Cohort 1

Chief of Staff

Pepe Jurklies

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

Operations professionals who optimize processes and manage day-to-day business functions.

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

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

Building autonomous AI agent systems that take actions, use tools, and orchestrate multi-step workflows.

Using AI coding assistants and tools to write, review, and ship code faster.

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

Using Claude Code to build and ship software through an AI-powered command-line coding workflow.

Model Context Protocol — building tool integrations and server connections for AI agents.

Using AI tools like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable to build and ship functional software without a traditional engineering background.

Move from prompting Claude to building with it: AI systems that run your workflows, install for your team, and live in one AI Registry.

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | ex CIO/CPO 

Microsoft

UC Berkeley

Capital One

Google

Amazon

James Gray

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | Chief Growth Officer, Open Intelligence Network

Claude for Leaders: Accelerate Your Business

Berkeley AI Instructor | ex- CIO & CPO 

UC Berkeley AI Instructor | Former CIO/CPO | Trained 5,000+ Leaders

<h3>Why I enrolled</h3>
My main objectives for the Claude and Claude Code for Builders course are:<ol class="list-decimal ml-8"><li>AI as my Executive Operating System – I want to establish at least 3 AI setups I can use weekly to support decision-making, executive briefings, and operational oversight.</li><li>Build AI Agents for Strategic Work – My goal is to have 1–2 functional AI agents that can autonomously prepare analyses, consolidate information, and provide insights for strategic projects like OneWind or the shareholder exit process.</li><li>AI as a Sparring Partner for High-Stakes Decisions – I want to leverage AI for scenario analysis, trade-offs, risk assessment, and pre-mortems to improve executive decision quality.</li><li>Productivity with 10x Leverage – I aim to delegate routine analysis, summaries, and document drafting to AI to free mental bandwidth for judgment, leadership, and strategy.</li><li>Meta Layer: Governance &amp; Control – I want to ensure AI outputs are auditable, trackable, and reliable so I can use AI confidently for executive-level decisions while maintaining accountability.</li></ol>In short, my goal is to integrate AI as a trusted co-pilot across strategic, operational, and productivity dimensions rather than just a tool for prompts or coding.



<h3>What I’ll apply</h3>
Developing more solutions for my colleagues in the company and teaching them about the basics to enable the organization for higher productivity and more fun during work (taking away the repetitive tasks) and think more creatively!

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