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Intermediate4 weeks · 16 hours live·Live on Zoom

AI for Managers and Leaders

Lead smarter teams with practical AI workflows.

Senior leaders shaping how their teams and companies use AI. Apply as an individual, or send 3 to 5 members of your leadership team.

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What you'll walk away with

Outcomes by the end of 4 weeks

  • Identify high-value AI use cases in your own work and across your team
  • Use AI for planning, reporting, analysis, meetings, and communication
  • Redesign one team workflow end-to-end with AI support
  • Set quality control standards for AI-assisted work in your team
  • Build a 30-day AI adoption plan you can present to your CEO or board
  • Lead AI conversations without sounding vague, fearful, or overly technical

Who this is for

You should apply if you're...

  • Team leads, middle managers, and functional managers
  • New managers stepping up in scaling companies
  • Senior professionals moving into leadership roles
  • Founders, business owners, and heads of function (HR, Growth, Ops)
  • Leadership teams sent together by their company (3 to 5 seats)

Capstone

Your AI Manager Playbook: top use cases, personal productivity workflows, a team workflow redesign, prompt library, AI usage guidelines, and a 30-day implementation plan.

Curriculum · 6 sessions over 3 weeks

What you'll cover, session by session

Week 1. AI foundations for managers

Session 1Jul 3 · 7–9pm

What AI can and cannot do (the leader's mental model)

Strip away the hype. What LLMs actually are, what they're great at, where they break, and how to think about AI beyond prompts.

  • Generative AI vs traditional ML vs agents: what matters for leaders
  • Key tool categories and when to use which (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini)
  • How managers should think beyond prompts
  • Live: leadership scenarios, 3 tools, compare outputs
Session 2Jul 4 · 10am–12pm

Risks, governance, and responsible AI use

The honest limitations every leader needs to know: hallucination, bias, privacy, confidentiality, overreliance. Plus the African regulatory context for AI.

  • Hallucination, bias, and overreliance: how to handle each
  • Privacy and confidentiality: what's safe in a chatbox
  • African data regulation: NDPR (Nigeria), POPIA (South Africa), Kenya DPA
  • Assignment: map 5 recurring management tasks AI can improve

Week 2. Personal manager productivity

Session 3Jul 10 · 7–9pm

AI for planning, reporting, and decision support

The manager's daily kit. Use AI for weekly planning, status reports, meeting prep, briefing your boss, and structured decision support.

  • Weekly planning and status reports in 20 minutes
  • Meeting prep, agenda building, and post-meeting synthesis
  • Decision support: pros/cons, risks, second-opinion prompts
  • Better prompting for managerial tasks (templates included)
Session 4Jul 11 · 10am–12pm

Turning recurring tasks into repeatable workflows

Stop reinventing the wheel every week. Convert your most recurring management tasks into structured workflows, including a personal custom GPT for your role.

  • The 'recurring task → workflow' mental model
  • Building a personal manager AI workflow (live)
  • Custom GPTs and Claude Projects for your specific role
  • Assignment: ship your personal manager AI workflow

Week 3. Team workflow redesign

Session 5Jul 17 · 7–9pm

Spotting AI opportunities across your team

Use cases across HR, growth, sales, operations, support, and admin. Where AI is undervalued, where it's overhyped, and how to score what's worth pursuing.

  • 50 cross-functional AI use cases (HR, Growth, Ops, Sales, CX, Admin)
  • ROI vs effort scoring for your specific team
  • Build vs buy vs partner: a leader's framework
  • Workshop: score 5 AI opportunities in your team
Session 6Jul 18 · 10am–12pm

Dividing work between humans and AI

Where AI ends and humans begin. Designing review loops, quality standards, and accountability so AI-augmented work stays trustworthy.

  • The 'AI-augmented workflow' design pattern
  • Review loops, quality gates, and accountability ownership
  • Common failure modes and how to engineer around them
  • Assignment: redesign one team workflow end-to-end with AI

Week 4. AI leadership and implementation

Session 7Jul 24 · 7–9pm

Team AI guidelines, governance, and getting buy-in

How to roll AI out to your team without resistance, fear, or runaway use. Includes a draft acceptable-use policy and a stakeholder communication playbook.

  • Team-level AI guidelines: drafting your AUP
  • Change management patterns that actually work
  • Handling fear, hype, and the awkward middle
  • Getting buy-in from your CEO, board, and skeptical peers
Session 8Jul 25 · 10am–12pm

Final demo day: your AI Manager Playbook

Each leader presents their Playbook: top use cases, personal productivity workflows, team workflow redesign, prompt library, AI usage guidelines, and a 30-day implementation plan.

  • Playbook presentations: every leader gets feedback
  • Measuring productivity gains: what to track and how
  • Personal AI leadership brand: being the AI-forward voice
  • Acelytics alumni network and what's next

Tools you'll use

Hands-on with the tools the best professionals are using right now

ChatGPT EnterpriseClaudeMicrosoft CopilotNotion AIZapierMake.comCustom GPTs

Ready to join the AI for Managers and Leaders cohort?

Applications close June 22, 2026. AI for Managers and Leaders runs July 3 – 25, 2026.

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