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Design Beautiful Presentations with Claude [5/19/2026] (Recording)

Build Anything Series · Event 02 · Free · Live Most people use Claude as a writing assistant and stop there. Then they open PowerPoint, fight with templates for two hours, and ship something that looks like every other deck. There's a better way. In this hour, we'll build presentations end-to-end with Claude — from a one-line brief to polished, on-brand slides. No templates, no stock-photo aesthetic, no drag-the-text-box-three-pixels-left. What we'll build live: - Generate a deck from a one-line brief — outline, structure, narrative arc, all in one prompt loop - Iterate without leaving Claude — slide-by-slide refinement using structured prompts (not "make it better") - Export polished, on-brand presentations — color systems, type, layout, rendered cleanly Who it's for: - Coaches, consultants, founders, PMs who present often and hate the deck-building tax - People who've prompted Claude for design work and gotten generic results - Anyone who wants their slides to feel like theirs, not a SaaS template Not a fit if: - You're already a senior visual designer with a tight workflow - You want to learn pure Figma/Keynote craft — this is about directing AI to do most of the work We'll talk about where Claude excels (structure, narrative, copy, layout systems) and where it still needs you (taste, judgment, the final 10% of polish). Bring a real project you'd like to work on — fastest way to learn.

Freeing the People's Data: AI Agents for Legislative Transparency [5/20/2026] (Recording)

Struggling to make sense of fragmented legislative data or build tools that surface it in a usable way? This session is for builders, policy professionals, and researchers who want to use AI agents to unlock and structure public legislative data for real transparency. You’ll learn how to design agents that gather and normalize data across sources, create workflows that turn raw information into searchable insights, and evaluate outputs for accuracy and bias. Attending live gives you the opportunity to ask technical and strategic questions about your own use cases and get clarity in real time. The speaker works closely with practitioners and will share the patterns they see when building systems that actually get used, along with what they look for when evaluating effectiveness and trust. If you’re serious about turning legislative data into something actionable, it’s worth joining live.

Build Your Personal Brand & Thought Leadership System with Claude + Notion [5/20/2026] (Recording)

Personal branding is your ticket to excelling in the AI age. Most professionals know they should be creating content yet almost none of us do it consistently. Not because we lack ideas, but because we have no system to enable consistency. In this session, we'll build one. Using the network analysis from last week, we'll use Claude to generate a content calendar built around your actual expertise, then turn each idea into multiple formats: a LinkedIn post, a story hook, a networking pitch, and more. Everything lives in a pre-built Notion template you duplicate at the start of the session, so you spend the full session generating content, not building infrastructure. Outcome for attendees: A content calendar tailored to their specific network audience and a reusable Claude + Notion workflow they can run every month independently Session pre-requisites: Claude account & Notion account — free is fine 🙂

The Full Stack AI Workflow: Leveraging AI from Product Discovery to Delivery [6/3/2026] (Recording)

AI is transforming every stage of the product lifecycle, but most teams only use a fraction of what’s possible. This session is for builders and professionals who want to understand how to integrate AI end-to-end, from early discovery to final delivery. You’ll learn how to use AI for ideation and user research, streamline execution and iteration, and build workflows that compound efficiency across the entire product process. Join live to ask questions about your own workflows and see how an AI expert approaches building systems that actually scale. The speaker regularly helps teams implement AI-driven processes and will share the patterns they see across effective, real-world use cases. Expect practical frameworks and insights similar to what’s covered in 1:1 working sessions.

Co-thinking with AI: Beyond the Hype, Into Your Edge [6/5/2026] (Recording)

AI isn't a search engine — and treating it like one is costing you. In this 45-minute working session, we tackle the cognitive dependence trap head-on: the quiet habit of letting AI generate, decide, and summarize while your own critical thinking atrophies. Leaders and employees who thrive in the AI era aren't the ones who use it most — they're the ones who use it right. You'll leave with practical co-thinking prompts designed to sharpen your judgment, accelerate your best ideas, and position you as someone who leverages AI without being leveled by it. Reserve your spot today!

Quarterly Report Generator Skill

"/qbr-generator" builds a structured quarterly business review covering revenue performance, pipeline coverage, and forecast confidence. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/qbr-generator-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

Job Finder Skill

"/job-finder" searches the web for job listings by industry, level, and location; it deduplicates against a running Google Sheet tracker and sends a draft formatted email digest with links to new postings. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/job-finder-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/job-finder/

The AI Brainstorm Lab: Turn Any Idea Into 10 Better Ones

Discover how to use AI as your creative partner, not just your assistant. In this hands-on lab, you’ll learn how to generate, expand, and refine ideas using ChatGPT or Claude—whether you’re naming a project, planning a campaign, or trying to get unstuck. Outcomes: You’ll leave with 10+ new ideas generated live, a framework for evaluating and combining AI suggestions, and practical techniques for overcoming creative blocks and turning raw ideas into real concepts. Learning Objectives: *Recognize where AI can enhance creative thinking and idea generation *Use structured prompting techniques to expand, combine, and refine ideas *Apply AI brainstorming methods to generate actionable outputs for real projects

Home for Ambition #2 — Weekly Live Show [3/25/2026] (Recording)

Home for Ambition is a weekly live show, by Leland, for people trying to stay ahead as work, learning, and opportunity keep changing. Each episode tackles a handful of timely, high-signal topics across AI, careers, education, and the future of work. We expect thoughtful debate, unique perspectives, and practical takeaways you can actually use. It is not a typical interview show or a generic news recap. It is a live roundtable built to help ambitious people make sense of what is changing, understand what matters, and leave with a sharper point of view on how to navigate what comes next.

Create Scheduled Tasks in Claude

Learn a quick an easy way to set up automated tasks using either Claude Cowork or Claude Code.

My AI Workflow

After this session, you will be able to map out a personal AI workflow that saves time on repetitive tasks and sharpens the quality of your work output. We will cover how to chain AI tools together for multi-step automation, how to build lightweight agents that handle routine decisions without your constant input, and how to identify which parts of your workflow are actually worth automating.

Building Custom AI Agents

How to design, instruct, and deploy agents that are tailored to the exact work you need done, from role definition through to real tools and skills.

Powerpoint Skill

"/pptx" will create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations (.pptx files) including layouts, content, and speaker notes. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/pptx-skill.zip -d ~/.agents/skills/

Taking Control of AI Conversations

After this session, you will know how to structure your prompts to get outputs that actually match your intent, how to identify when an AI response needs to be pushed further, and how to build a repeatable workflow that saves time without sacrificing quality. These are the patterns that separate people who use AI effectively from those who get generic results and give up.

Learn Skill

"/learn" will run a session-retrospective audit that tells you what went well, what went wrong, and propose documentation updates. It gives direct feedback on working with the AI agent more efficiently. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/learn-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/learn/

Web Design Guidelines Skill

"/web-design-guidelines" will review UI code against the Vercel Web Interface Guidelines for accessibility, design best practices, and UX compliance. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/web-design-guidelines-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/web-design-guidelines/

Excel Skill

"/xlsx" will create and edit spreadsheets with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/xlsx-skill.zip -d ~/.agents/skills/

Three Principles for AI Coding

These three principles form the foundation of effective AI-assisted development. Master them and you'll ship better code faster.

Claude Chat vs. Cowork vs Code

There are a lot of options for how to approach tasks using AI. Learn which interface to reach for why one might be more suited to specific tasks than the others.

Notion Task Manager Skill

"/notion-task-manager" parses brain dumps, bullet lists, meeting notes, or voice transcripts into structured Notion tasks with inferred title, project, owner, priority, and deadline. It then creates them in the right database and confirms what was added. To install, run this in your terminal after downloading the file: unzip ~/Downloads/notion-task-manager-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/notion-task-manager/