ManagerGPT: The AI Tools and Human Systems to Scale Yourself and Your Team Fast

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Jack Cohen

Founder & Executive Coach

Spend your days fighting fires or each other?

What if you felt on top of everything instead?

What if your team was aligned and motivated to execute?

ManagerGPT offers the playbook and AI tools taught to 500+ founders, execs, and managers to shift from stressed and overwhelmed to Clear Focus & Emotional Balance.

HERE'S THE CHALLENGE

Your days are filled with:

🗓️ back-to-back meetings,
🔴 endless Slack messages,
🚀 never-ending requests from customers & colleagues,
⏱️ wishes that you and your team could move faster and work on what matters.

🔥 Prioritizing sounds nice, but you always end up fighting fires. 🔥

✨ You wonder if AI can help, you wonder how other leaders are using AI to manage it all—but honestly, who's got the time to figure that out? ⏳

As you try to move faster, people fall short of expectations and potential, creating friction and frustration.

THE SOLUTION

In Week 1, you’ll have built your Operating System (mindsets, habits, and tools like Claude Cowork) to shift from reacting to constant inputs to creating what matters most and leading your team in that direction.

Then we apply this interpersonally, using tools like FeedbackGPT and the GAIN framework so you feel calm, confident, and effective in every interaction.

What you’ll learn

"We do not rise to the level of our goals. We fall to the level of our systems." You'll build and implement an individual Operating System.

You'll have a systematic set of habits, tools, and mindsets to define What Matters Most each day and week.
Master Claude Cowork or Codex as the backbone of your AI Operating System. Step-by-step setup to personalize and connect to your task system
Priority access to Flow State (https://myflowstate.ai/), 3 months free

Know exactly how to leverage Claude and ChatGPT/Codex to improve your leadership skills and help you prepare for key conversations
Personalize your OS with your AI Copilot guiding it to operate with your values, goals, preferences, and context
Know what & how to delegate (to humans or AI) so you get the outputs and outcomes you want

When difficult emotions arise, you will know exactly how to harness their energy and use them as signals for what needs to happen next
You will practice applying this to stay calm and centered in even the most difficult conversations
Practice and prompts for using AI skillfully to deepen your understanding of stress, anxiety, and any emotion

You'll walk out feeling embarrassed...about how simple it is to build useful tools (eg dashboards, interactive websites for your team, apps)
Regardless of your organization's industry, you'll feel capable and confident to build working technical tools that serve you and your team

GAIN Template for how to structure feedback conversations that inspire action and growth
Use FeedbackGPT and AI to prepare and practice feedback
Master GAIN as profiled in Lenny's Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/introducing-the-gain-framework-for

GROW Template for coaching conversations
The key skill to coach effectively--moving conversations forward in ways that your coachee owns
Prompts for using AI to practice and get feedback on a coaching conversation

Learn directly from Jack

Jack Cohen

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Founder, Coach to 67 founders & 200+ execs, ran Rippling's leadership program

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Who this course is for

High-Growth Managers
Ready to move out of IC mode, you want to be the inspiring leader people thank for the rest of their careers.
Executives
You know there's a better way than back-to-back meetings everyday.
To scale your impact, you know you must scale yourself first
Startup Founders
You're expanding your focus from building a product to building a team. And to do so, you need the team to step up fast.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Jack Cohen in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

9 live sessions • 44 lessons • 4 projects

Week 1

Jun 16—Jun 21

Jun

Live Workshop: Setting up Claude Cowork/Codex for your personalized AI OS

Thu 6/183:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Jun

Live Workshop: Managing Yourself--Build Your Individual Operating System

Tue 6/163:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Readings

6 items

Next Actions Template, Checklists, & Weekly Preview GPT

1 item

Taming the Slack Monster (Yes, it's possible.)

1 item

The Drama Triangle and The Outcomes Triangle

1 item

Psychology of Open Loops (aka how to stop thinking about work so compulsively)

1 item

Top 12 Tools

1 item

Week 2

Jun 22—Jun 28

Jun

Live Workshop: Applied Mindfulness--Developing Your "Internal Copilot"

Tue 6/233:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Jun

Demystifying Agents: Building with and Managing AI Agents Seamlessly

Thu 6/253:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Module Summary

1 item

Readings & Examples

8 items

The Leverage Quadrant and Clean Handoffs (templates)

2 items

Instructions for Building a CustomGPT

2 items

Instructions for Building an AI Copilot

2 items

Free resource

FeedbackGPT: Give Feedback People Thank You For

How to Use FeedbackGPT

You'll leave having already practiced using this custom GPT, as well as knowing 2 other ways to use AI for feedback

How to Stop Dreading Feedback & Start Looking Forward to It

There's a reason people hate feedback...or actually 4 of them, the 4 Fatal Flaws of Feedback

How to apply the GAIN framework in real conversations

Top 3 tips for giving feedback that actually inspires action and growth

The Science Behind GAIN

GAIN is an evidence-based approach. We'll spend 5 minutes introducing the framework and the research it's based on.

Optional Q&A (not recorded, extended by 30 minutes)

Ask any question you've ever had about giving or getting feedback.

Schedule

Live sessions

2-3 hrs / week

First week: 4 hours. Remaining weeks: 2-3 hours

Thu, Jun 18
3:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Tue, Jun 16
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Jun 23
3:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Testimonials

"I think the effects of my coaching with Jack increased our Series B valuation by $100 million…but I truly believe the increase in productivity for me as a founder has been the lesser of the outcomes that I've gotten from Jack. I think it's made me a better person and better in my relationship. I've had a number of friends who've told me, ‘You seem much calmer and more equanimous.’ Definitely, my happiness has gone up."
Nischal Nadhamuni
Klarity AI cofounder/CTO, raised $91M
“It feels like I've unlocked and gotten to the next level. Working with Jack was such a transformative experience for me.”
Whitnie Narcisse
Operating Partner, First Round Capital
This course genuinely shifted something for me. I’m becoming more conscious, more intentional.
Daily planning actually works for me. I’m cancelling meetings that should be emails and helping others think through why we need to meet versus why we don’t.
It helped me find my own voice and understand how to mold AI to work the way I think, not the other way around.
I realized with FeedbackGPT you can actually dissociate the problem from the person. I don’t have any hard feedback conversations anymore. It’s all gone.
I can give feedback to any person at any point in time. I just need ten minutes alone with FeedbackGPT to frame it, understand what the goal is, get the tone, and know this is the mindset I need to wear — even in a very high-growth, technical, demanding startup environment.
Nishant
Chief Product Officer, TBO.com