Why I Teach this
Here's what I see in almost every organization right now: the tools arrived faster than the understanding. Teams are experimenting, some people are quietly scared, budgets are shifting, and leaders are expected to have answers to questions they've barely had time to form themselves.
That is not a technology problem. That is a clarity problem. And clarity problems are what I've worked on for 17 years.
When everything around your people is shifting, your job as a leader is to make the shift understandable — what changes, what doesn't, what it means for us. That's why I teach this program: not as a technologist, but as someone whose craft is making complex things simple enough to act on.
What Makes My Sessions Different
I developed this program together with Sohrab Salimi and the Agile Academy, and when I'm in the room, you get my way of teaching it.
I draw the whole thing. What an AI agent actually is, how the economics work, where governance enables instead of blocks, every concept becomes a picture, live, in front of you. Not because it's pretty. Because a leadership team that has seen the same picture leaves with a shared understanding, not twelve private interpretations.
My AI experience is hands-on, not theoretical. I've taught this very program myself — and I use AI daily in my own work: publishing, my neuro-healing work after the stroke, running my business, growing and learning. Not the work I love most, though: the writing and drawing stay in my hands, with AI as a sparring partner, never a ghostwriter. I work with ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Abundly — the same agent platform you'll build with during the program, where I've been trained and am a partner. So when we talk about what AI can and can't do, I teach from that practice, including the places where it failed me first.
You build, you don't just listen. The program is hands-on by design: you work with real AI agents during the two days, and you leave with a concrete action plan for your organization, plus coaching sessions afterwards to turn it into reality.
Who It's For
Executives, board members, and transformation leads who need to personally lead their organization's AI transformation — not delegate it to consultants or wait for the dust to settle. If you've been in one of my presentation trainings or workshops before: this is the same craft, applied to the biggest leadership shift of our time.
Two Ways to Join
In-house, with your leadership team
This is where the program works best, in my experience: your whole leadership team in one room, working on your strategic context, your industry, your real questions. Shared pictures, shared language, shared plan.
If that's what you're considering, write me directly — we'll have a short call about your situation, and I'll tell you honestly whether the program fits.
Write Holger about an in-house program
Public training dates
Prefer to join as an individual, or want to experience the program before bringing it in-house? Public dates run through the Agile Academy — including cohorts I teach personally.
See upcoming dates at the Agile Academy →
If you found the program through me, feel free to mention it when you book — it helps us know where you're coming from.
A Note on Where This Comes From
AI for Leaders is a program by the Agile Academy, built together with my long-time friend and business partner Sohrab Salimi. I'm one of its senior trainers and partners. This page is my perspective on it. If you want the full curriculum, certification details, and all available dates, the Academy's site has everything. This page exists to offer you the one thing you can't book anywhere else: an in-house training with me personally as your trainer.
What We Actually Do in the Two Days
This is a leaders-only program, and it's hands-on from the first minute, you don't watch slides about AI, you use it throughout. Before we even meet, you prepare on Campus with Henrik, the Academy's AI coach. Then, across two days, we work through five things every leader needs to have clear:
- What's actually changing. Not the hype, the real shift in how work gets done and how organizations create value. Why the cost of doing is collapsing, and why deciding what to do becomes the skill that matters. And why the window to act is open now, but closing.
- How AI actually works — enough to make strategic decisions, not enough to become a technologist. What a large language model is, what an AI agent really is, and the difference between a personal assistant and an organization running a fleet of agents.
- What it costs. Real pricing, real numbers. Tokens, subscriptions, enterprise usage, and the one asymmetry that reframes every AI budget conversation: the cost of the tools is almost nothing next to the cost of not adopting them.
- How to govern it. The real risks: hallucinations, data privacy, bias, over-reliance — and how clear guidelines actually speed up experimentation instead of slowing it. Governance as the thing that unlocks AI, not the thing that blocks it.
- Your role in leading it. Why leaders have to go first, and what "enablement before empowerment" means in practice. You leave with a concrete action plan for unlocking AI in your organization, not a generic checklist.
Throughout, you build real AI agents on the Abundly platform: your agents, on your account, ready to use Monday morning. And you bring your own questions and challenges into the room, which is where the best learning always happens.
It doesn't end after two days. The program includes two one-on-one coaching sessions to turn insight into action in your specific context, a year of access to Henrik and the full leadership curriculum, and a community of leaders working through the same shift. The two days are the start of a year-long journey.