Training that changes what your people do on Monday.
Premium training and development for leaders and professionals at every level, practitioner-led and built on the same management disciplines The SMO advises on.
Applied AI training, built around the job.
Built around your role
Enter at the level that matches your responsibility, from professionals using AI in their own work to managers and senior leaders accountable for it.
Your function, your sector
Exercises reflect the work participants actually do, with scenarios adapted across management functions and realistic sector environments.
Designed for application
Each course is built around practical decisions and exercises participants take back into their organisation, not just an understanding of AI.
Five ways to train with us.
Applied AI Training for Management
Foundation courses booking nowA progressive programme of twelve AI courses across four levels, from foundation training for professionals and managers through practitioner, advanced and executive leadership. Courses apply AI across strategy, risk, operations, projects, finance and performance.
Explore our coursesCorporate Bespoke Training
Training tailored around your organisation’s priorities, roles, challenges and real working context, so teams apply the learning directly to the situations they manage every day.
EnquireStrategy Retreats
Facilitated offsite sessions that take a leadership team from disagreement to an aligned, written strategy, away from the daily inbox.
EnquireConferences & Forums
Sector-specific forums that bring practitioners, regulators and vendors into the same room around a shared strategic theme.
EnquireThe Annual SMO Summit
Our flagship annual gathering, bringing together clients and partners across all three businesses to share what is working in strategy, capability and AI.
Register interestNine sector-specific tracks.
Government
Strategy, performance, service delivery, governance and organisational change for public-sector leaders.
Banking
Where risk, performance, governance, customer expectations and strategic decisions intersect.
Healthcare
Leadership, performance, operational pressure, risk and strategic decisions in healthcare organisations.
Education
Strategy, leadership, organisational performance and transformation in educational institutions.
Energy
Operational complexity, performance, strategic investment, risk and leadership across the energy sector.
Telecoms
Technology change, performance, customer expectations and strategic growth in fast-moving telecoms.
Retail
Customer experience, operational performance, commercial decisions and changing market conditions.
Professional Services
Client delivery, people leadership, growth, performance and strategic decisions in advisory firms.
Property
Investment decisions, project delivery, market conditions, performance and strategic growth.
Four reasons clients come back.
Executive network
Learn alongside senior leaders across diverse industries.
Practitioner-led
Every programme is delivered by experts with 15+ years of real-world impact.
Counts towards CPD
Documented contact hours that may count towards your continuing professional development, once approved through your organisation’s CPD process, usually via HR.
Built for impact
Leave with frameworks and tools you can apply immediately.
Plan a programme for your organisation.
Tell us about your team and we will propose the right mix of courses, bespoke training, retreats or forums. The first conversation is free.
training@thesmoevents.com