Lead with AI. Stay relentlessly human.
AI-Ready Leaders gives mid-to-senior managers and HR professionals the frameworks, tools, and hands-on practice to embed AI into every layer of leadership — from performance reviews to change management — without losing the judgment, empathy, and trust that only great leaders bring.
"The leaders who will shape the next decade aren't the ones who fear AI or blindly trust it — they're the ones who know exactly how to wield it, and when to put it down."
— Derick Faison
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Design a leadership development curriculum for your team that integrates AI-powered coaching and feedback tools
- Apply proven leadership frameworks (situational, transformational, coaching) enhanced with AI-driven data insights
- Build and run AI-assisted performance review and talent assessment systems
- Identify and close skill gaps in your team using AI learning recommendation engines
- Lead organizational change initiatives with AI tools that surface resistance patterns and engagement signals early
- Craft a personal AI leadership toolkit — a curated, role-specific set of prompts, dashboards, and workflows you use daily
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
6 modules · 24 lessons
AI Literacy for Leaders
Builds the foundational AI fluency leaders need to confidently evaluate, adopt, and communicate AI tools in a people-first context.
- 1.1How AI Actually Works (Without the Hype)Included
- 1.2The Human-AI Partnership ModelIncluded
- 1.3Ethical Guardrails and Bias AwarenessIncluded
- 1.4Evaluating and Selecting AI Tools for Your ContextIncluded
Leadership Frameworks, Supercharged with AI
Applies situational, transformational, and coaching leadership models using AI-driven data insights to sharpen decision-making and team impact.
- 2.1Situational Leadership in the Age of AIIncluded
- 2.2Transformational Leadership and AI-Powered Vision CommunicationIncluded
- 2.3Coaching Conversations Enhanced by AI FeedbackIncluded
- 2.4Data-Driven People Decisions Without Losing EmpathyIncluded
AI-Assisted Performance Reviews and Talent Assessment
Builds end-to-end systems for performance management and talent assessment that use AI to increase consistency, reduce bias, and save time.
- 3.1Redesigning Your Performance Review Process with AIIncluded
- 3.2Building AI-Powered Feedback SystemsIncluded
- 3.3Talent Assessment and Succession Planning with AIIncluded
- 3.4Calibration Conversations Backed by AI EvidenceIncluded
Closing Skill Gaps with AI Learning Systems
Equips leaders and L&D professionals to identify team skill gaps and deploy AI-powered learning recommendation engines that personalize development at scale.
- 4.1Mapping Your Team's Skill LandscapeIncluded
- 4.2How AI Learning Recommendation Engines WorkIncluded
- 4.3Designing a Team Learning Curriculum with AI SupportIncluded
- 4.4Measuring Learning ROI Using AI AnalyticsIncluded
Leading Organizational Change with AI
Prepares leaders to plan, communicate, and sustain change initiatives using AI tools that detect resistance patterns and track engagement signals in real time.
- 5.1Change Management Fundamentals for AI-Era LeadersIncluded
- 5.2Surfacing Resistance and Sentiment with AIIncluded
- 5.3Communicating Change with AI-Enhanced StorytellingIncluded
- 5.4Sustaining Change: Monitoring Adoption with AI DashboardsIncluded
Your Personal AI Leadership Toolkit
Brings the entire course together as leaders design, test, and commit to a curated, role-specific set of prompts, dashboards, and daily AI workflows.
- 6.1Auditing Your Current Leadership WorkflowsIncluded
- 6.2Crafting Your Leadership Prompt LibraryIncluded
- 6.3Designing Your AI Leadership DashboardIncluded
- 6.4Committing to Your 90-Day AI Leadership PracticeIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The mid-level people manager
She's responsible for a team's growth and performance reviews but wants practical AI tools to make those processes more consistent and less exhausting.
The HR business partner
He supports multiple business units and needs a shared AI literacy framework to help leaders make better, bias-aware people decisions at scale.
The senior L&D professional
She designs learning curricula for the organization and wants to leverage AI recommendation engines and analytics to prove — and improve — learning ROI.
The change-weary director
He's led one too many initiatives that stalled mid-rollout and wants AI tools that surface resistance and engagement signals before they become crises.
The high-potential team lead
She's been promoted into a leadership role fast and wants a rigorous foundation — leadership frameworks, ethical AI use, and a personal toolkit — to lead with confidence.
The skeptical executive
He's heard the AI hype and tuned it out, but now needs to lead an AI-adjacent transformation and wants grounded, no-nonsense guidance he can actually act on.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Derick Faison
If you're reading this, you're probably somewhere I recognize: you know AI is changing the way teams work, you've been in enough meetings where someone either dismisses it entirely or treats it like magic — and neither response sits right with you.
You're the person who has to make practical decisions about how your team performs, how they grow, and how your organization changes. And you're trying to figure out where AI actually fits into that — without compromising the trust, the empathy, and the human judgment that make leadership worth doing in the first place.
That tension is real. And it's exactly what this school is built around.
I've spent years working at the intersection of leadership development and technology — helping managers and HR leaders move from vague anxiety about AI to genuine, grounded confidence. Not because I handed them a list of tools to try, but because we built the frameworks together. We looked honestly at where AI adds real value in a people context — and where it absolutely shouldn't be left unsupervised. We redesigned performance processes, built feedback systems, and mapped skill gaps in ways that made leaders more effective, not more dependent on a dashboard.
What I see most often is this: smart, experienced leaders who undersell themselves. They assume AI fluency belongs to someone younger, or more technical, or in a different function. It doesn't. Your advantage — pattern recognition built from years of leading people, navigating change, and making hard calls — is exactly what makes you a better AI user than someone who's only ever seen a spreadsheet. This school is about helping you see that, and act on it.
In AI-Ready Leaders, we go module by module through the leadership challenges you're already navigating: performance reviews, coaching conversations, skill development, change management. At each step, we layer in the AI tools and frameworks that make your existing practice sharper, faster, and more evidence-informed. And at the end, you'll have something concrete — a toolkit that's yours, built for your role, ready to use.
I'm glad you're here. Let's build something that actually works.
— Derick Faison
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- 6 modules, 24 lessons
- AI-adaptive lessons tuned to your level
- Quizzes & checkpoints to lock in progress
- Your own AI learning coach
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