Wed, Oct 21, 2026
3:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
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AI-Powered Project Management
Justin Bateh, PhD
AI Project Leader | PhD & PMP | Led 40+ AI Rollouts | Top 100 Maven Instructor
Wed, Oct 21, 2026
3:00 PM UTC (45 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Go deeper with a course
AI-Powered Project Management
Justin Bateh, PhD
AI Project Leader | PhD & PMP | Led 40+ AI Rollouts | Top 100 Maven Instructor
What you'll learn
See why most kickoffs are ceremonial
Four leaders, four definitions of success. Walk in without a clear goal and you spend the next year relitigating it.
Use AI to find the real conflicts
Feed it your charter and sponsor notes. Get back where your leaders agree, where they clash, and what they fear.
Use AI to draft a goal everyone can commit to
Generate goal statements that force a choice, with the trade-offs each one makes out in the open.
Use AI to build your kickoff agenda
A 90-minute agenda that aligns the room and gets commitment out loud, drafted in minutes instead of days.
Why this topic matters
People who manage projects know this meeting: the goal is a sentence nobody could disagree with, which means nobody agreed to anything. Six months later the arguments start. AI can now do in an hour what used to take a week of pre-meetings: map where your sponsors conflict, draft goals that force a choice, and surface trade-offs before day one. In 45 minutes you'll leave with a repeatable process and a template you can use on your next project.
You'll learn from
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Justin Bateh, PhD
CEO @ AI Operators Lab | PhD & PMP | Led 40+ Rollouts | Top 100 Maven Instructor
Justin Bateh, PhD, has 2 decades of leading teams, managing 80+ projects, 40+ AI rollouts, and making high-stakes calls where failure wasn't an option. Everything he teaches is tested and field-proven, from someone still doing the work today.