Andrew Barry

CEO at Curious Lion (prev. Exec Ed @KPMG)

How to Win Buy-In for Your L&D Strategy Using AI

KPMG

On Deck

Founder, Curious Lion | Former Head of L&D, Program Director at On Deck

Use Claude to examine your plan through the business sponsor, manager, and employee perspectives.

Map three stakeholder perspectives

Identify the evidence, constraints, and unknowns that could change your recommendation.

Surface hidden assumptions

Turn AI output into validation questions while retaining ownership of the final decision.

Keep the judgment human

You'll learn how to decide when and how to use AI (for both you and your learners), across your end to end workflow.

World-leading expert in AI + L&D

University of Cambridge

Maven

OpenAI

Aula

Dr Philippa Hardman 

Class of July 2026 

Class of September 2026 

Become the person in your L&amp;D team who knows what AI should do — and builds the tools that do it🏆 Join the #1-rated AI bootcamp for L&amp;D, with L&amp;D pros from orgs like Google, KPMG, LinkedIn, Arizona State University &amp; the UN._____ Most AI training teaches you to make content faster. Alumni here say this bootcamp changed how they think — from "how do I use AI to do this quicker?" to "how do I build AI tools that 10x my impact?"You will:✨ Sort your L&amp;D tasks into AI's three roles — Operator (AI does it; something else checks), Apprentice (AI does it; you check a sample), Advisor (AI informs; you decide) — using one question you'll apply every week.✨ Build &amp; stress-test proper AI tools — with a "brain" inside: your method, your quality bar, decades of learning science. Then test against real cases until it holds up — and see exactly why it beats anything a quick prompt produces.✨ Ship 4 working tools for your real work — with personalised feedback from me on every build (the thing alumni love most!).Four 90-minute live classes later — whether you design, deliver, administer or lead — you'll leave with the method you need for your next 100 AI builds.

"All L&D roles will be AI-enhanced roles in the very near future "

The method — sort, build, stress-test

AI-Enhanced Analysis — find the real problem

AI-Enhanced Design — choose the right solution

AI-Enhanced Development & Implementation - build with purpose

AI-Enhanced Evaluation — prove it worked

Bonus week - connect brains into a system 

Learning Designers, IDs &amp; SMEs — with or without formal ID training: get a reliable method for what to build with AI, how &amp; why

L&amp;D Leaders &amp; Partners — you need to make defensible calls about where AI fits your team's workflow, and to raise quality, not just speed

L&amp;D Ops, Admin &amp; Reporting — many of your tasks are exactly the kind AI can own or draft; learn which ones, and how to automate them safely

You will walk into any AI conversation able to read the proposal, ask the questions that matter, and shape the decision in your own voice.

AI Transformation Leader & Educator

Deloitte

University of Exeter

Lloyds Bank

Deidré Luzmore

Founder of Your AI Journey

Cohort 1

LIMITED SEATS! (Use code: earlybird for $500 off ) ♾️ A free seat in every future cohort, for life🏫 AI Leadership community included.📚 24 lessons across 8 modules. 16 hours live with Deidré.🧰 3 artefacts you build on your own AI proposal and take to work✉️ Private team training available: info [@] youraijourney.comYou are sitting in another meeting about AI. A vendor is presenting, a technical colleague is nodding, and someone says the word agentic. You have twenty years of experience in your field, and right now none of it feels like it counts.What you have to contribute still counts. You are not behind. Yours is the missing voice in the room. This course is for the leader who has to live with AI decisions made by other people. It teaches you to spot weak AI thinking before it becomes weak AI rollout, ask the questions others miss, and shape the decision from your own seat without being labelled obstructionist.Over eight weeks you build a framework for thinking, practise it on a realistic case study, then apply it to a real AI proposal in your own organisation. You leave able to shape the decisions you used to absorb.

The non-technical leader is the missing voice in nearly every AI decision.

Speak the language of AI without bluffing

Read any AI proposal and form a defensible position

Choose the right intervention with the Five Routes framework

Ask the questions that stop weak AI rollouts

Define where humans stay in the loop, and design safe pilots

Lead the adoption conversation on your home turf

<pre><code class="language-markdown">The People &amp; Culture leader- You lead HR, People or Internal Communications. You have been asked to represent the workforce in AI decisions.</code></pre>

<pre><code class="language-markdown">The Finance, Risk or Legal leader signing off the exposure- You lead Finance, Risk, Compliance, Legal or Internal Audit.</code></pre>

<pre><code class="language-markdown">The Operations, Marketing or CX leader living with the AI tools you never asked for- You lead Operations, Marketing or Customer Experience.</code></pre>

Go from a vague executive AI ask to a working prototype and stakeholder pitch in three weeks, using Claude as your team.

Founder, o1 Labs | AI + Product Educator

J.P. Morgan

Raythe Technologies

General Assembly

Freddy Alcántara

Founder & CEO, o1 Labs. 2,000+ professionals trained, 800+ in applied AI.

The Claude-Powered PM | Cohort 1

Your manager, your head of product, or someone in the C-suite wants an AI strategy "in the product by next quarter." You are the product manager who has to make it real, and no one handed you a method. In three weeks, this course gives you one: a repeatable process for taking any fuzzy AI product problem from a vague ask to a working prototype and a stakeholder-ready pitch, using the full Claude suite as your team. You will not watch someone else build. You will build, every week, and walk out with proof you can do it again.

Ship a Real AI Product Feature in Three Weeks, Without Writing Code

Turn a vague executive ask into a sharp, actionable problem statement

Build a three-layer success framework with real metrics

Prototype a working AI feature with Claude, even without code

Every exercise runs on your own problem, from work or a side project. Bring a fuzzy ask and leave with something you can use.

One real AI problem you want to solve

You need Claude Code and higher usage limits to build during live sessions. A short setup checklist goes out before week one.

A Claude account on a paid plan

No engineering background needed. You do need a willingness to think out loud and change your mind when the evidence says so.

Comfort with ambiguity, not with code

Aspiring PMs who want a portfolio piece proving they can ship an AI feature, not just talk about one.

Entry-to-mid-level PMs told to "figure out AI" with little guidance and no roadmap for where to start.

Designers, analysts, and engineers doing product work who want the AI method, not just the tooling.

Build your Personal AI Workforce in 4 weeks with Claude. No code. Each week you build and train one team member on your real work.

AI Prod. Director l AI Builder-Educator 

Guidewire Software

Clio

UT Austin

Johns Hopkins University

Keyuri Anand

Director of AI Products @ Applied Systems · AI Educator · 2,000+ up skilled

Cohort 2

25% Off with Code "EARLYONE" till Aug 21st Become the AI Leader Your Company Can't IgnoreAI isn't replacing managers, leaders, or operators. It's creating a new class of professionals who know how to build, manage, &amp; lead an AI Team.While most people are still experimenting with prompts, the highest-performing professionals are quietly building AI coworkers that research, write, analyze, prepare meetings, and handle repetitive work, freeing them to focus on decisions that actually move their careers forward.In Cohort, you'll build your Personal AI Specialists- an Executive Assistant, Research Analyst, Writer, and more- all customized to your role, your company, and the way you work. Graduate with a Personal AI Workforce that works for you &amp; your company long after the cohort ends, not another certificate that sits on LinkedIn. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ In Just 4 Weeks, You'll :✅ Build your own Personal AI Workforce that saves 10–20 hours &amp; cost every week. ✅ Become the go-to AI person your team and leadership rely on for AI adoption &amp;execution. ✅ Automate your highest-impact workflows instead of starting every AI session from scratch. ✅ Build a promotion-ready AI portfolio backed by real business impact.

Master Claude. Build Your AI Workforce. Become the Go-To AI Leader

Know Exactly Where AI Will 10X Your Work → Build Your Blueprint

Stop Prompting Randomly → Build Your Analyst

Go From One-Off Prompts to Reusable Skills → Build Your Writer

Chain Skills Into a Full Workflow → Build Your Executive Assistant

Measure What Matters → Build the ROI Case That Gets You Noticed

Ship on Demo Day → Put Your AI Workforce to Work

We use Claude for this course, you will need the Claude Pro ($20/month) subscription

Claude Pro Subscription & Eagerness to learn

Non-technical professionals — PMs, marketers, ops, CS, project managers— expected to use Claude at work with zero training

Managers drowning in manual work rebuilding the same reports, digests, and updates from scratch every week

Mid-career professionals determined to be the one AI promotes, not replaces. The Claude expert in their org.

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

The AI-Native L&D Leader

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

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

Persuading stakeholders, presenting ideas, and getting buy-in across an organization without formal authority.

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

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

HR and people management — hiring, performance reviews, compensation, culture, and organizational design.

How to Win Buy-In for Your L&D Strategy Using AI

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