Lead smarter teams with AI on your side
A practical leadership program for managers who want to use today's AI tools to build real trust, real accountability, and a team culture that doesn't fall apart the moment things get hard.

"AI doesn't replace your leadership judgment — it gives you more room to use it."
— Derick Faison

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Use AI tools to diagnose team dynamics and identify trust gaps before they become performance problems.
- Design clear accountability frameworks that your team co-creates and genuinely owns.
- Run more effective 1-on-1s and team rituals by pairing structured AI prompts with human judgment.
- Build a shared-ownership culture where initiative is distributed, not hoarded at the top.
- Measure team health with lightweight AI-assisted feedback loops that surface real signals.
- Lead through ambiguity and change by using AI as a thinking partner — not a replacement for leadership.
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
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The AI-Augmented Leader
Establishes the mindset and foundational vocabulary for leading teams with AI as a genuine thinking partner.
- 1.1Why AI + Leadership NowIncluded
- 1.2The Human-AI Leadership StackIncluded
- 1.3Your AI Thinking Partner SetupIncluded
Diagnosing Team Dynamics with AI
Teaches leaders to use AI-assisted analysis to spot trust gaps, friction points, and hidden team patterns early.
- 2.1Reading the Room at ScaleIncluded
- 2.2Mapping Trust Gaps Before They Hurt PerformanceIncluded
- 2.3Turning Diagnosis into a Leadership ConversationIncluded
Building Accountability That Sticks
Guides leaders through co-creating accountability frameworks their teams genuinely own rather than merely comply with.
- 3.1Why Most Accountability Systems FailIncluded
- 3.2Co-Creating Agreements with AI FacilitationIncluded
- 3.3Tracking Commitments Without MicromanagingIncluded
- 3.4Holding the Line: Accountability Conversations That WorkIncluded
High-Impact Rituals: 1-on-1s, Check-ins, and Team Meetings
Shows leaders how to pair structured AI prompts with human judgment to make every team ritual more focused and effective.
- 4.1Redesigning the 1-on-1 with AI PrepIncluded
- 4.2Team Meeting Rhythms That Actually Drive ResultsIncluded
- 4.3Real-Time Facilitation MovesIncluded
- 4.4After-Action Reviews Powered by AI SynthesisIncluded
Distributed Ownership and Shared Team Culture
Equips leaders to shift from top-down control to a culture where initiative and ownership are spread across the whole team.
- 5.1From Delegation to Shared OwnershipIncluded
- 5.2Using AI to Spotlight Invisible ContributorsIncluded
- 5.3Building Psychological Safety at the Team LevelIncluded
- 5.4Scaling Culture as Your Team GrowsIncluded
Measuring Team Health and Leading Through Change
Closes the loop with AI-assisted feedback systems and a change-leadership framework that keeps humans firmly in charge.
- 6.1Lightweight Feedback Loops That Surface Real SignalsIncluded
- 6.2Reading Team Health Metrics Without Over-OptimizingIncluded
- 6.3Leading Through Ambiguity with AI as a Sounding BoardIncluded
- 6.4Your 90-Day Stronger Teams Action PlanIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The Overextended Manager
She's leading a growing team and needs smarter systems — not more hours — to keep accountability and culture from slipping.
The Skeptical Senior Leader
He's seen plenty of management fads come and go, and wants a grounded, practical case for where AI actually earns its place in leadership.
The First-Time People Manager
He's been promoted into his first leadership role and wants a concrete framework for running one-on-ones, team rituals, and accountability conversations with confidence.
The Remote Team Lead
She manages a distributed team across time zones and needs AI-assisted tools to read team health and maintain culture without constant synchronous check-ins.
The High-Performing IC Turned Lead
He was great at doing the work and now needs to transition into leading others — without micromanaging or losing the team's trust in the process.
The Culture-First Team Lead
She cares deeply about psychological safety and distributed ownership, and wants practical tools to make those values visible and measurable — not just aspirational.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Derick Faison
If you're a manager who genuinely cares about your team — and you're watching AI reshape how work gets done — you're probably sitting with a real tension right now.
On one side, there's pressure to "use AI" in everything. On the other, you know that the hardest parts of leadership — building trust, holding people accountable, navigating conflict, creating a culture where people actually want to show up — those are stubbornly human. No chatbot closes the loop on a missed commitment. No algorithm repairs a fractured team dynamic.
I built this program because most of what's out there lands on one extreme or the other: generic leadership frameworks that ignore the tools now available to you, or AI hype that treats prompts like a substitute for judgment. Neither is useful to a real leader running a real team under real pressure.
What I've found — working through these problems with leaders in fast-moving organizations — is that AI is most powerful when it's doing what good coaching and good process design always did: helping you see more clearly, prepare more intentionally, and follow through more consistently. It doesn't replace your leadership instincts. It sharpens them. That's the entire premise of this program, and it's reflected in every module — from diagnosing trust gaps before they become performance problems, to running one-on-ones that actually move things forward, to building the kind of distributed ownership culture where your team doesn't wait for permission to lead.
I wrote this for leaders who are serious about the craft of management and smart enough to know that the best tool is worthless without the judgment to use it well. If that's you, I think you'll find this program worth every hour you put into it. Let's get to work.
— Derick Faison
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- 6 modules, 22 lessons
- AI-adaptive lessons tuned to your level
- Quizzes & checkpoints to lock in progress
- Your own AI learning coach
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