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Empowering great companies to conquer data & AI by learning and leading beyond 'business as usual.'
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Business as usual doesn't work with data & AI

Companies respond to slow data & AI progress with the usual solutions: generic online training for employees, elite university programs for executives, and consultants for strategy and execution.

While each plays a role, they all miss the critical barrier to accelerate progress: the disconnect between hierarchy levels. OAO is here to bridge this gap.

Learn and Lead your way to data & AI progress

OAO bridges executive vision with operational reality through an elegant digital solution that integrates learning, insight gathering, and leadership support: Learning generates insights, insights drive decisions, and decisions accelerate transformation.

It connects and aligns your organization on data & AI, from the highest office to where the action happens.
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Upskilling & Educated Insights

A personalized training program that upskills your key people in data & AI while capturing their unique operational insights about company-specific challenges and opportunities.
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Lead

Transparency & Educated Decisions

Insights from training become actionable intelligence for leaders. Powered by intelligent decision support, leaders can craft targeted actions to remove barriers and unlock new opportunities with data & AI.
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Unusual impact, at every level

Empower your organization

Transform key employees into active drivers of your data & AI journey through targeted upskilling and alignment.

Empower your leadership

Equip leaders with actionable insights and decision support to confidently lead your data & AI transformation.

Accelerate your transformation

Break down hierarchical barriers to turn your company's deep domain expertise and rich history into data & AI advantages.

OAO transforms corporate history into corporate future.

Great companies already move beyond business as usual with OAO.
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OAO has helped leading multinationals move beyond business as usual with data & AI.

By the end of 2024, more than 4500 managers across finance, pharma, and consumer goods have been upskilled through the platform. 350+ leaders are using its insights and decision support to drive educated decisions, while Executive Committees leverage aggregated insights to sharpen their data & AI priorities.

Multiple innovations discovered through OAO have been successfully implemented, proving how companies can transform their domain expertise into data & AI advantage

Get ready for business as unusual

Curious of how your company can go beyond business as usual to succeed with data & AI?
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The people behind OAO.

OAO merges academic excellence with business leadership. Built by Harvard and MIT graduates, HEC and NHH professors, ex-BCG'ers - and a network of leading creatives, engineers and experienced leaders.
The Who & Why of OAO

FAQ

How is OAO's training different from online trainings on data & AI?
OAO's training stands apart from generic online training in two key ways:

First, it delivers elite executive program-style learning at digital scale. This means reflective, contextualized, and interactive learning that adapts to each participant's role and context.

Second, it captures participants' reflections and ideas during the learning process, transforming domain expertise into valuable insights about company-specific roadblocks and opportunities with data & AI.

While traditional online training offers broad coverage and cost-effectiveness, OAO provides the deeper, contextualized learning needed to unlock domain expertise. As a focused solution, OAO complements existing online training, and you can even integrate your current L&D portfolio into the OAO Learn journey.
How is OAO different from elite executive training for leaders?
OAO's training differs from elite executive programs in two key ways:

First, it scales the reflective, contextualized learning style of elite programs across your organization. Instead of limiting these powerful learning approaches to a select few leaders, OAO makes them available throughout your company.

Second, it captures and retains the insights generated when theory meets practice. While executive programs create valuable insights, these often leave with the participant. OAO ensures these insights stay within your company and drive better decisions.

OAO complements executive programs by extending their impact. When leaders attend elite university programs, OAO helps spread key learnings throughout the organization, creating a shared understanding and common language around data & AI. This multiplies the value of your executive education investment.
How is OAO different from a consultancy?
OAO differs from traditional consultancies in two key ways:

First, it puts your leaders at the center of data & AI transformation. Rather than outsourcing leadership, OAO empowers your leaders to own the topic and drive decisions themselves.

Second, it gathers deeper, more educated insights through its reflective training approach. Unlike standard assessment surveys, OAO first upskills people on data & AI, then captures their company-specific reflections, resulting in more meaningful insights.

OAO complements rather than replaces consultancy services. When leaders truly own their data & AI transformation, consultants become more valuable partners - supporting leadership rather than substituting for it. This partnership approach maximizes the impact of both internal leadership and external expertise.
Are OAO Learn and Lead two different products?
No. OAO is one integrated digital solution that connects learning and leading to align your organization's data & AI efforts across hierarchy levels.

Learn is the training component that upskills and empowers key employees while capturing their unique insights about roadblocks and opportunities.

Lead is the decision support component that transforms these insights into actionable intelligence, helping leaders make educated decisions to remove barriers and unlock new opportunities.

Together, they form a seamless cycle: learning generates insights, insights drive decisions, and decisions accelerate transformation. This integration is what makes OAO unique - it doesn't just connect hierarchy levels, it turns this connection into tangible progress.