Communicate like the leader you're becoming
Lead with AI is the only leadership communication program that puts AI to work as your real-time thinking partner — so you write sharper messages, run tighter meetings, and carry more weight in every room that matters.

"Your ideas deserve communication that's as sharp as the thinking behind them — this program gives you the system to make that happen every time."
— Official Derick Faison

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Craft clear, persuasive executive messages using AI-assisted drafting and editing workflows
- Run high-stakes meetings and presentations with structured narratives built in half the time
- Give and receive feedback that drives behavior change, using AI to rehearse and refine your delivery
- Adapt your communication style dynamically for different stakeholders — board, team, and clients
- Detect and correct ambiguity, jargon, and weak framing in your own writing before it reaches your audience
- Build a personal leadership communication system that compounds your influence over time
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 · 25 lessons

The Leadership Communicator's Mindset
Establishes the foundational principles of high-impact leadership communication and frames AI as a strategic thinking partner, not a shortcut.
- 1.1Why Leadership Communication Makes or Breaks CareersIncluded
- 1.2Reframing AI: Your Strategic Thinking PartnerIncluded
- 1.3Diagnosing Your Current Communication BaselineIncluded
- 1.4The High-Impact Message BlueprintIncluded
Crafting Executive Messages That Drive Action
Builds AI-assisted drafting and editing workflows so leaders produce clear, persuasive written communications in a fraction of the usual time.
- 2.1Writing for Executives: Clarity, Brevity, and StakesIncluded
- 2.2AI-Assisted Drafting: From Blank Page to Strong First DraftIncluded
- 2.3Editing for Jargon, Ambiguity, and Weak FramingIncluded
- 2.4Emails, Memos, and Slack: Calibrating Register Across ChannelsIncluded
High-Stakes Meetings and Presentations
Equips leaders to design compelling narrative-driven presentations and run high-stakes meetings with confidence, using AI to cut preparation time in half.
- 3.1Narrative Architecture for Executive PresentationsIncluded
- 3.2AI-Powered Slide Outlining and Talking Point GenerationIncluded
- 3.3Running Meetings That Actually Decide ThingsIncluded
- 3.4Handling Tough Questions and Staying on MessageIncluded
Feedback That Changes Behavior
Develops leaders' ability to give and receive feedback that is specific, timely, and motivating — using AI to rehearse and refine delivery before the real conversation.
- 4.1The Neuroscience of Feedback: Why Most of It Doesn't StickIncluded
- 4.2A Framework for High-Impact Feedback ConversationsIncluded
- 4.3Using AI to Script, Rehearse, and Refine Difficult ConversationsIncluded
- 4.4Receiving Feedback as a Senior Leader: Modeling the Culture You WantIncluded
Stakeholder Fluency: Adapting Your Style Dynamically
Trains leaders to read any room — board, team, or client — and shift their communication register, depth, and framing to maximize influence with each audience.
- 5.1Mapping Your Stakeholder LandscapeIncluded
- 5.2Communicating Up: Boards, C-Suite, and InvestorsIncluded
- 5.3Communicating Down: Inspiring and Aligning Your TeamIncluded
- 5.4Communicating Across: Clients, Peers, and External PartnersIncluded
- 5.5Using AI to Tailor Messages for Any Audience in Real TimeIncluded
Building Your Personal Leadership Communication System
Synthesizes every skill into a personalized, compounding communication system that grows your influence sustainably over time.
- 6.1Designing Your Communication Operating RhythmIncluded
- 6.2Building Your Personal AI Communication ToolkitIncluded
- 6.3Measuring Communication Impact: Signals, Feedback Loops, and IterationIncluded
- 6.4Your 90-Day Leadership Communication Growth PlanIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The high-potential manager
She's been told she's 'ready for more' but knows her communication in senior rooms needs to be tighter and more commanding to match her technical credibility.
The newly promoted director
He just moved from managing a team to leading leaders, and the way he communicates — especially up to the C-suite — needs to shift immediately.
The expert turned executive
Deep domain expertise got him the seat at the table; now he needs to translate complex thinking into clear, influential messages that move non-experts to action.
The cross-functional team lead
She manages stakeholders in every direction — up, across, and externally — and wants a repeatable system for calibrating her message for each audience.
The aspiring executive
He's two or three years from the VP or C-suite track and wants to close the gap between where his communication is and where it needs to be to compete.
The feedback-averse leader
She's strong in strategy and delivery but avoids difficult feedback conversations — and wants frameworks and practice reps to finally change that pattern.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Official Derick Faison
If you're reading this, I'd guess you've been in at least one meeting where you knew exactly what needed to be said — and either it didn't come out right, or it did, and nobody moved. That gap between knowing and landing it is one of the most career-limiting experiences in leadership, and almost nobody talks about it directly.
I built this program because leadership communication is treated as a soft skill when it is, in fact, a system — and like any system, it can be diagnosed, designed, and improved with the right tools and a clear framework. That's what this course is. It's not a collection of tips. It's a structured approach to the full communication stack: the messages you write, the meetings you run, the feedback you give, and the stakeholder relationships you build over time.
Here's where AI comes in — and I want to be clear about how I think about this, because it matters. AI is not a ghostwriter. It's not there to make your communication generic. Used correctly, it's a thinking partner that forces you to get specific faster: it stress-tests your framing, surfaces the jargon you've gone nose-blind to, helps you rehearse a conversation you're dreading, and generates a slide outline in the time it used to take to find a blank PowerPoint template. The goal is always your voice, sharpened — not a voice that sounds like everyone else's AI output.
What you'll do in this course is practical from day one. You'll audit your own communication, work with real frameworks like the High-Impact Message Blueprint and Narrative Architecture for presentations, and use AI tools to cut your prep time while raising your output quality. You'll cover the full stakeholder map — boards, C-suite, teams, clients — because the biggest communication mistakes I see senior leaders make are calibration errors: right message, wrong register, wrong moment.
I also don't skip the hard conversations. The feedback module goes into the neuroscience of why most feedback doesn't change behavior, gives you a framework that does, and then lets you rehearse it with AI before you're sitting across from someone. And the section on receiving feedback as a senior leader is one I haven't seen treated seriously anywhere else — but it's one of the most visible signals of the culture you're building.
If you're a mid-to-senior manager, a team lead stepping into a larger role, or an executive who wants to lead with more precision and less noise, this is for you. Come build the communication system that matches the leader you're already becoming.
— Official Derick Faison
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