New Training Course – Generative AI for Executives and Managers

This comprehensive, structured training course will teach you how to master generative AI and transform your organization.

The objective: To enable executives and managers to gain a practical understanding of what generative AI can do, to use it effectively in their daily work, and to identify and prioritize opportunities for integrating AI into their organization (departments, processes, business lines), while addressing governance, data, and adoption challenges.

Objectives

• Rapid and structured skill development
• Immediate applicability: Tools and methods that can be applied right away
• Real-world projection: Strong focus on actual business use cases
• Practical Application: Exercises between sessions to reinforce learning and put it into practice
• Operational vision: emerge with a clear understanding of opportunities, levers for action, and operational frameworks

Target audience

This training is designed for professionals in decision-making and management roles:

• SME/mid-market executives: Business leaders looking to integrate AI into their strategy
• Senior Executives: Members of Executive Committees and Strategic Leaders
• Department Heads: Managers of departments and operational units
• Managers: Team leaders and project managers

Trainer

Thibaut Patouillard

As the head of a consulting firm specializing in the operational integration of artificial intelligence, Thibaut Patouillard has been helping executives at small and medium-sized businesses and mid-market companies apply AI in practical, day-to-day ways for several years.

His approach is resolutely pragmatic: he starts with the business functions, existing processes, and the company’s real-world constraints. He provides both training and strategic guidance to help turn AI into a measurable driver of productivity.

His expertise is based on real-world use cases, rather than theoretical approaches or gimmicks.

Program

This micro-certification consists of 23 hours of in-person training, divided into one full day (7 hours) and four half-days (4 hours each), with one half-day per week.

Deliverables

Each participant receives a comprehensive set of practical tools to continue their work after the training:

• Analysis templates: task analysis templates, objectives, and KPIs
• AI Policy: AI Policy Template
• Action Plan: Template for an Adoption Plan and Roadmap
• Assistant models: GPT models / assistants
• Audit checklist: GPT templates / guides
• Additional resources: other materials and supplementary documents

Training session

A training session is scheduled for this year:

• September 14, 2026 – 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• September 17, 2026 – 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• September 24, 2026 – 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• October 1, 2026 – 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
• October 8, 2026 – 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Are you interested in this training course?

Applications, administrative and academic questions: contact sfc-formations@umontpellier.fr