Build AI Tools That Save HR Leaders 10+ Hours Weekly

Walmart Global Tech

Tata Consultancy Services

Cognizant

Sandhiya Thiruvengadam

Senior HR Business Partner at Apexon

Pinpoint HR processes where simple AI can eliminate tedious work and reclaim 10+ hours weekly for you and your team

Stop wasting hours on the same HR tasks every week

We'll build a working AI tool for your HR challenge using no-code methods. You choose the focus during session

Build your first AI automation tool together

Walk away knowing exactly which of YOUR processes to tackle first and the specific tools to use starting Monday morning.

Get your personalized automation roadmap

Managers today are under pressure to do more with less—and AI is being pitched as the solution. You’re expected to get more out of your team, faster, by integrating AI into your workflows. But how do you do that effectively when you’re still figuring it out yourself—and your team is skeptical or unsure how to use it well? Most managers are left without a playbook. They either: 1. Burn out trying to be everywhere at once,2. Lower the bar just to keep up,3. Or throw generic AI tools at the problem and hope for the best. There’s a better way. In this course, you’ll learn how to confidently adopt AI in your own work—and teach your team to use it well. You’ll build custom tools tailored to your leadership style, scale your coaching without sacrificing quality, and free up your time for the work that matters most. As Head of Core Product at WHOOP, I’ve built behavior-change products used by millions to improve their health. I know what it takes to guide people through something that feels unfamiliar and turn it into a habit they rely on daily. This course will help you do the same with AI. By the end of this course, you won’t just understand AI—you’ll have practical tools that make your team more effective and your job easier. You’ll stop repeating yourself in 1:1s, start seeing higher-quality work before it hits your desk, and free up hours each week to focus on the strategic problems only you can solve. You’ll become the kind of leader who’s not just keeping up with AI—but using it to lead with clarity, influence, and impact.

Unlock your team's full potential while reclaiming your time and energy.

Course syllabus

Team leads, directors, and VPs who run a team and have to balance managing up, down, sideways to drive outcomes.

People managers who still have significant IC responsibilities and are struggling to balance both roles effectively.

First-time managers of large teams (5+ reports) who are overwhelmed by the volume of coaching and feedback needed.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Stop repeating yourself in every 1:1. You’ll build AI tools that capture your thinking and handle recurring questions 24/7. By the end of the first session, your team will start leveling up—without you constantly in the loop.

Spend less time coaching—without lowering the bar

Build tools that catch common issues before they reach you—from messy data visuals to weak executive summaries. Your team gets faster feedback, you spend less time in the weeds, and the work improves.

Cut review cycles in half

Turn vague growth goals into clear, daily progress. Your AI tools will help track development, suggest stretch assignments, and support your team’s career goals—so they improve faster and stay longer.

Help your team grow faster—and stick around longer

Give your team real AI skills that help them deliver higher-quality work with fewer revisions. You’ll scale their abilities and equip them with one of the most valuable skills in today’s market.

Make your team faster, smarter, and more self-sufficient

Stop reacting. Start leading. I’ll show you how to use AI to sharpen your thinking, make smarter calls, and gain leverage where it counts—strategy, influence, and impact.

Reclaim your time—and your edge

Drive AI adoption, scale your coaching, and reclaim your time with custom tools your team will actually use—without compromising on quality.

Hilary Gridley

Head of Core Product @ WHOOP

June Cohort

July Cohort

Leaders are remembered not just for their technical prowess but for the lasting impact they have on their team's careers and success. In an era where AI is transforming how teams work, the human side of leadership has never been more critical. This course equips both aspiring software engineering managers and experienced EMs alike with the essential interpersonal skills to amplify their influence and drive team performance. It leverages AI tools to enhance these fundamentally human leadership capabilities. Over 100 individual contributors (ICs) and EMs have already enhanced their leadership capabilities through this course. Join them and transform your approach to tech leadership for the AI era. -------- This interactive course will teach you how to solve 4 key problems faced by senior ICs and managers: 1️⃣ Identifying growth opportunities within your team and working with them to fill these missing areas—using both traditional mentoring approaches and AI-powered insights to personalize development plans 2️⃣ Communicating with clarity and impact with direct reports, peers, and upper management—enhanced with AI tools for message preparation, follow-up analysis, and communication refinement 3️⃣ Delivering constructive, actionable feedback that drives real improvement—using proven frameworks plus AI assistance for better situation analysis and delivery optimization 4️⃣ Balancing AI adoption with human needs by helping your team to navigate the challenges of AI integration while maintaining team trust and unity ------- For the duration of this course you'll receive: • 4 live sessions over 2 weeks hours over Zoom, with interactive lessons and breakout sessions• Hands-on learning by walking through case studies and real-life examples with your cohort• Templates and AI prompts you can immediately start using on the job• In-depth live Q&amp;A sessions to get immediate answers to your on-the-job questions• Recording and slides for future reference and review ------- Great leadership is more than just your title, it’s about supporting and growing the people around you. This is a course designed to give technical managers the skills and tools they need to become effective, influential leaders that can inspire teams as well as manage them. You’ve put in the hard work to get to management level, and on completing this course you’ll have the skills to prove yourself as a leader.

What makes a great engineering leader in the modern AI era?

Session 1: Become the leader your team needs<ul><li>Identifying the types of high performers on your team</li><li>Managing medium and low performers</li><li>Using AI to identify trends in performance</li></ul>

Tuesday, August 19

Session 2: Career development without the noise<ul><li>Breaking down the 1:1</li><li>Quarterly development planning for your team</li><li>Building an AI bot to help you write QDPs</li></ul>

Thursday, August 21


Session 3: Communicate like a leader<ul><li>Managing expectations with your team</li><li>Negotiating with your PM and EM peers</li><li>Managing up in your organization</li><li>How to use AI to assist in these conversations</li></ul>

Tuesday, August 26


Session 4: Feedback and conflict without the fear<ul><li>Reframing your own views of feedback</li><li>Tactical feedback delivery framework</li><li>Practicing giving feedback with AI</li><li>Feedback case study</li></ul>

Thursday, August 28


New and experienced managers looking to build the interpersonal skills required to succeed as a leader in the AI era

Technical managers who want to develop their team and build influence across their company while navigating AI adoption

Aspiring managers looking to lay the groundwork to create impact as an IC and future leader, preparing for an AI-transformed workplace

Who this course is for:

After taking this course, you'll be able to:

Your success as a leader is measured by your team's execution, and to execute well, you need a great team. Learn to identify strengths, empower growth, and navigate AI's impact on team dynamics.

Build and scale a high performing team

1:1s and performance reviews don't have to be stressful. Learn how to keep the feedback loop active by applying proven frameworks and AI tooling to conduct meaningful 1:1s and provide tactical, actionable feedback to your team on a regular cadence.

Conduct impactful 1:1s and development check-ins

From performance management to resource allocation, learn frameworks for tough calls while leveraging AI for better information gathering. We'll cover how to gather the right information, involve the right people, and confidently communicate decisions upward and downward.

Make difficult decisions with confidence

Learn how to give constructive feedback from a trained therapist! Master effective communication strategies for conflict resolution within your team to build influence within your organization. Discover how AI can help you prepare for conversations and follow up effectively.

Navigate challenging conversations with peers and direct reports

Balance AI advancement with human needs, ensuring your team thrives in an AI-augmented workplace. Learn to maintain psychological safety during change, help team members adapt their skills, and create an environment where both AI tools and human creativity can flourish.

Lead through AI transformation

Master essential people skills to transform from technical expert to impactful leader in today's AI-driven tech landscape.

Kelly Vaughn

Cohort 5

Cohort 6

Ready to revolutionise your People Ops role with AI? Unlock game-changing efficiency in just 4 weeks. I want to empower as many People Ops leaders as possible to harness AI’s full potential, transforming how you manage your work and develop your knowledge. I've spent the last 2 years deep diving into ways AI can be used, from day to day repetitions to building great outcomes in large projects. Say goodbye to being overwhelmed and hello to a smarter, faster way to lead—whether you’re tackling daily grind or driving big-picture impact. You’ll finish feeling empowered to: 👉 Slash your workload with AI-driven workflows, reclaiming time for strategic wins. 👉 Supercharge employee engagement with innovative AI tools, building people ops like a product. 👉 Uncover hidden insights from your data, solving the toughest HR challenges with confidence and a clear roadmap. 👉Be able to lead transformative change with AI, delivering projects that scale and inspire across your organisation. Through live, hands-on sessions and concise videos, you’ll master cutting-edge AI—plus HR platforms tailored for early-career pros or heads of people. No tech expertise required—just a hunger for knowledge.

AI-Powered People Ops: Hands-On Execution 🦾💪

Our next cohort kicks off on Monday 10th March

Next Cohort: March 2025

I will run a practical session for an hour every Friday at 3pm GMT - so those in the USA can join as well!

Fridays

I'll send out a 20 minute video, with clear learning, context and setup - as well as some optional homework to make the most of your time on the course

Weekly self learning

Upcoming Cohort

Early to mid-career People Ops Pros seeking to improve their knowledge of AI and how to use it practically.

Solo Heads of People needing to get more done with limited resources.

Directors or VPs who feel a little left behind and want to upskill fast.

Why this course?

Reclaim hours for what matters with automations like onboarding bookings or managing team requests.

Build an AI Workflow That Cuts Your Busywork by 30%

Learn to think like a product leader and use AI critically to help you build whats useful for your business.

Create an AI-Driven Employee Experience Toolkit to Build People Ops Like a Product

Uncover insights on turnover or morale in minutes, no data scientist required.

Use Internal Data with AI to Crack Your Toughest HR Puzzles

Lead a progression/levelling overhaul, then tackle projects like compensation, performance, and more with a proven framework.

Deliver a Full Change Project Using AI, Then be Able to Apply the Approach Again and Again

Overall - Improve Your Outputs, Your Speed, Your Skills, Know Which Tools to Use, Start Applying Techniques Immediately

Tired of drowning in HR busywork? Transform how you use AI for People Ops in just 4 weeks!

Cohort 4

Matt Bradburn

Founder and People Expert

Cohort 3

This course is for business leaders and operations managers who are tired of doing the same tasks over and over again, and are ready to build systems that work without them. You’ve probably already done the hard part: You’ve built strong processes, tested ideas, refined your operations, and they work. But they’re still manual, and you’re the bottleneck now. This course helps you take those proven systems and make them scalable with automation, by designing AI workflows that fit your business. 📌&nbsp;This course is made for people who:- Are drowning in repetitive work: content, emails, admin, lead gen, sales updates, reporting- Are still stuck doing too many things manually- Struggle to scale because bottlenecks sit with people, not systems- Want to automate but don’t know what’s possible, or where to start- Want useful, practical automations that work By the end of this course, you’ll walk away with clarity on what's possible, a few working AI automation, and the know-how to implement automation where it matters most. 📌&nbsp;What to expect during this course ↳ Practical from day one (and fully no-code)This course is 80% hands-on. You’ll build real automations, prompt libraries, custom GPTs, and working automations, and walk away with systems you can run yourself or confidently delegate. ↳ Decision framework to find opportunities for automationYou’ll audit your workflows to see where your time goes, what’s slowing you down, and what can be delegated to AI. You'll learn a practical framework to identify time-wasters and make smart decisions on what to automate first. ↳ Real automation examples you can reuseWe'll explore working automations built for real businesses. We'll share small tutorials and ready templates with you. You'll try them, adapt them, and see what’s possible in your own systems. ↳ Long-term automation strategyYou'll build your first automations, and walk away with a clear, scalable roadmap to guide future automation initiatives across your business. ↳ Capstone project: your first business automationYou’ll build a real, working automation based on your own processes, something you or your team can use immediately. ↳ Ecosystem supportAccess to a community, experts, and like-minded peers. 📌 Tool stackHands-on learning with real tools (n8n, Notion, Make, Telegram bots, ChatGPT, Claude) 📌 Use case examples you’ll build or explore:- Meetings: Create agendas, transcribe notes, make summaries, and assign tasks from your calendar events.- Emails: Automatically tag or sort incoming emails by their content.- Admin: Collect data, create summaries, and send regular reports by chat or email.- Marketing: Write and schedule blog posts, social media updates, or newsletters automatically.- Leads: Process form submissions, enrich details with AI, add tasks to your CRM, and notify your team.- Finance: Combine expense data, create summaries in a dashboard, and send monthly updates.- Productivity: Build a habit tracker that gives you AI-generated feedback. 📌 Course structure:- Week 1: Audit of your recurring tasks &amp; find opportunities to delegate to AI- Week 2: Getting the most of ChatGPT (Prompt library, custom GPTs and ChatGPT projects)- Week 3: Intro to AI Automation tools: make.com &amp; n8n- Week 4: Capstone project &amp; automation that solves one real problem in your business- Demo day: Project presentation. Share your progress with the group and get inspired by what others built 📌 By the end of the course, you will:- Know what to automate, what to keep, and what to ignore- Have a clear automation roadmap and working AI workflows- Save 5–10+ hours/week by eliminating repeatable tasks- Have long term automation vision to help you scale without hiring more

Kick-off your first AI automation initiative

An interactive sessions with live demos. We’ll break down the week’s core concepts and tools, then put them into action right away. These aren’t passive lectures, you’ll be solving problems, testing ideas, and working with others.

Tuesdays: Workshop

A weekly session for your questions. You can ask any questions about your project, get help with any technical issues, and discuss ideas with me and other participants.

Thursdays: Office Hours

Do your home practice to apply what you’ve learned and make progress on your project.

Weekly Homework

A final session where you showcase your project, share what you built, and get feedback from peers and instructors. It’s an opportunity to demonstrate what you’ve learned and see what your peers have been building.

Last Monday: Demo Day

Course schedule

Founders ready to scale smarter. You’ve built solid processes and now want to automate them to grow faster without hiring more people

Operations managers tired of firefighting. You want to automate manual tasks so your team can do twice as much with making fewer mistakes

Innovative team leads ready to remove bottlenecks. You want to identify blockers and free up time so your team can focus on what’s important

You'll perform an audit of your business workflows and apply 6T delegation framework to find out exactly which tasks are should be automated first

Audit your business processes and find real time wasters

You'll explore real automation examples from other businesses and get templates you can customise and reuse

Understand what's possible to automate today and how

You’ll shift your mindset and start spotting automation opportunities in everyday tasks

Start seeing opportunities for automation in your business

You’ll create library of reusable prompts and custom GPTs for your common tasks, such as summarising and generating content, replying to emails, organising knowledge, and more, so you stop starting from scratch every time you open ChatGPT

Build reusable prompt libraries and mini automations

You’ll build a real working automation based on your own processes, something you or your team can use immediately

Kick off your AI automation project solving one real business problem

You’ll get feedback and ideas from a group of founders and operations managers solving similar problems in real-time

Get feedback and expert support on your exact use case

By the end, you’ll have a clear roadmap: where to go deeper, what to scale, and how to evolve your automations over time

Develop your automation roadmap

You’ll know what’s possible, how long it takes, what tools to use, and how to explain it, whether you’re doing it yourself or delegating

Get the confidence to lead automation efforts in your team

4-week course where you'll learn, through hands-on practice, how to automate your business workflows using no-code tools

Lightning Lessons

Build AI Tools That Save HR Leaders 10+ Hours Weekly