the problem and deciding what deserves attention.

That means testing assumptions and hypotheses, separating signal from noise and turning facts into implications. It also means checking whether the evidence supports a recommendation, and whether an AI-generated answer is ready to use, needs verification or should be rejected.

As answers become easier to produce, strong reasoning becomes more valuable.

02 / The workshop

One day. Five disciplines.

Your team follows one connected executive case from the first question to a decision it can defend. Individual thinking, small-group work and instructor feedback help colleagues compare and improve their reasoning.

  • In person or online
  • A connected executive case
  • Practice & instructor feedback

Indicative agenda · 09:00–17:30

  1. Frame

    Frame the right problem

    What are we actually trying to solve?

  2. Short break
  3. Structure

    Structure complexity

    How can we break the problem into questions we can answer?

  4. Prioritize

    Focus on what matters

    What should we investigate first?

  5. Lunch
  6. Synthesize

    Turn information into insight

    So what?

  7. Short break
  8. Challenge & Decide

    Challenge the answer before acting

    Is this good enough to act on?

  9. Apply

    Your decision toolkit

    Turn the approach into a personal decision toolkit.

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Timings are indicative, with lunch and short breaks included.

Tools for your next decision

  • Problem-framing template
  • Structured problem-solving framework
  • Hypothesis and prioritization method
  • Executive synthesis format
  • Recommendation and AI review checklist
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03 / For your organisation

Give your teams a shared way to think.

For leadership teams and the HR, learning and development leaders who support them. A practical day to build shared habits of problem solving, communication and decision-making.

Private company workshops

For your leadership teams and managers

Bring colleagues together around the decisions they face in strategy, transformation and AI adoption. Practise framing the same problem, testing assumptions and presenting a recommendation clearly.

Pricing on request for teams

We’ll discuss your objectives, participants and practical arrangements before preparing a quote.

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The role of AI

AI changes the answer. Not the responsibility.

AI can generate an analysis, recommendation or argument in seconds. You still need to assess the question, the reasoning and the assumptions, then decide what to verify before acting. Throughout the day, AI-generated work gives you material to test and challenge.

No coding or technical AI background required. This is not a prompting course.

Before acting on an answer

“Is this good enough to act on?”

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Adrien Foucault, founder and workshop instructor
Adrien FoucaultFounder & workshop instructor

04 / Your instructor

Your instructor, Adrien Foucault.

I’m a former McKinsey consultant and Harvard MBA. Through Spaik, the AI transformation boutique I founded, I advise senior leaders on strategy and transformation.

I also lecture on AI in business at HEC Paris and Sciences Po. The workshop draws on ways of thinking I developed through strategy consulting, executive work and teaching, adapted to the decisions senior leaders face.

  • Former McKinsey consultant
  • Harvard MBA
  • Founder of Spaik
  • Lecturer · HEC Paris & Sciences Po
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Credentials describe Adrien’s experience. No institutional endorsement or partnership is implied.

What participants say

★★★★★

The practice cases were great.

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Terrific. Clear frameworks and ways to use them in our professional life.

★★★★★

Very good content, concise delivery, and opportunities to put what we learned into practice.

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For your leadership teams and managers

A day for your team. Better habits for every decision.

Tell us about your team and the questions it faces. We’ll discuss how the workshop could fit your development plans and prepare a quote.

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