Change Strategist | AI Advisor

Accenture

Christina Charenkova

Change & AI educator, 600K+ LinkedIn Learning learners, ex-Accenture & EY

Build the Executive One-Pager That Wins the Room, With AI.

Put what's being decided in three plain lines. Everything the tool drafts after that points at the outcome.

Name the decision before AI writes

The steer sheet: context, reader, quality bar, and the calls that stay yours. Analyst-grade drafts, first pass.

Brief AI like your analyst

Four blocks: the decision, your read of the evidence, your recommendation, and how you got there , then two checks.

Design the page that wins the room

One real, messy project problem. Thirty minutes. First draft to final checks. You leave with the page and the brief.

Build it live alongside me, start to finish

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.

Stop over-explaining and start guiding decisions. You'll become the professional who walks into senior rooms and walks out with a yes.

Cohort 7

24-Year Banker -> Presentation Expert

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Commerzbank

Royal Bank

Mary Beth Hazeldine

24 years at JPMorgan, PwC, RBS. Now training executives to win decisions.

Cohort 6

Cohort 8

You've done the work. You know the material. You've prepared the slides.And yet the decision stalls.Polite nods. Reasonable questions. Then: "Let's take this offline." "We'll circle back." "Good discussion."Translation: No decision today.If this keeps happening, it's not because you lack expertise or presentation skills. It's because the way you're structuring your message doesn't match how senior people decide.Here's what nobody tells you: executives make their decision in the first few minutes, then spend the rest of the time looking for reasons to trust that instinct—or doubt it. When you lead with context, build to your recommendation, and back it up with extensive data, you're triggering doubt, not confidence.The unspoken question in their mind: "If they need this much explanation, is the recommendation actually solid?"This course gives you a different approach—a system built on how decisions actually happen in senior rooms. You'll learn to structure your message so that "yes" feels like the obvious, low-risk choice.Not through tips you'll forget under pressure. Through a repeatable system that works even when you're tired, rushed, or facing pushback.

Executives decide before your presentation ends. Structure accordingly

Structure presentations that win decisions

Remove the anxiety before you even start

Build credibility without over-explaining

Choose proof that reassures, not proof that defends

Handle pushback without becoming defensive

Use AI tools without sounding generic or losing authority

<code>You present to executives, boards, or steering committees—and need decisions, not "good discussions." Your credibility is on the line.</code>

You pitch to clients and present recommendations for a living. Stalled decisions cost you deals, revenue, and repeat business.

You're in relationship management, business development, or sales—presenting to win deals, budgets, or strategic alignment.

Managers & senior ICs use AI daily, yet it hasn't made them better leaders. 

 Teach at HBS, Brown, Cornell, Columbia

Mike Grandinetti

AI Practitioner, 8X Founder, HBS AI Institute Exec Ed Cornell Columbia Brown NYU

Cohort 1

The news about the economy is depressing. Layoffs are a constant threat, even with strong performance reviews. Hybrid human agent teams are now a thing. The job market is frozen.How do you operate like a leader before someone gives you the title? Output might help you keep your job. Preparation gets you promoted. At risk if unsolved: the next promotion. The reliable operator who is perpetually “not quite ready” every cycle — while a systematically prepared peer becomes the obvious choice.Already tried: prompt collections, AI-tips newsletters, tool subscriptions. Didn't work because no recurring trigger. The habit never survived the 3rd Monday.Managers &amp; senior ICs who already use AI daily are discovering it hasn't changed how they lead: AI usage is now table stakes, so the career edge has moved to whoever runs a system.In one hands-on half-day, you'll build a personal AI Leadership Operating System on your real week — a context file, three engines, and a 30-minute Monday ritual that leaves as a scheduled habit, not notes. Unlike videos or prompt libraries, you get live feedback on your real material until it works — the ritual is on your calendar before the room closes.

How to use Claude, ChatGPT, etc. to create your own complete Personal Leadership Operating System on your own real work week in real time.  

•	Build and deploy a one-page personal context file 

•	Run the 1:1 Prep Engine on your own real calendar 

•	Define your 3 standing risk categories 

•	Extract every commitment from a week of meeting notes — owed and owed-to

Leave with 6 actionable artifacts that turn the lesson into a  weekly habit, 

We will be using a chatbot to build your personal operating system in real time. 

Basic familiarity with a Frontier chatbot. 

The free version of these tools will not enable you to get the full results

A paid subscription to Claude, ChatGPT, or Google Gemini

Titles: Manager/Sr Manager/Director (engineering, product, ops, marketing, finance), senior ICs on mgmt track, senior PM, principal

Experience: 6–15 years; owns a calendar of 10+ meetings a week and outcomes delivered through other people.

Company: growth-stage and mid-market (50–5,000 employees), where roles are broad and preparation is visible.

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

Ex-JPMorgan VP | Presentation Expert

PwC UK

MaryBeth Hazeldine

Presentation psychology expert with 35 years training Fortune 500 professionals

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

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Everyone

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

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

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

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

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

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

Build the Executive One-Pager That Wins the Room, With AI.

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