Don't Just Adopt AI. Design What Comes After It. A Course for Senior Operators.

Jory Des Jardins

Frontier Tech Operator & AI Advisor

The leaders who get AI transformation right design it deliberately

Most organizations are measuring the wrong things, restructuring before they've mapped anything, and calling it transformation.

The professionals who get this right aren't the fastest adopters. They're the ones who understood what was at stake before everyone else did — and designed their organization's response deliberately.

This course exists because that kind of thinking doesn't happen by accident. It requires a framework, a diagnostic process, and a peer community of senior operators who are navigating the same decisions you are.

In four weeks you'll map your organization's AI trajectory, build a decision rights structure for your function, sequence a measurement plan your leadership can act on, and assemble a transformation design document you can walk into an executive conversation with the week after the course ends.

Not a certificate. Not a survey of tools. A working artifact and a framework you'll use for years.

What you’ll learn

Leave with a diagnosis of where your organization stands and a transformation plan your leadership can act on.

Build your Alignment Audit to map your function's current AI trajectory and identify what it means for decisions you need to make now.
Apply the audit to assess whether your org is building capability or quietly eroding it.
Identify the three structural risks most transformation programs miss before they become visible.

Build your Decision Rights Matrix, categorizing workflows across five governance categories of AI vs. human involvement.
Identify tasks that may be migrating too far from human oversight.
Build a governance map that reflects where decisions are actually being made, not assumed to be.

Distinguish which metrics belong in the first 30 days of transformation — and which ones will mislead you if tracked too early.
Recognize the early signals that tell you whether your organization is integrating AI well before output data confirms it.
By day 90, place your organization on the HAA Diagnostic Frame, with evidence to demonstrate sound organizational design to your leadership.

Identify which roles in your function are building the next generation of senior practitioners — and which are potentially at risk.
Recognize the early warning signs of capability loss before they show up in performance data or succession gaps.
Assemble your Transformation Design Document that keeps expert skill development intact as AI takes on more routine work.

Continue to evolve your plan as you integrate Human Agency Architecture into workflows and org structure.

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Who this course is for

Senior operators — Chief of Staff, VP People, Head of Talent, function leaders responsible for how AI is integrated into their organization.
CHROs, CPOs, HRBPs at mid-to-large organizations navigating workforce restructuring, role redesign, capability planning during AI adoption.
Operators, senior managers, team leads, department heads, senior ICs leading AI transformation from the inside, strategy and execution.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Jory Des Jardins 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

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Course syllabus

4 live sessions • 4 lessons

Week 1

Sep 10—Sep 13

What's Actually Breaking — And Why Your Dashboard Won't Show It

1 item

Sep

Session 1: What's Actually Breaking — And Why Your Dashboard Won't Show It

Thu 9/1010:00 PM—11:15 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Sep 14—Sep 20

"Pre-structure" Work Before You Restructure the Org

1 item

Sep

Session 2: Structure Work Before You Restructure the Org

Thu 9/1710:00 PM—11:15 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

1-2 hrs / week

One 75-minute live session per week: 45 minutes of framework instruction and applied case work, 20 minutes of structured peer feedback on your weekly deliverable, and 10 minutes of wrap and next-week setup. All sessions recorded for replay.

Thu, Sep 10
10:00 PM—11:15 PM (UTC)
Thu, Sep 17
10:00 PM—11:15 PM (UTC)
Thu, Sep 24
10:00 PM—11:15 PM (UTC)
Thu, Oct 1
10:00 PM—11:15 PM (UTC)

Projects

1-2 hrs / week

Three weekly projects building progressively into your capstone: a decision rights map, a measurement plan, and a transformation design document ready for leadership.

Async content

1 hr / week

A short video introduction plus a worked example or framework reference before each live session, starting after Session 1.

How you'll diagnose where your organization actually stands

Most AI transformation efforts are tracked with the wrong metrics — output numbers that look healthy while the organization's capacity to think, decide, and develop talent quietly erodes underneath them.

This course uses a diagnostic frame grounded in Human Agency Architecture (HAA) — a framework for aligning AI transformation with both human capacity and business outcomes. The Frame maps your organization on two axes that matter more than productivity alone — Agency and Productivity. Four zones, four very different organizational futures:

Flourishing zone — high agency, high productivity. Gains are real, judgment pipeline intact, sustained advantage.
Augmentation zone — high agency, low productivity. Human capacity preserved, efficiency still on the table.
Substitution zone — low agency, high productivity. Output looks strong; cognitive atrophy and succession gaps are hidden underneath it.
Stall zone — low agency, low productivity. Adoption without design — tooling invested, little to show for it.

By Week 3, you'll place your own organization on this Frame with evidence, not a guess. Week 4 is designing the path from where you are to where you want to be.