How to be a High Impact, AI Powered Leader

8 Days

·

Cohort-based Course

Elevate your leadership potential with AI.

Currently & Previously at

Google
Microsoft
PayPal
Stanford University
Harvard University

Course overview

Human-Centered, AI-Enhanced Approach to Leadership

This course goes beyond basic AI literacy to demonstrate how thoughtful AI integration can dramatically enhance your strategic thinking, decision-making capabilities, communication effectiveness, and team development approaches. Through interactive workshops, real-world applications, and curated frameworks, you'll develop a personalized AI leadership toolkit designed to amplify your natural strengths and overcome common leadership challenges.

* Human-AI Partnership - The course recognizes that effective leadership remains fundamentally human, with AI serving as a powerful complement that enhances rather than replaces critical leadership qualities like empathy, judgment, and relationship-building

* Research-Backed Frameworks - The leadership frameworks and methodologies taught throughout the course are grounded in established research, ensuring you're applying proven approaches enhanced by AI capabilities

*Custom AI Tool Development - You'll learn to create your own specialized GPTs and agents tailored to your specific leadership context and organizational needs

* Implementation Focus - Every session includes practical workshops where you apply concepts immediately to your current leadership challenges, creating a portfolio of approaches that deliver immediate value

* Organizational Integration - Beyond personal productivity, you'll learn to establish team collaboration protocols and shared practices that scale AI capabilities across your organization

* Future-Proof Skills - Rather than focusing on specific AI tools that may become outdated, you'll develop the fundamental skills to evaluate, adapt, and create AI solutions as the technology continues to evolve


Why This Matters Now

In today's business landscape, a striking paradox exists: while 71% of organizations have adopted AI, a mere 1% have achieved true maturity in its implementation. This gap reveals the critical differentiator in today's market—leadership approach.


AI integration isn't simply another technological upgrade—it represents a fundamental reimagining of leadership value creation. As AI capabilities advance at breakneck speed, the performance gap between AI-powered leaders and traditional executives widens dramatically with each passing quarter. Those who hesitate now will find themselves at an insurmountable disadvantage within months, not years.


The most effective leaders today don't just utilize AI tools—they're developing entirely new AI-enhanced thinking frameworks, communication systems, and team development methodologies that exponentially multiply their impact and effectiveness. While others struggle with basic implementation, these pioneers are already reaping compound benefits.


Our approach empowers you to leverage AI as both a strategic thought partner and a platform for custom leadership tools perfectly aligned with your unique expertise. This dual focus delivers immediate value while building sustainable organizational capabilities—giving you both the strategic vision and practical skills in one comprehensive program. The executives waiting for "perfect clarity" before acting will be left struggling to catch up.


Designed and Led by Industry Executives with AI Experience


Learn directly from seasoned executives who've built and scaled high-performing global teams at Google, Microsoft, PayPal and other innovative companies. They bring a balanced blend of traditional leadership excellence and practical AI application experience to the table.

As sought-after speakers and workshop facilitators on AI leadership, they've guided numerous executives through the challenges of integrating these technologies into their leadership practices. Their combination of leadership experience, teaching credentials at Stanford University, and executive coaching expertise is complemented by their work helping organizations identify where AI can reduce friction and enhance leadership effectiveness.


The curriculum draws from rigorous management research and real-world implementation insights across multiple sectors. As trusted advisors to leadership teams at tech giants (Google, Meta, OpenAI), innovative startups, prestigious universities, and government organizations, they share practical tools, frameworks, and strategies developed through their coaching practice to help you apply AI responsibly.



Not designed for: Those seeking AI technical development

Who this course is for:

01

Ambitious Manager: Mid-level leader seeking promotion who recognizes AI mastery is the competitive advantage that will distinguish them

02

Overwhelmed Leader: Established leader drowning in complexity who needs AI systems to scale their impact

03

Strategic Innovator: Forward-thinking leader who seeks to reimagine their organization's possibilities by integrating AI-enhanced processes

What you’ll get out of this course

Develop "Strategic Courage"

Create AI-enhanced processes for detecting weak signals, stress-testing competitive assumptions, and expanding strategic imagination beyond conventional boundaries


Master Decisive Decision-Making

Apply the WRAP framework with AI integration to overcome the four villains of decision-making and simulate high-stakes decisions before committing resources


Craft Powerful Communications

Design audience-specific messaging strategies and implement feedback systems that drive continuous performance improvement


Unlock Team Potential

Build psychological safety while developing customized coaching approaches that leverage AI to recognize growth patterns and development opportunities


Build Custom AI Leadership Tools

Identify personal leadership opportunities for AI enhancement to give yourself more capacity to deliver results and manage larger teams. Design and implement specialized GPTs and AI agents tailored to your specific leadership context, creating capabilities that drive competitive

Unlock AI As Your Leadership Thought Partner

Go beyond efficiency - use AI lead with greater impact.

This course includes

4 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

20 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

May 31—Jun 1

    May

    31

    AI Leadership, Strategic Thinking, Decision Making

    Sat 5/314:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    The AI Leadership Landscape

    3 items

    Strategic Thinking Enhancement

    3 items

    Decisive Decision Making

    3 items

    May

    31

    Optional: Office Hours

    Sat 5/317:00 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
    Optional

Week 2

Jun 2—Jun 7

    Jun

    7

    Communication, Team Potential, Organizational Integration, Final Reflections

    Sat 6/74:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)

    Communicate with Confidence

    4 items

    Unlocking Team Potential

    4 items

    Organizational Integration and Final Reflections

    3 items

    Jun

    7

    Optional: Office Hours

    Sat 6/74:00 PM—7:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

What people are saying

        The content was fantastic, down to earth, and well structured!! I wish many managers here at Google take it at some point…I think the the concept of aligning at 3 levels resonates so much because we oftentimes assume that it's implicit that people get it, that we're aligned at those levels… I found the framing and structure so helpful.
Sergio C.

Sergio C.

Head of Strategy and Operations | Chief of Staff, Google
        I highly recommend this course, especially for managers in early/growth stage start-ups who don't have easy access to a network of more experienced managers to learn from. This course provides great, study-backed content with explicit, actionable steps you can quickly apply to your particular team situation.
Penelope Y.

Penelope Y.

VP Product of Management, Bishop Fox

Meet your instructors

Mo Fong

Mo Fong

Stanford Adj Lecturer | Ex-Google & PayPal

Mo’s extensive coaching and consulting practice focuses on assessing and rooting out destructive friction and to navigate challenges with greater agility. She has experience in building effective teams, leading through crisis and change management, and scaling for excellence.


Mo is an adjunct lecturer with Stanford Management Science and Engineering and is a leadership coach at Harvard Business School. Mo has served as the ED at STVP, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15 years at Google as a Sr. Director leading global teams in Google Technical Solutions, Financial Operations and People Operations. Mo is the founder of Friction Fixers, dedicated to making work better by rooting out destructive organizational friction while planting good friction. She is also the founder of LeiFongCoaching, LLC and is the President and founding member of the Asian Women Coaching Collective


Stanford University: BS, ChemE and MA, Edu, Harvard Business School, MBA

Anita Yuen

Anita Yuen

Product Executive | Ex-Google & Microsoft

Anita is a product management executive with extensive experience driving innovation and growth across tech industry leaders and startups. Her career includes product leadership roles at Google, Microsoft, and various startups.


Over 17 years at Google, Anita built impactful consumer and business products across multiple divisions including Google Search, Maps, Shopping, and Kids & Families. She led high-performing product and marketing teams, developed successful leadership programs, and served on hiring and promotion committees to invest in top talent. Anita was a 3-time executive award recipient and received two prestigious Webby awards.


Currently, Anita coaches leaders and provides strategic consulting and advisory services to early-stage companies.


Anita holds a bachelors degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where she was also a Mayfield Fellow. She also holds a AI Product Management certificate from Duke University.

A pattern of wavy dots

Join an upcoming cohort

How to be a High Impact, AI Powered Leader

Cohort Blue Ridge

$795

Dates

May 31—June 7, 2025

Payment Deadline

May 30, 2025
Get reimbursed

Course schedule

6 Hours over Two Weekends

  • Saturday

    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PST

    Optional office hours on Saturdays 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM PST

Free resource

Energy Assessment

Are you constantly drained at the end of each day?


Introducing the Energy Zones Map

This powerful self-assessment tool helps you:

  • Pinpoint exactly what depletes your mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual reserves
  • Discover restorative activities tailored to your unique energy profile
  • Create a visual map showing where to focus for maximum energy renewal
  • Design small, doable weekly experiments to transform your energy management


Download your Energy Zones Map worksheet and begin transforming how you work, connect, and live.

Get this free resource

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

Stay in the loop

Sign up to be the first to know about course updates.

A pattern of wavy dots

Join an upcoming cohort

How to be a High Impact, AI Powered Leader

Cohort Blue Ridge

$795

Dates

May 31—June 7, 2025

Payment Deadline

May 30, 2025
Get reimbursed

$795

8 Days