AI for Leaders

AI extends your thinking. You remain the author.

Eight weeks · One-to-one · One 90-minute session a week · In English or Spanish

When did you last have a chance to think a decision through?

I teach people to work with AI. How someone works with it shows the same patterns as how they decide under pressure: what they ask for, what they settle for, what they leave out. That is where I work.

AI for Leaders is eight weeks of working with me, one-to-one, for people who lead teams or companies. It starts on day one with your real decisions and projects.

This is for you if

  • Important decisions keep piling up, and you have less and less time to think them through.

  • You use AI to get by, an email here, a summary there, and suspect you’re missing something much bigger.

  • You have a project, or a decision, that has been waiting a long time and won’t quite move.

How it works

Learning the tool is easy. How far someone gets with AI depends on something else: how clear they are about where they want to go, how much of themselves they bring into the conversation, what they dare to ask for and what they settle for. I learned this from Danny Iny, I’ve tested it on myself, and I see it in every edition.

From the first session, we work on what you actually have on your plate. The first four weeks build the foundation: how to direct AI from your own judgement, and, with it, a portrait of how you think and decide, based on seven dimensions of self-knowledge, so that it works with you and not with an average person.

The second four weeks follow your own challenges. I’m beside you while you work with AI. I see how you express yourself with it, what you ask for and what you don’t dare to ask, what you decide, what you put off, what you leave out. That is what we work on, in the moment it shows up.

I work through my own hardest decisions this way. Projects of mine that had been stuck for a long time moved once I learned to think them through with AI, and I don’t believe they would have moved otherwise.

The starting point is the same as in the course AI for Conscious Creators. The course follows a shared path over four sessions; here the path is set by your own decisions, over eight weeks, with me beside you while you work.

You finish with an AI that already works with how you think, and able to take it into any new challenge without depending on anyone. Not even me.

The practical side

  • A one-hour setup session before we start, then one live 90-minute session each week for eight weeks, on Zoom. In English or Spanish.

  • Between sessions, you work with prompts I design for you, always on your own work. Plan on at least an hour a day. Much of that time isn’t extra: it’s your own work, done with AI.

  • Direct WhatsApp with me between sessions, with replies within 24 hours on working days.

  • A consolidation session one month after we finish.

  • We work with Claude, by Anthropic, and what you learn also applies to other AI tools. The Claude Pro subscription is separate, and you pay Anthropic directly.

  • Everything we work on is confidential. In the first session we review what you can share with AI under your company’s policy.

  • We work on your professional challenges and on what holds them back. This isn’t therapy, nor a substitute for it.

Price

€3,600 for the eight weeks, everything included. Further sessions afterwards, €300 each. Invoiced to you or to your company. Not subject to VAT.

About me

Maria Galli

For more than twenty years I’ve kept returning to the same question: what really moves us when we can’t see what moves us. I approached it first as an experimental researcher. I did my PhD at INSEAD, specialising in nonconscious associative learning, and published in the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology, where my 2011 article received the award for the best article published in the journal that year.

Those two decades also showed me where the lab stops: knowing why a pattern forms doesn’t tell you how it moves. So I kept training (and still do), above all in understanding what keeps a person stuck and what gets them moving again. I’ve walked that path myself first, so I know it from the inside. Among my trainings, I’d highlight the 350-hour Compassionate Inquiry® Professional Online Training.

I’ve been teaching for more than twenty years and have lived and worked on three continents. I held faculty positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and today I’m an Academic Collaborator at Esade, where I teach, among other courses, Evidence-Based Decision Making and The Action Gap, on why people who know exactly what to do still don’t do it. The AI programme behind this work is now in its fifth edition.

The method

I learned the core method behind my AI work from Danny Iny, author of AI Curious. On that foundation I built my own approach, drawing on my years of research into human behaviour and of working with people. The self-knowledge work draws on Tasha Eurich’s seven dimensions.

Let’s talk

If you’re responsible for developing leaders in your organisation and want to offer this to several people, write to me. I’ll adapt it to your company’s context and invoice the company.

A 20-minute conversation to see whether this is what you need. If it isn’t a fit, I’ll tell you.