Strategies and Skills for AI Leadership
(May-July 2026: Interactive Zoom course)
This is not a course for engineers. It's for leaders and creators.
It’s a low-risk, high-caliber, intensely human course on raising your AI proficiency,
tailored to your most important projects.
It’s about the “inner game of AI:” where you and the AI systems train each other,
transforming yourself and your organization.
You learn how AI systems “think,” how to get results,
and how to handle the regulations, risks to human jobs, and cognitive load.
We do this in the context of the challenges you face today.
There are three modules, one per month.
Each consists of three one-hour Zoom sessions.
Between sessions, you work on a project related to your own goals, with responsive coaching as you need it.
May: AI Concepts and Capabilities
Gain the strategic vocabulary to confidently lead projects that deploy AI. Learn what automated technologies—language models, decision-making systems, robotics, generative AI—can and cannot do. Design a proof-of-concept project that fits your immediate needs.
June: GenAI Proficiency
Develop prompting and "vibe-coding" techniques that extract reliable insight from large language models. Improve productivity and augment your overall capabilities with AI. Build a team of adept AI users who raise one anothers’ game.
July: Risks, Biases, and Rewards
Master the AI dilemma: Producing good outcomes for people. Learn how errors and biases emerge and how to prevent doing harm to others — and your reputation. Establish verification techniques and explainable AI practices. Build trust.
Individual leaders: 9 sessions and assignments over three months, plus coaching
Billed monthly: $1,250/month
Payment in advance: $3,000 ($750 savings)
Team of 3 or more: 9 sessions and assignments; plus dedicated team coaching
Billed monthly: $900/month per team member
Payment in advance: $2,000 ($1,750 savings) per team member
Consultants, coaches, not-for-profits and educators: Contact me for arrangements tailored to your situation.
Art Kleiner is the coauthor of The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology, and coauthor with Alexandra Diening of A Strategy for Human-AI Symbiosis. He is also the editorial director of Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series. A former managing director at PwC, he develops strategies and practices at the nexus of machine learning, human learning, and organizational learning. He is a research associate at New York University’s Interactive Media Arts program, where he teaches design for responsible technology and scenarios for the future of media and tech.
Previously available only to advanced NYU students, this course is now open to working professionals.
The workshop with [Art] Kleiner is giving me permission to think and talk about strategic leadership.... If we are to be good stewards of the resources we control, and the power that’s been delegated to us, we ought not squander our energies on that which doesn’t work.
Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean, Andover Newton Seminary, Yale Divinity School, ”Reconsidering Strategic Thinking,” published on Medium
“Art Kleiner has a superb facilitation style; a remarkable ability to hold the space. I appreciated how he honored peoples’ requests, giving them thought and consideration, yet keeping us moving as a group through the information we all wanted to hear, know, and understand. ”
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