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LDR-401

Leading Engineering in the AI Era

An eight-week program for engineering leaders making real organizational decisions about AI: what to build, who to hire, where to invest, what to refuse.

LDR-401 — Leading Engineering in the AI Era
ABOUT THIS COURSE

What you will learn.

The senior engineers and engineering managers we work with are being asked harder questions every quarter. Should we fine-tune? Should we build a platform team? What do we owe our regulated customers? When is the agent a feature versus a product? Who do we hire and what for? The answers are not in a blog post.

This is an eight-week leadership program for engineering managers, directors, and staff-plus ICs in technical-leadership roles. It is a small cohort by design — twenty seats — and the format is heavier on writing and discussion than on code. We cover organizational design for AI work, capability planning, hiring and growing AI engineers, cost and platform decisions, risk and regulatory posture, communicating quality and uncertainty up the chain, and the leadership disciplines required to keep an AI org honest. The capstone is a substantial written work — your own AI strategy memo — that the instructor and your cohort review.

This is our most expensive course because it is the smallest, the longest, and the one where the writing requires the most instructor time. It is also the one most often paid for by employers.

WHAT YOU’LL BUILD

Four substantial projects.

Project 01

Your AI strategy memo

Write a substantial strategy document for your real organization, reviewed by the instructor and cohort.

Project 02

An organizational design proposal

Propose a team structure for AI work in a defined org, with hiring, reporting, and platform decisions defended.

Project 03

A capability ladder for AI engineers

Build a career ladder that names the AI-engineer skills you actually expect at each level.

Project 04

A risk-and-regulatory posture

Draft a posture document a board could read and trust.

CURRICULUM

Week by week.

FIT

Who this is for — and who it is not.

For you if

  • Engineering managers, directors, and VPs leading AI work.
  • Staff and principal engineers whose role is increasingly leadership.
  • Founders building AI-first technical teams.

Probably not for you if

  • Senior engineers with no leadership component to their role.
  • People looking for a technical deep dive — this is leadership work.
  • Anyone unwilling to do real writing — this is a writing-heavy cohort.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Taught by an operator.

VP Engineering

Adaeze Okonkwo

Adaeze ran a 240-engineer organization at Meta covering ads infrastructure, and before that held leadership roles at Microsoft and a series of growth-stage startups. She teaches the technical-leadership cohort and serves as the final reviewer on capstone projects across the school. Her thesis: the senior engineers who succeed in the LLM era will not be the ones who memorize the latest paper, but the ones who can run a calm postmortem.

FAQ

Questions we’re asked often.

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Leading Engineering in the AI Era

$2,800

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