Erica Rooney

CHRO turned AI Educator | Author - The AI GAP | Podcast host: AI Voice or Victim

Show Up Sharp: AI Prep for Every Meeting

SXSW

Butterball

Chief

Blue Cross Blue Shield

SHRM

Turn any calendar invite into a one-page briefing in minutes, so you never walk in cold again.

Build a reusable AI meeting-prep workflow

Get a fast, accurate read on anyone's role, background, and priorities ahead of any meeting.

Know who's in the room before you meet them

Turn who they are into what you'll say: angles, questions, and points that land with them.

Build a talking-points cheat sheet for any meeting

Watch decisions become tracked, accountable action, and learn where to take this next.

See how to close the loop after the meeting

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.

Go from AI-curious to AI-confident in one day. 

AI Trainer - We Are Agentic

Lesia Kalley

AI Trainer helping professional women use AI with confidence

Workshop 1

Workshop 2

77% of women say they want to learn AI. Only 6% feel confident using it. That gap is not about ability. It is about access to the right training, in the right environment, at the right pace.AI-Ready Woman is a one-day live workshop designed to close that gap. No jargon. No slides full of theory. Just practical, hands-on training that turns "I should probably learn this" into "I just built my own AI assistant."In a single day, you will master a proven prompting framework, explore the AI tools reshaping how professionals work, and build a custom AI assistant tailored to your role. You will leave with skills you can apply immediately, not next month, not after more reading. Monday morning.This workshop was built for women in business, marketing, HR, ops, education, and entrepreneurship who want to move faster, work smarter, and step into every AI conversation with confidence.10% of workshop profits are donated to ROSA UK, a fund supporting women and girls across the UK.

Build a working AI assistant for your role, master a prompting framework, and gain the confidence to lead AI conversations at work.

Build a working AI assistant tailored to your exact role

Master a prompting framework you'll reuse for years

Craft a personal tone doc so AI writes like you, not like everyone else using AI

Evaluate and refine AI outputs using metaprompting techniques

Identify exactly where AI saves you real time every week

Confidently lead AI conversations at work

Women in business, marketing, HR, or ops who keep hearing about AI at work and want to go from watching the conversation to leading it.

Founders and freelancers who know AI could save them hours every week but have not found training that's designed for non-technical people.

Career-focused professionals who want to walk into their next performance review, client pitch, or job interview with real AI capability.

Master a proven system to create clear, persuasive presentations in half the time using AI as your strategic thinking partner.

Cohort 6

Ex-JPMorgan VP | Presentation Expert

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Commerzbank

PwC UK

MaryBeth Hazeldine

Presentation psychology expert with 35 years training Fortune 500 professionals

Cohort 5

Cohort 7

You know presentations matter. They shape decisions, win clients, and move careers forward. But creating them? That's exhausting.You spend hours wrestling with structure, rewriting messaging that doesn't land. By the time you're done, you're not even confident it will work.AI promises to help, but most people end up with generic outputs and robotic messaging. The tool saves time on the wrong things.Here's what's needed: a strategic approach combining AI efficiency with presentation psychology—the clarity, structure, and persuasion that makes people act.This course teaches exactly that. You'll use AI not as a shortcut, but as a thinking partner. You'll learn frameworks like AVP (Action-Value-Proof) and messaging psychology that transform unclear ideas into compelling narratives.You'll build presentations faster—yes. But more importantly, you'll build them better. Clearer structure. Stronger messaging. More impact.By the end, you'll have a repeatable workflow that cuts creation time in half while dramatically improving quality. No more staring at blank slides. No more second-guessing. Just confident, persuasive presentations—every time.

Master AI-powered presentations that persuade, save time, and win decisions

Structure presentations that are clear, logical, and impossible to ignore

Craft persuasive messaging that resonates and drives action

Build a repeatable AI workflow that saves 10+ hours per week on presentations

Turn data and complex information into stories people actually understand

Professionals who create presentations regularly and want to save hours while delivering clearer, more persuasive, impactful results

Managers, consultants, and client-facing roles who need to influence stakeholders and communicate complex ideas with confidence

Ambitious professionals who want to stand out by mastering communication skills that position them as clear, strategic business leaders

Practice the three skills that make senior people listen: a sharp narrative, command of the room, and composure under pressure.

AI Founder | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Google

OpenAI

Amazon Web Services

NVIDIA

Dr. Aki Wijesundara

AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum

Exited AI Founder | Co-Founder, Snapdrum

Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Manu Jayawardana

AI Advisor | Co-Founder & CEO at Krybe | Co-Founder of Snapdrum

Cohort 4

Cohort 3

FEW SEATS LEFT. USE CODE LASTCALLEXEC80 FOR 80% OFFYou do excellent work. But in the rooms that decide budgets, headcount, and promotions, the person who explains the work clearly gets the credit, and too often that isn't you.In one focused 3-hour session you'll fix that. You'll build a repeatable way to walk into any room, say what matters in 60 seconds, and move senior people who don't report to you. No personality transplant required.<ul><li>Build a 60-second narrative from your own project using SCQA and BLUF</li><li>Command the room on camera, coached from your own recorded reps</li><li>Frame an ask around a senior stakeholder's goals and risk, not your roadmap</li><li>Hold your ground through live pushback using bridging and labeling</li></ul>Every block ends with a rep you've actually done and feedback on it, not theory. This is taught by operators who sit in these rooms every week, not communication coaches who've never owned a roadmap.Your work is already good enough. This is about making sure the right people know it.

Get heard in the rooms where your career is decided. No title change required.

Build a 60-second narrative from real work with SCQA and BLUF

Command the room in exec and cross-functional meetings 

Influence senior stakeholders without org authority

Hold composure through live pushback and hard questions

Bring a real meeting, review, or pitch you're walking into, so every rep is built on your own work.

An upcoming high-stakes conversation

Short recorded reps are where presence improves. Come ready to record and watch yourself back.

Willingness to be on camera 

No public-speaking or media background needed. This is built for practitioners, not performers.

No prior training required

The Senior IC. Does the deepest work in the room but watches less technical peers get the visibility, the airtime, and the promotion.

The Operator. Sits in every meeting that matters and needs every word to land with founders, execs, and the board.

For tech-curious professionals who want to use AI tools to turn ideas into compelling visuals and stand out with modern, creative workflows.

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

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System Design

Figma

Design Systems

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Design Strategy

Automation

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Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

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Exec Presence

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Everyone

Operators

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User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

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Real Estate

Educators

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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.