Courses and seminars · Autumn 2026

This is the part of my work that can be talked about.

Everything else I do in silence. Here I teach, and I do it in person: no platform, no recorded video, no certificate to hang on a wall. You leave knowing what to do on Monday morning.

Always in personMaximum 12 participantsAlso delivered in-house
The seminar · two days · classroom or on site

Your data will get out.
What matters is what happens next.

Two days that start from how data actually leaves an organisation, including the live demonstration of an AI agent reading an entire corporate archive without leaving a trace, and end with a real document of yours, followed step by step until it stops being protected. You leave with a list of fixes in order of urgency, not with a certificate.

Who it is for
Executive assistants Secretariats and office managers Operational staff New joiners Anyone working with confidential information Sales teams Marketing and communications Procurement and supplier management Engineering and R&D IT technicians IT managers and IT support HR leadership Compliance and legal CFOs and finance teams CISOs and security leads Heads of function Chief executives and managing directors Anyone moving into this field

One thing is required: being responsible for information that must not get out. Engineers and computer scientists have nothing to do with it. Technical people still find new material, because nobody has seen the live demonstration before.

Day one

How data is lost today

  • What is genuinely worth handing to an artificial intelligence, and what must never leave
  • What happens to a document uploaded to an external tool
  • The live demonstration: an agent reading everything without raising an alert
  • Why today's encryption has an expiry date: harvest now, decrypt later
  • Which data is genuinely at long-term risk and which is not
Day two

Guided assessment on your own data

  • The real journey of one of your sensitive documents, system by system
  • How many hands and platforms touch it in a single day
  • How to share it without losing control of it
  • How to write an AI policy people will actually follow
  • The AI Act, NIS2 and DORA: what falls on the people who decide
  • What to do in the first two hours of an incident
Twelve participants maximum · bring one of your own documents · also delivered in-house Request a place
Restricted programme · by application

The art of keeping a secret

Keeping a secret is usually treated as a matter of character. It is a discipline, and it can be learned. Nobody betrays out of bad faith: information leaves through courtesy, through vanity, through haste. Whoever wants it knows this perfectly well, which is why they do not attack the system but the person holding the keys.

Who it is for
Executive assistants Secretariats and office managers Operational staff Personal staff and security Press officers and spokespeople Anyone handling confidential information daily Lawyers, accountants and trusted advisers Family offices and wealth managers Anyone running negotiations or transactions People in the public eye Board members Chairs and principal shareholders Chief executives Entrepreneurs

What counts here is what you hold, not how much you know about computers. This is for people who keep information that would do damage if it got out: a negotiation, a transaction, a private life. Executive assistants and secretariats are on that list for a reason: whoever screens the calls and sees the diary is the most targeted person in the building, and almost nobody ever trains them. The group stays very small precisely because we speak openly.

  • How information actually leaves: vanity, courtesy, haste
  • Phishing, smishing and vishing: the mechanism underneath, not the individual trick
  • The three levers that always work: authority, urgency, reciprocity
  • Recognising when someone is drawing you out, and how to close the conversation
  • Answering without lying and without confirming
  • Your own footprint: what your diary, movements and habits say about you
  • Compartmenting: who needs to know what, and how to hold it over time
  • What to do in the first hours, once the secret is already out
MilitaryWhere I learned this, and where a mistake cannot be undone.
CorporateTransactions, negotiations, boardrooms, information that moves a share price.
PersonalPeople who live exposed and still need a private life that stays private.
One to one or very small groups · two days · no materials handed out
An extended version is available for a whole organisation Apply

Upcoming live dates

Being scheduled

The public calendar for the coming term is still being settled. Dates appear here once the venue and the programme are confirmed: I would rather announce few and certain. If you would like to be told when one opens, or would prefer a session held in-house for your company, write to me.

If you would rather bring it inside your own organisation, all three formats can be delivered on site, behind closed doors.

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