AI is easy.
Transformation is hard.

OAO is how great companies transform with AI.

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The challenge

Everyone's working. Nobody's moving.

The great companies of today won't be the great companies of tomorrow unless they move. But most are stuck in yesterday’s loop, unable to move in new directions. Not from lack of capability. They have the ambition and potential, and work harder than ever. Something is missing.

The insight

Why AI-transformation is hard.

Organizations are living entities that lack something most biological systems have: a functioning nervous system. Without it, signals don't flow. The brain can't know what the muscles feel. The muscles can't act on what the brain knows.
 
You've felt this. Decisions that change nothing. Problems that never surface. Everyone is working, nobody is moving.
 
It’s not a people problem. It's a signal problem.

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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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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The solution

Signals flow, organization moves

OAO is the missing nervous system for AI-transformation. It works through AI-powered workshops, where digital agents engage with you and your people at every level. Each workshop is a synapse. Each agent is a nerve. Together they make signals flow. But it isn't about the system, the agents or the workshops. It's about you. The agents sense your barriers and opportunities.
 
Activate your potential. Coordinate your actions and initiatives with others. Making transformation possible from within.

The outcome

What transformation with OAO looks like

OAO builds momentum from repeated cycles of transformation activated from within.

Clarity emerges

Leadership sees reality. Reality hears leadership. No more guessing. No more filtering.

Potential activated

Your people become agents of change, not subjects of it. Ideas surface. Initiative spreads.

Actions coordinated.

Initiatives align without endless meetings. Progress compounds instead of canceling out.

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 was 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

The proof

Great companies in motion.

– OAO has been a valued strategic partner to Sanofi since 2022, equipping us with critical digital and data-driven learning capabilities that enhance our understanding and execution of our modernisation. Their expertise has not only helped reshape the way Sanofians are learning and applying their new skills, but has also played a pivotal role in demystifying and accelerating our journey toward scaling AI across the organization.
Emmanuel Frenehard, EVP Chief Digital Officer, Sanofi 
– Our collaboration with HEC Paris Executive Education and OAO has been critical in transforming our culture from a Data Office Push to a Business Pull to advance on AI
Alexander Vollert, COO AXA Group / CEO AXA Group Operations
– With OAO’s approach to crowdsource innovation we identified and funded an innovative approach to tackle a critical business challenge for us– securing market share for one of our key brands 
Valérie Rizzi-Puéchal, BU Head Primary Care, Pfizer France
– Working with OAO has been success critical to make the case for our BU-AI transformation to achieve scalable value and secure the right investments
Dr. Kourosh Bahrami, President/ CVP Adhesive Technologies Loctite, Henkel
– Working with OAO is pivotal in systematically identifying our most strategic data assets, enabling us to tailor our AI foundation effectively
Hitesh SahniVP, Global Supply Chain & Strategy, Bavarian Nordics

The difference

Transformation through the organization, not to it.

Most transformation is imposed from outside. Consultants arrive. Frameworks descend. Training tells people what to do. It rarely sticks and never scales.
 
Transformation that lasts is activated from within.
 
OAO is built on this view. Enabling organizations to transform themselves. Your people. Your potential. Your transformation momentum.

The creators

The minds behind the system.

OAO is built by a team that merges academic excellence with business leadership-Harvard and MIT graduates, HEC and NHH professors, former BCG consultants, experienced C-suite leaders, and a network of leading creatives and engineers.

The who of OAO

The solution

How it works

OAO integrates upskilling, insight gathering, and leadership support in one elegant, intelligent software solution: Learning generates insights, insights drive decisions, and decisions accelerate transformation ━ from the highest office to where the action happens.

3. Power innovation

... from your own people's domain knowledge and expertise

6. Align strategy & Al

... to improve prioritization, resource allocation

2. Gather insights

... on barriers and potential solutions sourced throughout training

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5. Improve decisions

... with intelligent decision support to adress barriers and identify opportunities

1. Mobilize and empower

... key people with interactive digital training on data & AI

4. Increase clarity

... of leaders as insights become intelligence on barriers and solutions
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Ready to move?

Your organization has everything it needs. Except the system to make it move.

Transformation through the organization.
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The team

The minds behind the machine

OAO is built by a team that merges academic excellence with business leadership-Harvard and MIT graduates, HEC and NHH professors, former BCG consultants, experienced C-suite leaders, and a network of leading creatives and engineers

The Who & Why of OAO

FAQ

How does it work, really?
At every level, digital agents run personal workshops with your people. Same cycle, but different emphasis across the layers. Listen. Learn. Lead. Repeat.

Every cycle sharpens the signal. Every conversation compounds. The organization moves.
Your people.
Learn: world-class content in interactive workshops with digital agents.

Listen: agents capture their views on barriers and opportunities.

Lead: suggest their own ideas for innovation and improvement.
Your leaders
Listen: to insights surfaced from their people below.

Learn: where the real barriers and opportunities are.

Lead: by taking actions addressing what's surfaced.
Your executives
Listen: to signals from across the organization.

Learn: the full picture of what's blocking and enabling progress.

Lead: by making decisions that accelerate momentum.
How is OAO different from a consultancy?
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. OAO see transformation as an inside job. Not something that can be imposed from the outside.

Second, OAO gathers deeper, more educated insights through its reflective workshop approach. Unlike standard assessment surveys, OAO first upskill or contextualize people on data & AI, before capturing their company-specific reflections. Resulting in more meaningful insights.

OAO therefore 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.
How is OAO different from elite executive training?
Two key ways:

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

OAO therefore complements executive programs by extending their impact. When leaders attend elite university programs, OAO helps spread key learnings throughout the organization, and turn it into actual movement. This multiplies the value of your executive education investment.
How is OAO different from online training on data & AI?
Two key ways:

First, OAO delivers elite executive program-style contextualized learning at digital scale. This means reflective, contextualized, and interactive learning that adapts to each participant's role and context. To make the learnings relevant for decisions that can move the company.

Second, OAO 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.