Julian Gilson

Lead AI Change Outside The Tech Bubble

Deutsche Bank

University of Oxford

IntensifAI

NetDocuments

Airia

AI leader for the last 9 years in both tech and non-tech organizations.

The gap to adoption is no longer technical skills, it is people and process.

How to bridge the real adoption gap.

A stakeholder + message plan to move from “cool demo” to “real usage.”

Get your first AI workflow into production.

Priorities, owners, and success measures for the next 90 days.

Sketch a 30/60/90‑day adoption roadmap that sticks.

If you can’t lead projects + use AI, you’re replaceable. This is your solution to future proof your career.

CEO @ Projects Right | AI & PM Expert

Microsoft

Amazon

Chevron

McKesson

Medtronic

Justin Bateh, PhD

CEO | 25,000+ learners | 80+ Projects | 8x Awards | LinkedIn Learning Instructor

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In just 4 weeks, go from an overwhelmed task manager to a confident, AI-powered project leader.No map. No playbook. No backup. Just pressure to deliver.That’s the reality most professionals face now.Titles don’t matter. Results do.The brutal truth: if you can’t deliver projects and leverage AI, you’re replaceable. Companies aren’t paying for effort. They’re paying for execution that moves the bottom line.That’s why I built the Project Execution Framework™, a 7-step system I’ve taught to thousands of leaders to align teams, use AI strategically, accelerate execution, &amp; deliver results that get noticed.And these aren’t abstract lessons. You’ll walk away knowing how to:<ul><li>Fix stakeholder misalignment</li><li>Eliminate busywork with real AI workflows.</li><li>Lead confidently even when you don’t have the title.</li></ul>It’s about learning the practical survival skills that keep you valuable when pressure is high &amp; outcomes matter most.In a world where projects fail daily and AI reshapes work overnight, this course is your insurance policy. Miss it, and you'll fall behind. Take it, and you secure your seat at the table.

Your Impact = (Project Execution X AI Fluency)

Deliver Projects with Clarity and Confidence

Lead Without Authority and Build High-Performing Teams

Leverage AI to Accelerate Execution and Maximize Impact

Master Stakeholder Influence and Communication

Design Systems That Scale Across Projects

You should have 7+ years of professional experience in any field and be responsible for delivering work, outcomes, or small projects.

Experience

You should have experience coordinating tasks, supporting projects, or helping others get work done in any industry.

Background

You’re not here for textbook PM or exam prep. You want a complete, practical system for running projects with clarity, leadership, and AI.

Audience

Aspiring or Accidental Project Managers No title, no playbook? Gain the skills to lead with clarity and confidence.

Mid-Level Managers Projects everywhere, chaos nonstop? Learn to lead with structure, speed, and AI.

Senior Leaders &amp; Founders Strong teams, but stalled execution? Align stakeholders, cut noise, and deliver results.

Walk away with a working AI experiment built on your own business problem — and the skills to become the go-to AI leader in your org.

Chief AI Officer

Lauren Vriens

Chief AI Officer, F500 Advisor | Drove $300M in value with AI

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Your team needs direction. Leadership wants more with less. The AI stack changes weekly.When you're non-technical without time to get technical, this becomes an insane challenge—one I had to solve myself.At Accenture, I went from non-technical leader to securing $2M in AI funding that generated $300M in value. I helped build AI strategies driving productivity for 14,000+ consultants. Now I advise tech startups and Fortune 1000 companies on becoming AI-native.You need time and space to learn by doing. I'll show you how to pick the right AI problems (ones that get you kudos) and we'll build solutions together, live.You'll get frameworks and cheat sheets to repeat this and teach your team.Walk away with a working AI experiment plus the skills to become your org's go-to AI leader.This isn't "AI 101"—it's applied enterprise learning for leaders who want to stay ahead, not catch up.Unlike broad courses covering just definitions, this hands-on cohort has you pick use cases, calculate ROI, choose tech stacks, and automate your own workload.

Expectations have never been higher...

Identify AI Opportunities That Drive Business Results

Make Strategic Build vs. Buy vs. Vibe Code Decisions

Build Functional AI Prototypes Without Technical Skills

Steal My AI Prompts That Generate Quality Outputs

Implement AI Projects That Don't Fail (or Get Forgotten)

Team leads, directors, and department heads who have been "volun-told" to implement AI and need to show a plan, quickly.

AI consultants who need structured frameworks to help clients decide on AI use cases, execution, and ROI.

Execs, founders, and business owners who need to set the AI strategy for their org and can't afford to make costly mistakes

Learn to lead AI transformation, prototype real tools, and deploy enterprise workflows—elevating your impact, influence, and career.

Former CEO @ Ancestry, Former VP @ Meta

Deb Liu

Board Member and Advisor, Former CEO @ Ancestry.com, Former VP @ Meta

GenAI Product Builder @Google, ex-Meta

Marily Nika

Gen AI PM Lead @ Google | ex-Meta, Fellow @ Harvard | TED AI Speaker | 40u40

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A 2-Week Applied Transformation Program for Senior Leaders to build, deploy &amp; scale AI with an engineer assigned to you.<h2>Bring your use cases and lead the AI shift—From strategy to real deployment</h2>The AI Leadership Transformation Lab is a hands-on, executive-level program designed by Deb Liu and Dr. Marily Nika. It equips leaders not only with the strategic mindset needed for AI transformation—but also the practical, technical, and hands-on prototyping skills required.Join alone or: Save 20% off with 2–9 seats Save 25% off 10+ seatsYou won’t just learn about AI. You’ll prototype, deploy, and present a real, working AI tool tailored to your work with an engineer assigned to you.Build a fully functional AI product using a no-code prototyping tool with hands-on coaching from engineers, this Lab brings that same rigor to the enterprise context.<h1>🧪 Hands-On Capstone Project</h1>Every participant team will complete a real capstone modeled after Marily’s proven bootcamp approach:<ul><li>Build a live AI product/agent/workflow/tool with no code</li><li>Use enterprise-safe, no-code prototyping frameworks</li><li>Get facilitated support to ensure your idea ships</li><li>Launch and test your tool with actual stakeholders</li></ul>

AI Leadership Lab to build and deploy real tools for productivity and Impact

A transformation-ready AI strategy

Functional, working products and agents

A deployment-ready internal solution

A scale-up roadmap

Leadership behaviors for an AI-enabled organization

Functional leaders

Team managers leading multi-disciplinary orgs undergoing modernization

The Leadership Crisis No One Talks AboutIt's 2:47 AM and you're staring at the retention dashboard. Again. Your "AI-enhanced" feature launched to fanfare three months ago... great press, executive excitement, promising initial adoption. Now you're watching 73% of users abandon it after the first session. Tomorrow's executive product meeting is focused on exactly this: the design problem causing the retention cliff. You need to present research findings and lead a strategy discussion that could reshape your entire approach to AI. This isn't just about fixing a feature, it's about defining what AI design leadership looks like. Why This Moment MattersYour credibility was built on predictable delivery. For years, you shipped experiences that worked consistently. Now you're pioneering something entirely new, and that positions you to lead the industry standard. The paradigm has fundamentally shifted: Traditional UX Design:- Deterministic systems with predictable, consistent experiences- One-way interaction where users experience a fixed interface- Success measured by users completing intended paths AI Systems:- Non-deterministic learning systems where every interaction changes future behaviour- Bi-directional adaptation where both human and AI evolve through each encounter- Success measured by the quality of the evolving relationship﻿ 54% of people don't trust AI systems despite 61% of respondents using them daily. (University of Melbourne and KPMG, 2025) That retention cliff isn't a failure; it's feedback. Users sense the mismatch between predictable tools and learning entities. You're uniquely positioned to solve what no one else has figured out yet. The OpportunityThe leaders who master relationship design first won't just solve their retention problems; they'll become the case study everyone else studies.This is your chance to define what trustworthy AI design looks like, rather than follow standards someone else sets. A Leadership Transformation in Three MovementsThis intensive journey rebuilds your leadership approach for the relationship design era: 1. Leading Through UncertaintyHow to guide teams building systems that learn and adaptCommunicating AI value to executives without overpromisingMaking decisions about technologies you're still mastering 2. Building Trust-First TeamsEstablishing design processes for non-deterministic systemsCreating quality standards for evolving AI relationshipsDeveloping team capabilities in trust signal design 3. Scaling Relationship DesignImplementing frameworks that work across your entire organisationMeasuring success in dynamic, learning systemsBuilding competitive advantage through trustworthy AI ﻿For Design Leaders Under PressureDesigned for leaders who must deliver AI transformation while maintaining team confidence and executive credibility—who recognise that relationship design isn't just a new methodology, it's the fundamental shift that determines whether your organisation leads or follows. Whether you're currently:A UX Design Leader orchestrating team transformationA UX Research Leader scaling insights through AIA Strategic Design Leader defining AI-enhanced experiencesWhat unites our participants is their recognition that leading AI adoption requires something more nuanced than traditional management approaches. The Essential Leadership Outcomes You emerge with:Frameworks to guide teams building learning systems you can't fully predictLanguage to communicate AI value without technical BS to executivesProcesses that maintain quality while embracing non-deterministic outputsMetrics that prove relationship design delivers measurable business impactA network of leaders defining the standards everyone else will follow Most importantly, you join a community of leaders pioneering this emerging discipline; professionals who understand that the most valuable AI systems won't be those with impressive technical specifications, but those designed with profound understanding of human trust dynamics. A Limited ExperienceLimited to fifteen participants per cohortFocused on meaningful exchange and personal attentionA deliberate practice developed through engagement with fellow leaders "The leaders who recognise this shift first won't just survive the transition—they'll define what relationship design looks like for everyone else." ** This course can you considered as an Add-On to the Human-Centred AI : Building AI Systems People can Trust. https://maven.com/ai-flywheel/human-centred-ai

Lead with Trustworthy AI: Design, Innovate & Inspire

Course syllabus

Weekly LIve Ethics Lesson 90 minute sessions where we unpack 1 ethical principle in depth and have peer to peer conversation.

Thursdays - Live Workshops

You'll be given<ul><li>&lt; 60 min of e-learning modules per week</li><li>practical exercises</li><li>micro-habits to apply learnings directly to your AI use in your daily work</li></ul>

Self paced learning 

You have access to BONUS lessons to build your personal AI literacy - this optional session is a group coaching opportunity for any questions or challenges you have using AI for your own work.

Optional - AI Help Office Hours

Course schedule

UX &amp; Design Directors : Balancing executive AI demands with your team's creative integrity and fear of replacement.

UX Research Leaders : Scaling research with AI whilst preserving methodological rigour and meaningful human insights.

Service Design Leader : Reimagining end-to-end experiences with Human+AI interactions whilst maintaining human agency and trust.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

You'll leave being able balance innovation with user trust, giving you confidence to lead AI initiatives that executives support.

1. Strategic AI Roadmap for Design Teams

Master proven design patterns that increase user trust in AI features by 30%. You'll learn exactly where transparency, human oversight, and error correction mechanisms create measurable improvements in adoption and retention.

2. Trust-Building Design Patterns 

Transform your designers from AI-overwhelmed to AI-empowered with frameworks that show exactly where AI enhances rather than threatens creativity. You'll restructure workflows that boost productivity whilst preserving your team's unique human value.

3. Team Transformation to AI-Enhanced Operations

Establish yourself as your organisation's trusted authority on Trustworthy AI design. You'll master the language, metrics and case studies that convince skeptical stakeholders, positioning you as the strategic bridge between technology and human experience.

4. Leadership Positioning Strategy

The live weekly sessions we unpack 1 ethical principle using a real world case study of an AI implementation that went wrong. Having peer-to-peer discussions and practice applying the ethical principle to a new case study. Allowing you to practice applying in safe space.

5. Real-World Implementation of AI Ethical Principles

Design leaders are under pressure -  expected to adopt AI, guide teams through change, protect creativity, and build trust at scale.