The Thesmo Training
Courses Pathway
A single, coherent programme of AI training for management — from the professional using AI in their own work to the executive accountable for it at board level.
A pathway, not a course
Most AI training is a single course. You attend, you leave, and six months later nothing has changed.
Thesmo training courses are built as a pathway. You enter at the level that matches your role, and each tier assumes what the one below it taught. A team can be trained coherently — junior staff, their managers, and the directors above them — without three providers and three contradictory sets of advice.
Four tiers, twelve courses, plus a separate series of one-day executive briefings that sit outside the pathway and require no prerequisite.
Tier 1 — Foundation
For everyone. No prerequisites. Start here.
Which One?
TAA-101 if you use AI in your own work. TAA-102 if you are accountable for other people's. TAA-103 if you want the full management landscape and help deciding which Practitioner course to take next.
Tier 2 — Practitioner
Your discipline, transformed by AI. Six courses, one per management discipline: strategy, risk, operations, projects, finance and performance. Take the one that matches your role.
Take one, or take several. Two Practitioner courses is the recommended preparation for Tier 3.
Delivered on PRiSM
These courses are delivered on PRiSM, our own strategy and performance platform. You will not be shown screenshots — you will work in a live system on real management data.
Tier 3 — Advanced
Prerequisite: any Foundation course, plus any one Practitioner course — that is, any one of strategy, risk, operations, projects, finance or performance.
The AI-Augmented Manager
Where the six Practitioner disciplines come together. Tier 2 teaches AI within one discipline. Most senior managers do not have the luxury of one: a decision about operations changes the risk position, which changes the financial forecast, which changes what the strategy can promise.
TAA-301 is for managers who have applied AI in one of those areas and now have to lead across several — bringing strategy, risk, operations, projects, finance and performance into a single view, and knowing which AI-generated signal to trust when two of them disagree.
Tier 4 — Leadership and Executive
AI Strategy for Senior Leaders
Prerequisite TAA-301 (The AI-Augmented Manager), or extensive senior management experience. Governance frameworks, investment appraisal, transformation programme design.
AI Leadership: Executive Immersion
For senior executives. Five days, and the capstone of the pathway. An in-person residential format is available for GCC clients.
Completing the pathway leads to the Thesmo Training Courses Management AI Practitioner Certificate
The B-Series — Executive Briefings
One day. Senior audience. Delivered privately to your organisation. No prerequisites, and no place in the pathway — deliberately.
Private In-House Delivery
Designed for senior leadership teams who need a focused, high-value briefing tailored to their organisation, without entering the full training course pathway.
Why the B-Series Exists
Some questions do not need a certificate. A director who has to authorise an autonomous system next quarter needs one focused day, not a tier ladder.
The Monday Morning Test
Every module is built against one question: what will you do differently on Monday morning? Content that cannot answer it does not make it into the room.
Simulations, Not Slides
Every course includes interactive exercises where you make judgements and find out where your instincts serve you and where they do not.
A Follow-Up Thirty Days Later
We come back to the commitment you made and ask how it went. Almost no provider does this, which is precisely why most training changes nothing.
Sourced, Not Asserted
Figures come from Stanford's AI Index, the World Economic Forum, PwC and peer-reviewed studies. Facilitators are briefed on which findings are contested. Challenge a number and you will get a straight answer.
Built by Practitioners
Thesmo training courses are developed by Thesmo AI Consultancy and Training LLC — a firm that builds AI systems and advises on strategy and performance. The examples come from that work.
Your function, your sector
Every practical exercise across every course is set in the work you actually do. Delegates choose their function at the start; the scenarios follow.
Scenarios are built around nine detailed fictional organisations — fictional so the work can be realistic without being anyone's, and so nothing discussed in the room is about a real employer.
Delivery
Live Online, Facilitator-Led
All courses are delivered live online, facilitator-led, in two three-hour sessions per day with a break between. Cohorts are capped so everyone can speak.
Corporate In-House
Available for every course, on your dates, for your organisation only. Delivery is tailored for your team and can include case material adapted to your sector.
You help decide what launches first
Courses marked 2027 are in development. Register your interest and you will hear first when dates open — and you will help decide the order in which they launch, because we schedule against demand rather than guesswork.