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Run the equation
Blank Collar CertifiedThe flagship. Five weeks, five variables, one rewired role.Director TrackFor executive teams. The 90-day directive.The Literacy TrackArticle 4 compliance with a soul. For the whole company.Open CodexFree. One model, one hour, monthly, live.
OverviewThe honest staircase — a day, a sprint, a cascade.The Executive WorkshopOne day. The equation, run on your company. CHF 9,500 flat.The Equation SprintEight weeks. Audit, heatmap, roadmap, activation.The CascadeThe whole building, one philosophy. How engagements stack.OutcomesWhat we measure, what we publish, what we refuse to claim.
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Director Track

For executive teams. Ninety days, at director altitude — you leave able to direct an AI-shaped org, not just approve a rollout.

Cohort Exec · 12 seats
Sessions Tue · 16:00 CET
Format Live · Zürich + remote
Tuition CHF 2,900
01 / What it is

Don’t appoint a Head of AI.

The fashionable move is to hire one expensive Head of AI and call the org transformed. It is the org chart pretending to be a strategy. The Director Track does the opposite: it builds directing into every leader who already owns the work — so the capability is distributed, not bottlenecked behind one new hire.

Direct the org, not approve a deckYou leave able to direct how AI changes the work — not to nod at a rollout someone else designed.
A directive, not a job titleThe output is a written 90-day directive for your function, not a single appointment that owns everyone else's risk.
A capability that compoundsNinety days that end with the first measured win and the loop in place to repeat it.
02 / The 90-day directive

Ninety days. One directive.

At director altitude the deliverable is not a personal project — it is a directive your organisation can run. Diagnose, direct, compound.

Director Track — the 90-day directiveDiagnose · Direct · Compound
Week · variableWhat happensWhat you produce
Days 1–30Diagnose
Read your own organisation through the equation — where process is eating human experience, where the leverage actually sits, where the work is ready to change.
A P/HX heatmap of the org, by function — what to keep human, what to hand the machine.
Days 31–60Direct
Write the directive. Not a deck, not a vision statement — the decisions: what changes, who owns it, what good looks like, and how a manager activates their team.
A written 90-day directive plus a manager-activation plan your reports can run.
Days 61–90Compound
Ship the first change against the directive, measure it honestly, and set the cadence that makes the second one cheaper than the first.
The first compounding win, measured — with the loop in place to repeat it.
From the IdeaThe equation the directive is built on
03 / The credential

From approver to Blank Collar Director.

Most leaders top out as approvers and sponsors of AI. The Director credential marks the leader who designs how AI changes the work — and is earned with the directive as evidence.

The director ladderapprover → blank collar director
01Approversigns off on AI
02Sponsorfunds the rollout
03Directordesigns how AI changes the work
04Blank Collar Directorthe org runs on the equation
04 / Who's in the room

Twelve peers, one altitude.

The cohort is capped at twelve so the room stays a peer group, not an audience.

The room
  • Function heads, managing directors, and C-level owners of a real transformation.
  • Each one arrives carrying a mandate over real people and a real budget.
  • Capped at twelve, so every voice is in the discussion, not the gallery.
Why peer altitude matters
  • A boardroom problem discussed below the board is a problem mistranslated.
  • The hard parts — politics, headcount, the org chart — only get said among peers.
  • You leave with eleven people who have directed the same change, on call.
05 / Pricing

One price, in public.

No “schedule a call” for a number. A seat is a seat; bringing your team is a conversation.

SeatCHF 2,900 / seatOne executive, the full 90-day Director Track cohort.
  • All live sessions, recorded
  • Your P/HX org heatmap
  • A written 90-day directive
  • A manager-activation plan
  • The Blank Collar Director credential, earned on evidence
Bring your exec teamCustomA private cohort of up to twelve, on your stack, under NDA.
  • Your leadership team, in one room
  • One directive for one organisation
  • Where the Director Track meets The Cascade
06 / Questions

Real answers. Every one.

Executives and senior leaders who will be held accountable for how AI changes their organisation — a function head, a managing director, a C-level owner of a transformation. You should arrive carrying a real mandate over real people, because the work you produce is a directive for your own org.

Certified rewires how one person works, over five weeks, and ends in a personal capstone. The Director Track works at director altitude: ninety days to produce a written directive and a manager-activation plan for your organisation. You leave able to direct an AI-shaped org, not to operate the tools yourself. Many leaders send their teams to Certified and take the Director Track themselves.

One live 90-minute session on Tuesdays at 16:00 CET, plus three to four hours a week applied directly to your own organisation. The work is your directive, not homework — by day 90 you have shipped a real change and measured it.

Yes. We run private exec cohorts of up to twelve, on your stack and under NDA, so the room is your own leadership team working on your own organisation. Note it in your enquiry and we will scope it. For the whole building, this is where the Director Track meets The Cascade.

On enrolment you receive a one-page letter mapping the programme to AI literacy under Article 4 and to a named leadership development line. We invoice your company directly in CHF, with a PO if your procurement needs one.

Both. Sessions run live and remote-first on Tuesdays at 16:00 CET; if you are in Zürich you are welcome in the room. Sessions are recorded for enrolled participants who miss one.

07 / Apply

Twelve seats. One directive.

Applications are read by a human. We reply from a real inbox, usually within two working days.

No tracking, no auto-newsletter. A person reads every application.

From the IdeaThe principles a director directs by

Build directing into every leader.

The Director Track runs 20 October to 27 November 2026, Zürich and remote. Exec cohorts of twelve.

Apply — Director Track→Bring your exec team