Don’t Burn Your Org: How You Can Start AI The Right Way

Hosted by Oscar Garcia and Sergey Völker

Thu, Mar 5, 2026

5:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Assess Your Team’s Real Readiness for AI

Learn how to surface cultural, authority, and risk constraints before committing to AI tools or strategy.

Design a Safe, Time-Boxed AI Pilot

Learn how to scope an AI pilot that enables learning without performance pressure or premature adoption.

Turn Pilot Learnings Into Clear Next Steps

Learn how to interpret signals, explain ROI, and decide what to scale, stop, or revisit with confidence.

Why this topic matters

Managers are expected to act on AI, yet many feel overwhelmed by tools and expectations. Doing nothing risks falling behind; choosing poorly wastes time and credibility. Teams aren't lacking permission, they lack a clear way to decide what’s worth trying. Starting well requires a mindset shift: from hype to evidence and structured learning. This session shows how to start right with a pilot.

You'll learn from

Oscar Garcia

3x Founder. Head of Product Design shaping how teams work.

Hello. I'm Oscar. I’ve created and sold two companies. 8 years ago I moved to Berlin to work as Head of Product Design, supporting teams in complex enterprise environments through change and growth. I've led initiatives at the intersection of product, systems, and organizational design, focusing on how teams make decisions, adopt new ways of working, and operate under uncertainty.


My experience spans building organizations from the ground up as well as evolving existing systems in complex contexts.


In this course, students benefit from my hands-on perspective on designing structures that enable learning, alignment, and sustainable execution inside real teams to achieve real measurable results.


Sergey Völker

Psychology, Agility and AI. Leading organizations and teams through complexity

Hi, I'm Sergey. I bridge the gap between strategy, technical implementation and organizational systems. My background spans engineering and organizational psychology, so I can translate executive strategy into operational workflows and back.


I've spent six years managing cross-functional programs at Deutsche Bahn and four years driving delivery across 20+ teams in fintech. Now, I'm focused on AI transformation work, moving from infrastructure coordination to helping organizations adopt new tools and mindset.


This course pulls from mistakes I've made rolling things out in production. I'll walk you through what worked, what didn't, and what to watch for so you can skip the expensive learning curve and get to implementation patterns that deliver.

AI, Org Change, Leadership, AI Adoption

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