Agentic AI for Leaders: The 3-Week Path to Competitive Advantage in 2026

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Mirza Rahim Baig

AI Builder, Founder, Educator, Author

Lead boldly into the AI era

AI is no longer optional. Most leadership programs still stop at strategy decks and clever prompts. The real shift is happening one level deeper - in AI agents that plan, use tools, and get real work done on their own.

The challenge now is building with AI; particularly - how you leverage your domain and leadership skills and build without writing a line of code.

Built for leaders, not developers, think of it as hiring and onboarding your own AI assistants, using Claude Cowork and the Agent Skills paradigm, entirely in plain English. You onboard your first assistant in week one and, session by session, work up to managing a small AI team by week three. Every session runs on your own real bottleneck, not a hypothetical case study. You leave with a working AI team you hired and onboarded yourself, plus the hands-on comfort to keep going long after the course ends.

What you’ll learn

Go WAY beyond prompting to make your own AI systems in 3 weeks using just English; walk away with systems working for you.

Give your assistant instructions it remembers, so it works the way you want every time.
Teach it repeatable tasks, then set it to run automatically on a schedule.
The paradigm is tool-agnostic: transfers directly to any agentic AI tool, not just Claude Cowork.

Separate what GenAI can actually do today from what's marketing and speculation.
Build simple, accurate mental models so you can evaluate any new AI tool or claim in seconds.

Know when to keep data local versus use cloud AI, and why it matters for your org. Guidance for your own Local AI setup.
Get a practitioner's view of the EU AI Act and data governance from expert guest sessions.

Start with a single assistant in week 1 and add capability each week.
By week 3, assemble a small team of specialized agents working together on one task.

Pick up the handful of concepts that actually matter (skills, context, scheduling) by using them.
Skip the theory. You learn each concept the moment you need it to build something.

Identify one recurring task that eats your time and rebuild it as an AI-run workflow.
Test it against your actual work, so it's ready to use right away.

Learn directly from Mirza

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16+ years in AI | Author & Startup Advisor | Ex - Zalando, Flipkart

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Who this course is for

Leaders who want to build, not just direct. Managers and leaders who want to define and deploy AI initiatives.
Functional Leaders in product, marketing and operations responsible for driving business outcomes.
Anyone who wants structured, jargon-free progress. No engineering needed. This isn't a prompting workshop, and it isn't a coding bootcamp.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Mirza Rahim Baig in a real-time, interactive format.

Weekly 1:1

A personal check-in each week to unblock what you're building.

Support on your own automation/application

Bring your real bottleneck. Get hands-on help turning it into a working AI system.

Guest talks from top global practitioners

Curated recordings from experts working in AI at enterprise and policy level.

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.

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Course syllabus

6 live sessions • 4 lessons

Week 1

Oct 22—Oct 25

Live Lesson 1: State of AI - new paradigms, what's really different, the signal

Oct
22
Live Lesson 1: State of AI - new paradigms, what's really different, the signal from the noise
Thu 10/224:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Guest talk: GenAI strategy for the Enterprise | Dipayan C, BCG

1 item

Live Lesson 2: Make your first AI assistant + bring your own bottleneck

Oct
25
Live Lesson 2: Make your first AI assistant + bring your own bottleneck
Sun 10/255:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Oct 26—Nov 1

Live Lesson 3: Security, privacy, ethics & governance

Oct
29
Live Lesson 3: Security, privacy, ethics & governance
Thu 10/295:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Live lesson 4: Level Up Your AI Assistants

Nov
1
Live Lesson 5: From Assistant to AI Agent Team
Sun 11/15:30 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)

Guest Talk: Use GenAI responsibly | Dr. Prof Patrick Glauner [On Demand]

1 item

Guest Talk: AI & Data Governance | Arockia Liborious [On Demand]

1 item

Schedule

Live sessions

4 hrs / week

Thu, Oct 22
4:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Sun, Oct 25
5:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Oct 29
5:30 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

2 hrs / week

Async content

1 hr / week

Testimonials

Very helpful course. The live sessions coupled with expert-led sessions make the course truly value adding.
Associate
McKinsey & Company
Great course! Highly recommend Rahim's expert guidance and teaching methods.
Principal Product Manager
Zalando
The course really helped me prepare for the next step in my career towards leadership. I loved Rahim's teaching style. The amount of hands-on tasks and engagement activities kept me hooked throughout the course. The cherry on top was the sessions with industry experts, where I could pick their brains on queries related to my work/organization.
Tech Lead
TomTom