Companion to Design Thinking Mastery

Transform Your Organization.
Discover Yourself.

A comprehensive course teaching leaders how to architect AI-native enterprises through people, process, and technology—while discovering your own leadership patterns under systemic change.

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Most AI Courses Teach the Wrong Thing

Tool training becomes obsolete. Vendor certifications create lock-in. This course teaches you to think architecturally about AI transformation.

What Others Teach

  • Tool-specific training that becomes obsolete in months
  • Vendor certifications that create dependency
  • Technical deep-dives disconnected from strategy
  • Generic frameworks that ignore organizational context

What You'll Learn Here

  • Vendor-agnostic frameworks that outlast any technology
  • Strategic architecture for organizational transformation
  • People-first approach that actually works
  • Your own leadership patterns revealed and understood

Two Tracks. One Transformation.

AI transformation reveals more about the leader than about the technology. This course teaches both.

Track A: External Work

The AI Transformation Workflow—frameworks, assessments, and deliverables for organizational change.

  • Critical Path Framework assessment
  • Strategic Triad prioritization
  • 90-day transformation roadmap

Track B: Internal Work

The Leadership Mirror—self-discovery prompts that reveal your operating patterns under systemic change.

  • Baseline leadership assessment
  • Pattern recognition reflections
  • Personal Operating Manual

8 Modules. Complete Transformation.

From diagnostic to roadmap, each module builds on the last while revealing your leadership patterns.

Module 0Free Preview· 30 minutes

The Mirror: Orientation & Baseline Assessment

Understand what this course will reveal about your organization AND yourself. Establish your baseline leadership operating patterns.

Module 1· 60-90 minutes

The Diagnostic: Tool Adoption vs. Transformation

Establish the fundamental distinction between AI tool deployment and genuine organizational transformation. Audit your current state.

Module 2· 60-90 minutes

The Strategic Foundation: People, Process, Technology

Master the strategic triad and understand why sequence matters. Most organizations get the order wrong.

Module 3· 90 minutes

The Roadmap: Critical Path Framework

Apply the four-layer Critical Path Framework to build a comprehensive AI-ready operating model.

Module 4· 60-90 minutes

The Future: Autonomous Knowledge Agents

Understand the shift from AI as assistant to AI as agent. Design for the agentic organization.

Module 5· 60-90 minutes

The Asset: Prompts as Institutional Knowledge

Recognize prompts as strategic assets. Build infrastructure for prompt management, governance, and observability.

Module 6· 60-90 minutes

The Moat: Future-Proofing AI Investments

Design vendor-agnostic, modular AI architectures that avoid obsolescence and maintain flexibility.

Module 7· 90-120 minutes

The Plan: Building Your AI Strategy Stack

Synthesize all frameworks into an actionable 90-day transformation roadmap and generate your Leadership Operating Manual.

What You'll Be Able to Do

Measurable competencies that transfer to any organization, any industry, any AI technology.

Diagnose AI readiness across people, process, and technology dimensions

Distinguish surface-level AI tool adoption from genuine organizational transformation

Apply the strategic triad with correct prioritization: people-first, process-next, technology-last

Design AI-ready processes that are machine-readable and augmentable

Build prompt infrastructure as organizational assets with governance and observability

Future-proof AI investments through vendor-agnostic, modular architecture

Lead AI transformation as change management with resistance mitigation strategies

Articulate a sequenced 90-day transformation roadmap with clear milestones

About the Author

25+ years building and scaling technology companies with multiple successful exits. Author of 'Humanity's Ledger' and a recognized thought leader in enterprise AI transformation.

Serial entrepreneur with multiple exitsChief Strategy OfficerForbes Technology Council memberMIT AI Strategy certification
Learn more at aaronvick.com →

Simple Pricing

One-time payment. Lifetime access. No subscriptions.

$297one-time

Full access to all 8 modules, AI-powered insights, artifact builders, and your Personal Leadership Operating Manual.

8 interactive modules
AI coaching assistant
Artifact builders
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