The AI MasterClub for Leaders

Chidi Afulezi

Product Leader—Time Warner, CNN, Sony

Covered by the Maven Guarantee

Because figuring out AI alone is taking too long.

We are out here doing the work.Building, leading, deciding.AI has become the accelerant for all of it, and the tools are moving so fast that most of us are still figuring out how to integrate what came out months ago, let alone what dropped this week.

Forums like LinkedIn are so noisy and overstuffed with AI hype that it is hard to know what is signal and what is noise, and that is a genuinely difficult place to lead from.

If your business fundamentals are solid, AI becomes the accelerant that scales your best thinking and compounds what your organization already does well.If they are shaky, AI will make you more efficient and faster at being bad.

Knowing which one is true for you requires more than reading about AI or listening to people talk about it.

Most of what is out there on AI is heard learning: podcasts, newsletters, LinkedIn threads.Some is intellectual learning: frameworks, books, research.Both have value.

But the wisdom that actually changes how you lead is experiential, comes from doing the work yourself, in your own context, with people who push your thinking.

That's what ProductDiOxide is built for. A MasterClub unlike anything else for leadership in the age of AI.

What you’ll learn

Leave with the AI fluency, the leadership clarity, and the hands-on capability to lead your organization forward with confidence.

Evaluate where your business fundamentals stand and what AI will do to them

Work through four chapters that give you an honest read on problem discipline, discovery, and how your team actually operates

See clearly whether AI will accelerate your strengths or expose your gaps

Map how AI multiplies good habits and compounds bad habits in your organization

Build your own amplification map using patterns from your own work

Leave with a diagnostic you can use in your next leadership conversation

Build a working AI prototype grounded in a real problem you are facing

Apply vibe coding to move from idea to working prototype without writing a single line of code

Test your own assumptions about what AI can and cannot do in your organizational context

Design an agentic workflow that operates on your behalf

Build a system that handles real tasks without requiring your constant involvement

Understand what AI autonomy actually means before you greenlight it in your organization

Build an AI Skill that teaches Claude how you think and how you work

Turn your judgment and ways of working into instructions Claude can follow and repeat

Leave with a working Skill inside your own Claude Project, ready to use immediately

Develop your leadership POV on AI, built through doing, sharpened by the circle

Test your thinking against ten chapters of real work and a circle of serious peers

Leave with a point of view that is yours, built from your own context and experience

Learn directly from Chidi

Chidi Afulezi

Product coach helping leaders build better products and strong product teams.

Chidi Afulezi has spent over two decades watching organizations figure out what happens when you build without the right foundations underneath you. That observation became a body of work.

He founded redKola Digital Labs, working with senior leaders across private and public sectors on strategy, operating models, and the conditions that make value creation possible.He coaches at UC Berkeley Haas Executive Education.

His earlier career ran through Sony Music, Time Warner, and Turner, building for CNN, NBA Digital, and Cartoon Network.He created the Doing Product in Africa framework, leads the CRA Public Sector Fellowship at ALU, and chaired the 2025 Inspire Africa Conference in Kigali.

The through line across all of it: what does it actually take to build something that works?