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Build the skills to apply AI to your real projects starting this week.

CEO @ Projects Right

Microsoft

Amazon

Chevron

McKesson

Medtronic

Justin Bateh, PhD

Top Recognized Maven Instructor |  200+ alumni | 8x Teaching Awards 

Cohort 8

Cohort 9

Half your week disappears into updates, status reports, follow-ups, and coordination that AI should be handling for you.You're not behind. You're just missing the system.🔧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 Framework In 4 weeks, go from AI-curious to using AI on your real projects every day. You'll use the proven User → Builder → Designer → Operator model on your real projects. No coding. No fluff.🤖 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗹𝗹 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 AI agents &amp; agentic workflows that handle your status reports, flag risks, and keep follow-ups moving.💰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 &amp; 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱 Same frameworks taught in $7,000+/day corporate engagements. Built from 80+ real projects. Earn 21 PDUs toward PMI renewal ($600+ value).🏢 𝟮𝟬𝟬+ 𝗔𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 From Microsoft, Amazon, Medtronic, and Chevron. They stopped drowning in admin and started using AI on real projects.The ones who move now will lead what comes next.*This is an applied course that teaches how to use AI as a project manager, not how to build AI systems. The focus is practical application: prompting, agents, workflows, automation, and agentic systems you can deploy on real projects. It is not a technical AI, systems engineering, or machine learning course.

Maven's #1 Applied AI for Project Management Course | 200+ alumni | 4.8 Rating

How to Start Using AI on Real Projects This Week

 How to Get AI Doing Real  Project Management Work

How to Build Project Workflows That Don't Fall Apart

How To Use Agentic AI To Automate Project Work

How to Turn This Course Into Career Momentum

How to Apply Everything to Real Work, Real Teams, Real Deadlines

This is a practical course. You don't need coding skills or AI experience. Just a laptop and willingness to learn.

No Technical Background Needed

You should be managing or contributing to projects at work. This course builds AI skills on top of PM fundamentals.

Basic Familiarity With Project Management


Every week includes hands-on exercises. You'll get the most out of this course by building, not just watching.

Willingness to Learn by Doing

Project &amp; Program Managers You're drowning in updates and chasing people. This gives you agents that do that work for you every week.

Directors &amp; Operations Leaders You're accountable for delivery across teams. This gives you AI tools that surface what matters fast.

Accidental PMs You don't have the PM title, but you manage projects without formal tools. This gives you the AI skills to lead them.

Enhance your skills in aligning localization with business goals, influencing stakeholders, and delivering strategic international growth.

International Growth Advisor

Dropbox

Nitro Software

Kevin O'Donnell

Cohort 7

Why it matters: Localization leaders are stuck executing requests instead of driving strategy. Executives see localization as overhead, not opportunity. This certification teaches you to reposition your work as essential to growth and secure the resources and influence you need. What you'll accomplish In this 4-week intensive program, you'll create a complete strategic roadmap for 2026:<ul><li>Build a compelling business case that positions localization as strategic growth</li><li>Design stakeholder engagement strategies that create cross-functional buy-in</li><li>Develop ROI frameworks that go beyond "words translated" or "hours saved"</li><li>Practice executive communication that earns you a seat at the strategy table</li></ul>Who this is for Localization managers and directors at growth-stage companies who are ready to transform from tactical execution to strategic leadership. How it works<ul><li>3 live cohort sessions (2 hours each, Thursdays 4pm GMT)</li><li>2 private 1-1 strategy sessions (30 minutes each, scheduled weeks 4-6)</li><li>Small cohorts (8-12 participants) for personalized attention</li><li>Complete Strategic Goal Canvas delivered by week 4 (ready to present to leadership)</li></ul>

Transform localization from cost center to strategic growth driver

Build a business case that positions localization as a strategic growth driver

Map stakeholder motivations and build cross-functional coalitions

Develop your strategic roadmap with clear prioritization

Design measurement frameworks that drive impact

Build a strategic localization playbook your organization can execute

Localization leaders who want to increase their strategic influence &amp; impact among senior leaders.

Ambitious localization individual contributors who want to accelerate their career and deepen their expertise in localization strategy.

Product Managers and Marketers who want to develop strategies to drive international product growth.

Learn how to redesign your BA workflow so AI increases your speed while preserving traceability, judgment, and risk control.

BA-Cube Founder | LinkedIn Instructor

Angela Wick

25+ years practicing, shaping, and teaching analysis, product, and requirements.

AI-Accelerated Business Analysis

AI makes Business Analysis faster. It does not automatically make it better!AI is evolving fast, and so are the analysis practices we need to keep up with.In an AI age, business analysis needs to balance speed and discipline. You need the skills to ensure you are not using AI just for speed while sacrificing the structure and discipline needed to get impactful results!Without structure, AI-assisted work introduces:<ul><li>Hidden logic gaps</li><li>Overconfidence bias</li><li>Loss of traceability</li><li>Increased risk of downstream defects</li></ul>This course shows you how to integrate AI into your everyday analysis work deliberately and safely. We will dive deep into AI to augment your analysis capabilities, increase your speed, and ensure your quality and value are not sacrificed.This is not a prompt class.This is a AI-enabled Business Analysis accelerator. Build the skills to evolve continuously as AI evolves and keep your business analysis practices evolving as well.This course does not provide a set of tools or processes; we acknowledge that AI is changing rapidly, and we focus on skills to leverage AI so that you can evolve more easily as AI and your organization evolves.

Accelerate Your Bus Analysis With AI Without Sacrificing Quality/Accountability

Discover how AI can help with analysis tasks

AI as your analysis assisstant

Validate and QA AI-generated analysis outputs

Explore a variety of common and specialized AI tools as they perform anaysis

Practicing Business Analysts using AI in their daily work

Senior BAs looking to modernize their workflow

Consultants who need defensible AI-assisted outputs

Understand why AI raises the bar for BAs, define role value in an AI context, and describe your role and value to others.

The Business Analyst Role in the Age of AI

Everyone's role is changing, especially in software and projects. AI is seemingly collapsing roles, or is it changing the roles and tasks? AI introduces ambiguity, probabilistic behavior, and continuous decision-making into systems designed for certainty. This course exists to answer a foundational question:What is the Business Analyst responsible for when AI changes how work gets done, and what analysis is needed for AI projects and AI Agents?This course focuses on role clarity. You will examine how AI changes productivity expectations, teaming, and the SDLC, and analysis tasks needed for AI projects, integration/automation, and Agentic AI.This course is designed to reshape how you think about your role before you learn execution mechanics.

Reframing the BA role for AI-enabled organizations

Why AI increases the need for business analysis rather than reducing it

Which BA tasks AI can take over and which responsibilities cannot be automated

Common role collapse patterns in AI initiatives

How AI breaks phase-based SDLC thinking

How to explain BA value as integration, judgment, and accountability

Business Analysts, Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, Systems Analysts, Business Process Analysts, and similar roles.

BA Leaders redefining roles for AI-enabled teams

Professionals pulled into AI initiatives without clear accountability

Students will learn the AI literacy to evaluate AI ideas, surface risk, and make sound judgments without becoming technical specialists.

AI Literacy for Business Analysts

AI risk often comes from poor assumptions about what AI can and cannot do. It also comes from poor analysis and organizational dynamics of leaders asking for solutions and pressuring teams to deliver solutions rather than solving real problems.Analysis professionals have a huge role in this dynamic that can change everything!Analysts are increasingly expected to participate in AI decisions, yet most training focuses on tools or stays abstract. This course fills the gap in understanding AI capabilities: Not from a technical point of view, rather a capability point of view; business uses and patterns of functional usage.You will build a grounded understanding of AI capabilities, limits, patterns, and failure modes, and learn how requirements shift toward hypotheses, experiments, and continuous outcomes in AI-enabled work.This course explores the skills of:🎯 Identifying the right AI use cases for specific business scenarios🎯 Distinguishing between deterministic and probabilistic systems and deciding where each should be applied in a workflow🎯 Questioning and communicating AI use case fit and risks—and defining clear hypotheses for AI solutions

Giving BAs AI Literacy to Understand, Evaluate and be Accountable for AI 

Major AI capability types and their appropriate uses

GenerativeAI is just one piece of AI, and much more than "chat".

What AI is good at and where it fails

Generative AI and its Data Sources (Public vs. Private)

How requirements shift to hypotheses and experiments

Where humans must remain accountable in AI-enabled systems

Analysts, Project Managers, Business Leaders and others involved in AI discussions or initiatives

Analysis Leaders responsible for AI-related risk

Analysts who want confidence without pretending technical expertise

You were promoted for your work. Now lead your people. Learn to set expectations, give feedback, and influence in every direction.

Strategic Advisor & Leadership Coach 

Lisa Friscia

Fractional Chief People Officer, Coach and Start Up Mentor & Advisor

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

Most managers don't fail because they don't care. They fail because they can't communicate clearly — and no one ever taught them how.When decisions unravel, projects stall, or trust breaks down, the root cause is almost always the same: unclear expectations, fuzzy feedback, or conversations that never happened. Your team is looking to you for direction. Your boss is expecting results. And somehow you're supposed to translate between both — in real time, under pressure, with no playbook.This isn't a skills gap. It's a design gap. Most managers were promoted because they were great at the work — not because anyone prepared them to lead people through ambiguity, conflict, or change.This course changes that. In three live, hands-on sessions, you'll build a practical, repeatable approach to communicating with clarity — with your team, your peers, and your leadership. And because clarity doesn't stop at the end of the session, you'll also leave with AI prompts and tools you can use on the job to prepare for hard conversations, sharpen your feedback, and communicate with more confidence every day.Stop improvising. Start leading with a system that actually works.

Lead with clarity, give feedback that sticks, and build trust in every direction

Define your leadership lens

Set expectations that actually hold

Have the conversations that actually matter

Lead up, across, and through change

Use AI to communicate faster and more effectively 

Mid-level leaders who are struggling to balance coaching, feedback, and executing

Team and project leads that are balancing managing up, down and sideways

People managers who want actionable strategies and targeted support in communicating through change and uncertainty

Learn how to redesign end-to-end processes so AI strengthens your organization instead of fragmenting it.


AI-Enabled Systems & Process Design

Most AI initiatives focus on tools and tasks.Few redesign the process and/or system.When AI is inserted into broken or unclear processes, the result is:<ul><li>More exceptions</li><li>Hidden ownership gaps</li><li>Unclear escalation</li><li>Fragile automation</li><li>Accountability confusion</li><li>Scaling nightmares</li></ul>This means increased cost and unhappy customers!AI changes how systems behave. We must design coherent processes with the end-to-end in mind.That means intentionally aligning:<ul><li>Users and their scenarios</li><li>User experience and workflows</li><li>Business rules and policies</li><li>Data flows</li><li>AI guidance, guardrails, governance, and performance measures</li></ul>Business analysis is the skill set, mindset, and discipline that brings all of these elements together—integrating them into coherent solutions that deliver real business value.

Design AI-Enabled Business Systems That Actually Work

Differentiate embedded AI, automation, and agentic AI in end-to-end processes.

Analyze an end-to-end business process that includes AI components

Clarify ownership and decision accountability

Define, Design, and Build human checkpoints into AI workflows

Facilitate decisions about AI in the organization

Senior Business Analysts / Lead BAs

Product and Transformation Leads / BA Consultants

BA Managers modernizing delivery models

Same workplace. Fewer arguments. Better outcomes.

Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher

Dr Mansoor Soomro

Cohort 4

Workplace conflict isn’t just uncomfortable- it can drag down team morale, slow execution, and erode trust. This power-packed 2-hour masterclass is part of the No-Nonsense Leadership Series, hosted by Dr. Mansoor Soomro exclusively on Maven.Designed for busy executives and managers, this series focuses on solving real, pressing workplace challenges in bite size sessions, of-course without fluff. This masterclass session teaches how to identify, understand, and resolve the three most common workplace conflicts:1) Task conflict2) Process conflict3) Ego conflict Here’s how the session is structured for maximum impact:60mins: Learn practical conflict-resolution models to identify and address the real issue.60mins: Apply those models to real workplace scenarios and turn theory into action. Result? 120 minutes of sheer applied learning. And yes, no pre-work, no home-work. Just show up, jump in, and learn by doing. ✓ Course Satisfaction Guarantee: If the session didn’t add value for you, you’re eligible for a refund under Maven’s refund policy.

Workplace drama? Let’s fix it!

Session 1: Resolving Task Conflict- When the What Goes Wrong

Session 2: Resolving Process Conflict- When the How Breaks Down

Session 3: Resolving Ego Conflict- When It Gets Personal

Team leads, managers, and people leaders

Project owners navigating cross-functional friction

Anyone who wants to handle conflict with clarity and confidence

Learn how to define task autonomy, decision thresholds, guardrails, and human override in agent-enabled systems.

Agentic AI Skills for Business Analysts

Agentic AI changes the game because AI can autonomously act. It can initiate actions, make decisions, and operate across workflows with increasing autonomy. Risk escalates, and so does opportunity! Without deliberate, disciplined, and structured analysis, agents act on incomplete logic, unclear boundaries, and undefined escalation paths. That is where exposure multiplies. This course matters because Business Analysts are uniquely positioned to define autonomy limits, decision thresholds, guardrails, and monitoring structures before agents scale. It equips you to design control into autonomy, so AI-driven systems remain accountable, coherent, and aligned with business intent rather than becoming fragile at scale.AI is moving beyond assistance. Agents can:<ul><li>Initiate actions on their own</li><li>Make decisions</li><li>Trigger workflows</li><li>Operate continuously</li></ul>This changes the role of Business Analysis.When agents act without clearly defined:<ul><li>Goals</li><li>Boundaries</li><li>Escalation rules</li><li>Monitoring thresholds</li></ul>Organizations lose control.This course teaches how to design and govern agent behavior responsibly.

Prioritize, Define, Design, and Govern AI Agents and Agentic Systems

Distinguish Between Automation, Copilots, and True Agents

Decompose Tasks for Autonomous or Semi-autonomous Execution

Define Agent Goals, Success Criteria, and Measurements

Define/Design Multi-Agent Orchestration

Design Human Override and Intervention Paths

Participate in Ongoing Evaluation of Agent Performance

Senior and Principal Business Analysts/BA Leaders

Consultants advising on AI transformation

This course helps you return to the leader you already are, the one you’ve been overlooking.

Identity-First Leadership Coach

Jen Werner

Leadership Coach | Strengths Nerd | Helping Leaders Lead Their Way

Founding Cohort

2-Summer

Most managers think their leadership struggles mean they’re missing a skill. So they work harder, try new tactics, mimic leaders they admire… and still feel off. Most leadership programs tell you what to do. This one helps you understand why you do what you do - and how to lead from the truth underneath it.The real issue isn’t ability. It’s that you’ve been leading in ways that don’t match who you are. And when you’re out of sync with yourself, things that should feel natural start to feel strained. Your greatest leadership strength is often the part of you you’ve been overlooking.This course gives you a place to stop performing and return to the leader you actually are. No scripts. No templates. No more “be like them.”You’ll finally name what’s been feeling off, see patterns you couldn’t see on your own, and feel the relief of understanding how your natural motivation shapes your impact. And you’ll learn to lead in a way that feels steadier, clearer, and more like you.This isn’t leadership improvement. It’s leadership alignment - and once you feel what alignment actually feels like, you won’t settle for performing ever again.

Build a leadership style that fits and is sustainable. Lead, your way.

See Yourself Clearly as a Leader 

Define What Drives You (Your Leadership Fuel)

Turn Awareness Into Daily Leadership Habits

Build a Healthier, More Engaged Team Experience

Create a 30-Day Leadership Plan That Fits You

If you’ve ever wondered why you lead the way you do, you’re ready for this course.

Curiosity About Your Leadership

No special skills or tools needed, just an openness to seeing what your leadership creates.

Willingness to Explore Your Impact

It's not about getting it ‘right.’ It’s about trying new behaviors and noticing what feels more aligned.

A Growth Mindset, Not Perfection

Manager/Mid Manager – You look steady on the outside but inside you’re drained, reactive, and wondering why leadership still feels heavy.

Team Lead/Project Manager – You carry leader-level responsibility without the authority and this imbalance is getting harder to ignore.

Newly Promoted IC – You’ve always been the dependable one, and now leading people brings new expectations no one ever actually explained.

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