Become the leader who directs AI, not the one it replaces.
A live, cohort-based certification that builds the judgment to use AI responsibly and make sharper, higher-stakes decisions. Not a tool tutorial. The thinking that actually matters.
This is not another "AI tools for business" tutorial. It's the judgment, responsibility, and decision-making that separate leaders who harness AI from those disrupted by it.
Built for leaders who refuse to fall behind
You can't tell hype from what's real
You keep hearing "AI will change everything" but no one shows you what actually changes strategy, operations, and real decisions, and what's just noise.
Drowning in tools, short on judgment
There's a new AI tool every week. You don't need more tools. You need the judgment to deploy them responsibly across your team and know when not to.
You decide on gut, not evidence
You want to back high-stakes decisions with data you can defend to your board and stakeholders, instead of guessing and hoping.
You'd rather lead AI than fear it
You want to confidently lead AI adoption across your organization, and be the person who sets the direction, not the one scrambling to catch up.
Three pillars. Real capability.
Each module ends with something you can actually do, not just notes you'll forget.
Demystifying AI
What AI genuinely can and cannot do, how it works under the hood (no maths required), and how to spot risk, bias, and responsible-use boundaries.
Week 1AI Fundamentals: From Hype to Strategic Imperative
- What AI really is: the spectrum and the four functional modes
- Why AI fluency is a leadership imperative: the 4D framework
- History and the AI winters: lessons of the sixth revolution
- Separating hype from reality: evaluating any AI claim in 3 steps
- How AI works: four ways machines learn, and why LLMs lie
- What AI does brilliantly, and what it cannot do
Week 2Leading with AI: From Understanding to Strategic Action
- AI and the future of work: five ways AI changes a role
- Building an AI-ready organisation and the human skills imperative
- Psychology and the human-AI relationship: technostress, healthy use
- Ethics, governance and responsibility, including the EU AI Act
- The AI tool landscape, and piloting tools systematically
- Stakeholders and strategic frameworks: the leader as AI strategy champion
Advanced Prompting & Context Engineering
Move past one-line prompts. Learn to give AI the context, structure, and guardrails to produce work you'd actually trust in a leadership setting.
Week 3Prompting Foundations: Understanding the Machine
- What AI really is, and how it thinks: meaning as mathematics
- When AI gets it wrong, and why confidence is not accuracy
- Your first prompt: the 3 C's, and the 10 most common prompting mistakes
- The anatomy of a great prompt: five components, five jobs
- Choosing the right prompt type, and the hidden dials of AI output
Week 4Core Prompting Techniques to Mastery
- Few-shot prompting: show, don't just tell
- Chain-of-thought: reason, don't just respond
- The iteration loop, and prompt chaining for multi-step workflows
- Ethical prompting: bias, fairness, responsibility
- Building your prompt library, and the agentic future
Week 5Context Engineering: Projects Bigger Than the Chat
- The AI's desk: how context and memory really work
- How long projects break, and the one big idea: you are the memory
- The source-of-truth document: what goes in, what stays out
- Progress logs and handoff notes
- Slicing the work along natural seams, and the briefing packet
Week 6Staying on Track & Real Projects
- Rolling summaries: summarizing as you go
- Spotting and fixing drift: the alarm, the reset, the check
- Prompts that keep memory honest
- Four real-project playbooks, one shape
- Templates, the starter checklist, and the full toolkit
Data-Driven Decision-Making
Turn data into confident calls. Learn frameworks to weigh evidence, cut through the noise, and decide under uncertainty, with AI as your always-on analyst.
Week 7Turning Numbers Into Better Decisions
- What data is, and why a leader should care
- Frameworks for better decisions: start from the decision, not the dashboard
- A plain-language primer on statistics
- Building a data-capable organisation and a data culture
- Where data comes from: one chain of logic worth memorizing
Week 8Seeing, Understanding & Forecasting Under Uncertainty
- Data visualization and storytelling
- The three faces of data analysis
- Correlation is not causation, and when the aggregate number lies
- Time series analysis and forecasting
- Causal inference, experimentation, and deciding under uncertainty
Week 9Technology, Ethics & Your Action Plan
- Data infrastructure, demystified
- Data ethics: the leader's responsibility
- Generative AI and decision intelligence
- Your DDDM action plan: two practices you will keep
- The full arc of data-driven decision-making
Your companion library
Four digital books, yours to keep for life.
A credential that signals real capability
- What AI can actually do, separating genuine capability from hype.
- How to use it responsibly, with ethics, bias, and risk in mind.
- How to decide with it, using data and AI to make better calls.
- How to communicate with AI, getting trustworthy, usable results.
These are the differences in how you manage, lead, and run an organization.
12 weeks. Live. Personal.
Weeks 1 to 9 · Group Learning
Weekly 2-hour live VILT sessions across all three modules, with discussion and hands-on practice.
Weeks 10 to 12 · Individual Project
Three private 1-on-1 coaching sessions where you apply everything to a real project, guided by your coach.
Certification
Pass the project and assessment to earn the Completion Certificate; receive an attendance certificate otherwise.
Next cohort · dates announced soon
Live online sessions. Enroll to reserve your seat and we will confirm the full schedule with you.
Mohammad Sadiqur Rahman
Mohammad Sadiqur Rahman is a growth coach for leaders, business owners, HR professionals, and L&D practitioners. Across 12+ years in management, strategy, AI, and data science, he has led teams and guided organizations on turning new capability into real results.
He has worked intensively on computer vision and sentiment analysis projects and built agentic-AI automation solutions. So he teaches AI from the inside, not from the headlines, with a focus on judgment and responsible use rather than chasing the latest tool.
His mission, and XpoThrive's reason for being, lives in one phrase: let's thrive exponentially. He sets out to transform people so deeply that they go on to transform others, creating an exponential ripple of thriving for everyone they reach.
- Deputy Managing Director, Apex DMIT. Former Chief Strategy Officer & VP of Data Science, Kazi IT.
- Certified AI Trainer (AICT), with hands-on AI work in computer vision, sentiment analysis, and agentic automation.
- MBA in Finance (University of Dhaka) · ACMP 4.0 (IBA, DU).
- Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB) · Certified ExO Foundation.
What changes after this
Decide faster, with evidence
Replace gut-feel calls with data-backed decisions you can defend to your board and stakeholders.
Reclaim hours from busywork
Delegate repetitive work to AI, responsibly, and redirect your time to strategy and leadership.
Lead AI adoption responsibly
Become the person who shapes how your organization uses AI, safely and ethically.
Stand out with a credential
Signal to your organization and peers that you're an AI-fluent leader.
You don't just take a course. You join a community.
Every enrollment includes access to the XpoThrive Community, where you keep learning, networking, and growing long after the last session ends.
Ask questions, get answers
Stuck on something? Post it and get help from peers and the XpoThrive team.
Join the discussion
Reply to others, share what's working, and learn from real problems, not just theory.
Network with peers
Connect with leaders, HR professionals, and business owners on the same journey.
Help others thrive
Share your experience and lift others up. Growth is bigger when it's shared.
Earn Thrive Points
Get recognized for asking, answering, and contributing. Every helpful action counts.
Become a Top Thriver
Climb the leaderboard and earn Thriver of the Month and Thriver of the Year recognition.
Thrive Points & the monthly leaderboard
Contribute, help others, and rise up the ranks. Top Thrivers are celebrated every month and every year.
One price. Everything included.
- 9 weeks of live VILT group sessions (2 hrs each)
- 3 private 1-on-1 project coaching sessions
- All course materials and resources
- 4 digital companion books
- XpoThrive Community membership
- Completion Certificate (on passing)
Questions, answered
Who is this certification for?
How do I know my current stage of AI fluency?
Do I need a technical or data background?
Is this just training on ChatGPT and AI tools?
What language is the training delivered in?
What if I miss a live session?
What is the difference between the Completion and Attendance certificate?
What is the time commitment?
How do the 3 one-on-one sessions actually help me?
What is your refund or transfer policy?
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