School of AI

The Human Edge — Soft Skills AI Cannot Replace

Tahmid Chowdhury

AI-era career skills instructor helping students win job opportunities.

Express ideas clearly in interviews, emails, meetings, and professional conversations.

Communicate With Confidence

Develop reliability, empathy, and attitude that make people want to work with you.

Build Trust and Professional Presence

Use adaptability, collaboration, and problem-solving to compete in the AI era.

Stand Out Beyond Technical Skills

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

Mar26

Jun26

★★★★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.

Perform & lead confidently under pressure. Build skills for adaptability, resilience, and sustainable high performance.

ex-Amazon Chief EQ Evangelist

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Johnson & Johnson

Capital One

Cisco

Rich Hua

Former Chief EQ Evangelist at Amazon. Scaled EQ to 1.5 million people.

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

AI is raising the bar for performance and leadership. Priorities shift constantly, answers are incomplete, and leaders must move more quickly than ever. Teams don't underperform because they lack IQ but because of human challenges from uncertainty, pressure, and fatigue.Through this course, you will:• Strengthen emotional agility to think clearly in high-stakes situations• Increase adaptability and resilience (for self and team) to sustain high performance without burning out• Transform disagreements into better decisions through productive conflict• Lead with high expectations &amp; high empathy to bring out the best in others• Deepen trust and connection in remote/hybrid work environments• Influence managers &amp; teammates to achieve your goalsYou will apply skills to Moments That Matter (MTM), creating a playbook with scripts you can use immediately. Expect live practice, real scenarios, and personalized feedback.Whether you're a people manager or senior IC, this course will give you the mindsets and skill sets to optimize your performance—and that of your team—in the AI era.Rich was recently featured in Forbes for his pioneering work: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/4rIbN6k">http://bit.ly/4rIbN6k</a>

EQ is the critical professional skill in uncertainty & change

Build an emotional recovery plan to sustain performance and prevent burnout

Boost your adaptability and resilience

Increase your social awareness and empathy

Cultivate a fearless and innovative team culture

Engage in generative disagreement to improve decision-making

Become a resonant and inspiring leader

People managers and leaders (heads of, team leads, directors). You run a team and have to get buy-in upwards and cross-functionally.

Senior individual contributors (ICs). Marketing leads, PMs, engineers, sellers, program managers, etc. Minimum 3+ years of experience.

Teams who want high team EQ so you can move faster, raise the bar, deliver and receive feedback effectively, and operate with shared purpose

Develop confidence in your AI-fluency, to the extent that you can make million dollar decisions that inspire your team and your board.

Operator running a 14-agent AI business.

Microsoft

Meliora

Nine Entertainment

Singtel

Krish Raja

Ex-coder, product strategist and proven revenue leader in the technology sector.

Every senior leader I have sat with in the last year has the same private tell. They want to be more AI-confident. They know their team is self learning in a language they don't have time to get across. They know the next panel question, the next board question, the next hire, the next all-hands is going to expose the gap. They have been buying time outsourcing the final decision.AI is not software. Software was built to be used by humans. Agentic AI is built to be used by other AI. That shift changes the shape of a business, the shape of an org chart, and the shape of executive work itself. Leaders who operate for the next ten years the way they operated for the last ten are at risk. Not because AI replaces them. Because the leaders next to them become three times more capable, and the race to the bottom on efficiency does the rest.The way out is not another literacy deck. It is reps. It is fingers on the tools. It is the practice of operating with AI daily, in public, in front of peers who will not let you bluff. AI learned to speak English. You have not learned to speak AI. This programme is four weeks of doing exactly that, anchored to something real you have to ship.

Four weeks to level up and close the gap on your AI potential.

Walk out with the decision made

Stop spending six figures on the wrong vendor

Walk the walk before you talk the talk

Become the senior operator with the clearest read on AI in your company

Build your private, portable memory web

Run Mind Set → Mind Map → Mind Make on every future AI call

Need to show strength in publicYou're being asked to present your AI strategy on stage, to a board or to inspire your team.

On the hookYou own the budget, and need to make a high value decision on AI in the next 90 days.

The glue in the businessYou're the one tasked with operationalizing AI inside your org and need more clarity on where to start.

Bring real HR work. Leave with AI workflows you can reuse.

makes AI practical in real work.

LinkedIn

Procore

Google

GitHub

Roblox

Maisha L. Cannon

Founder & AI Adoption Strategist

Summer 2026

Your HR team already has access to powerful AI tools. This session helps them use those tools with more context, confidence, and judgment.In this 90-minute working session, participants bring a real HR task and learn a simple 3-step system: assign the task, add the right context, and assess the output.Participants leave with usable output, stronger judgment, and a repeatable way to apply AI to real work.Built for HR teams using Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude who want better results without more theory. BONUS: Attendees receive access to a custom AI assistant that helps them apply the same system to future HR work without starting from scratch.

Turn AI from a generic chatbot into a practical work partner that helps you think clearer, move faster, and produce stronger work.

Use AI to complete real work tasks more effectively

Evaluate and refine AI-generated work using human judgment

Transform messy information into clear, usable deliverables

HR and L&amp;D professionals who have AI tools at work and want clearer ways to use them in daily tasks.

Talent Acquisition teams who want to draft stronger candidate communications and improve hiring workflows.

People leaders, HRBPs, and managers who need practical ways to use approved AI tools for manager support and team enablement.

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.

Getting promoted, navigating job transitions, and advancing to the next level in your career.

Executive communication — presenting to boards, writing memos, running all-hands, and high-stakes messaging.

Projecting confidence, gravitas, and credibility in high-stakes leadership situations.