Toyah Perry

Creative Director & AI Workflow Expert (L’Oréal, Zara, LoveShackFancy, Joseph Jo

Stop Hitting Walls with AI: A Guide for Creatives

Identify the tools that best suit your task, so you can spend less time comparing platforms and more time creating.

Choose the right AI tools

Use a simple prompt structure to communicate your vision and get results closer to what you imagined.

Write clearer image and video prompts

Learn practical fixes for common AI problems, so you can move forward without wasting time and credits.

Troubleshoot and get unstuck

Build AI tools that scale your coaching, sharpen your own work, and reclaim hours for what actually matters - all without writing code.

Product Leader (Whoop, Dropbox, Nike)

Google

Microsoft

J.P. Morgan

NBCUniversal

Visa Inc.

Hilary Gridley

Head of Product | WHOOP, Big Health, Dropbox

July 2026

September

You'll get access to all four weeks of recorded content, interactive build guides, and the full course site on day one, and you work through it at whatever pace fits your life.There are optional office hour where Hilary will answer questions and help you work through any issues you're having.--Most managers are drowning. There's not enough time to coach everyone, review everything, and still do your own job. AI doesn't fix this by making you faster. It fixes it by making your team better - and by handling the work that drains you so you can focus on the work that matters.This course teaches you to build AI systems that scale your coaching, sharpen your own thinking, and get smarter the more you use them. You'll learn to separate what deserves your full investment from what deserves to be automated - and use AI to get better at both. By the end, your team will have access to your standards and judgment without waiting for your next 1:1, and you'll have a system that makes your own work clearer and less draining.

AI can do more than save you time. It can make you and your whole team better.

Automate the work that drains you and build tools that make the rest better

Learn to delegate to AI the same way you delegate to people

Turn your standards and coaching into tools your team uses 24/7

Build real applications for your team, without writing code

Build AI systems that knows how you work and who you work with

Get your whole team fluent in AI

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.

Use AI to make you irreplaceable. Build a system that works every time with prompts, skills, playbooks, and more.

Sept26

Chief Product Officer, Executive Coach

McKinsey & Company

Instagram

Thumbtack

Harvard University

Yue Zhao

Chief Product & Technology Officer, Executive Coach, Writer

Jun26

★★★★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.

In this course, you'll build real AI systems for your actual work - the kind you open on Monday morning and use.

Marketing Consultant. Founder. Teacher.

Silvi Specter

Marketing consultant. Founder. AI systems builder. Previously: Early Lemonade.

Cohort 2

Cohort 3

AI is supposed to save you time. So why does it still feel like you're doing everything yourself?That's the difference between "using AI" and having AI systems. This course gets you there.In five weeks, you'll build custom voices, AI projects, and automation workflows you'll use every day. I used these systems to go from 40 to 20 hours/week on marketing work while growing from $18k to $25k MRR.Here's what you'll gain from this course:→ Know exactly when to use Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini - and which other tools are worth your time→ Stop rewriting AI drafts - get content that sounds like you out of the gate→ Create content and campaigns faster with AI projects that have your briefs, audience research, and brand guidelines→ Stop losing afternoons to follow-ups, meeting notes, and reporting - build workflows that handle repetitive stuff automatically→ Turn transcripts and research into clear customer insights in under 1 hour→ Give your team an AI system to work from so you're not fixing everything yourselfYour AI tools will know your brand, audience, and how you like to work. What used to take half a day will take an hour. And the time you lost to execution will finally be free.

Stop drowning in execution. Build AI systems that save you 5-10 hours per week.

Reclaim 5-10 hours weekly by systematizing the executional work that drowns you

Stop wondering if you're using AI the right way - and get ahead of it

Finally cut through AI tool FOMO and build your focused tech stack

Ship customer-centric content that actually sounds like your brand (not ChatGPT)

Get customer insights & strategy feedback you couldn't get on your own

Build delegation systems so others execute at your quality level

You should be able to apply your projects to the day-to-day work you need to save time on

Active work to apply AI systems to

In-House Startup Marketerswho are doing the work of a full team, and leadership assumes AI can fix that. You need systems to make it true.

Consultants &amp; Fractional Executiveswith clients who want faster &amp; cheaper work because "AI can do it." You need systems to make it happen.

Solo Operators Wearing Multiple Hatswho handle everything with no team to hand off to. You need infrastructure that works when you're not.

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

Cohort 8

Ex-JPMorgan VP | Presentation Expert

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Commerzbank

PwC UK

MaryBeth Hazeldine

Presentation psychology expert with 35 years training Fortune 500 professionals

Cohort 7

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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