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Beat decision paralysis. Master a repeatable process for making better decisions in business and life.

Author, Speaker, Decision Strategist

Annie Duke

Author, Speaker, Decision Strategist, and Former Professional Poker Player.

Cohort 9

Cohort 10

Only two things determine how your life turns out — luck and the quality of your decisions. I'll teach you a decision-making process to help you master the second.

Make Better Decisions

Make Higher-Quality Decisions

Think More Strategically and Analytically

Build Practical, Repeatable Decision Habits

Recognize and Reduce Cognitive Bias

Build Confidence in Uncertain Environments

Improve Team Decision-Making and Communication

You’re an entrepreneur who wants to be faster and more effective across the dozens of decisions you make every day.

You’re an executive-level decision maker looking to accelerate your team’s success by teaching them how to make high-quality decisions.

You’re an investor who’s tired of letting volatility drive your decisions and ready to systematize your thinking.

Go from curious to confidently writing your first (or next) angel/LP check, with a documented strategy you can reuse across real deals.

General Partner of The Council Fund

Apple

Snap Inc.

Eli Lilly and Company

Cruise

Amber Illig

Operations leader, angel investor, VC fund manager

Partner of The Council Fund

Komodo Health

Rachel Tsui

Healthcare & customer success leader, angel investor, VC partner

Spring Cohort

Most tech leaders want to angel invest. Very few know how to start and build a repeatable strategy.After 80+ early-stage investments, we organized our internal frameworks, decision models, and templates into a practical investing playbook for our private operator community and are making them public here on Maven.

Go from curious to a confident investor with a clear alternative investing plan

Clarity and confidence in decision-making

A complete, end-to-end investing strategy

Real-world tools you can reuse. You'll walk away with:

Access to lived experience from our experts, not just advice 

We're operators focused on investing from an operator POV. Your experience leading functions within top organizations is key.

Leaders with 5–10+ years of experience

Whether you've completed 0 or 10+ deals, our playbook will help you level up.

Aspiring & Current Alternative Early-Stage Investors

This course is most actionable for accredited investors who want to immediately apply an operator-led investing approach.

Investing Readiness (Accredited or Preparing)

Tech professionals who want to make their first angel or LP investment but don’t want to rely on gut feel or hype

Builders - operators, c-suite executives, &amp; tech professionals - who want to be a value-add investor and not just a check

Professionals looking to expand their networks &amp; influence through strategic investing, with a clear framework behind every decision

Understand why AI raises the bar for BAs, define role value in an AI context, and describe your role and value to others.

BA-Cube Founder | LinkedIn Instructor

Angela Wick

25+ years practicing, shaping, and teaching analysis, product, and requirements.

The Business Analyst Role in the Age of AI

Everyone's role is changing, especially in software and projects. AI is seemingly collapsing roles, or is it changing the roles and tasks? AI introduces ambiguity, probabilistic behavior, and continuous decision-making into systems designed for certainty. This course exists to answer a foundational question:What is the Business Analyst responsible for when AI changes how work gets done, and what analysis is needed for AI projects and AI Agents?This course focuses on role clarity. You will examine how AI changes productivity expectations, teaming, and the SDLC, and analysis tasks needed for AI projects, integration/automation, and Agentic AI.This course is designed to reshape how you think about your role before you learn execution mechanics.

Reframing the BA role for AI-enabled organizations

Why AI increases the need for business analysis rather than reducing it

Which BA tasks AI can take over and which responsibilities cannot be automated

Common role collapse patterns in AI initiatives

How AI breaks phase-based SDLC thinking

How to explain BA value as integration, judgment, and accountability

Business Analysts, Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Systems Analysts, Business Process Analysts, and similar roles.

BA Leaders redefining roles for AI-enabled teams

Professionals pulled into AI initiatives without clear accountability

Confidently lead with clarity in increasingly uncertain times.

Transformational Leadership Partner

Enspiral

Consensys

Susan Basterfield

Partner to leaders transforming how power, teams, and systems work

Decision-Making in Complexity

Stefan Morales

Leadership strategist with +15 years helping teams navigate uncertainty.

Cohort 1

This isn’t leadership theory - it’s a rewiring.You’ll learn how to stay clear, composed, and creative when everything around you is shifting.Over three focused weeks, you’ll explore what great leaders do when there are no easy answers - how they think, decide, and move with others when the stakes are high and the path isn’t clear.You’ll walk away with:A sharper way to see what’s really happening beneath the noise.Simple moves that turn confusion into momentum.A calmer, steadier center - no matter what’s unfolding.A network of peers who lead with courage instead of control.This is about learning to thrive where others freeze - to become the kind of leader people trust when things get uncertain.

Lead with clarity in increasingly uncertain times.

Make clear decisions in uncertain conditions

Build strategies that stay useful as conditions change

Guide groups to decisions they can commit to

Create containers for coordinated experimentation

Spot early signals so you can intervene before issues escalate

Lead from a steady center that builds trust and follow-through

Leaders in motion guiding your teams through rapid growth, transformation or constriction while the ground keeps shifting.

Leaders in corporate, nonprofit, or public sectors facing external pressures that shape decisions and resources, requiring adaptive change.

Experienced leaders evolving their presence moving from control and certainty to calm, adaptive confidence.

Stop over-explaining and start guiding decisions. You'll become the professional who walks into senior rooms and walks out with a yes.

Cohort 2

24-Year Banker -> Presentation Expert

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Commerzbank

Royal Bank

MaryBeth Hazeldine

24 years at JPMorgan, PwC, RBS. Now training executives to win decisions.

Cohort 3

You've done the work. You know the material. You've prepared the slides.And yet the decision stalls.Polite nods. Reasonable questions. Then: "Let's take this offline." "We'll circle back." "Good discussion."Translation: No decision today.If this keeps happening, it's not because you lack expertise or presentation skills. It's because the way you're structuring your message doesn't match how senior people decide.Here's what nobody tells you: executives make their decision in the first few minutes, then spend the rest of the time looking for reasons to trust that instinct—or doubt it. When you lead with context, build to your recommendation, and back it up with extensive data, you're triggering doubt, not confidence.The unspoken question in their mind: "If they need this much explanation, is the recommendation actually solid?"This course gives you a different approach—a system built on how decisions actually happen in senior rooms. You'll learn to structure your message so that "yes" feels like the obvious, low-risk choice.Not through tips you'll forget under pressure. Through a repeatable system that works even when you're tired, rushed, or facing pushback.

Executives decide before your presentation ends. Structure accordingly

Structure presentations that win decisions

Remove the anxiety before you even start

Build credibility without over-explaining

Choose proof that reassures, not proof that defends

Handle pushback without becoming defensive

Use AI tools without sounding generic or losing authority

<code>You present to executives, boards, or steering committees—and need decisions, not "good discussions." Your credibility is on the line.</code>

You pitch to clients and present recommendations for a living. Stalled decisions cost you deals, revenue, and repeat business.

You're in relationship management, business development, or sales—presenting to win deals, budgets, or strategic alignment.

Students will learn the AI literacy to evaluate AI ideas, surface risk, and make sound judgments without becoming technical specialists.

AI Literacy for Business Analysts

AI risk often comes from poor assumptions about what AI can and cannot do. It also comes from poor analysis and organizational dynamics of leaders asking for solutions and pressuring teams to deliver solutions rather than solving real problems.Analysis professionals have a huge role in this dynamic that can change everything!Analysts are increasingly expected to participate in AI decisions, yet most training focuses on tools or stays abstract. This course fills the gap in understanding AI capabilities: Not from a technical point of view, rather a capability point of view; business uses and patterns of functional usage.You will build a grounded understanding of AI capabilities, limits, patterns, and failure modes, and learn how requirements shift toward hypotheses, experiments, and continuous outcomes in AI-enabled work.This course explores the skills of:🎯 Identifying the right AI use cases for specific business scenarios🎯 Distinguishing between deterministic and probabilistic systems and deciding where each should be applied in a workflow🎯 Questioning and communicating AI use case fit and risks—and defining clear hypotheses for AI solutions

Giving BAs AI Literacy to Understand, Evaluate and be Accountable for AI 

Major AI capability types and their appropriate uses

GenerativeAI is just one piece of AI, and much more than "chat".

What AI is good at and where it fails

Generative AI and its Data Sources (Public vs. Private)

How requirements shift to hypotheses and experiments

Where humans must remain accountable in AI-enabled systems

Analysts, Project Managers, Business Leaders and others involved in AI discussions or initiatives

Analysis Leaders responsible for AI-related risk

Analysts who want confidence without pretending technical expertise

Unlearn inherited leadership behaviors and build a clear, modern leadership style that fits for you in today’s complex environment

Cohort 1 - Pilot

Executive Coach | Transformation Expert

Slalom

Talkiatry

World Kinect

International Coaching Federation

Co-Active Training Institute

Danielle Tye

Executive coach partnering with modern leaders to redefine how they lead

You’re expected to be decisive, empathetic, strategic, and visionary — all at once. Most leaders respond by defaulting to models they inherited years ago: command-and-control, over-functioning, people-pleasing, or performative confidence. Over time, the gap between who you are and how you lead creates tension — second-guessing, emotional fatigue, strained relationships, or a sense that leadership feels heavier than it should. This course helps you unlearn those scripts and step into leadership that actually fits.This course helps you unlearn inherited leadership scripts and helps you step into a style that fits your values, context, and the complexity of modern work.The pilot cohort sold out! Don't miss your chance to be part of the Leadership Rewritten Movement. Now accepting cohort 2 students.

Most leadership advice wasn’t built for the reality leaders face today.

Clarity on how you actually want to lead

A tool for decisions under pressure without defaulting to inherited patterns

Sustainable leadership that doesn’t drain you

Executive leaders who feel misaligned but aren’t sure where to start in evolving their next iteration of leadership.

Senior Managers, Directors, and VPs navigating increased scope, visibility, and complexity in how they lead.

Emerging middle-management leaders ready to proactively reflect and create their own style before inheriting old scripts.

By the end of AI 202 you will have a more stable relationship with both technology and responsibility.

Human Judgment in the Age of AI

Microsoft

Accenture

University of Washington

Teresa Escrig, PhD in AI

AI does not replace leadership — It tests the quality of human judgment. AI is powerful — and increasingly present in everyday decisions.But AI does not correct human judgment.It amplifies the internal structure of the person using it.When that structure is scattered, decisions become reactive.When it is coherent, clarity and leadership expand.AI 202 is a structured program designed to strengthen the internal clarity that AI amplifies — so decisions remain steady even as capability accelerates.<h3>What We Observed in Cohort 1</h3>Participants completed the same self-assessment before and after five weeks.On a 1–5 clarity scale (1 = steady, 5 = reactive) average scores improved by more than one full point.Participants reported:• Less overthinking • Fewer reactive decisions • Greater steadiness under pressure • Increased confidence in executionSeveral began skeptical about AI.They left with a clear framework for what to delegate — and what not to.The goal is simple:Clearer decisions — before they scale across teams and outcomes.

Clarity and decision sovereignty in the age of AI

Make clear decisions under pressure

Use AI as a precise collaborator

Maintain steadiness and focus

Recognize and adjust thinking patterns AI amplifies

AI 101 for Conscious Creators (included at no additional cost).

Leaders with Decision Authority Founders, executives, and investors scaling responsibility without losing clarity

Leaders in Transition Professionals redefining judgment, authority, and identity in the AI era

Leaders by Responsibility (Not Title) People whose choices affect others—and who want clarity before decisions scale

Move from point forecasts to decision-grade probabilistic forecasts you can trust, explain, and defend in production.

Probabilistic Forecasting Expert

H-E-B

Stanley Black & Decker

Royal Holloway

Valeriy Manokhin

ML expert and 7× book author building AI forecasting systems

Probabilistic forecasting is hot — because point forecasts no longer suffice.Probabilistic forecasting has shifted from a niche topic to a critical professional skill. In planning, finance, energy, supply chains, and operations, decisions are not made on a single number — they are made under uncertainty, risk, and asymmetric costs.Yet most teams are unprepared. They can generate point forecasts, but struggle to produce uncertainty that is calibrated, interpretable, and defensible. Intervals are often wrong, metrics misaligned with decisions, and “uncertainty” collapses outside notebooks. When stakeholders ask, “Can we trust this?”, there is no clear answer.This course closes that gap.You’ll learn how to build decision-grade probabilistic forecasts: quantiles, predictive distributions, proper scoring rules, calibration diagnostics, and evaluation frameworks aligned with real business outcomes. This is not about hype or exotic models. It’s about mastering methods that work in production and hold up under scrutiny.Probabilistic forecasting is hot for a simple reason: real decisions are probabilistic — forecasts must be too.

From fragile point forecasts to decision-grade probabilistic forecasting

Build calibrated probabilistic forecasts instead of fragile point predictions.

Communicate uncertainty so stakeholders trust and use your forecasts.

Produce quantiles, intervals, and predictive distributions correctly.

Evaluate with proper scoring rules aligned to real business costs.

Diagnose and fix miscalibration before it breaks production.

Lead forecasting projects with authority and defensible uncertainty.

<h3>Senior DS/ML engineers who ship forecasts and need calibrated uncertainty, proper evaluation, and production-ready probabilistic outputs.</h3>

Forecasting &amp; planning leads who own business decisions and need uncertainty they can explain, defend, and align with costs and risk.

Executives/tech leaders who rely on forecasts and want mental models to challenge assumptions and steer strategy under uncertainty.

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