Executive AI Cohort  ·  April 7 – June 23, 2026

Anxiety to
Authority

A 12-Week Executive AI Cohort for Senior Leaders

Virtual  ·  Tuesdays at 12 PM CT  ·  10 Leaders Maximum  ·  $2,500

Apply for a Seat

You run teams. You make decisions worth millions. You have more expertise in your field than most people will accumulate in a lifetime.

And yet — behind closed doors — a lot of senior leaders are asking the same question:

"My team knows more about this than I do. How long before they figure that out?"

You're not behind. You're not slow. You're just the first generation of senior leaders who had to figure this out with no playbook, no peer group, and zero tolerance for looking uncertain in front of your teams.

That ends here.

Here's the reality.

There are two kinds of AI training out there right now.

The first kind is for early adopters who think "build your own agent" is a casual Tuesday activity. Discord servers. YouTube rabbit holes. Eighteen-year-olds who've never had a direct report in their lives telling you to "just play with it."

The second kind is corporate lunch-and-learns. Sixty slides. An IT person explaining how a large language model works. A survey at the end.

Neither of these was built for you.

You need something different. A room where you can say "I don't actually know how to use this" without it ending up in your 360 review. A room where the other people understand what it means to lead through a transition you didn't ask for, on a timeline you didn't set, in front of a team that's watching you.

That's the room we built.

12 weeks. 6 live sessions.
No tech bros.

Anxiety to Authority is a small-group cohort for senior leaders who need to get confident with AI — fast — without dumbing it down or drowning in it.

We cap it at 10. Not for marketing reasons. Because the conversations that actually change how you think about this don't happen in a webinar with 200 people on mute.

Format What That Means for You
6 live sessions, 60 minutes each No prep marathons. Show up, do the work, leave with something you can use Monday morning.
6 independent play weeks Try things on your own schedule, on your own work. Not hypothetical exercises. Real tasks.
Maximum 10 leaders You will know everyone in the room by week three. That's the point.
Full CliftonStrengths® 34 Profile Understand your unique genius. Then we build an AI setup that works with it — not against it.
1:1 Digital Bench Strategy Session A private session with Tiffany to map your top strengths to your AI workflow. The part no other program does.
Joy Prompt Club access — 12 weeks A private, judgment-free community to ask the questions you can't ask at work.
Platform-agnostic We don't care if your company uses ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini. It all works.

Where you start.
Where you end up.

The program runs in three phases.

Phase 1 · Weeks 1–3

The Walled Garden

Build your first real win. Lower the anxiety. Understand what AI is actually doing — and what it isn't.

Phase 2 · Weeks 4–7

The Leadership Pivot

Stop being a user. Start leading the transition. Learn to manage a team where some members are ahead of you — for now.

Phase 3 · Weeks 8–12

Turn It Up to 11

Build the business case. Lead a mixed team of humans and AI agents. Walk into any board conversation ready.

Twelve weeks from now, you won't be finishing something. You'll be starting something. You'll leave with custom AI agents you built — designed around your specific CliftonStrengths and how you actually lead. You'll know the difference between what deserves your attention and what's just noise. And when someone asks "What's your AI strategy?" you'll already be three moves ahead of the question. So will the nine other leaders you built it with.

Two people who've actually
been in the room.

Led by Deb Haas & Tiffany Flaming

Deb Haas

AI Confidential / Joy Prompt Club

Spent 20 years at Accenture and PwC watching brilliant people go quiet in front of new technology. Not because they couldn't do it. Because everyone kept calling it a tech problem. It's not. AI is a language tool. You've been fluent your whole career. Trained 1,700+ executives. Built AI adoption programs for global enterprises. Rebel HR veteran who believes the humans in the room are always the most interesting part.

Tiffany Flaming

Build Your Bench Coaching

15+ years designing high-performance training systems for thousands of employees. Client work includes Google, Intuit, Gap Inc., and Delta Dental. Certified CliftonStrengths® coach with 10+ years integrating the neuroscience of leadership into real workflows. Her AI system, Morgan, isn't just a writing assistant — it's architected around her exact strengths. That's what we're building for you.

This program is for you if…

You belong here

  • You're a senior leader expected to have answers about AI — and privately, you're not sure you have them yet.
  • You've sat through at least one AI presentation that made you feel more behind, not less.
  • You would never admit to your team how uncertain you actually feel about this.
  • You've tried tools on your own and it felt like homework, not progress.
  • You want to understand this well enough to lead it — not just survive it.

This isn't for you if…

  • You want a solo study course you can take long breaks from. This isn't it. We move as a cohort.
  • You're hoping AI will do the thinking so you don't have to. Wrong room.
  • You're waiting until AI "settles down" before engaging with it. That settling isn't coming.
  • You're looking for a technical deep-dive or a tool-specific certification. We don't hand those out.

By the end of this cohort,
you'll be able to:

From participants in
Deb's AI Confidential program.



"I had never really thought about using AI and was very aware that my colleagues were using it. Honestly I had no idea what or why — and more importantly, I was not really interested. My colleague told me about Deb's AI course and I signed up, not really knowing if I would show up. I decided to attend the first session, feeling like a dinosaur actually. Deb put everyone at ease straight away, her enthusiasm and passion were compelling and addictive. I was instantly hooked. I now use AI almost every day and I love it. How do you know what you don't know — I would not have signed up for a course like this because I did not know, but am I glad I did!"
— Michele, HRBP  ·  AI Confidential Founder's Cohort
"Hands down the best Zoom call I have ever been on. Deb provided a safe space and gave AI tips in a manner that anyone could use no matter their AI skill level."
— Karen K.
"Deb's energy made learning fun and the information was clear, practical, and easy to apply right away. In just one hour, I learned more than I had in months on my own."
— Anne W.
"I've seen a colleague go from worried and overwhelmed by AI to excitedly embracing it thanks to Deb's AI Confidential. We're talking someone who never used ChatGPT to pushing AI on the team meeting agenda in four short weeks."
— Marina Horner, PX Product Manager

FAQ

How much time does this actually take each week?

One hour. Every week, for 12 weeks. During live session weeks, that hour is with us. During play weeks, it's one hour of self-directed practice on your own work — not homework we assigned. If life explodes and you miss something, every session is recorded.

Can my company pay for this?

Yes — and many will. This is professional development with a direct line to your AI strategy responsibilities. See the employer sponsorship section below for language you can use.

I've sat through AI training before and it was a waste of time. Why is this different?

Because those were built for IT departments or for people who've never had a direct report. This is built for leaders who already know how to run a room. The CliftonStrengths component means the AI setup you leave with is built around you specifically — not a generic template someone else designed.

What if I'm the least tech-savvy person in the cohort?

Good. The room is deliberately mixed. The anxiety of feeling behind is exactly what this program is designed for — it's in the name. The first three weeks are built specifically to close that gap before it becomes a story you tell yourself.

What platform do we use?

Google Meet for live sessions. Joy Prompt Club for community between sessions. If you can do a video call, you're set.

What if I have to miss a session?

Every session is recorded. You won't fall behind. Real life happens — we designed for that.

Quite possibly.

This program falls squarely within professional development and leadership training — categories most organizations already fund.

Here's language you can use in an email to your manager:

What's included.
What it costs.

What's Included

  • 6 live sessions with Deb & Tiffany
  • 6 structured play weeks with real assignments
  • Full CliftonStrengths® 34 Profile
  • 1:1 Digital Bench Strategy Session with Tiffany
  • 12 weeks of Joy Prompt Club access (private cohort channel)
  • Session recordings — so real life can happen
  • ROCO prompting framework (yours to keep and teach)
  • A capstone project you can present to your board
$2,500
One-Time Investment
Apply for a Seat

Cohort limited to 10 leaders.
Introductory pilot price. April 2026.

Ten seats. One cohort.
The room you actually needed.

You run teams. You read rooms. You make calls with incomplete information and you do it every single day.

AI isn't harder than that. It's just newer.

Ready to claim your seat?

Tell us a little about where you are. We'll be in touch within 48 hours.