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AI Learning Path

Build the Skills, Strategy, and Confidence to Lead AI in Your Business

From AI-Curious to AI-Capable, Without the Detour.

A three-tier learning path that moves business principals from AI literacy to executable, AI-enabled strategy. Live online cohorts capped at 20 seats, facilitated by Larry McLean — Chief Growth Officer, McLean Forrester and Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Why an AI Learning Path?

Most AI training breaks one of two ways. Free chamber and community sessions cover the basics but stop short of anything you can act on Monday morning. Enterprise programs cost $5,000–$25,000 and assume you already have a Chief AI Officer and a multi-million-dollar data budget. Neither one fits the founder, executive, or growth leader who needs to make real AI decisions in a real business this quarter.

Our AI Learning Path was built for the gap in the middle. Three focused courses — Foundations, Application, and Strategy — that ladder together or stand alone. Each one delivered live, in small cohorts, with hands-on practice and frameworks you can put to work the same week.

Walk in AI-curious. Walk out AI-capable.

Three Courses. One Coherent Path.

Tier 1: Foundations
AI ROI for Business

Build the vocabulary, frameworks, and hands-on confidence to lead AI in your business.

Duration: 4 hours, single session

Learning Objectives

  • Why AI is urgent right now, and the foundational concepts you need to speak the language confidently (types of AI, the AI value curve, agentic AI, RPA)
  • Hands-on Claude skills using the CRAFT prompt engineering framework, so you leave able to actually put AI to work
  • Where AI delivers real ROI in your business, across customer experience, decision making, and marketing and sales
  • How to build a technology-enabled strategy with data readiness, pain point analysis, and change management (Kotter’s 8 Stages, Gleicher Formula)

The course blends education, hands-on exercises, and strategic planning — moving participants from AI awareness through practical tool use to building their own AI-enabled business strategy.

Benefits of Attending

  • You walk away with an actionable AI strategy tailored to your business, ready to put to work right away
  • Real hands-on practice with Claude during the session, so the learning sticks
  • Frameworks for managing the people side of AI adoption, which is where most efforts quietly stall
  • Small cohort (capped at 20 seats) means real Q&A and personalized attention to your situation

$249 early bird / $349 standard

Cohort 1 launch pricing in effect through May 31, 2026:
$99 early bird / $149 standard.

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Tier 2: Application
Applying AI in Your Business

Move from AI literacy to applied use inside your organization.

For Tier 1 alumni and anyone with equivalent AI foundations who is ready to do real work with AI inside their organization.

Duration: 3 hours, single session

Learning Objectives

  • How to put AI to work across the major business functions, with hands-on exercises grounded in your own organization
  • How to create AI “Projects” — segmented, collaborative spaces where AI is grounded in your business context, data, and goals
  • How to build AI-powered workflows that automate real business processes for speed, accuracy, and agility
  • How to use AI to develop simple internal applications without a traditional development cycle

The course blends education, hands-on exercises, and applied projects — moving participants from AI literacy into doing real work with AI inside their organization.

Benefits of Attending

  • You leave with working AI Projects and at least one AI-powered workflow built around your actual business
  • Real hands-on practice creating, grounding, and iterating on AI tools — not theory
  • A framework for identifying which business functions to apply AI to first, and which to leave alone
  • Small cohort (capped at 20 seats) means real Q&A and personalized attention to your situation

$299 early bird / $399 standard

Tier 3: Strategy
AI-Enabled Strategy Intensive

Build a defensible, executable AI-enabled organizational strategy.

For principals ready to build an organizational AI strategy and commit budget to real AI projects.

Duration: 6 hours, delivered as two 3-hour sessions on consecutive days

Learning Objectives

  • A modern organizational strategy framework that includes technology catalysts alongside traditional strategy drivers
  • How to systematically identify and qualify both pain points and opportunities for AI-enabled solutions within your organization
  • How to build and rank a portfolio of AI projects, with clear value propositions and ROI analysis
  • A practical understanding of project execution methodologies (waterfall and agile) and organizational change management to actually land the strategy

The course blends strategic framework, hands-on exercises, and portfolio construction — moving participants from AI literacy to a defensible, executable AI-enabled strategy.

Benefits of Attending

  • You leave with a draft AI project portfolio for your organization, rank-ordered with value propositions
  • Frameworks for both finding opportunities (not just fixing pain points) and selecting which projects deserve investment
  • A clear-eyed view of execution risk and change management, so the strategy actually gets implemented
  • Two-day format (two 3-hour sessions on consecutive days) preserves depth without burning out a full work day
  • Small cohort (capped at 20 seats) means real Q&A and personalized attention to your situation

$649 early bird / $749 standard

Build the Full Capability. Save on the Bundle.

For principals committed to building real AI capability, bundle two or three courses and save.

Practitioner Bundle

$ 499

Early Bird Pricing
Tier 1 + Tier 2

$629 Standard Pricing

Strategist Bundle

$ 799

Early Bird Pricing
Tier 1 + Tier 3

$999 Standard Pricing

Full StackBest Value

$ 999

Early Bird Pricing
All Three Tiers

$1,249 Standard Pricing

Bring the Path In-House.

Each course in the AI Learning Path can be delivered privately for your leadership team or full organization, pre-tailored to your industry, data environment, and strategic priorities. Private engagements typically range from $4,500 for a single-tier team session to $25,000+ for full-stack executive engagements.

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Your Facilitator

Larry McLean is Chief Growth Officer at McLean Forrester and a Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (McKelvey School of Engineering), where he teaches graduate courses in IT strategy, data governance, and digital transformation.

Over a 40+ year career, Larry has led digital transformation across both commercial and public sectors. He has held senior federal leadership roles including directing IT services for a U.S. Combatant Command, leading the Enterprise Data Management Office at U.S. Transportation Command, and serving as a deployed squadron commander following 9/11. In the commercial sector, he partners with organizations to design and deploy AI-enabled solutions that drive measurable process improvements, operational efficiency, and smarter decision-making.

Larry holds multiple industry certifications, including ITIL Expert, CDMP, C|CISO, and a Digital Transformation certificate from MIT.

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