The Sensei Room
Personal journeys
How the guest got here, and the lessons that stayed.
Powerful ideas
The thinking behind the work, in the expert's own words.
Author vs Avatar
The guest questions an AI avatar trained on their own work.
Real-world applications
What it means for leaders and teams on Monday morning.
Conversations that bring knowledge to life.
The show
What happens when an expert meets their AI twin?
The Sensei Room explores the stories, ideas and experiences behind some of the world's most influential thinkers, authors, practitioners and creators.
Hosted by Frederic Brouillet, founder of LearningFrontier.ai, each episode goes beyond the traditional interview. Guests share their journey, the lessons they learned and their professional insights. Then they interact live with an AI avatar trained on their own work.
From Lean and Operational Excellence to leadership, learning and innovation, you hear experts challenge, refine and reflect on their own thinking.
Step inside, where human experience meets artificial intelligence and knowledge becomes a conversation.
Sustainable excellence is not created by tools or initiatives. It is created by leaders who build cultures where people are empowered to improve every day.
Latest episode
Chris Butterworth on Leadership, Customer Value & His AI Twin
What happens when an expert meets his AI twin?
In the first episode of The Sensei Room, Fred Brouillet welcomes Chris Butterworth to explore what makes continuous improvement work—from a clear customer value proposition to the everyday behaviours that shape performance.
Chris shares practical insights on leadership, his Four Plus One model and Key Behavioural Indicators (KBIs). Then he puts his AI twin to the test: where does it capture his thinking, and what does it miss?
A conversation about enterprise excellence, the human side of change and what AI can—and still needs to—learn from experience.
- Continuous improvement
- Customer value
- Four Plus One model
- KBIs
- Enterprise excellence
- The human side of change
Watch
See the moment they meet.
The full conversation with Chris Butterworth, and the short clips cut from it.
Short clips
Vertical clips for LinkedIn, Reels and Shorts, each cut around one idea from the episode.
Our authors on Learning Frontier
The people behind the twins.
Each of these authors has an AI avatar on Learning Frontier, grounded in their published books. Hover a face to see the AI avatar move. Press it to hear it speak.
AI avatars are simulations of the authors, not the authors themselves.
Your host
Frederic Brouillet
Frederic is the founder of Learning Frontier, an AI avatar company, and of Digital Lean Management, a boutique consultancy and Microsoft Partner. For more than 15 years he has worked in Lean and continuous improvement with banks, mining companies and manufacturers across Europe, Asia and Africa.
In 2020, working remotely from London on a project in France, he saw that the Lean tools in daily use, Excel files and physical boards, had barely changed since the early 2000s. Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 had become the backbone of how people worked. So he set out to rebuild the Lean Management System inside them: connected, automated and augmented with AI.
Learning Frontier turns experts and authors into AI avatars, built from their books. Anyone can talk to them by chat, voice or video. That’s why The Sensei Room exists: each guest meets their own AI twin and puts it to the test.
LEANThe AI-augmented Lean Enterprise in Microsoft 365Fred Brouillet
His book
Frontier Lean
The AI-augmented Lean Enterprise in Microsoft 365. Read it with an AI author companion that answers from the book.
After the episode
Keep the conversation going.
Three places to go deeper once the episode ends.
Learning Frontier
The learning platform. Talk to AI avatars of authors by chat, voice or video, grounded in their books.
Visit Learning Frontier→Frontier Lean
Frederic's book, with an AI author companion. Lean Management inside Microsoft 365 and Copilot.
Discover the book→Digital Lean Management
AI applied to management. Apps, consulting and training that digitalise, automate and augment the Lean toolset in Microsoft 365.
Visit DLM→Come into the room.
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