Skill Festival: The AI Playbook for Decision Makers

About the Festival:

Skill Festival: The AI Playbook for Decision Makers is a four-week, in-person learning and networking experience where professionals learn how to use AI, product thinking, and real-world frameworks to grow their careers. Each session is designed to be hands-on. You learn from practitioners, work on live problems, and connect with peers, mentors, and hiring managers in the industry. This is where learning meets opportunity.

Key Takeaways:

Build Your AI Decision Stack

• Structure any business problem into decision-ready inputs using tools like Claude, Perplexity, and NotebookLM
• Build prompts that go beyond surface-level answers by iterating directly with these tools
• Experiment with simple “what if” decision scenarios using decision intelligence or planning-style AI features
• Walk away with a reusable decision workflow you can plug into your own reports and dashboards

Build Your First AI Agent

• Map any workflow (reports, emails, follow-ups) into automatable steps
• Use Zapier, Make, or n8n to connect apps and build a working assistant — no coding required
• Plug in AI steps (Claude, Gemini, or other LLMs) so your agent can summarise, classify, or draft responses
• Connect inputs → processing → outputs in one session (e.g., form → AI summary → Slack or Notion)
• Walk away with a live, time-saving micro-agent you can improve over time

Simulate Better Decisions & Stakeholder Thinking with AI

• Test decisions across multiple scenarios using Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini as role-play partners
• Anticipate stakeholder objections with AI-generated perspectives for different personas (manager, client, finance, etc.)
• Use scenario-style prompts to see how choices might play out over time, not just in the next meeting
• Leave with reusable conversation and simulation templates you can run before any high-stakes discussion

Use AI to Build Your Professional Edge

• Use tools like Notion AI, Mem AI, or NotebookLM to reflect on your projects and patterns of success
• Identify where you create irreplaceable value when AI is in the loop (what only you can do)
• Build a personal positioning statement grounded in how you think, decide, and use AI at work
• Use writing helpers (Grammarly, Jasper, etc.) to polish your LinkedIn, CV, or portfolio without losing your voice

About Institute of Product Leadership:

Institute of Product Leadership (IPL) is a leading Executive Education provider that helps professionals upskill and reskill through programs that are highly experiential in nature and emphasize learning by doing. IPL designs and delivers programs in 21st-century skills like Product Management, Data Science and Analytics, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface Design, Strategy, and Leadership. Thousands of professionals have harnessed our programs to achieve their goals in career transition and Acceleration.