
Develop an ai leader mindset by building hands-on intuition with foundation models, ChatGPT, and Claude. Apply ai across finance, operations, and customer service to unlock opportunities for your team.
Upskill employees to think AI first, scale valuable AI use cases responsibly, protect data and IP, and redesign processes to unlock efficiency and innovation.
Explore how artificial intelligence and large language models underlie generative AI, powering search, recommendations, and text outputs, while distinguishing foundation models from applications like Copilot or Zoom AI.
Explore core large language model capabilities beyond simple question-and-answer, and apply the CITE framework—condensing, inferring, transformation, expansion—to generate, transform, and edit content with a human in the loop.
Demonstrate building a benefits tool from a simple Claude prompt to adjust base salary, calculate total compensation, include health insurance, 401K retirement, paid time off, and publish results.
Differentiate asking a question from scoping a task to unlock outputs. Create a SWOT analysis of Mars Food Company against its top five competitors, and present results in a table.
See how prompt expansion and contextual examples, including emojis and bold emphasis, improve email drafting with Claude, showing simple prompts and context-rich personalization for artificial intelligence for business leaders.
See an LLM use case on mobile that transforms handwritten post-it notes into a data table with a categorization layer, powered by AI and computer vision.
Use ai on your phone to get real-time feedback on your presentation opening, including pacing, hooks, facial gestures, and natural delivery, all in a pocket-friendly workflow.
Leverage AI to rapidly analyze CSV files and structured data, extract insights on customer survey responses including NPS and sentiment, and auto-generate charts and a dashboard for storytelling.
Build a custom ai assistant by merging public knowledge with your internal organizational context. Tailor it with your mission and values to boost productivity.
Edit and refine your AI strategist assistant to align new programs with the 2025 plan, mission, and success metrics, enabling leadership to refine ideas into actionable initiatives.
Experiment with personalized ai to tailor outputs to your style and context. Try designing a logo or a bedtime story to see what the tool knows about you.
Empower employees to experiment safely with AI, share failures and learnings, and form cross-functional teams to uncover new use cases and boost productivity.
Lead with guardrails and enterprise-grade tools to secure data and limit risk across the organization. Validate outputs with legal and policy teams to address hallucinations, bias, and copyright concerns.
Leadership drives AI adoption by creating hands-on space for experimentation, sharing successes and failures, and setting guardrails to address hallucinations, bias, and data security.
AI isn’t optional anymore—it’s essential. And if you’re a business leader looking to drive innovation, boost productivity, and stay competitive, this course is your starting point.
AI for Business Leaders is a hands-on, practical course made for real business skills.
Led by Helen Lee Kupp, co-founder of Women Defining AI and former strategy leader at Slack, this course will guide you through how to unlock the power of AI in your business
You’ll explore how to:
Build an AI habit for you and your team
Identify real use cases across functions—operations, marketing, finance, HR and mor
Use tools like ChatGPT and Claude to rapidly experiment and innovate
Understand when, where, and how AI creates value—and what its limits are
Create your own custom AI assistant to scale knowledge and capabilities
From writing smarter emails and transforming brainstorms into data, to analyzing customer insights and developing next-gen workflows, this course will show you how to take AI beyond the buzz.
You’ll get a mix of frameworks, demo walkthroughs, strategic advice, and tools that help you lead confidently in a fast-changing world of work.
This course is for business leaders who want to:
Get up to speed on AI basics quickly
Upskill themselves and their teams
Spark a company culture of experimentation
Move from isolated use cases to scalable AI adoption
Use AI to boost management productivity
By the end, you’ll have more than knowledge—you’ll have momentum.
About Helen
Helen Lee Kupp is the co-founder and creator of Women Defining AI, a community empowering female leaders to explore and adopt AI through collaboration and experimentation. Previously, Helen led Strategy & Analytics at Slack, scaling its growth from $75M to over $1B in ARR, and served as the Co-Founder of Future Forum, where she combined both data and her own operating experience to advise and coach Fortune 500 executives on redesigning work. She is the co-author of the WSJ Bestselling book "How The Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives," which offers leaders a practical approach for navigating the biggest changes in work.