AI Leadership Institute

Cohort 1

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The Alpha Cohort is the first cohort ready to lead the way in mastering AI solutions and strategies.

Alpha Cohort

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this cohort is for students learning Fable 5

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Rise Up this Fall as an AI Solution Architect.

Executives and senior leaders who set strategy, lead teams, and drive organizational outcomes.

Operations professionals who optimize processes and manage day-to-day business functions.

Measuring and evaluating AI model performance, quality, and reliability for production use cases.

Startup founders building new businesses, from MVP to scale.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Building autonomous AI agent systems that take actions, use tools, and orchestrate multi-step workflows.

Developing leadership skills — inspiring teams, building culture, navigating organizational complexity, and driving results through others.

HR and people operations professionals handling hiring, compensation, employee experience, and organizational development.

Establishing policies, ethics frameworks, and oversight for responsible AI use in organizations.

Leading organizational AI adoption — change management, strategy, and building AI-ready teams.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.

Designing and optimizing the context window for LLM applications — prompt structure, memory, and information retrieval.

Building retrieval-augmented generation and search systems — vector databases, embeddings, ranking, and retrieval pipelines.

Use Claude Fable 5 to Build an AI Chief of Staff in One Day 


AI Exec, former Amazon, Microsoft, IBM 

Noelle Russell

5× Microsoft MVP who has trained millions of leaders in responsible AI.

Put Fable 5 to Work: Your AI Chief of Staff in One Day

AI - Sustainability - Human Development 

Founder & CEO

Visibility Strategist

Business Systems/Implementation Accounting Lead

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Master AI solutions, sales, and leadership to excel in your career. Solve real-world challenges and become the go-to AI expert. 

Certified AI Solutions Architect

Principal Engineering Program Manager

Management Consultant

Owner/Operator

Vp tech delivery 

Owner

Chief AI Strategy Officer

Today, every company is becoming an AI company. In this course, you’ll become a confident AI solution architect, mastering the art of selling and delivering cutting-edge AI solutions. Noelle has sold over $1 Billion in AI software and services at some of the largest companies in the world, and she will show you exactly what has made her successful. You’ll learn how to craft powerful, persuasive pitches that win over decision-makers, positioning you as the go-to expert for driving AI initiatives. Beyond selling, you’ll gain hands-on experience in designing and implementing AI projects that address real-world challenges, ensuring you can deliver solutions that provide measurable value. You’ll also build your personal brand as a thought leader, creating opportunities to influence and lead within the AI community. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped to sell AI solutions with confidence, lead impactful projects, and accelerate your career in the fast-paced world of AI. Take this course to unlock your potential and become a key player in the AI revolution.

Become a confident AI leader, mastering solutions, sales, & thought leadership.

Course syllabus

All live sessions are at the same time each day.

5 Weekday Sessions

In this first session, we’ll introduce you to the course and dive into the essentials of AI market analysis and client needs assessment. You’ll get a preview of what’s to come: mastering AI frameworks, crafting sales pitches, managing projects, and building thought leadership.

Our First Session

Throughout the course, you’ll engage in hands-on projects that apply what you learn in real-world scenarios. From designing AI solutions to crafting sales pitches and managing AI projects, these projects will reinforce key skills and provide practical experience.

Daily and Weekend Projects

Course schedule

Professionals ready to transition from a technical role to a strategic position, leading AI initiatives and becoming a recognized industry e

Pre-Sales Engineers looking to enhance AI sales skills, craft persuasive pitches, and close high-value deals with top decision-makers

Leaders eager to master AI and advance from technical design to leading impactful AI projects and driving business value.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Discover the secrets to identifying high-impact AI opportunities and aligning them with client needs to drive business growth.

Uncover AI Market Goldmines: Analyze Opportunities and Client Needs

Equip yourself with hands-on skills in TensorFlow, PyTorch, Azure AI, AWS Sagemaker, and more to create cutting-edge AI solutions.

Master the Power Tools: Build AI Solutions with Leading Frameworks and Platforms

Learn to craft irresistible sales pitches and handle tough objections, ensuring you win over decision-makers and secure lucrative AI contracts.

 Seal the Deal: Persuade Executives and Close Big AI Sales

Master the art of AI project management with Agile methodologies, ensuring your AI projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest standards.

Deliver AI Projects Like a Pro: Manage, Monitor, and Optimize for Success

Develop a resilient, growth-oriented mindset that keeps you motivated and thriving in the fast-paced world of AI.

Stay Ahead in AI: Cultivate a Growth Mindset and Resilience

Establish yourself as a go-to expert in AI by developing and executing a powerful thought leadership strategy.

Become an AI Thought Leader: Build Influence and Drive Industry Change

Lead AI projects with integrity and impact. Get certified as a Responsible AI Leader and build trust, innovation, and ethical scale.

Multi-award-winning AI Executive

Amazon

Johnson & Johnson

Fidelity Investments

Visa Inc.

Salesforce

Multi-award-winning AI Exec leading teams at Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, Accenture.

In this immersive live cohort masterclass, you’ll join forward-thinking leaders, innovators, and executives who are shaping the future of AI responsibly. Guided by Noelle Russell, award-winning technologist and CEO of the AI Leadership Institute, you’ll learn the frameworks, tools, and mindset required to move from AI enthusiasm to effective, ethical execution. You’ll learn how to:✅ Design and scale AI solutions grounded in ethical and responsible principles ✅ Apply the LEAD AI™ Framework — from governance to implementation ✅ Identify and mitigate bias, protect data, and build public trust ✅ Drive responsible AI adoption through proven change-management techniques ✅ Communicate AI strategy confidently with executives, clients, and stakeholders ✅ Access real-world templates and frameworks to guide your organization’s AI roadmap Future-proof your career by positioning yourself as the trusted AI leader your industry needs. Enroll now, become the kind of leader the future of AI demands, and join a movement committed to doing AI the right way.

Become the Responsible AI Leader Who Delivers Trust, Scale & Innovation.

Apply LEAD AI™ Framework to design ethical, transparent, scalable AI projects

Analyze AI systems to spot risk, bias & compliance gaps that threaten trust.

Evaluate ethical principles to drive human-centered governance & decision-making

Create a Responsible AI roadmap plus change-management plan for adoption

Communicate AI strategy to execs, teams & stakeholders to build alignment

Senior executives, AI program leaders, or innovation directors ready to shape and govern AI strategy with integrity.

Product managers, data &amp; analytics leads, ethics or compliance officers seeking frameworks to operationalize responsible AI.

Consultants, advisors, and business leaders tasked with influencing stakeholders and creating trustworthy AI adoption in their organizations

Step into the future of artificial intelligence with our 5-week cohort-based course on Agentic AI. Discover how to create autonomous, adaptive AI systems that can reason, plan, and act independently. Unlike traditional AI models, you'll learn to design and deploy intelligent agents that solve complex problems with minimal human intervention. Through expert-led sessions, immersive lab exercises, and Saturday live Q&amp;A sessions, you'll master proven agentic frameworks and design patterns. Build AI systems that are not just powerful, but scalable, trustworthy, and ready for production environments. Perfect for beginners and professionals alike, this course transforms theoretical concepts into practical skills. Join us to harness the revolutionary potential of AI agents and position yourself at the forefront of the next wave of technological innovation.

Master the Foundations of AI Agents

Join us every Saturday to discuss the project work, session topic and review recorded sessions! Also a great chance to network with fellow students.

Saturday Q&A

Every week you will have projects to allow you to put your fingers on the keyboard and build something awesome and agentic.

Weekly projects

Curious tech enthusiasts eager to understand AI fundamentals without prior coding experience who want to build practical automated solutions

Business professionals seeking to implement intelligent automation in their workflows who need a practical understanding of AI Agents.

Students and career-switchers exploring emerging tech opportunities who want hands-on experience with Agents and AI systems.

Remember &amp; Understand core AI agent concepts, including agentic frameworks, design principles, and real-world use cases, to build a strong foundation.

Master the Fundamentals of AI Agents

Apply key frameworks such as Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent Systems, and Metacognition to create AI agents that adapt, learn, and interact autonomously.

Apply Agentic Design Patterns to Build AI Agents

Analyze &amp; Evaluate AI agent efficiency, scalability, and ethical considerations to ensure responsible and trustworthy AI development.

Evaluate & Optimize AI Agent Performance

Create AI-driven solutions that can operate independently in real-world applications, enhancing automation and intelligent decision-making.

Design & Deploy Production-Ready AI Agents

Master how AI systems can reason, plan and act autonomously. Build your own AI agents—no experience needed. Transform your future today.

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Noelle Russell - CEO, AI Leadership Institute

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AI leaders from industry leading companies sharing their expertise with you! 

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You're a leader. Your calendar is a war zone. Every day you're pulled into decisions that shouldn't require your attention, drowning in emails that could be triaged, sitting in briefings you could have skipped if someone had just synthesized the key points first.You need a Chief of Staff. But hiring one takes months and costs six figures.What if you could build one in a day?Claude Fable 5 — the most powerful AI model ever made publicly available — is purpose-built for exactly this kind of long-horizon, high-stakes knowledge work. And in this hands-on workshop, you won't just learn about it. You'll build with it.By the end of this single day, you'll have a functioning AI Chief of Staff that researches, synthesizes, drafts, delegates, and follows through — customized to how YOU lead.No coding required. No PhD in AI. Just you, a clear vision of how you want to lead, and a guided build session that meets you exactly where you are.The leaders who thrive in the next five years won't be the ones who worked harder. They'll be the ones who figured out how to multiply themselves.This is how you do that.

Lead smarter with an AI Chief of Staff that researches, prioritizes, and executes — so you focus only on what only you can do.

Build a fully functional AI Chief of Staff using Claude Fable 5

Reclaim 10+ hours per week by delegating cognitive work to your AI

Design decision-support systems that give you better intel, faster

Master prompt architecture for long-horizon autonomous tasks

Apply responsible AI principles to your personal AI systems

Lead your organization's AI transformation with firsthand experience

Senior executives and directors drowning in decisions, emails, and briefings who need leverage without adding headcount.

Founders and entrepreneurs wearing every hat who want an AI system that thinks, researches, and executes like a seasoned operator.

HR, operations, and strategy leaders tasked with AI adoption who want hands-on experience before rolling it out to their teams.

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