Lena Shakurova

Training

Corporate AI training
your teams will
actually use.

Bespoke in-company AI training and transformation programs — from lunch & learn sessions to half-day, full-day, and multi-day workshops, up to a company-wide AI literacy track designed and delivered from start to finish. In Amsterdam, across the Netherlands and Europe, or online.

I hold a research degree in Artificial Intelligence and have built with AI for 8 years — so I can explain why models behave the way they do, not just show your teams the tools.

I'm usually booked about 3 months in advance, so reach out early.

Lena leading a hands-on corporate AI workshop at Textkernel
150+
professionals trained
2
online courses created
110+
organisations helped
8 years
in AI

What I offer

One workshop or a whole program — built for your organisation

Corporate AI training

Bespoke in-company workshops & lectures

Hands-on AI upskilling for product, engineering, leadership, and business teams — role-based training per department. Every session is built for your organisation: your AI maturity level, your stack, your data, and your actual use cases — never an off-the-shelf deck.

  • Custom methodologies and frameworks your teams keep using after the session
  • Content tailored to your industry, tools, and real workflows
  • Depth adjusted per persona — from executives to engineers
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Programs & literacy tracks

AI literacy & transformation programs

Not another workshop — a learning program. I set up an AI literacy track at your organisation from start to finish, working closely with your L&D specialists on the full rollout: from curriculum design and personas to delivery, guest speakers, and company-wide events.

  • A curriculum designed around your organisation's roles and goals
  • A recurring learning rhythm your people actually follow
  • Evaluation built in — turning “we did a workshop” into “we can show it works”
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Programs

AI training for leaders, practitioners, and teams

My training programs are designed from hands-on AI experience and from working closely with 110+ organisations on transforming their operations with AI — practical AI skills that deliver measurable business value.

For business leaders & operations managers

One-day intensive

Strategic AI Leadership

AI strategy, governance & transformation

An intensive course that empowers business leaders with AI strategy, governance, and transformation skills: ROI, risk and mitigation strategies, and how to find the best automation opportunities in your organisation — including what's actually possible to automate with AI in 2026.

For AI practitioners

Hands-on training

AI Experience Design

Creating conversational AI experiences users love

Hands-on training for AI practitioners: design, implement, and optimise conversational AI and automation experiences that drive real business impact — from conversation design to dialogue flows users actually enjoy.

For AI product teams

Hands-on training

LLM Evals & AI Delivery

Ship AI features you can trust

Hands-on training for AI product teams: build an LLM evaluation workflow, design test sets around your own use cases, catch regressions before your users do, and measure quality well enough to improve it release after release.

For any role or department

Custom program

Custom Role-Based Training

A program built around your roles

A training program built around a specific role in your organisation — support, sales, engineering, operations, or leadership. We map the workflows where AI genuinely helps, and I build a custom playbook and hands-on curriculum around them.

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Not sure which program fits? Tell me about your team and I'll recommend a format.

Workshops

In-company workshop formats

Lunch & learn session

60 minutes

A practical midday session that fits into the workday — one focused topic, insights your team can apply the same afternoon. Great as a first step or as a recurring series.

In-company workshop

Half or full day

A hands-on deep dive tailored to your team's stack and use cases, role-based per department where useful. Teams leave with frameworks they can use immediately — online, in Amsterdam, or at your office.

Multi-day program

2+ days · the flagship format

For deeper transformation: multiple sessions that build on each other, from foundations to hands-on practice on your own use cases — including multi-day and yearly corporate events.

All workshops are bespoke: content is tailored to your industry, your tools, and your teams' AI maturity level. Available in person across the Netherlands and Europe, and virtually worldwide.

Who it's for

AI training for enterprise teams, per role

L&D & People teams

Your partner for the whole rollout: personas, learning paths per role, and a program your people actually follow — designed together with your L&D specialists.

Leadership & executives

Strategy-level sessions on what AI changes for your business, where the risks are, and how to lead an AI transformation responsibly.

Engineering & product teams

Technical deep dives into conversational AI, LLM evaluation, RAG, and agents — grounded in production systems, not demos.

Customer support teams

Practical AI workflows for support: assistants, drafting, and quality — with guardrails that protect your customer experience.

Sales & marketing teams

Hands-on AI upskilling for outreach, content, and research — workflows your teams can apply the same week.

Operations & business teams

The automation use cases that actually deliver, and how to spot the ones that will fail — process first, tools second.

AI literacy track

An AI literacy track at your organisation, from start to finish

One workshop raises awareness. A literacy track changes how your organisation works. I set it up end to end, working closely with your learning & development specialists — and stay involved so the program keeps its momentum.

Group photo after Lena's guest lecture at the Rotterdam School of Management

Curriculum development

A learning path per role and level, designed together with your L&D specialists — from AI foundations to advanced hands-on tracks.

Guest speakers

I invite other expert speakers from my network so your program covers more perspectives than any single trainer can.

Hackathons

Internal AI hackathons where teams prototype solutions for their own workflows — the fastest way to surface real use cases.

Lunch & learn series

A recurring rhythm of short practical sessions that keeps AI learning alive between the bigger milestones.

Friday AI co-working

Facilitated co-working sessions where people apply AI to their actual work, with an expert in the room to unblock them.

Hands-on workshops

Deep-dive workshops per team or topic — conversational AI, LLM evaluation, automation, responsible AI, and more.

Corporate events

Longer multi-day formats and yearly corporate AI events that mark progress and align the whole organisation.

How it works

How I design your program

01

Intake & AI maturity assessment

We map where your organisation stands: current AI usage, skill levels per team, and the use cases with the highest impact.

02

Custom curriculum & methodology

I develop the curriculum together with your L&D specialists — custom methodologies and frameworks, tailored content, and the right mix of formats.

03

Delivery

Workshops, lectures, lunch & learns, hackathons, and co-working sessions — delivered by me and, where useful, guest speakers from my network.

04

Embedding & follow-up

A recurring rhythm and follow-up sessions so the learning sticks and AI adoption becomes part of how your organisation works.

What makes it different

A builder & practitioner, not just a trainer.

Trained in the fundamentals

I trained as a computational linguist, hold a research degree in Artificial Intelligence, and started my career in NLP research, publishing a peer-reviewed paper. When I explain how language models behave, it comes from the fundamentals, not from headlines.

Conversational AI depth

8 years building production conversational AI for 110+ organisations. Your teams learn to build and evaluate assistants and agents — not just prompt ChatGPT.

Evaluation-first

Every program comes with evaluation frameworks and adoption measurement — turning “we did a workshop” into “we can show it works”.

Independent & vendor-neutral

I don't sell a tool or resell licenses. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or Gemini — your teams learn what genuinely works for your use cases.

Reviews

What teams say after a training

"Lena led a full-day workshop, bringing us up to speed on the latest in LLM chatbots, agent-driven solutions, and RAGs. She expertly balanced conversational design with technical depth, tailoring all content specifically to our use cases and architecture. The workshop provided clear, actionable insights that are already shaping our roadmap, and the energy in the room was fantastic."

Stephan Kockelkoren

Senior Product Manager, Bullhorn

Trusted by teams at

BullhornAFS Intercultural ProgramsTextkernelUnited Wardrobe

FAQ

Common questions from L&D teams

Who are your trainings for?

Enterprise and scale-up teams: L&D and People teams rolling out AI literacy company-wide, plus leadership, engineering, product, customer support, sales, and operations. Depth is adjusted per persona — the same topic lands differently with executives and engineers.

What is the difference between a workshop and a learning program?

A workshop is a focused hands-on session: a lunch & learn, a half-day, or a full day. A learning program is the flagship format — a multi-session curriculum with role-based training per department, a recurring rhythm, and follow-up, designed with your L&D team. One workshop raises awareness; a program changes how your organisation works.

Do you deliver in-company AI training?

Yes — every training is in-company and bespoke. I'm based in Amsterdam and deliver corporate AI training across the Netherlands and Europe on-site, and virtually worldwide. No off-the-shelf decks: content is built on your stack, your data, and your actual use cases.

How do you tailor the program to our organisation?

Every engagement starts with an intake and an AI readiness assessment: where your teams stand, skill levels per role, and the use cases with the highest impact. From there I design the curriculum and personas together with your L&D specialists.

How do we know the training worked?

Evaluation is built into every program: teams leave with evaluation frameworks, and we measure adoption after delivery — so you can show results, not just attendance.

How does pricing work?

Pricing depends on format, group size, and scope — a lunch & learn is priced differently than a multi-month literacy track. Send an enquiry and I'll follow up with a clear proposal.

How far in advance should we book?

I'm usually booked about 3 months in advance. For company-wide programs, reach out a quarter ahead so we can plan the rollout properly.

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Bring AI training to your organisation

Tell me about your teams, goals, and timeline — send an enquiry and I'll respond within 24–48 hours with a proposal for a workshop or a full program.

Workshop group photo after the AI in Business session on top AI automation use-cases