The Private AI Lab for Change Leaders
A hands-on, intensive workshop designed for leaders navigating AI transformation. Build practical skills, explore real use cases, and develop your AI strategy in a confidential, collaborative environment.
Focused days
2 × 5 hours, in person
2
Focused days
2 × 5
Hours, hands-on
90
Day action plan
In Person
Small groups, practical outcomes
What you'll learn
A focused, practical lab
This isn't another AI overview. It's a focused, practical lab where you'll work directly with AI tools and leave with actionable insights.
AI Strategy Foundations
Understand the current AI landscape and how to position yourself and your organisation for meaningful adoption.
Hands-On Prompt Engineering
Master the art of crafting effective prompts that get better results from AI tools in real workplace scenarios.
Privacy & Risk Awareness
Learn to identify and mitigate AI-related risks while maintaining data privacy in a confidential lab environment.
Leading AI Change
Develop frameworks for bringing AI adoption to your team while addressing resistance and building capability.
Real-World Use Cases
Explore practical applications relevant to your role and industry through guided exercises and peer discussion.
Your Personal Action Plan
Leave with a customised roadmap based on your current capability level and organisational context.
Who is this for?
Built for people driving change
This workshop is designed for professionals who are responsible for driving change and need to understand AI beyond the hype.
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Change Leaders guiding their organisations through digital transformation.
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HR & L&D Professionals building AI capability across their workforce.
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Senior Managers who need practical AI literacy to make informed decisions.
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Consultants & Advisors wanting to better serve clients on AI strategy.
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Innovation Leaders exploring AI opportunities for their organisation.
Why "Private"?
A safe space to explore
Confidential Environment
Discuss real challenges openly without worry. What happens in the lab stays in the lab.
Small Group Format
Intimate cohort ensures personalised attention and meaningful peer connections.
Honest Conversations
No vendor pitches or sales agendas. Just practical guidance and real talk about AI.
Inside the lab
Moments from the room
A look inside recent sessions, where change leaders work hands-on with AI, map real opportunities, and pressure-test ideas together.
The agenda
Two days, built for change leaders
Two focused days (2 × 5 hours) that move you from understanding AI to applying it, building a grounded, practical view of how AI fits into change leadership.
Day 1 · 5 hours
Clarity & Experimentation
- Cut through the hype to understand what AI can and can't do, and where it genuinely adds value.
- See how real risks such as bias, confidentiality and misuse show up in real environments.
- Apply AI to your own work through guided prompting exercises.
- Identify opportunities across the change lifecycle and shape a tangible use case aligned to your role.
- Move from theory to practical design with structured ideation via the GenAI Ideation Canvas.
By the end of Day 1 you'll have shifted from passive awareness to active experimentation, with a clear view of where AI can improve speed, quality and impact.
Day 2 · 5 hours
Execution & Impact
- Refine and test your use case, strengthening your prompting capability.
- Apply structured idea evaluation grounded in industry-leading practice.
- Evaluate what works through peer sharing and facilitated feedback, iterating in real time.
- Overcome practical barriers and bring your ideas to life.
- Leave with a validated use case, working prompts, and practical outputs you can apply immediately.
You'll walk away with a clear 90-day plan to embed AI into your change practice in a safe, structured and value-driven way.
Your facilitators
Co-delivered by two specialists
Mathias
Founder, AI Explorer (AIx)
Mathias Otte is an AI expert who helps people and organisations build genuine AI capability and embed it into how they work. Drawing on over 20 years of large-scale workforce transformation across the banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, and public sectors, he brings together people, technology, and strategy to deliver real results from AI adoption.
Based in Melbourne, he specialises in AI capability building, ethical AI frameworks, and executive education. His core belief is that AI should be native to how teams operate, designed into workflows from the start rather than bolted on as an afterthought.
Raechelle
CEO, Accelerer
Raechelle McLean is an AI and transformation expert who helps people and organisations build genuine AI capability and embed it into how they work. Drawing on over 25 years of large-scale, technology-enabled change across financial services, government, higher education, telco, and utilities, she brings together people, technology, and strategy to turn AI adoption into real results.
Based in Melbourne, she leads Accelerer, an award-winning change consultancy. Her core belief is that the human stays in the loop, with AI designed into workflows from the start rather than bolted on as an afterthought.
Register your interest
Spaces are limited to ensure a quality, intimate experience. Register your interest for the next workshop and we'll be in touch with the details.
Interested in running the Lab in-house for your team? Contact us.
Questions? Contact us at hello@ai-explorer.com.au