No slides. No tutorials. Adoption consultations, executive sessions, small group coaching and adoption plans, live on your own work, so that AI becomes part of how your organisation operates.
Executive sessions in person, anywhere in Europe. Small group coaching online or hybrid. In English, French and Italian.
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Stefano Piano
Former OECD expert · Author, Developing Skills for Digital Government
of complex government transactions can be automated through AI tools.
of government leaders believe that their organisation has strong AI expertise.
AI has great potential for government, but civil servants often don't know what is possible. And the training on offer does not close that gap, because it comes in two flavours:
I work in the missing middle: you experience what AI can do, then decide what to do about it. A consultation on your needs and tools, an executive session for the leadership, coaching for your teams or a full adoption plan: each stands on its own, and you start where you need to.
Directors-general, secretaries-general and executive committees who need to move from scattered opinions about AI to a small number of concrete priorities. This is the executive session.
Policy officers, HR, finance, communications and operations staff who want to use AI on their actual work, not in the abstract. This is the small group coaching: AI training for civil servants that ends in working workflows, not certificates.
Everyone has access to the tools, and the work has not changed. This is the AI adoption plan: six months in which I train your champions, then train them to train the rest, and we redesign the work together.
I have advised 15+ governments on skills and digital transformation, and I deliver AI training for international organisations and multilaterals in English, French and Italian.
They are not steps in a sequence. Each stands on its own and I run each of them, so you start where you need to, and combine them if it helps.
We discuss together your AI needs and understand which tools are best suited to your organisation, and for what purpose.
It stands on its own. If you want to go further, an executive session, small group coaching or a full adoption plan can follow, in whatever order fits.
Three hours, no slides. We solve a real strategic problem your organisation is facing, live, and you leave with three things worth doing.
I run this AI workshop for government leaders in ministries, agencies and public bodies, in person, anywhere in Europe.
See me in action at Pycon, a major tech conference with 250+ people in attendance.
Each participant builds two AI solutions on their own work, and uses them straight away. Your organisation comes out with a map of what is worth automating, and with the people who will do it.
For civil servants who already use tools like ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini in their daily work, at any level of seniority.
The cadence adjusts to your team's needs and availability.
See a short demo of AI applied to coaching.
A session changes the people in the room. An adoption plan changes how the organisation works. I work with you from the start, and the plan is built so that your own people carry it on without me:
The plan follows the ten principles of AI adoption I drew from how governments, international organisations, banks, consultancies and pharmaceutical companies have made AI stick.
Read the ten principles, free against your email.
As project manager, I oversaw a programme on the digital transformation of INPS, designing a training pilot to inform an actionable training plan for a workforce of 20,000+ civil servants.
Civil servants from central and regional offices, across seniority levels, in hybrid format.
Recognising the potential of digital transformation, understanding users and their needs, and collaborating openly for agile delivery.
Reaction and learning measured through baseline and endline surveys, to a standard used across government.
overall effectiveness
value for time
Net Promoter Score (above 50 is excellent)
facilitator rating
Not theory, and not tool tutorials. I demonstrate AI live on work your teams recognise: policy documents, briefing packs, consultation responses. Participants then apply it to their own work. Four formats: an AI adoption consultation to understand your AI needs and the tools best suited to them, a three-hour executive session for leadership teams, eight to sixteen hours of small group coaching that takes civil servants to AI proficiency, and a six-month AI adoption plan that changes how the organisation works. Each stands on its own, so you start where you need to.
The executive session is for senior leadership: directors-general, executive committees, agency boards. The coaching works at every level. The INPS pilot deliberately mixed central and regional offices across seniority levels, and the mix improved the results.
It depends on the format, the cohort size and the location, so I scope it on a free 30-minute call. The price always includes pre-session consultation, full customisation to your organisation, follow-up materials and a post-session AI adoption roadmap. There are no hidden extras.
The executive session is always in person, and I travel to any major European city to run it. The small group coaching runs online or hybrid, adjusted to your team's cadence and availability.
English, French and Italian.
Safe usage is part of the training, not an afterthought. Demonstrations run on public documents or safe replicas, never on material your organisation has not cleared, and I work within your existing tools and data policies.
I am tool-agnostic. If your organisation has Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, we work with what you have. An overview of the AI stack is part of the curriculum, so your teams understand the landscape beyond any single tool.
I evaluate against the Kirkpatrick model with baseline and endline surveys. In the INPS pilot this produced 4.6/5 overall effectiveness, 8.6/10 value for time and a Net Promoter Score of 69, where above 50 is excellent.
A session changes the people in the room. An adoption plan changes how the organisation works. Over six months I work with you from the start: we name the owner who answers for the outcome, select champions across teams, choose the tasks that matter and take a baseline. I train the champions, then train them to train their own teams, and we redesign one real workflow at a time. You need one when your people have access to AI and the work has not changed.
Yes. I have advised 15+ governments on skills and digital transformation, and I deliver AI training for international organisations and multilaterals. The executive session runs in person, in Paris or at your headquarters. The coaching runs online or hybrid, in English, French and Italian.
Every engagement includes follow-up materials and, for the executive session, a post-session AI adoption roadmap, so the three priorities your team converged on turn into work that actually happens.
I am an author of the OECD's Developing Skills for Digital Government, the definitive paper on digital skills in public administration. At the OECD I advised 15+ governments on skills and digital transformation, and my work has shaped learning for more than 100 million people.
More recently, I led the world's largest practical AI community at Mindstone, designing, delivering and assisting 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, Paris's top school for software engineers, and I have delivered lectures, panel interventions and AI demos at Harvard, Kedge, Pycon, Vivatech and SMAU, and other conferences.
See me in action: a live demo on the future of work in Lisbon.
governments advised
people's learning shaped
civil servants in scope of training strategies
A 30-minute call to tailor the session to your priorities, your attendees and your timing. Includes pre-session consultation, full customisation, follow-up materials and a post-session AI adoption roadmap.
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