A Nick Zervoudis course
Train your data team to think beyond
Private training built on ROI of Data & AI, Nick Zervoudis' programme for teams that need a shared way to discover valuable opportunities, estimate ROI, prioritise trade-offs, and communicate impact to senior stakeholders.
Five half-day sessions, live, in person or virtual, plus three follow-up group calls.
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What is ROI of Data & AI?
ROI of Data & AI, also known as The Value-Driven Data Professional, is a private training programme for data and AI teams, facilitated live by Nick Zervoudis. Five half-day sessions plus three follow-up group calls, run in person or virtually, shaped around the roadmap your team already has in flight.
Your team leaves with one shared way to discover valuable opportunities, estimate ROI, prioritise trade-offs, and explain impact to senior stakeholders.
Why I recommend it
I meet a lot of data teams who have got very good at shipping and still cannot say what any of it was worth. They can build the thing. They cannot make the case for it, defend it when it is challenged, or say no to the work that was never going to pay.
Nick is who I point those teams at. We worked through his ROI patterns on episode 74 of the Agile Data N' Info podcast and I have been recommending his work since. He teaches the commercial half of the job, which is the half most data training skips.
I teach the Information Product Canvas because getting requirements right is where the waste starts. Nick teaches what happens after that, proving the value was real. The two go together like Gin and Tonic.
The problem
Your data team might be stuck in service desk
These are the patterns this programme is designed to change.
Recognise these signs?
The solution
Embed commercial and product thinking in the team's
The programme builds the product, commercial, and stakeholder skills data teams need to become indispensable partners to the business.
Speak the language of the business
Quantify the financial value of data and AI initiatives in a way senior stakeholders can understand and challenge.
Master discovery techniques
Stop delivering things just because someone asked for them. Learn how to ask why, clarify the business problem, and avoid jumping straight into requirements.
Prioritise for maximum impact
Identify the work most likely to create value, then use frameworks to get buy-in for what the team should do and what it should say no to.
Communicate with clarity
Write and speak to business stakeholders in the language of outcomes, decisions, trade-offs, and value rather than technical jargon.
Team outcomes
Give the team a shared commercial operating
Four shifts you should see once the habits land.
Better investment decisions
Your team gets better at surfacing value, risk, trade-offs, and assumptions before work becomes expensive.
Shared commercial language
People stop relying on vague impact claims and start using a consistent way to explain value and prioritisation.
Less order-taking
Teams learn how to challenge weak requests without sounding obstructive or theoretical.
Higher-value roadmap
The strongest engagements use live work, so the training creates immediate prioritisation and framing outputs.
What past participants say
It shows up in the work, not the
Three people who took the programme, on what changed once they were back at their desks.
After the training, I started challenging assumptions more proactively. In one case, that led to de-scoping features a market was not going to use, avoiding $200,000 in unnecessary delivery.
Director of Data Product ManagementFortune 50 FMCG
As a more technical role, this course provided me valuable techniques to approach my stakeholders with better vocabulary and strategy. This has helped me define the true business need and provide higher impact deliverables.
Grace KnippBI Lead, Oracle
I cannot recommend this course enough for anyone on a data team that needs to understand how to connect the work they are doing to the business priorities and demonstrate impact.
Caitlin BoyerSenior Data Enablement Lead, Trust & Will
Facilitated by
Nick Zervoudis helps data and AI teams stop operating as order-takers and start making defensible commercial decisions. He is the founder of Value from Data & AI and former Head of Product at CKDelta.ai, the AI software and data monetisation company of CK Hutchison Holdings.
Over more than ten years across enterprise data, consulting and AI software, he has helped teams discover better opportunities, quantify value, prioritise roadmaps and communicate investment cases to senior stakeholders. He now teaches these methods to data engineers, data scientists, product managers and data leaders from Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies, high-growth technology businesses and data consultancies.
Shane and Nick explored the ROI patterns behind the programme on episode 74 of the Agile Data N' Info podcast.
the commercial half of the job
Delivery model
Tailored around the team's real
Four stages, shaped around the work your team already has in flight.
Diagnostic
Understand the team, the stakeholders, the current roadmap, and where commercial pressure is showing up.
Workshop programme
Run the core modules on discovery, valuation, prioritisation, and communication using examples from the team's world.
Live application
Apply the tools to current opportunities, roadmap choices, or stakeholder requests.
Follow-through
Three follow-up group calls to help the habits survive contact with real work.
Pricing
What it costs to train the whole
Indicative pricing, excluding VAT. Participant numbers and the number of modules in scope both move the figure.
Live, in person or virtual. Five half-day sessions plus three follow-up calls.
£13,125
for 15 participants, £875 per participant, excluding VATBest for high-priority team alignment.
Book a call about your team See other pricing options smaller groups and shorter programmes are availableNext step
Book a call about your team
One hour with Nick. Bring your team's current pressure points, the stakeholder dynamics, and wherever the roadmap is under strain.
What the call covers
No pitch. You leave with a clearer view of the next moves worth considering, whether or not the programme is the right fit.
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one hour, no pitch, a clearer view either wayFive half-days, one operating model
Turn your data team into an indispensable partner.
One hour with Nick. You leave with a clearer view of the next moves worth considering, whether or not the programme is the right fit.
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