Becoming the Agentic Executive

What does people leadership look like when your processes are AI-native?

You won’t know until you get hands-on with building agents yourself.

I. The gap

You’re being asked to judge a thing you haven’t used.

What lands in your inbox

Vendor pitches. Board questions. Portfolio calls. Each one is a strategic bet on a technology you’ve only seen through other people’s demos.

What you don't know

How this might change your company. What new opportunities it can open; what new risks it exposes. It's all just theory until you've used it on something that mattered, built with it, and watched it fail in a specific way. That’s where real judgment comes from.

Approving AI strategy and leading an AI-native company are different jobs. The gap between them is hands-on experience.

II. What changes when you build

Once you’ve built, the view changes.

i.

You see how today’s work could be done better — and what an agent can take off your plate.

ii.

You start to picture how an agentic company actually runs — the processes, not just the tools.

iii.

You can challenge and direct your teams through their transformation, because you’ve done it yourself.

The agentic executive keeps developing — and you leave knowing exactly what to build next.

III. Practitioners, not pundits

Everything we teach, we’ve done.

We came here from doing the work — and the work is now how we teach.

Toby White
Toby White
ArcticRex · co-founder & CEO

Senior executive, transformational leadership across multiple stock

-listed companies, most recently leading a 350-person org through a successful AI transformation at F-Secure. Previously CTO F-Secure Oyj, VP Digital Engineering Wärtsilä Oyj, Group CTO GlobalData PLC (London).

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Dino Repo
Dino Repo
ArcticRex · co-founder & CTO

Technology strategy and leadership; hands-on transformative technology

creator. Most recently Director, CTO Office at F-Secure, a role expressly

designed to bring the hands-on technologist’s judgment into

transformation strategy. Previously F-Secure, Varian, Noona Healthcare.

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IV. The offer

What your leadership team does in the room.

Your leadership team builds agents together, on their own data. Each leader walks out with a working agent on their real work — the first piece of their harness — a plan for what to build next, and a set of questions for their teams they couldn’t have put last week.

≈10% slides, 90% hands-on — you pick a real task, build a first working agent, push it until it breaks, then map the next agents to build and the questions to take back to your teams.

Audience Your leadership team, typically 5–10 leaders
Format On-site · half-day to full-day · shape set per engagement
Price Bespoke · quoted per scope
V. Evidence

What changes when leaders build.

“In cyber security you can’t afford to be a follower on AI. This training got our business leaders and team leads building real agents on real work. That’s when transformation stops being a strategy deck and starts being real.”

Timo Laaksonen· President & CEO, F-Secure

68NPS

First two pilot cohorts of Business Agents 101.

19 respondents · Q1 2026

Ready when you are

Put your leadership team in the room.

Helsinki · Remote & on-site