Rolly Seth

Principal AI Product Manager, Microsoft

AURA: A Framework for AI Leaders & Builders

The shift to "AI Product Builder" — and what it means for execs, founders, and decision-makers.

Why traditional AI roles are being rewritten

Aesthetic Judgment, Unified Clarity, Real Impact — three pillars that separate AI products people trust from hype

Understand AURA framework

Concrete ways leaders and builders can use AURA for strategy, hiring, shipping, and their own creative practice.

How to apply AURA across teams, products & life

Lead AI initiatives with clear goals, defensible evaluation, explicit risk decisions, and exec updates that drive alignment and investment.

CPO, GM xBraintrust, Nextdoor, OpenTable

Braintrust 🧠

Nextdoor

LiquidSpace I Work from where it works.

OpenTable

BlackRock

Elena Luneva

f-CPO. Product executive (Braintrust, Nextdoor, OpenTable, LiquidSpace)

Ex-Alexa AI Principal PM

Amazon

Elsevier

Schneider Electric

Polly Allen

Ex-Alexa AI PM turned founder at AI Career Boost

Magic

Juggernauts

AI increases what your ICs can do. It also breaks the management systems most teams rely on.Prototypes multiply. Quality becomes subjective. Risk ships quietly. You end up in every review because no one is sure what "good" looks like — or who's accountable for evals, failure modes, and rollout decisions.If you're a Director, Head of Product, or VP with multiple AI initiatives in flight: you're managing something you didn't build a system for yet. Execs keep asking "How do we know it's good?" and "What's the ROI?" — and you're the one fielding it.This two-day workshop gives you the operating system. Not theory. Not frameworks. The actual playbooks, artifacts, and rituals high-performing, AI-native teams use — built during the workshop so you leave with real deliverables, not homework.Leave with:1. A 90-day AI portfolio — clear bets, owners, and decision gates so nothing gets orphaned2. A repeatable risk review process your team can run without pulling you in3. A shared quality bar — examples, acceptance criteria, and review gates so "is this good enough?" stops being a judgment call4. Reusable operating artifacts built during the workshop — actual deliverables, not slides

Get the operating system used by high-performing AI-native teams

Install an AI-native operating cadence that keeps speed and alignment

Run AI risk reviews that drive decisions and confidence

Own and drive evaluation metrics and process, before and after launch

Implement playbooks that let your team move with you, not wait for you

Director/Head of Product: Leads AI initiatives; turns prototypes into production with clear quality, gates, and exec updates.

Eng leader (Sr Mgr/Dir/VP): Ships AI fast while managing reliability, security, and cost with consistent eval + risk reviews.

Data/ML leader (Dir/Head): Owns evals and performance; aligns product and execs with shared language and decision-ready tradeoffs.

Master the most powerful decision making protocols through proven tools, practical frameworks, and real-world applications

AI Decision Coach & Product Leader

Vivek Juneja

20 years of leading teams, building products & managing large projects at scale

Feb 2026

June cohort

AI tools can now draft your emails, summarize your data, and generate recommendations in seconds. But the decisions that shape your career, your team, and your organization still depend on how you frame the problem. Most leaders use AI to move faster. The best leaders use it to think more clearly. In this course, you will learn a practical method for framing high-stakes decisions and practice using AI as a thinking partner, not a decision-maker. You will work with the Winning Frame methodology, use AI in three specific roles (Mirror, Challenger, and Reframing Generator), and walk away with a repeatable process you can apply to real decisions at work and in life.

Make better decisions with AI, not despite it

Learn the Winning Frame method for reframing decisions before AI runs with them

Leaders and managers adopting AI tools who want to make better decisions, not just faster ones

Senior ICs and founders facing ambiguous, high-stakes choices where AI outputs are helpful but not sufficient

Anyone who has caught themselves accepting an AI recommendation without questioning the frame it was built on

Where human leadership lives in an AI-augmented world.

Executive and Team Coach

Andrea Mignolo

Executive coach, MBA, PCC. Two decades leading teams and developing leaders.

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

You know you need to lead—set direction, make decisions, build systems, develop people. But when you try to hold all of this at once, it blurs together. You're unclear about where your time actually goes versus where it should go.This workshop helps you define and understand your leadership practice in an AI-augmented world.You'll articulate your purpose and vision, clarify the decisions you're driving and the people you're developing, and see how your energy distributes across four distinct roles: leading (enrolling people in vision), directing (translating vision into decisions), managing (building conditions for work), and coaching (developing capacity).Through guided solo work and structured reflection, you'll see exactly where you're over-extended and where you're absent — and understand what needs to shift.You'll leave knowing which roles your context actually demands, where your judgment matters most, and what to stop spending energy on.For more detail about the Leadership Fluency framework, please see this in-depth article: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://methodandmatter.com/words-make-worlds/how-to-lead-when-ai-does-almost-everything/">How to Lead When AI Does (Almost) Everything Else</a>.

Understand the full scope of your leadership role and where to focus your time and energy to be most effective.

Know what grounds your leadership practice

See where your time and energy actually go

Distinguish between four types of leadership work

Recognize what's missing in your leadership practice

Make conscious choices about where to focus

Understand what needs to shift

The workshop maps your current leadership practice. You need active leadership responsibilities to gain the clarity this framework provides.

Currently in a leadership role (managing people, projects, or initiatives)

The Newly Promoted Leader Congrats on the new role! But now you aren't sure what leadership is beyond more meetings and decisions to make.

The Juggling Executive You manage strategy, ops, and people but can't see how it fits together or where to focus your time most effectively.

The Single-Mode Leader You rely on one leadership approach regardless of what's needed. It works sometimes but you're hitting clear limits.

Build a clear AI strategy, define ROI metrics, and craft a practical roadmap to turn hype into results across product, people, and culture.

AI Executive, Startup Advisor

Sprout Social

Levi's

Nordstrom

Remitly

Rossella Blatt Vital

Executive AI Leader | Startups Advisor (ex Sprout Social, Remitly, Nordstrom)

AI Leader, Director of AI Sprout Social

Microsoft

Deepsha Menghani

AI and Data Science Leader | Director of AI at Sprout Social (ex Microsoft)

🔥 Scholarships available — reach out: aileadershipstudio@courses.maven.com 🔥Every executive today feels the pressure to “win in AI.” Caught between relentless hype and an urgent need to act, leaders are navigating a moment of unprecedented opportunity, and deep uncertainty. There is no universal playbook. AI transformation is messy, full of tradeoffs, and looks different in every organization, reshaping both how the enterprise operates and how products are built.This course offers a structured, practical path forward.At its core is a clear, actionable AI maturity framework that helps you assess where your organization stands across 4 critical dimensions:1) Strategy 🎯2) Ways of Working 🤝3) People &amp; Culture 👥4) Systems of Enablement 🛠️You’ll learn how to translate assessment into action, and acquire the tools to develop a personalized and actionable transformation path grounded in your organization’s context, maturity, and goals.AI isn’t just a technology shift. It’s a leadership and cultural one. This course equips you with the clarity, frameworks, and confidence to lead that transformation, intentionally, credibly, and with lasting impact across product, people, and culture.

Lead AI Transformation Delivering Sustainable Impact in the Agentic Era

📍 AI Maturity Framework

🎯Strategy

🤝 Ways of Working

👫 People & Culture

🛠️ Systems of Enablement

Executive &amp; Sr LeadersLeaders setting AI direction, making investment decisions, and accountable for enterprise-wide outcomes

Transformation &amp; Functional LeadersLeaders driving AI initiatives across product, tech, operations, or strategy

Emerging &amp; Aspiring AI LeadersLeaders and operators building AI fluency to contribute to strategy, decisions, and meaningful change