Practical AI training your team will use

No slides. No tutorials. Executive sessions and small group coaching, live on your own work, ending in workflows your team keeps.

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Stefano Piano

Stefano Piano
AI practitioner · Adjunct Professor · Former OECD expert

The Gap

Most are experimenting. Few are winning.

McKinsey · State of AI, 2025
88%

of companies now use AI regularly.

PwC Global CEO Survey, 2026
12%

of CEOs have seen an impact on both costs and revenue.

Professionals struggle to combine ambition for AI with the practical understanding to put it to work. And the training on offer does not close that gap, because it comes in two flavours:

Option 1 / Theory

“AI will change everything”

Inspiring keynote-style awareness. But you walk out with nothing concrete to act on.

Option 2 / Technique

“Click here, press that”

Tool tutorials and how-tos. Useful mechanics, but no strategic judgement about what matters.

I work in the missing middle: you experience what AI can do, then decide what to do about it. I show you how to incorporate AI like a team member.

What I Offer

Two ways of working together

Executive session

3 hours · In person · For decision-makers
Stefano Piano delivering an executive session

Three hours, no slides. We solve a real strategic problem your organisation is facing, live, and you leave with three things worth doing.

  1. A live demonstration, with AI applied to a problem your organisation is grappling with right now.
  2. Case studies of organisations like yours.
  3. Facilitation that moves your leadership team from scattered opinions to three concrete, prioritised actions.

See me in action at Pycon, a major tech conference with 250+ people in attendance.

Small group coaching

10 hours · Groups of 10 to 15
Stefano Piano teaching a small group session

Over ten hours, I accompany a small group to AI proficiency. Each participant develops two use cases from their own work, through a step-by-step curriculum:

  1. The bases of prompting.
  2. Setting up agents and assistants.
  3. An overview of the AI stack.
  4. Bringing everything together in AI workflows.

The cadence adjusts to your team's needs and availability.

See a short demo of AI applied to coaching.

Case Study · MUFG

60 senior bankers, project financing, London

A session for the project financing division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.

1

Live Copilot demo

We ran Copilot live on the division's own work: the assessment of a wind farm.

2

Reverse prompting

A two-hour exercise in which the bankers used AI to solve a problem that mattered to them.

3

What it means for them

An open conversation on where this could be useful in their work.

Stefano Piano
About

Stefano Piano

I am an AI practitioner and economist. Most recently I led the world's largest practical AI community at Mindstone, where I designed and delivered 20+ AI demos and workshops, including for leadership teams at The Home Depot, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and the Pritzker Organisation.

I am an Adjunct Professor at ISEP, the top school for software engineers in Paris, and I have taught or presented at Harvard, Kedge, Pycon and Vivatech, among others. I spent five years at the OECD working on the future of work, skills and new technologies, began my career as an economist at Frontier Economics, and hold degrees from the LSE, Cambridge and Warwick.

See me in action: a live demo on the future of work in Lisbon, and the Practical AI Summit I hosted with Human X.

32,000+

AI community members led

Fortune 100

C-suites trained

10+

future-of-work publications

Let's scope your session

A 30-minute call to tailor the session to your priorities, your attendees and your timing. Includes pre-session consultation, full customisation and follow-up materials.

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Or reach me directly: stefano@stefanopiano.com