Yuan Wang

Coaching Skills for Leads & Managers

Maven

Airbnb

TwitterOAuth

Mozilla

RISD

Head of Design at Maven (ex-Airbnb, Twitter, Mozilla). Certified Coach.

Understand the shift from mentoring/advising to coaching and when each approach serves people best.

Understand the coaching mindset

Practice acknowledging and validating — two skills that build trust faster than any advice.

How to make people feel seen and understood

Practice asking probing questions that create clarity and agency.

How to ask questions that unlock someone's own wisdom

Build AI tools that scale your coaching, drive team adoption, and reclaim hours for strategic work, all without compromising quality.

February 2026

Product Leader (Whoop, Dropbox, Nike)

Google

Microsoft

J.P. Morgan

NBCUniversal

Visa Inc.

Hilary Gridley

Head of Core Product @ WHOOP

July Cohort

March 2026

<pre><code class="language-markdown">The math of management is broken. Your team needs fifteen hours of your time and you've budgeted five. Being more productive doesn't fix it because there's always more work by an order of magnitude than there is time. AI changes the math. Not by making you faster, but by making your team better. When your expertise is available at scale, the person who needed six hours of your time now needs one. In this course, you'll build AI tools that coach and evaluate like you would, real applications without writing code, and autonomous systems that work without you. The core skill is one you already have: delegation. Over four weeks, you'll apply it at increasing levels of leverage, from conversations to applications to AI that runs on its own.</code></pre>

Build AI tools, apps, and systems that make your team better.

Turn capability gaps into AI tools your team actually uses

 Build real applications for your team, without writing code

Set up AI that works without you

Direct AI the same way you direct people (clearly enough to do great work)

Get your whole team using AI effectively within 30 days

Communicate more effectively upward using real context

Team leads, directors, and VPs who are the quality gate for everything their team ships and want to stop being the bottleneck.

People managers with IC responsibilities who don't have time to coach their team the way they want to and can't scale by working more hours.

First-time managers who are overwhelmed by the volume of feedback needed and find themselves lowering the bar just to keep up.

Build Executive Visibility with self-advocacy, assertiveness, influence, conflict, being strategic & navigating organizational dynamics 

 Global VP(ex-IBM); $2B P&L; 2000+ team

Palantir

Amazon

Monica Aggarwal

Executive Leadership I Global VP (ex-IBM) I Engineering, Product & Partnerships

Cohort 8

Cohort 9

You’re already good at your job. That’s not the problem. The problem is this. AI is reshaping how teams work. Roles are shrinking. Layers are flattening. The bar for leadership is rising. The people who advance aren't just the most competent. They're the ones who act like leaders before they get the title. In high-stakes meetings, under pressure, in front of senior leaders, someone is getting that opportunity — because they know how to frame, influence, and command trust in 30 seconds flat. Those skills aren’t taught anywhere. This cohort changes that.Zero passive videos Zero generic advice 9+ hours of Live Practice Lab Every Session includes:• Live role-play using real scenarios • Direct coaching and reframing on the spot • Immediate feedback on language, structure, and delivery • Bite-sized frameworks you can use rightaway • Peer observation (learn 5x faster watching others get coached) What you’ll walk away able to do✔ Frame updates so execs get your impact in 30 seconds ✔ Answer tough questions without rambling ✔ Influence decisions in cross-functional teams ✔ Handle conflict without losing composure ✔ Navigate org dynamics without playing dirty ✔ Make your work impossible to ignore

Own the room. Move the C-suite. Shape the outcome.

How to Advocate for Yourself - Own your story

How to Be Assertive - Lead with conviction, not compliance

How to Influence Without Authority - Get things done when power is distributed

How to Manage Conflict: Handle heat w/o losing your cool

How to Be a Strategic Leader: For clarity & foresight

Navigate Organizational Dynamics - Understand the game & elevate your impact 

You are a Leader of People - Founder, Entrepreneur, CXO, VP, Senior Director, Director, Senior Manager, etc.

Senior Individual Contributors (ICs) - Product Manager, Engineer, Marketing/ Finance/Technical lead, Program/ Project Manager &amp; UX/CX Lead

New In Your Role and looking to develop Executive Visibility right at the outset (Congrats!)

Transform from reactive manager to confident coach using AI to personalize, scale, and measure real performance growth.

Accredited Executive Leadership Coach

Indeed

EZRA Coaching

CoachHub

Linda Scotti

Executive Coach Driving Measurable Leadership Effectiveness and Behaviour

Certified-Facilitator and Leader

The Enablement Squad

Yext Inc

Dale Carnegie

Nathan Davison

Enablement expert helping leaders coach smarter and drive real behavior change.

Cohort 1

💡Why this courseSales leaders today face a paradox: more data, tools, and dashboards than ever, yet less time for real coaching. This course was designed to fix that gap. Over eight weeks, you’ll learn how to pair the human insight of great coaching with the precision and speed of AI. ⚙️What makes it differentUnlike theory-heavy programs, this is a practice-first experience. Each week delivers one core concept, one hands-on skill, and one tangible artifact you can use immediately, from AI-driven 1:1 prep checklists to personalized rep playbooks. You’ll spend less time preparing and more time coaching where it counts. 🥡 What you’ll take awayBy graduation, you’ll have a complete AI-powered coaching system built for your workflow, ready to plug into your weekly 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and team meetings. You’ll be able to personalize at scale, diagnose performance gaps faster, and turn every conversation into measurable growth.

Build an AI-Powered Coaching OS: Personalize at Scale, Lead with Impact

Quickly build 1:1 prep workflows that make every coaching session clearer.

Use a simple diagnosis tool to pinpoint what's blocking rep performance.

Create a set of high-impact coaching questions tailored to each rep’s needs.

Build 1-page Rep Coaching Plans that personalize development at scale.

Adopt weekly coaching rituals that make leadership clearer and more consistent.

Launch a complete Coaching Operating System you can use immediately at work.

You’ll get the most value by applying each tool in real 1:1s. Weekly practice makes the skills stick and drives faster performance gains.

Must be a people leader or have reps you can coach weekly

We teach the concepts, but growth happens when you try them. Leaders who test, learn, and adjust see the biggest impact from this course.


Bring an open mindset and be ready to put ideas into action

You don’t need to be an AI expert. If you can type clear questions into a chatbot, you’ll be ready to apply every workflow in this course.

Comfort using basic AI tools like ChatGPT or willing to learn quickly

👥 Sales and Enablement Leaders who want to elevate coaching from intuition to insight using AI, without losing the human touch.

💬 Frontline Managers and Team Leads ready to run more effective 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and rep development conversations in less time.

🚀 RevOps &amp; GTM Pros looking to scale coaching through simple, repeatable AI workflows.

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

ex-Amazon Chief EQ Evangelist

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

Splunk

Johnson & Johnson

Capital One

Rich Hua

ex-Chief EQ Evangelist at AWS. Reached 1.5 million people with EQ skills.

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 factors due to uncertainty, pressure, and fatigue.This course equips you to thrive and succeed during rapid change. You'll learn to:• 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• Strengthen 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 and you can use immediately. Expect live practice, real scenarios, and personalized feedback.Whether you're a people manager or senior IC, this course equips you to elevate your own performance and your team's 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