Nick Villani

Nick has 20+ years experience in learning and is the CEO and Founder of Edifai. 

What AI Can Teach You (If You Let It)

Explore how the brain works, and why AI is the most incredible learning tool ever

Practical hacks on how to use AI as a learning tool

Cut through the noise. Receive a pack of useful prompts you can use straight away. 

Practical tips for Claude, Copilot and ChatGPT

Identify clear opportunities to start using AI as a coach, a mirror and a gym. 

Create an action plan

Use AI to make you irreplaceable. Build a system that works every time with prompts, skills, playbooks, and more.

Chief Product Officer, Executive Coach

McKinsey & Company

Instagram

Thumbtack

Harvard University

Yue Zhao

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Executive Coach, Writer

Jun26

Sept26

★★★★½ from students at Google, Anthropic, Stripe, Amazon, OpenAI, Twilio, Fidelity, and more. Want a sneak peek? Try a <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://practice.theuncommonexecutive.com/">free AI exercise</a> that helps you with non-verbal presence from the course: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://practice.theuncommonexecutive.com/">https://practice.theuncommonexecutive.com/</a> _______<h4>You're a high performer. So why aren't you being treated like one?</h4>You deliver results. You get strong reviews. But in the meetings that matter, with the executives who matter, you're talked over, passed over, or simply not in the room.This is not about doing more work. It's how you show up.This course teaches you to use AI as a strategic partner who knows your stakeholders, your communication gaps, and your political landscape, and helps you navigate all of it.You'll learn the frameworks that experienced leaders use to command rooms, land ideas, and build the relationships that drive decisions. Then you'll build those frameworks directly into your AI so the next time you prep for a high-stakes meeting, draft an executive update, or map a tricky stakeholder, you have a prepared strategic partner already on your side.No coding. No intimidating connectors or API calls. Simple prompts and playbooks for your AI that transform how you show up.

Get heard. Get credited. Get promoted. With AI as your secret weapon.

Show up differently in every room you walk into

Say more with less

Walk into any high-stakes conversation fully prepped

Build the relationships that actually drive decisions

Become someone executives trust and sponsor

You're a Senior Manager, Director, or Principal IC at a tech company with 4+ years of experience

You do great work but aren't getting the recognition or promotion. You feel talked over in meetings or passed over for key opportunities.

You want AI to help you think and navigate, to be your strategic partners and secret weapon in corporate politics.

Build an AI system you own for life and train the sharp thinking to run it, so you command AI at work and stay hard to replace.

AI you own, and the mind to run it well

Aivian Ltd

An AI consultancy that builds the systems it teaches, so you own your AI.

Cognitive Performance Coach & Author

Giulia Remondino

Cognitive performance coach who trains the thinking that makes AI an advantage.

AI Consultant, Builder, Policy Advisor 

Hameed Adigun

AI Consultant & Builder | Founder | AI Policy Advisor to Parliament

Cohort 1

You are already using AI, but a quiet worry sits underneath it: that you are barely scratching the surface, that you are trusting answers you cannot fully check, and that everyone else is somehow getting further ahead.That worry is fair, and the gap is widening fast. Most professionals were handed powerful AI tools with no training on how to think with them, so they lean harder on AI while their own judgement gets sharper at nothing, and build their work inside platforms they do not own and could lose overnight.This course from Aivian fixes the root cause, not the symptoms. Over two days you build a personal AI second brain that knows your work, writes in your voice, and belongs to you for life, on any tool. And because AI, by design makes our critical thinking drop, you also train the judgement that decides whether AI sharpens you or just speeds up your mistakes.You leave with a system you own and the thinking to use it well (judgement most people never train). That is what keeps a professional hard to replace as AI reshapes their field, and it is the difference between using AI and being in command of it.

The only AI course that builds a system you own and the mind to run it well

Build a personal AI second brain that knows your work and voice

Think critically with AI using the  Aivian SEE Framework

Automate your everyday writing in your own voice

Train the focus and judgement that make AI an advantage

Stress-test high-stakes AI outputs before you act on them

Own portable AI infrastructure you never lose

Consultants and professionals who use AI daily but know they are scratching the surface, and want to own their system rather than rent it.

Founders and small business owners who want AI to work like a team member, drafting and deciding alongside them, without hiring or coding.

Leaders and executives who need to command AI themselves before guiding their people, and want to set the standard with judgement, not hype

Build your first AI agent, audit your role, and leave with an artifact you can demo in any 1:1, skip-level, or job interview.   

 

AI Strategist, Author, Keynote Speaker

Alibaba Group

Pattern

Samsung

Intel

Antler

Sharon Gai

Former Alibaba executive who now builds and runs her own AI agent workforce.

Summer Cohort 

You are not behind because you have not tried. You have read the articles. You have a ChatGPT tab open right now. You probably paid for Claude Pro at some point and let it lapse because you could not figure out what to do with it.The problem is not access to AI. The problem is that nobody has taught you how to use it the way the people pulling ahead at your company are using it.Meanwhile, the pressure keeps building. Your boss asked in your last 1:1 what your team is doing with AI, and your answer did not feel solid. A peer casually mentioned the agent they built last weekend. Job postings now list AI fluency as a requirement, and you are not sure you would pass.This course closes that gap. Four live sessions, no homework. You build a working AI agent for your actual job, run a personal audit on what AI absorbs and what stays uniquely yours, and leave with an artifact you can demo in a team meeting, a skip-level, or a job interview.The cost of doing nothing is not zero. It is the cost of being the person still asking what AI can do, while someone else is showing them.

You have read the articles. You use ChatGPT. You still feel behind.

Identify what AI absorbs and what stays uniquely yours

Build and ship your first working AI agent

Rebuild one piece of your recurring work output with AI in the loop.  

Build AI systems that knows how you work and who you work with

Loop Engineering 

ChatGPT Work 

The Squeezed Middle Manager: You manage a team of 3 to 15 people. Your boss is asking what you're doing with AI.

The Working Professional in Transition: You're between jobs or quietly looking. Hiring managers now expect AI fluency.

The Ambitious IC: You're an individual contributor who wants to bring AI capability to your team

Leave with real AI workflows that change how you work, not just how you think about working.

Teaching professionals to work with AI

First Line Software

Vladimir Litoshenko

SVP at First Line Software, Select Tier Anthropic Partner

2026 October 5-17 Cohort

AI is changing what gets expected from professionals at every level. The people moving faster, writing better, and handling more are not necessarily smarter or more experienced. They have figured out how to use AI as part of their actual work, not as a side experiment.Most professionals have tried AI and moved on. Not because the tools are bad, but because nothing they tried was built around their specific job. Generic demos show you what AI can do in theory. They do not help you run your Monday morning.This course is different in one way that matters: you bring your real work into every session.In two weeks across four live sessions you will build a working AI workflow around a task you actually do. Not a practice exercise. Something you run the next day at work. The tool is Claude, Anthropic's enterprise AI platform, and every session is hands-on from the first minute.You do not need a technical background. You need a job where some tasks take longer than they should.By the end you will have a personal Claude workspace configured for your role, a repeatable workflow that saves you measurable time each week, and a clear picture of where AI earns its place in your work.

Build the AI workflows your competitors are already using, in 2 weeks

Build a personal Claude workspace configured for your actual job

Design repeatable workflows for the tasks that eat your time

Automate your writing so first drafts stop being the hard part

Run research and summarization in minutes instead of hours

Handle meeting prep and follow-up without it taking your evening

Know where AI earns its place in your work and where it does not

Mid-career professionals in non-technical roles who feel AI pressure at work but have no idea where to actually start.

Managers and team leads who want to move faster, delegate better, and show up to every meeting more prepared.

Small business owners and independent consultants who need to do more with less and cannot afford to fall behind on AI.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

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

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

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