Since launching my second book, The HUMAN Agentic AI Edge, earlier this year, leaders have been sharing a common challenge with me. They are being asked to drive AI adoption across their teams and organizations, and they are struggling with the complexity surrounding it. Whether it is their team members’ fears and concerns about job loss (or their own!), being flooded with low-quality results (AI slop), or the unknown unknowns of what AI can do, there are plenty of reasons that stall AI initiatives and that diminish the tangible business value organizations could achieve.
But what if you didn’t have to read another management book to get the insights? What if you could learn with and from peers who are in a similar situation as yourself?
That is why I have created my latest course, Leading AI-Ready Teams with the HUMAN Agentic AI Edge, now available on Maven.com.
But before writing the first learning objective or script, I asked myself the question anyone working on AI projects should be asking: “What value do I create and where in the process do I create it?” (Read that again.) To me, the answer lies in the insights, guidance, and feedback I can provide to your specific questions. The content and foundation, based on the book, are the same for everyone. So what if the value was not in the scripted videos, but in live office hours sessions based on the videos?
This article provides an overview of the course and the production process, using AI tools and agents from start to finish. (Below is a sample video.)
Most teams are producing more with AI and trusting it less. Drafts pile up, ownership blurs, and "good" becomes whatever ships. The hard part is leading how people use AI tools and agents. In this cohort course, business and technology leaders apply a practical system for building AI-ready teams that move fast without sacrificing quality or accountability.
Across three working sessions, you will set clear standards for when and how to use AI, decide what to delegate to agents and what stays with people, build accountability into everyday work, and run the change so adoption sticks. You will leave with a team operating model you can put to work the next morning.
Lead a team that uses Agentic AI fast, with the standards, accountability, and readiness to keep quality high:
Set clear standards for when and how your team uses AI
Answer when to use AI, which tools, and what “good” looks like, so everyone works to one shared bar.
Decide what to delegate to AI agents and what stays with people
Use a simple list-filter-shortlist method and clear criteria to pick the right work for an agent, and keep human judgment where it matters.
Build a complete, accountable AI agent using the six-dimension Operating Model
Specify an agent’s role, knowledge, rules, rewards, collaboration, and organization, with a named human owner and stakes-matched review.
What you can expect:
50 videos across 5 modules (60 minutes per week)
3 live sessions (60 minutes each) with Andreas to answer your questions
1 copy of The HUMAN Agentic AI Edge audiobook
The first cohort is limited to 30 learners and kicks off on September 16, 2026.
Join for $699 and receive 20% off until August 14.
AI has improved so much as a general-purpose technology in recent years that it is not always easy to comprehend the progress or even realize it in the moment. AI avatars have existed for a while now, and so have voice clones. Recently, AI-enabled editing tools (e.g., Hyperframes) have been receiving a lot of attention as well. So, I started with a simple question: Could I deliver a complete, polished online course using my likeness, voice, didactic style, and familiar branding by combining these individual building blocks?
Prerequisites:
Voice and tone based on previous work in Claude Cowork
Design system incl. colors and fonts in Claude Design
Voice clone in ElevenLabs
Avatar of your likeness in HeyGen
Production workflow and course build:
Draft the table of contents and learning objectives per video in Claude Cowork based on the book manuscript
Draft the script and storyboard for each video in Claude Cowork based on the table of contents
Generate the talking-head video for each video in the course in HeyGen, combining the script, avatar, and voice clone
Add AI-generated animations to each video using the design system with Hyperframes in Claude Code
Create the course on Maven.com based on the learning objectives and target audience using Claude in Chrome plugin
I reviewed and adjusted the output of each step before continuing with the next. Individual flaws, such as the avatar looking down instead of keeping eye contact or tell-tale AI phrasing, compound quickly. Skipping a review increases the risk of creating exactly the kind of low-quality AI-generated output learners will be prepared to prevent, diminishing the learning experience.
Leaders are being asked to drive AI adoption across their organization without receiving the proper tools and frameworks to do it. My latest course on Maven.com, Leading AI-Ready Teams with the HUMAN Agentic AI Edge, addresses this gap. Through 5 modules of video-based lessons and live online office hours, this approach combines a baseline of information with access to top AI leadership insights.
After using AI avatars and voice clones for a while now, I wanted to take AI-supported editing to the test and apply what countless online tutorials make seem effortless in a real production workflow. (Each prerequisite and each step of the production workflow deserves its own tutorial.) The result is a polished, complete online course that teaches business leaders the practical approaches to empowering and enabling their teams to use AI without creating low-quality results.
Equip your team with the knowledge and skills to leverage Agentic AI effectively. Book a keynote or workshop to accelerate your company’s Agentic AI adoption.
Join my bi-weekly live stream and podcast for leaders and hands-on practitioners. Each episode features a different guest who shares their AI journey and actionable insights. Learn from your peers how you can lead artificial intelligence, generative AI, agentic AI, and automation in business with confidence.
August 04 - Grant Ecker (Founder & CEO of Chief Architect Network) will share how IT executives can prepare their technology stack for agentic transactions and volume.
August 18 - Michael Carroll (Fellow at LNS Research) will share how to adapt traditional approaches for AI agents to recommend and buy your product.
September 01 - Christina Fischer (Principal AI Consultant at Human Pattern Works) will discuss how to establish a neuro-inclusive AI playbook. [More details to follow on my LinkedIn profile…]
Listen wherever you get your Podcasts
Join me or say hello at these sessions and appearances over the coming weeks:
June/ July - Appearance on the Triple Win Leadership podcast.
October 07 - Hosting O’Reilly’s AI Superstream, Securing Agentic Systems: Safeguard the next generation of AI agents live show.
October 20-21 - Technology Sourcing in Chicago, IL.
October 26-28 - Gartner HR Symposium/ XPo in Orlando, FL.
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Together, let’s turn hype into outcome. 👍🏻
—Andreas
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