Advanced workshops for project professionals facing complexity, uncertainty, and AI-driven change.
These workshops support project managers and organizations in dealing with complexity, continuous change, and AI adoption with realism, critical thinking, and confidence.
The Concept
These workshops are built around a simple idea: projects fail less because of missing methods and more because of poor decisions in complex situations.
Instead of promoting rigid frameworks, STS focuses on judgment, sense-making, and choosing the right response for the context you are in.
Participants learn to think in systems, recognize patterns early, and act effectively even when information is incomplete, conditions change, and full control is impossible.
Format
Highly interactive and practice-oriented, each workshop combines short conceptual inputs with real-world examples, group discussions, and applied exercises.
The emphasis is on learning through reflection, dialogue, and experimentation, not passive listening.
Sessions are designed to be immediately useful: participants leave with practical tools, heuristics, and perspectives they can apply the very next day—individually and within their organizations.
Our Advanced Workshop Series
Making Sense of Complexity
This workshop helps you recognize, diagnose, and respond to complexity early—before traditional controls make things worse.
You will learn how to:
- Understand when and why traditional PM approaches stop working
- Distinguish between complicated, complex, and chaotic situations
- Detect complexity early and continuously
- Make decisions without waiting for perfect information
- Lead effectively without the illusion of full control
- Apply practical heuristics and tools immediately
Key topics include:
- Sources of complexity: technical, organizational, human, environmental
- Complexity frameworks and mental models (including Cynefin)
- Sense-making instead of prediction
- Adaptive governance and decision-making
- Experimentation, probes, and safe-to-fail initiatives
- Leadership, power, and human dynamics in complex systems
Ideal for:
Project managers, program managers, PMO leaders, senior stakeholders, and anyone dealing with high-uncertainty initiatives.
Next course:
April 17th 2026
AI in Project Management
This workshop focuses on practical, realistic AI adoption for project professionals, without technical overload.
You will learn how to:
- Understand AI fundamentals relevant to project management
- Identify where AI adds real value across the project lifecycle
- Use AI tools to improve productivity and decision-making
- Apply effective prompting techniques for PM scenarios
- Integrate AI into existing PM methodologies and tools
- Use AI responsibly, with awareness of risks and governance
Key topics include:
- How AI actually works (without math or code)
- Data quality, governance, privacy, and risk
- Key AI technologies PMs should understand (LLMs, RAG, agents)
- AI use cases from initiation to closing
- Human + AI decision-making
- Ethics, accountability, and governance in AI-enabled projects
Practical AI Lab:
A hands-on session where participants:
- Experiment with real project use cases
- Compare outputs from different AI models
- Learn through guided exploration and peer discussion
Ideal for:
Project managers, PMOs, leaders, and organizations looking to adopt AI pragmatically and responsibly.
Next course:
May 13th 2026
Building Resilience in a World That Refuses to Stand Still
This workshop helps organizations and leaders build systemic resilience, not just crisis plans.
You will learn how to:
- Understand what resilience really means in today’s business context
- Identify and strengthen the seven key factors of organizational resilience
- Detect early signals of fragility and emerging risks
- Apply just-in-time decision-making under uncertainty
- Define and adapt a dynamic risk appetite
- Turn learning and feedback into strategic advantage
Key topics include:
- Resilience as a system (not a checklist)
- Stakeholders as early-warning sensors
- Weak signals vs. late indicators
- Decision-making under pressure
- Leadership behaviors that enable or block resilience
- Continuous learning, experimentation, and fast course correction
Ideal for:
Leaders, project and program managers, change managers, risk professionals, and organizations operating in volatile environments.
Prices
2’500 CHF per day for companies (up to 22 participants)
700 CHF for inviduals
