Learning and helping others learn have become two of the most important skills.
Making Others Great is the program for that.
ACE it!
A method for helping others learn
10
online live sessions, two hours each
10+
professional coaching tools
Assessments
Know where you and your team stand
AI
Developing people with AI: how to use AI to develop your people
Your projects
Work on your own projects and cases throughout the program
With Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt and Verena Lauffs. The German cohort starts January 28, 2027. The English cohort starts March 23, 2027.
Sample of your Making Others Great Master certificate.
Built for those who develop others.
Leaders
Coaches
Teachers
L&D professionals
Founders
Business families
Investment firms
First-time leads
Participants join from all around the world, with all kinds of backgrounds. Past participants have included:
We know how much this diversity can add to learning: people from outside your everyday world can open up new perspectives you would rarely find on your own.
“My team keeps coming to me with everything.”
“Everyone talks about AI, but nobody knows how to really bring it into the team.”
“We have to develop people, but we don't know how.”
“I'm a coach and want a method I can rely on.”
Developing others is a skill, and skills can be learned.
What you'll learn
What is included.
The ACE it! Method
Address, Create, Execute: practiced in every session, used the next morning.
10 online live sessions
Two hours each on Zoom, with supervised practice on your real cases.
Your learning team
Three to four peers, eight meetings of about an hour.
Our assessments
Three for you, plus one of each for an employee, client or client team.
Ati, our virtual coach
Our AI coach, plus a sandbox for your own applications.
Your certificate
With the toolkit and the handbook.
Perspectives and a network
Learn alongside participants with very different backgrounds, and take the connections with you.
See your strengths, your success phase preferences and your team's needs.
You experience our assessments first for yourself, then use them with your teams and clients. Each ends in a clear picture and a concrete next step.
You At Your Best
Your strengths with a 360-degree view: your self-image next to what others see.
- Signature strengths: what you and others both see
- Hidden strengths: what others see and you do not
- Learning fields: where a learning partner helps most
10 to 12 minutes
Sample report page
ACE Preferences
How you move through Address, Create and Execute, with an instant result.
- Your preference for each of the three moves
- Where you shine and where you tend to skip a step
- How to work with those whose preferences differ
4 to 5 minutes
Sample report page
Cultural Compass
The team assessment: 16 motivators, one shared report, a clear agenda for the team.
- Importance and satisfaction for each motivator
- The gap shows what to act on first
- One shared report for the whole team
5 to 6 minutes per person
Sample report page
- For you: You At Your Best and ACE Preferences, and where possible the Cultural Compass for your team
- For those you develop: one of each, for an employee, a client or a client team
- With the optional Autoris Assessment Certified Practitioner Course (AACP): twelve more Assessment Credits, four for each assessment, at no cost
Take the program with you.
Sixteen pages: the ten sessions, the method, your facilitators and the next cohorts.
Live online · German and English cohorts
The Making Others Great Master Program.
Learning and helping others learn have become two of the most important skills.
Making Others Great is the program for that.
For leaders, coaches, teachers and L&D professionals.
Sample of your Making Others Great Master certificate.
Ten sessions in five blocks
Every two to three weeks over about five months. In each block you coach, get coached and take the same move into your own work.
Yourself
Sessions 1–2Your assessments and first supervised coaching rounds.
Address and Create
Sessions 3–4The real issue, ideas from the other person, tools for a stuck conversation.
Execute
Sessions 5–6From plan to first step, and working with someone unlike you.
Rolling it out
Sessions 7–8Making it last in a team, practice, classroom or organization.
Stories and setbacks
Sessions 9–10Stories that develop, and what helps when it gets hard.
The ACE it!® Method
Based on design thinking and applied worldwide with thousands of individuals, teams and organizations.
Address
Name the real challenge.
Create
Develop options together.
Execute
Take a first step and build on it.
AI is part of the work from session one.
- Think with AI: as a partner for your own development and to see through another's eyes
- Read assessments: find patterns, decide what to try next
- Work with Ati, our virtual coach, and build your own applications
You also learn to protect confidential information. See our privacy policy and learn more about Ati.
What participants say
“Simply the best. Matthias and his team have uncanny knowledge of how to help leaders empower their people.”
Massachusetts General Hospital
“The Autoris programs are real problem solvers – an impressive combination of academic quality and real leadership practice.”
Managing Director, Samsung NEXT
“Such a wealth of tools, methods and insights – easily applied to daily practice, with people from all kinds of backgrounds.”
Global People & Culture, Axel Springer
“The many practical tools helped me implement exactly that in my company – and unlock my people's full potential.”
Co-founder & CTO, Userlane
“The learning teams and breakouts helped greatly, not just to put the tools into practice but also to receive helpful peer feedback in a safe, constructive environment.”
Senior Communications Professional
Who you learn from
The two who built the method lead every session.
Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt
Executive coach and advisor for more than 25 years. Teaches in IESE Business School's Leadership Coaching Program, founding fellow of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate.
Full profile →
Verena Lauffs
Executive coach for over 10 years across learning, coaching and talent development programs. Co-leads every session and stays close to the learning teams between the sessions.
Full profile →As of October 2026, nearly 1,000 leaders and coaches have been certified across our programs.
The coach module: building and expanding a coaching practice.
For everyone who wants to coach professionally.
Best practices
How successful coaches shape an offer clients understand and want.
Value and pricing
Talk about the value of your work and arrive at a fee with confidence.
Positioning
What you say in the first meeting, and how it leads to a clear contract.
Assessments to get started
Use the three assessments with clients, in first meetings and with teams.
The Autoris Assessment Certified Practitioner Course (AACP)
Run the assessments yourself with your teams or clients: administer them, read the results, lead the debrief. The AACP consists of three courses (You at Your Best, ACE Preferences and Cultural Compass). All three are included in your program, and you can work through a single course or all of them.
What you learn
- Run and administer the assessments
- Read the three reports
- Lead a debrief to a plan with a date
How it works
- About four hours for all three courses, at your own pace
- Handbook and Ati as learning partner
- A test for each course, then you are an AACP
What you get
- Twelve Assessment Credits at no cost, four with each course
- Further assessments in My Autoris, permanently 30% below the regular price
About the Autoris Assessment Certified Practitioner Course →
Good to know before you decide
How much time does it take?
About 28 hours over about five months: ten live sessions of two hours and eight learning team meetings of about an hour. The coach module adds four hours.
Do I need coaching experience?
No. Each person works on a real case from their own role, so experienced coaches and first-time team leads learn side by side.
What language is the program in?
The German cohort is taught in German, the English cohort in English. Both run live on Zoom.
What if I miss a session?
You can watch the Zoom recording.
How do I earn the certificate?
Take an active part in the sessions, pass a final test, and present a topic with your team, for example a piece of research or an application in your own work.
Can my whole team take part?
From twelve people we run a private cohort for your organization, on your cases and in your context.
Are scholarships available?
Yes. Ask us in the call. The call is also available in German.
What is the cancellation policy?
You can cancel free of charge up to four weeks before the start. Up to two weeks before the start, 50% of the price is due. After that, the full price applies. Given the demand for the program and the preparation behind it, these are our terms. Read the full Terms and Conditions.
The next cohorts
German cohort · 2027
Taught in German. Starts Thursday, January 28.
Thursdays, 4 to 6 p.m. local time in Germany and Austria, on Zoom.
English cohort · 2027
Taught in English. Starts Tuesday, March 23.
Tuesdays, 4 to 6 p.m. Central European Time (CET, CEST from March 28), which is 10 a.m. to 12 noon Eastern Time (ET). The first session is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET, because the U.S. changes to daylight time two weeks before Europe.
The Making Others Great Master is a program designation awarded by the Autoris Leadership Institute.
Bring your own cases. Leave with a craft you can use every day.
In a call we see whether the program fits you. No obligation. Places are limited.
“Best training ever. ACEs have become our second nature – I convinced my whole team of the approach.”
Mario Hempel, Business Director, Bechtle
Data protection: how we handle your data, including assessment responses and Ati, is described in our privacy policy.
Die deutsche Kohorte findet komplett auf Deutsch statt, das Gespräch vorab auch.
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Book a call1. Gallup finds that at least 70% of the variance in team-level engagement is accounted for by the manager: the manager's own engagement, effectiveness and natural talents. Gallup, When Good Frontline Workers Make Bad Supervisors (January 2026).
2. LinkedIn Learning, Workplace Learning Report 2024. Survey of 1,636 L&D and HR professionals with L&D responsibilities who have some influence on budget decisions: “providing learning opportunities is the No. 1 retention strategy.” business.linkedin.com/learn/resources/workplace-learning-report-2024