Founding Member Enrollment Is Open Until August 15th, 2026
Join the first cohort and help shape the course.
Turn Inconsistent AI Conversations Into a Reliable Way of Working
Build a Personal AI Collaboration System That Helps AI Understand How You Think, Work, Decide, and Communicate
Collaboration by Design is for experienced professionals who already use AI but are tired of generic answers, repeated explanations, lost context, and inconsistent results.
Founding Member Offer
Join the first release of Collaboration by Design before August 15th, 2026 to get early access, a private group where you get your questions answered, and more!
And lifetime access to everything is just $247 (Normally $499).
No coding, technical setup, or AI development experience required.
Use it with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or the AI platform you already use.
In-Person Workshop Testimonials
AI Is Fast. But Fast Is Not the Same as Useful.
When AI does not understand the relationship, every request becomes another attempt to rebuild the context.
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Every Conversation Starts Cold
You repeatedly explain your role, audience, priorities, preferences, and expectations before useful work can begin.
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Results Change From One Request to the Next
One response feels excellent. The next is generic, misaligned, overly long, or missing what matters most.
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Important Context Disappears
Decisions, standards, stakeholder needs, and project history get lost across threads, tools, and working sessions.
Introducing Collaboration by Design
A practical course for building your Personal AI Collaboration System
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Define the Partnership
Establish who the AI should be, who you are in the work, and what each side contributes to the collaboration.
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Design How You Work Together
Set expectations for communication, challenge, assumptions, evidence, output quality, tone, depth, and decision support.
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Create Continuity
Develop practical ways to preserve important context, recognize drift, restore alignment, and continue work without constantly starting over.
By the end, you will have a completed Personal AI Collaboration System you can save, reuse, refine, and apply across real work.
Learn How To:
Create an AI Partner That Fits Your Work
Define the role, expertise, perspective, communication style, strengths, and challenge level you want from AI.
Help AI Understand You
Give AI the right information about your role, goals, stakeholders, environment, strengths, and working preferences.
Establish Clear Working Agreements
Decide when AI should ask questions, make assumptions, challenge your reasoning, provide evidence, or take initiative.
Move Real Work Through the Partnership
Clarify intent, identify needed context, define decision expectations, surface risks, and establish what “done” looks like.
Maintain Alignment Over Time
Recognize drift, preserve essential context, close sessions intentionally, and restart work without rebuilding everything.
Limited Time for Founding Members
Amazing Bonuses
Join the first release of Collaboration by Design and receive:
Early access to the complete course
The AI Partnership Playbook
Guided templates for building your Personal AI Collaboration System
Founding-member pricing
Access to a private feedback and support space
Future course updates included
Is Collaboration by Design Right for You?
This course is designed for experienced professionals who are already using AI but want more reliable, relevant, and consistent results across real work.
This course is for you if:
You already use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or another AI tool, but the quality of the results varies.
You are tired of repeating your role, audience, preferences, and project context.
You want AI to support your thinking, not simply generate generic content.
You use AI for writing, planning, research, decisions, strategy, communication, or project work.
You want a repeatable way to begin, manage, evaluate, and continue AI-assisted work.
You value practical systems more than prompt tricks or technical theory.
You want to create a personalized system that can evolve with your work.
You are willing to reflect on how you think, communicate, make decisions, and define quality.
Built for Experienced Knowledge Workers
Managers and directors
Consultants and business owners
Project and program leaders
Learning and development professionals
HR and organizational development professionals
Strategy and operations professionals
Team leaders and functional experts
Professionals responsible for communication, decisions, planning, or complex work
This Course May Not Be the Right Fit If...
You have never used an AI tool and need a basic introduction to how ChatGPT works.
You are primarily looking for a library of copy-and-paste prompts.
You want AI to complete work without your judgment, review, or participation.
You are looking for technical instruction in coding, automation, APIs, or AI model development.
You are unwilling to spend time defining how you work and what good results look like.
You expect one setup exercise to produce perfect results forever without refinement.
You want AI to replace your expertise rather than strengthen how you apply it.
Meet Your Instructors
Darren Nerland
Founder & Lead Principal
Darren spent 20+ years building leadership and talent systems inside organizations like Amazon and the Gates Foundation. He does not advise from the outside. He has been in the room, under the pressure, making it work. Skills Leap is the consultancy he wished existed when he was navigating complexity from the inside.
Sean Childers
Principal
Sean brings deep operator experience in workforce strategy and organizational capability building. He specializes in translating complex systems challenges into practical frameworks leaders can actually use. Built for scale. Tested under pressure.
Jeanette Rogers
Principal
Jeanette is the founder of Geek Speak Translator, a practice that helps organizations use AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement. Drawing on decades of consulting experience, including work with Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, she helps teams navigate AI and digital change and turn strategy into practical use.