James Gray

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This is a weekend cohort over four Sundays.

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US morning (starts 11 AM Eastern) and Europe evening (starts 4 PM GMT)

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The cohort sessions start at 7 PM US Eastern.

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For professionals seeking to transition into or reinvent their technology role.

Cohort 11 - Tech Career Reinvention

Designed to help professionals navigate career transitions with clarity and confidence.

Cohort 10 - Career Transition

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Smart leaders treat their prompts like code, not chat. Leverage this guide with step-by-step instructions to go from chats scattered across multiple AI tools to managing prompts like a pro.

How to Manage a Prompt Library Like a Pro

The most important conversation you have is with yourself.&nbsp;When there is an internal misalignment, your lack of deep self-awareness can influence your life in various ways:<ul><li>remaining stuck in a job that no longer serves you</li><li>confusion</li><li>anxiety and fear</li><li>minimal growth</li><li>weak relationships</li></ul>Your mindset becomes a superpower when it's aligned and integrated. Read how my life changed by adopting these 10 building blocks that activated my transformation.

How Does Looking Inward Change Your Life?

Turn AI into your competitive advantage—automate, optimize, and lead smarter with agentic workflows.

UC Berkeley Instructor | ex CIO & CPO 

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | Former CIO/CPO | Trained 5,000+ Leaders

Hands-on Agentic AI for Leaders

Manager of Enterprise Software and Collaboration

Consulting and Alliance Partner

GIS Superintendent

Lead Product Manager

Clinical L&D Consultant 

Consulting Manager, Digital Transformation

Senior Director, Tech Support

Product Management and Design Manager

IT Director

SVP, Product & Tech

UC Berkeley

Microsoft

AI transformation starts with leaders who build, not just evaluate.You're approving AI initiatives you can't personally validate. Your team experiments with prompts but nobody designs repeatable workflows. You know AI should save time, but you can't quantify where or how much. Strategy decks pile up while execution stalls.In 4 weeks, using the Business-First AI Framework and your agentic builder stack, you'll:✅ Apply the Business-First AI Framework to discover your highest-impact workflows and build a living registry✅ Evaluate workflow architectures on the autonomy spectrum and map them to the seven agentic building blocks✅ Build reusable agent skills that capture your expertise for consistent, team-ready execution✅ Design deterministic and collaborative AI workflows powered by your skills✅ Become fluent with Claude Code, Cursor, and your full builder stack using plan mode and agentic coding✅ Deploy multi-agent autonomous systems that handle complex workflows This isn't theory — it's a hands-on builder methodology from training 5,000+ leaders at UC Berkeley and a decade at Microsoft. Rated 4.8/5. Intimate cohorts, 1:1 coaching, lifetime access. We build together — not lectures.

From AI User to Business-First AI Builder in 30 Days

Apply the Business-First AI Framework to your work

Evaluate AI workflow architectures to select the right pattern for each use case

Build reusable Agent Skills that turn expertise into AI workflows

Build deterministic and collaborative AI workflows powered by skills

Become fluent with your agentic AI builder stack

Build multi-agent autonomous systems for complex workflows

The course extensively utilizes AI assistants, such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Some lessons are unique to these tools.

You have a paid subscription to one or more: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

The course does not require coding experience, but we will use AI code editors (Cursor/VS Code) to build and refine prompts

No coding experience

This cohort experience is for people who learn best in small groups and value personalized feedback from an experienced instructor.

Learning in a small, supportive cohort

Leaders and professionals who believe in “learning by doing” by using cutting-edge tools and building AI solutions&nbsp;hands-on.

Leaders who must understand the latest AI capabilities to&nbsp;drive an AI-powered business strategy credibly.

Professionals who must boost their AI technology acumen to strengthen collaboration and influence with technical stakeholders.

Master Claude Code, skills, subagents, browser automation, and Cowork—transforming from AI user to builder delivering business outcomes.

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | ex CIO/CPO 

Capital One

Google

Amazon

The agentic era rewards builders. Become one.You're using Claude for one-off tasks while others build AI systems that scale expertise, automate operations, and ship products. Your workflows stay ad-hoc. Ideas are trapped waiting on engineering. Skills locked in your head can't compound. You can't lead AI initiatives without hands-on credibility.In 5 weeks, using the Business-First AI Framework and the Claude Platform (Claude.AI, Claude Desktop, Cowork, Claude Code), you'll:✅ Deconstruct your work into automatable workflows and build a living Notion registry✅ Design deterministic and collaborative workflows — from fully automated to human-in-the-loop✅ Deploy autonomous Subagents and Agent Teams for complex, multi-step work✅ Prototype and deploy a web app using the full agentic coding lifecycle—vision brief to live URL✅ Accelerate knowledge work with Claude Cowork and build your reusable task libraryThis isn't tips and tricks—it's a systematic builder methodology from training 5,000+ leaders at UC Berkeley and a decade at Microsoft. Agentic AI for Leaders rated 4.8/5. Intimate cohorts, 1:1 coaching, lifetime access. We build together—not lectures.

A business-first approach to building with AI

Configure your AI builder stack and workflow system

Design and build AI workflows — from automated to collaborative

Deploy autonomous AI using Subagents and Agent Teams

Prototype and deploy a web app using agentic coding

Accelerate knowledge work with Claude Cowork

Skills, Projects, and advanced features require a paid plan. Free tier won't work for this course. 

You have a Claude paid subscription. 

You'll install Claude Code and browser extensions. Work computers with admin restrictions may be an issue. 

You can install software on your computer.

All free. GitHub manages AI assets, the editor runs Claude Code, Chrome enables browser automation. Setup guided in Week 1.

You have GitHub, Cursor or VS Code, and Chrome installed.

Operational Leader: Leaders building AI systems for their teams—creating reusable assets that scale expertise across the organization.

Builder-Founder: Founders and solopreneurs who prototype fast, automate operations, and ship AI-powered products without engineers.

AI-First Professional: Professionals building the systems, skills, and workflows that put AI at the center of how they create value.

How to Build Agentic AI as a Leader

Data and AI Strategy Instructor, Berkeley Haas Exec Education

Gain foundational knowledge of agentic systems and their applications in automating tasks and business processes.

Fundamentals of agentic systems

Learn the process of designing, building, and deploying simple AI agents using no-code and pro-code approaches.

Designing and deploying agentic systems

Observe a real-time walkthrough of building and deploying a multi-agent system.

A live demonstration of a multi-agent system

Build Your AI Prompt Library in Cursor

Former CIO and Microsoft veteran | AI Entrepreneur | Berkeley Haas Instructor

Have prompts saved as Markdown files that work across all AI platforms and integrate seamlessly with development tools

Create AI prompts as reusable, platform-portable files

Own a GitHub repo that tracks and stores your local Markdown prompts with full version history and rollback capabilities

Build a version-controlled prompt library

Build or improve a prompt using AI models within Cursor—access multiple models to help you refine in your editor

Refine prompts using AI models within Cursor

Design Your First Skill-Powered Workflow

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | ex CIO & CPO

Break down one workflow with Claude to identify which steps contain reusable expertise worth systematizing into skills

Map your workflow into discrete skill-building opportunities

Package your step-by-step instructions into a reusable skill that executes your workflow on demand

Build a Claude skill live you can use immediately

Trigger your new skill in a real workflow and watch Claude execute your step-by-step instructions

Build and execute your first skill-powered workflow

Scale Your Expertise with Claude Skills

Former CIO and Microsoft veteran | AI Entrepreneur | UC Berkeley Instructor

Identify one repeatable expertise area bottlenecking your productivity and choose what skill to build

Identify your highest-impact expertise to systematize

Build a Claude Skill using Claude.AI and Claude Code

Build a Claude Agent Skill live

Run prompt to automatically activate your reusable skill to scale your expertise

Test your Skill and see it scale your work

Deconstruct Your Workflows for Agentic AI

Name your process and the discrete workflows within it—the first step to making any of them automatable

Identify the workflows hiding inside your business processes

Use a meta-prompting technique to have AI write the detailed instructions for each workflow step

Deconstruct one workflow into AI-executable steps

Capture your domain expertise as documentation you can delegate from, share, or automate

Generate your workflow SOP and process guide with AI

Learn the process of designing, building, and deploying simple agentic AI using no-code and pro-code approaches.

Observe a real-time walkthrough of building and running a multi-agent system.

Build & Activate Agents In Natural Language with Claude Code

Data & AI Strategist | Berkeley Haas AI Instructor | Microsoft Veteran

Learn a design approach and methodology for decomposing work into reusable, high-performance digital workers.

Design agents for your use case

Configure an agent by describing your requirements in natural language with Claude Code (install before the session)

Build agents in natural language

Call agents into action by describing your goal in natural language, and see agents work together to deliver the outcome

Activate agents in natural language

How to Build Agents with the OpenAI Agents SDK

Data and AI Strategy Instructor, Berkeley Haas School of Business

Gain foundational knowledge of agent components and two multi-agent orchestration patterns.

Agent design patterns

Learn the steps to design and configure a multi-agent system using the OpenAI Agents SDK and Python.

Build a multi-agent system

Observe execution and tracing of a multi-agent system to evaluate agent interaction, inputs and outputs.

Build a Registry of Your AI-Powered Value Chain

Walk through a real registry showing how business processes map to workflows and the AI assets that power them

See how processes, workflows, and AI assets connect

Use a Notion template to create your registry with Business Processes, Workflows, and AI Assets databases

Clone and set up your own workflow registry

Add a workflow to your registry and link it to the prompts, skills, or agents that operationalize it

Register one workflow with its AI tools in your registry

Link Notion to Claude or ChatGPT so your processes and IP become accessible context in every conversation

Connect your registry to your AI assistant

How to Systematically Manage Your Prompts like Code

Data & AI Entrepreneur - Berkeley Haas AI Strategy Instructor

Create reusable prompts using markdown and XML tags that deliver consistent, high-quality AI outputs every time

Structure AI Instructions

Build a personal prompt library with version control, enabling rapid deployment across multiple AI platforms

Systematize AI Instructions

Transform ad-hoc AI usage into systematic intellectual property that saves hours weekly and drives competitive advantage

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