What if the real power of AI isn't in the answers it gives us, but in the questions it helps us ask ourselves?

A six-week programme for executives who want to think better with AI.

DURATION

6 weeks

Online + live virtual

Programme Fee

15,000 AED/$4000/£3000

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Enrollment

July 8, 2026 for September cohort

September 8, 2026 for November cohort


There are many AI training courses that teach tools, workflows and prompts. None of them address the real problem: people are using AI to avoid thinking. This programme is different.

We teach people to be curious in dialogue with AI, to hold productive friction, and to use it to go deeper into their own thinking rather than shortcut it. This is about building the distinctly human capabilities of critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, the ability to ask better questions, that will determine who remains valuable as AI handles more cognitive work.

Modules


Module 1 - Week 1

Deeper Thinking

How to engage with AI as a thinking partner. Asking better questions, productive friction.

Ashley Pollak

Module 2 - Week 2

Friction

Taking well-formed questions and moving from challenge to solution.

Karina Borg Oliver

Module 3 - Week 3

The Science of AI

How AI systems are built and what that means for how you use them.

Ariana Bermudez Venegas

Module 4 - Week 4

Productivity

Reducing cognitive load & building systems that free you to think.

Chris Murphy

Module 5 - Week 5

Possibility

Discovering what can be created with AI, and how, in the hands of a commercial artist.

Sherry Horowitz

Module 6 - Week 6

Slow thinking

Where your thinking ends and AI's begins. The value of the gap, of stepping back.

Alastair Jack


How it works.


Two hour live sessions, one per week, fully interactive. No pre recorded lectures.

Six live lessons


All modules carry independent CPD accreditation.

CPD accredited


A dedicated hour with a mentor mid-programme, focused on the challenge you are bringing to the programme to solve.

One-to-one mentoring


All sessions recorded. Attend live or watch the recording and complete the exercises to achieve a CPD accreditation. Lifetime access after completing the programme.

On-demand access


One month after completion of the programme to explore current challenges & ensure the thinking sticks

Follow up mentor session


A growing network of curious executives who are continuing to push the possibilities of AI within their organisations.

Alumni community

Your tutors


Ashley

Former Head of Creative at MBZUAI, the world's first dedicated AI research university. A creative director with over 20 years producing video & audio for broadcasters, brands, cultural institutions and universities. Experience building communities and facilitating dialogue around creativity and technology.


Ariana

PhD researcher and machine learning scientist at MBZUAI, , working at the cutting edge of AI and computer vision What makes her rare is her ability to bring the science AI to life for curious, non-scientists in ways that change how they think about and use the technology.


Sherry

Award-winning creative strategist, artist and 2025 Bammy Award winner for creative use of AI in advertising. A leading voice on what becomes possible when creative intelligence and artificial intelligence work together.


Chris

A designer and studio leader with fifteen years working across APAC and EMEA, who has built his practice around a single conviction: that AI works best as a co-designer, not a replacement. Keeping craft intact while creating the systems and ways of working that let creative teams go deeper, move faster, and produce sharper work.


Karina

An accomplished marketer and finance professional whose career spans property, investment and early-stage ventures across three continents.

Since 2022 she has been applying AI in practice across a number of startup businesses, developing a hands-on understanding of what the technology actually does when put to work. Her approach is pragmatic and results-driven


Alastair

Entrepreneur with a career built across luxury hospitality and digital innovation. A decade living in Ibiza has shaped how he thinks about AI, slowness, and what it means to know your own mind in a world that keeps accelerating.

Programme fee

15,000 aed
$4000
£3000

Pay in 3 installments

Duration

6 weeks - Online + live virtual


Enrollment

July 8, 2026 for September cohort

September 8, 2026 for November cohort

Team based learning

Build AI thinking capability across your organisation

This AI programme is designed to work at scale. Whether you are developing a leadership cohort or rolling the programme out across departments, we work closely with talent development and HR teams to structure enrolment around your capability goals - with team pricing, centralised invoicing and progress reporting built in.

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Start here.

Everything we teach in this programme starts with a question. So does our book. AI for Deeper Thinking makes the case that the most valuable thing you can develop right now is not your AI skills but your own judgment, curiosity and capacity to think.

If you want to understand our approach before you apply, start here.