Data Product Mastery

How to Build a Data Career That AI Won’t Replace

The Wall Street Journal

Johnson & Johnson

Nestlé

Roche

TE Connectivity

Elena Alikhachkina

4x Chief Data & AI, Fortune 500, hired and lead 500+ people teams

Understand what is actually breaking in data roles, and what is quietly becoming more valuable

Why “Careers in Data Are Dead” Is the Wrong Diagnosis

Learn how roles are shifting from execution to product thinking, influence, and decision intelligence

The New Career Operating System for Data & AI Professionals

Practical moves you can make in the next 90 days and in 2026 to stay relevant, visible, and in demand.

How to Start Recoding Your Career Without Burning It Down

Stop being the “number explainer.” Build the stories, systems, and credibility to lead with clarity and confidence in the age of AI.

Data & AI Leader, 19yrs of scaling data

Pier Martin

 Data & AI leader with 19+ years scaling global teams, Executive coach 

Cohort 6

Cohort 7

As a data leader, do you catch yourself asking questions like…- How do I get execs to actually act on my insights instead of tuning out?- How do I influence peers in Product, Ops, and Marketing when they don’t report to me? - How can I build credibility around AI adoption without just demoing tools?- How do I stop my team from being seen as a “ticket shop” and instead as a trusted partner?If you’re not confident about these, this course is for you. This is a hands-on leadership course designed for emerging data leaders, analytics managers, data science managers, and heads of data who want to grow from technical doers into visible, trusted, AI-ready leaders.Before this course, you may feel:- Stuck explaining numbers that don’t lead to action.- Anxious that AI will outpace your team or make your work irrelevant.- Reactive to hype or resistance, rather than steering the narrative.After this course, you’ll:- Turn “data dumps” into compelling stories that executives repeat in the boardroom.- Translate AI pilots into credible business cases that prove ROI, reduce fear, and win support.- Lead your team confidently through change, balancing optimism with realism.

Lead with Data. Inspire with Story. Win with AI.

How to Master Strategic Communication

How to Lead AI Change with Confidence

  How to Build Your Leadership Operating System

Folks who are early in their career, focused only on technical execution, or looking to break into data/analytics should not enroll.

This course is NOT FOR everyone

It is designed for data managers, analytics leads, and heads of data already managing teams and facing leadership challenges.

This is NOT a beginner-level technical course

Overlooked Data Manager delivering dashboards but dismissed in strategy conversations, eager to be trusted for impact.

Stretched Head of Data managing 5-15 people, stuck firefighting, and needing systems to show control and credibility.

Aspiring AI-Ready Data leader, newly promoted from IC, strong technically but lacking storytelling and executive presence.

3-hour workshop about creating a career value proposition that AI can't replace

Workshop Lead: Netflix, Google, LinkedIn

Google

Netflix

Microsoft

LinkedIn

Paul Bryan

Product team leadership training at Netflix, Google, Meta, Linkedin, Booking.com in EU, USA, Asia

Cohort 1

How will you stay employed and increase your career relevance as AI automates more and work tasks? This is the dilemma facing everyone who is paying attention to the AI hyperscaler layoffs of highly skilled staff members, despite very strong financial results. This is very unusual behavior. It's a signal that things will be changing ahead for all of us. What's your strategy for facing these changes? As curator of the global STRAT conference since 2013, I have had the opportunity to talk with dozens of really smart people who are in core leadership roles at AI hyperscalers. I've developed a two-pronged strategy for career resilience and sovereignty. Strategy One is to own the means of AI production: Become the cross-functional orchestrator of AI workflows inside your company. I.e. become the automator, instead of the automated (replaced). My other Maven course teaches this AI-savvy career adaptation.Strategy Two is to develop a personal value proposition that is uniquely yours, and use AI to monetize and operationalize your unique offering. This is something the model can't replace, because AI models have never lived, and have never been you.This course teaches Strategy Two.

Individual contributors in tech who see AI absorbing more of their tasks in the future, and want a practical method for career sovereignty

Senior and mid-career professionals who built a career stack the world is now automating, and need a structured way to develop career agency

AI-savvy builders who realize all job tasks that can be automated will be automated, and want a rational, structured, highly adaptive plan B

You figure out what kind of career you actually want. Then you build the work to show for it.  This is what getting hired in 2026 looks like

Medical Student to Prisoner to CEO.

Sobanan Narenthiran

Medical student. Prisoner. CEO. The most unconventional hire you'll ever meet.

Human Rights Law to Marketing (somehow)

Jasmine Hasmatali

Applied to 50+ jobs in 8 months. Kept knocking on doors till one opened.

Biology + Curiosity = Videographer?

Sarrujan Jayakumaran

Bio major turned creative director. Followed curiosity rather than tradition.

Master's in AI, she knows what's up.

Amira Al-Shabazz

Chief of Staff at 24. Knows that feeling ready is overrated. Permission? Nope.

June 2026

Graduate hiring in 2026 looks nothing like it did two years ago. Employers are redesigning assessments, watching for AI-polished answers, and rejecting candidates who can't explain their own work.At the same time, they still want people who can use AI well.The people getting hired right now aren't the ones with the best AI prompts. They're the ones with real skills, real taste, and real proof of their work.This course is built around that shift. You'll cover the things graduate programmes and university careers services mostly aren't teaching yet: how to build a career AI can't replace, how to actually use AI tools well, why taste is becoming the word of 2026, how to tell a story about your work that lands, and how to stop waiting for permission and start making things happen.You'll build the thing almost no one else applying alongside you will have: proof.Proof of what you can do without AI.Proof of how you use it when you do.Leave with something most graduates don't have yet: a clear, defensible story about how you work in an AI era. That's the thing that's getting people hired right now.

Build a career AI can't replace.

Figure out what kind of career you actually want and which path gets you there

Understand the shift you are living through, not just the tools in front of you

Develop the taste and judgement that employers are now screening for

See the full range of routes into work, not just the traditional ones

Final-year or recent grad chasing a scheme. Using AI daily. Worried your applications sound like everyone else's.&nbsp;

Graduated a while ago, stuck in a "just for now" job, and ready to move. You need evidence, not another CV template.&nbsp;

You're not chasing a scheme. You want to build, create, freelance, or carve a path the old careers service can't map.

Reinvent yourself before AI reinvents the workforce without you.

AI Era Career Futurist & Strategist

Citi

Verizon

Micron

Charlie Ang

Career Futurist & Future of Work Strategist | Former Head of AI & Innovation

Founding Cohort

AI is eroding professional advantage fast. Expertise, qualifications, and experience are being compressed.Most professionals are responding tactically, experimenting with AI tools, learning prompts, or consuming content.The professionals who thrive will not simply use AI better. They are repositioning themselves into more strategic, defensible, and higher-leverage roles as the rules of work change.This workshop helps you do exactly that.Before you attend, you will receive your personalised LeapCast™ Career Strategy Report. A strategic assessment of how AI is reshaping your role, where your value is shifting, and where your future opportunities lie.In the workshop, you interpret and refine that strategy, build your personal LeapCast™ AI Career Coach for ongoing advice, and unlearn the beliefs and assumptions that no longer serve you in the AI era.You leave with a strategy, a coach, a roadmap, and greater clarity for the new world of work.This is not generic AI upskilling. This is strategic career repositioning for the AI era.Cohort size is capped due to the personalised report and interactive format. Enrolment closes once cohort is full.View sample LeapCast reports (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leapcast.intelligencesymphony.com/jma">A</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leapcast.intelligencesymphony.com/amm">B</a>)

<h3>Professionals Who Fear Being Left Behind AI is moving fast, and you are no longer sure your current career path is future-proof.</h3>

Professionals Who Want to Win in the AI Era You see AI as opportunity and want to move early, position smartly, and stay ahead.

Independents, Consultants &amp; Entrepreneurs You are rethinking your positioning, value proposition, or unique capabilities for the AI era.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction and Love Data Week Celebration

Elena Alikhachkina's Career and Experience

Analyzing Data Career Market Trends

The Hiring Manager's Reality and Key Questions

The Impact of AI on Technical and Business Skills

The New Formula for a Career in Data

Homework: Assessing Your Career and a 90-Day Plan

Future-Proofing Your Career and Available Resources

Q&A: Entry-Level Positions and Government Roles

Engineers and engineering leaders who build, deploy, and scale software systems.

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Data scientists who apply statistical and ML techniques to extract insights from data.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Getting promoted, navigating job transitions, and advancing to the next level in your career.

How to Build a Data Career That AI Won’t Replace

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Elena Alikhachkina