Dr Mansoor Soomro

Leadership Hack: Moving from Specialist to Generalist Roles

Executive Educator, Ex-Siemens, Trained 2200+ executives in the last 5 years

Learn how to shift from being the “go-to specialist” to the person who sees the bigger picture.

The Mindset Hack: Think Beyond Your Lane

Learn how to communicate technical nuances to non-technical stakeholders.

The Skillset Hack: Breadth + Depth = Influence

Learn to start leading (and not just executing) by drafting action plan for your next 90 days!

The Career Hack: Build Your Generalist Roadmap

The Problem: Scaling organizational expertise with generative AI&nbsp;captures the basics but misses the distinctive thinking patterns and cultural fingerprint that differentiate your organization. The Solution: Capture, automate and reimagine your distinctive methodology with agentic systems using frameworks emerging from years of strategic consulting and building AI tools for Fortune 500 companies and think tanks. We provide the strategic insight and hands-on capabilities to integrate generative AI strategically—in a way that preserves your competitive advantage while unlocking new dimensions of interactivity and personalization. Effective AI integration requires new collaboration frameworks between domain experts and technical teams — we teach you how to bridge this gap so expert knowledge translates into reliable, personalized AI outputs. You will master the frameworks we have been applying for half a decade for global consultancies and companies, walking away with a repeatable blueprint for scaling generative AI across the enterprise. Atop the theoretical bedrock, we bring heavy focus on hands-on practice doing unglamorous but essential work for mastering generative tool deployment: data plumbing, iterative evaluation and stress-testing, collaborative prompt design and de-risking roll-outs through phased deployment. This is not just a course. This is a commitment of experts with a decade of combined experience to transform your workflows and multiply your organization's output.- Unlimited one-on-one consultation opportunities during the course- Proprietary chatbots trained on the learning content- A resource hub 3 years in the making- Takeaway: The extent of your learning is bordered only by the time you are willing to commit.

Transform Your Organization's Expertise Into AI-Powered Competitive Advantage

Course syllabus

Synchronous zoom lecture on Tuesday, focusing on the conceptual backbone of AI agent functionality and applications. Recordings of class will be available soon after its completion.

Tuesday

An async walkthrough will guide you in building functional prototypes of AI Agents. You will get to shape the project deliverable. Lecturers will be available by email, during office hours and via one-on-one sessions throughout the week for questions and support.

Weekly projects (async)

Optional office hours where you can ask questions and receive personal guidance on developing your AI applications.

Tuesday & Thursday

Schedule 1:1 coaching time with instructors for individualized help with your hands-on projects, privately thinking through a use-case, or whatever else you need.

1:1 Coaching

Course schedule

Executive Leaders who need to scale organizational capabilities with AI while preserving competitive differentiation

Project/Product Managers leading cross-functional AI integration initiatives bridging domain expertise with technical implementation

Domain Specialists who want to enhance their analytical workflow through custom AI applications without having to code

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Master the end-to-end methodology from initial requirements to production launch, including risk assessment, phased implementation, and organizational adoption strategies that minimize disruption while maximizing competitive advantage

Strategic AI Integration Frameworks

Transform unstructured institutional knowledge like meeting transcripts, reports, and backlogs into agentic systems that prevent your expertise from walking out the door with the next turnover

Culture Capture From Unstructured Data

Design and implement human-in-the-loop evaluation systems and testing methodologies that ensure trust, relevance, and reliability

Quality Assurance and Evaluation Frameworks

Navigate technical tradeoffs across compliance, latency, and cost vectors while managing non-technical stakeholders through AI development cycles and scope definition

Strategic Decision-Making and Project Management

Update your awareness with strategic foresight and thorough ecosystem analysis of AI affordances in specific industries, domains and modalities, enabling informed investment decisions and long-term positioning

AI Ecosystem Intelligence and Future Planning

Automate and amplify institutional knowledge through AI agents that embody your cultural DNA

Lev Gorelov

Jeremy Kirshbaum

Cohort 14

Cohort 15

Update: The next 2 cohorts are now open. Weekday Cohort starting Aug 19Weekend Cohort starting Sep 20 ------------------------- The world of product and tech is changing faster than ever.AI is no longer optional. It’s rewriting how we build, lead, and make decisions.But amidst all this change, one truth remains:Great leadership is still the difference between teams that move fast and those that fumble.This course is for those who want to rise — not just by keeping up, but by leading the way.It’s for product managers, group PMs, directors, and VPs who know they’re ready for more. Satya, Sundar, Larry, Bill, Fidji and many others. I have learnt from some of the most successful tech leaders out there. Through my journey, I have collected a range of learnings, insights &amp; observations on what the top 1% leaders do.&nbsp; You know what inspirational product leadership looks like. There are leaders whose ideas always inspire, they create clarity, their teams are high-performing and motivated and they are decisive. Maybe you’re doing some of this already, but you’re not sure what it takes to get to the elite level.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This course draws from my 15+ years of experience in Product leadership roles. I am excited to share my practical learnings with you. No fluffy theory, straight from the arena.&nbsp; You will leave with a deeper awareness of your leadership style and gaps. And some handy tools and frameworks to start elevating your game.&nbsp; WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE Evergreen Leadership — skills that never go out of style- Lead with clarity in chaos- Build trust with C-level, cross-functional, and skeptical teams- Make hard calls with confidence, balancing data and intuition- Inspire accountability and raise the bar on team performance- Translate strategy into action — and drive real business outcomes AI-Age Re-Skills — what modern leaders must now master- Speak the language of AI (without needing to code)- Lead teams that blend human insight with AI tools- Make faster, better decisions without losing sound judgment- Navigate ethical challenges and avoid AI traps- Coach your teams to thrive, not fear, this future

Master timeless leadership principles and adapt to the AI-driven future

PM Leaders who are managing products and people. Career stage titles include Lead Product Manager, Group Product Manager, Director, VP.

Cross functional leaders in Design, Engineering, Data Science, Product Marketing and Operations, who aspire to amplify their leadership.

Founders of startups who are building products and want to learn how to scale their influence.

<ul><li>Building trust and credibility with C-suite and cross-functional teams.</li><li>Managing conflicting priorities and expectations.</li><li>Navigating organizational politics to achieve alignment.</li></ul>

Leading with Clarity
 

<ul><li>Strategic decision-making in complex environments.</li><li>Balancing short-term wins with long-term vision.</li><li>Using data and intuition in high-stakes decisions.</li></ul>

Advanced Decision-Making Frameworks

<ul><li>Creating a culture of accountability and excellence.</li><li>Leading through change and uncertainty.</li><li>Coaching and mentoring for team development.</li></ul>

Building and Leading High-Performing Teams

<ul><li>Translating business strategy into product roadmaps.</li><li>Measuring success: Key metrics and KPIs at the leadership level.</li><li>Cross-functional collaboration and breaking down silos.</li></ul>

 Driving Organizational Impact and Strategic Alignment
 

Become an Elite Leader: by mastering the human-centric skills that remain irreplaceable, while leveraging AI for the new age.

Cohort 5 - Aug 2025

Amit Fulay

Cohort 4

Cohort 6 - Sep 25 weekend

The ChallengeYour days are filled with:🗓️ back-to-back meetings,🚀 sky-high customer or investor expectations,⏱️ wishes that your team could move faster sooner,🔥 wishes that you could move even faster and work on what really matters instead of fighting fires. You start each day with the best intentions, but somehow find yourself constantly reacting instead of leading.&nbsp;Sure, it would be nice to focus on your own goals, but you care about those other people (or at least some of them 😁). They’re colleagues and customers, family and friends... How can you collaborate with them responsively without forsaking your goals and becoming just a (re-)Actor in their story? 🎬 ✨ You wonder if AI can help, you wonder how other leaders are using AI to manage it all and manage their teams--but honestly, who's got the time to figure that out? ⏳ You have a constant, lurking anxiety about what’s falling through the cracks or not getting done, so you work faster. As you try to move faster, people fall short of your expectations and their potential. It causes friction and frustration (even if you hide it well). It's uncomfortable to call out, so you avoid giving feedback or mention it lightly, which makes the situation more uncomfortable. Eventually, you decide to give feedback. Sometimes it goes okay. Often, you try to move through and out of the conversation as quickly as possible because it feels so awkward. Growth and improvements rarely last. You take on more work yourself to get it done. The Solution (Evidence-based. Immediately applicable.)⏱️&nbsp;EVERYTHING YOU READ BELOW WILL BE ORIENTED TO IMMEDIATE APPLICATION DURING THE COURSE ⏱️What if you could shift from reacting to the constant inputs to creating what matters most and leading your team in that direction--everyday? This course will support you, step by step, in building your Operating System to make this shift. Fancy apps aren't enough. Nor are bursts of motivation. A sustainable Operating System has 3 features:🧰 Tools (simple enough to keep using, and amplified by AI)🔁&nbsp;Habits (the tools don't use themselves...except for some of the AI ones we'll build)🧠 Mindsets (you can "productively" spend your life responding to other people's messages and requests--or build something that matters) No, "perfection" isn't possible (or even desirable). But our days--and our results--completely shift when we focus our attention systematically instead of ad-hoc and reactively. And our conversations shift when we stop trying to fix people and start inspiring them to take action and grow. We teach you how to do this by using straightforward approaches that reliably transform defensiveness and friction into self-reflection, connection, and motivation to grow. You will start to look forward to feedback conversations because you will know how to use them as powerful tools for building trust and deepening connection. You will also explore your own mindsets and beliefs around feedback, identifying your own patterns around conflict avoidance, people-pleasing, and controlling behaviors. AI is woven throughout the course, including:1️⃣ building your own Custom GPTs2️⃣&nbsp;mastering your calendar3️⃣ using AI as a practice partner for difficult conversations and coaching skills4️⃣ helping your team use AI, and so much more! Once you've shifted the way you manage yourself and lead your team conversations, applying evidence-based approaches tested with 1000s of managers and amplified with AI, the whole game becomes fun again. Bonus:📝 You will also get 5 step-by-step facilitation guides for sharing and teaching your team members everything we cover in this course. This helps establish shared language and frameworks within your team/organization, and positions you as the leader of change. 📖&nbsp;You'll also get our 20-page Offsite Playbook with step-by-step guidance on how to design and facilitate unforgettable team and company gatherings. 🚀 And you'll get to do this while in a practice lab with other high-growth leaders.

Spend your days fighting fires or each other?

Tuesdays (+ 1 Thursday)

Weekly Office Hours

High-Growth ManagersReady to move out of IC mode, you want to be the inspiring leader people thank for the rest of their careers.

ExecutivesYou know there's a better way than back-to-back meetings everyday. To scale your impact, you know you must scale yourself first

Startup FoundersYou're expanding your focus from building a product to building a team. And to do so, you need the team to step up fast.

You'll have the Inner and Outer Game in place:<ul><li>A systematic set of habits, tools, and mindsets to define What Matters Most each day and week</li><li>You'll be using your emotions as signals for what needs to happen next</li><li>Your mind will be at ease</li></ul>

Clear Focus & Emotional Balance

Whether you're currently intimidated by AI, curious, or all-in, you will:<ul><li>know exactly how to leverage Claude and ChatGPT to improve your skills and help you prepare for key conversations</li><li>have your own CustomGPT to do a recurring management task FOR you</li></ul>

AI As Your Ally (including your own CustomGPT)

<ul><li>Next Actions template (simplest tool possible to stay organized)</li><li>Weekly Preview Checklist (define what matters most and who should do it)</li><li>Daily Defining Checklist</li></ul>

The Operating System (feel on top of your s***)

<ul><li>Know how to decide WHAT to delegate to increase your leverage</li><li>Know HOW to delegate (to a person or AI) in ways that build confidence and follow-through</li></ul>

The Leverage Framework

<ul><li>GAIN Template for how to structure feedback conversations that inspire response-ability, action, and growth</li><li>how to use AI to prepare and practice</li></ul>

GAIN Feedback Framework

<ul><li>GROW Template for coaching conversations</li><li>The key skill to coach effectively</li><li>Know the difference between a feedback and a coaching conversation</li><li>how to use AI to practice and get feedback on a coaching conversation</li></ul>

GROW Coaching Framework

What if you felt on top of everything?
What if your team were aligning and growing through every conversation with you?

Jack Cohen

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

(Nov 7-Dec 12)Again and again, we learn that the expectations and 'shoulds' we live by often rob us of our agency and joy. We feel and perform better when we pause instead to greet reality just as it is—and listen. In that listening, we don’t find easy answers but rather deep understanding: a moral grounding that guides tough decisions and a reliable sense of direction when the world feels upside down. This course brings together the lessons of the five preceding fluencies. Through this series, we’ve been cultivating the ability to see and adapt to change (Reinvention); allowing purpose to guide us (Purpose); using the forces of change to inspire humility and possibility (Foresight); actively engaging in future-building (Innovation); and connecting with others to foster true growth and evolution (Belonging). Now, we are prepared to step into the humility, discernment, and ethical core that define wisdom. Wisdom is not only the work of our lifetime; it is its purpose. This is the last of six fluencies in the Lead Like a Futurist program:Leading Self: Reinvention and Purpose (TBD – join the waitlist at leadlikeafuturist.com)Leading Strategy: Foresight and Innovation (Spring 2025)Leading Culture: Belonging and Wisdom (Fall 2025)Learn more at leadlikeafuturist.com.___________________________________DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE!Register for two or more fluencies within a 24-hour period and save big. Indicate your interest on the application to receive your discount code: - Two Fluencies: $100 off each course- Three Fluencies: $125 off each course- Four Fluencies: $150 off each course That's 4 for the price of 3! BONUS: Registering for two or more fluencies grants you access to continued Workroom coaching sessions between courses. This high-value opportunity is exclusively available to those who make this commitment. CERTIFICATION: Students who complete the full Lead Like a Futurist six-fluency leadership program will be awarded a certificate that verifies their achievement and training. This certificate is suitable for framing, adding to your resume, and showcasing on your LinkedIn profile to highlight your leadership development.

Finding clarity and equanimity in an upside down world.

<ul><li>Prework Videos and Readings:&nbsp;Access anytime!</li><li>Recorded Live Sessions:&nbsp;Can’t make it live? Catch up with session recordings.</li><li>Workroom Time on Fridays:&nbsp;A time to dive deeper into the material.</li><li>1:1 Support Calls:&nbsp;Personalized guidance to keep you aligned and moving forward.</li></ul>

If your schedule blows up, we've got you

There are five 90-min live sessions that occur on Wednesdays at 9am CST. This time is suited to a variety of timezones, making it friendly to students across the Americas and Europe.These are the people you've been waiting to meet: thoughtful and passionate—just like you!

A 5-part series

<ul><li>The Prework will generally be 30 minutes of time or less.</li><li>Expect Homework to take 30-60 minutes each week.</li></ul>Additionally, we offer two Workrooms (Optional) for group coaching and project work on Fridays, 9am and 3pm

Prework and Homework

Let the lessons take root with real-life coaching between course, where you'll tackle pressures, politics, and decisions in a supportive community.Available for those registered in 2+ fluencies in 2025.

The Workroom Continues

This course is built for busy professionals

You sense there's a kind of leadership training that will take you to the next level in a way that traditional development doesn't touch.

You want to be a leader who can meet the needs of this next era, equipped to "dance with change as it emerges."

You understand that to be an evolved and effective leader, you have to be an evolved and effective human.

Who this course is for:

Become the Calm in the Center of the Storm

<ul><li>Create ease by aligning perception and action with the natural flow of change.</li><li>Celebrate lightness as the 'fake news' of our belief-driven minds begins to lose its grip.</li></ul>

Awaken to a Simple View of Life on Life’s Terms

<ul><li>Laugh at the paradox that we will never know it all, yet are always right.</li><li>Relax into awe, discovering wonder in any and every moment.</li></ul>

Experience the Softening and Expanding Effects of Humility

<ul><li>Learn to separate facts from feelings, truth from triggers, and reality from fiction.</li><li>Approach study as a vital tool for digging deep into discernment and uncovering wisdom.</li></ul>

Exchange Judgment for Discernment

<ul><li>Accept loss as an inherent part of every decision, meeting it with compassion and grace.</li><li>Master decision-making frameworks and collaborative problem-solving techniques to confidently navigate life’s toughest choices as a leader.</li></ul>

Discover What’s Right to Do When There Are No Right Answers

Today we are drowning in intelligence, yet face a drought of wisdom. This course helps you tap into this most vital, underutilized resource.

Lightning Lessons

Leadership Hack: Moving from Specialist to Generalist Roles