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Dave Kline

Founder of MGMT Accelerator (prev: Bridgewater, Moody's, PwC)

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Proven management tactics and clear mental models for leading high-performing teams. Supercharged with practical AI tools and prompts.

Executive Coach to Systematic Leaders

Entrepreneur, Leader, Coach, Mom

Marsden Kline

Founder of MGMT Accelerator (prev: Google, Goldman Sachs, Compass)

MGMT Accelerator: AI-Enhanced Leadership

Engineering Manager

VP, Cloud Infrastructure

Senior Manager

Product Design Manager

Partner, Sr. Director of Product

Sr. Director,  Credit Risk

Sr. Program Manager, Global Operations

NVIDIA

Oracle

Google

The Boeing Company

Tesla

Today's leaders are equal parts charismatic and systematic.They connect with their people and engineer systems to support them.In just 12 class hours over 4 weeks, you'll develop a complete management system that combines proven leadership principles with cutting-edge AI tools to maximize your management impact.Today's management challenge is clear: Companies promote their best employees to management without proper training.The result? More than 60% of new managers fail within their first two years. Even at the best companies, success is worse than a coin flip.This program helps you beat those odds:☑️ A complete Management Operating System's CODE (Coach, Operate, Delegate &amp; Engage) based on 30+ years of leadership experience across Google, Bridgewater, Goldman Sachs, and more.☑️ A refined Decision-Making System tailored to your individual leadership style and strengths, helping you amplify your advantages while neutralizing your weaknesses.☑️Practical AI Prompts and Tools that supercharge your impact by automating routine tasks, enhancing your coaching conversations, improving your written communication, and giving you back precious time.Become the leader you'd follow.

Timeless Leadership Principles + Modern Management Tactics

Delegate strategically without losing control or becoming a bottleneck

Build a team culture that attracts and amplifies top talent

Prevent fires instead of constantly fighting them

Transform underperformers into stars (or exit them confidently)

Gain genuine buy-in from your team (not just compliance)

Manage up effectively to drive more impact and visibility

Managers with 3+ years of experienceUpgrade your management systems to achieve more while "doing" less.

Scaling Founders Let our systems be your early-stage cheat code to transition from founder to leader.

Experienced managers leading new teamsMaximize this new opportunity to sharpen your skills. Maximize your first 100 days.

The timeless principles of management, powered by AI.

Founder of MGMT Accelerator (prev: Bridgewater, Moody's, PwC)



Salesforce

60% of new managers fail in their first 18 months. It doesn't have to be you.That number isn't an opinion. It's McKinsey. Gartner. Korn Ferry. Harvard. They keep running the study. The number keeps coming back the same.Why? Because only 15% of new managers ever get any training before they're handed a team. Your company took a great individual contributor, gave them a new title, and assumed you'd figure it out. They asked you to learn by trial and error. Usually your error. Usually at the team's expense.And now you're being asked to do all of that and figure out where AI fits before your competitors do.That's the trap. Most "AI for managers" content treats AI like a shortcut around the fundamentals. It isn't. AI without judgment just produces wrong answers faster. The leaders who will own the next decade are the ones who master the fundamentals first, then use AI to build on top of them faster.That's what we teach.

AI won't make a bad manager good. But it can make a good manager great.

1. Manage Yourself — because you can't lead what you can't see in yourself

2. Manage Potential — because your job is to grow people, not tasks

3. Manage Performance — because the bar only matters if you hold it

4. Manage Conflict — because the team that can't fight productively can't ship

5. Manage Output — because effort without results is a hobby

6. Manage Up — because your boss is your biggest source of cover or chaos

If you're managing managers, this is not for you. Look at MGMT Accelerator instead.

This is NOT a Fortune 500 VP course

If you're already running Claude Code and want to talk agents and tool use, this isn't it. We teach AI as a multiplier, not a replacement.

This is NOT for AI-native engineers

The students who win here chose to be here. If your manager is making you take it, save your seat for next cohort and come back when ready.

This is NOT for anyone whose company is forcing them in

New managers (0–3 years in) who've started to suspect "winging it" isn't a strategy and want a system they can run on Monday morning

Operators at 50–500-person companies with no in-house L&amp;D — nobody is going to train you but you, and we're here to help

Curious, self-aware leaders who want to get ahead of the AI curve without becoming dependent on the tools or losing their judgment

Founder, MGMT (fmr COO @ Bridgewater)

Executives get a chief of staff to keep them sharp.
Now you can build your own.

Founder, MGMT (prev @ Google, Goldman)

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

We are expected to be compounding with AI. Most are struggling to keep up.Your peers are talking about AI. Your team is using it. Your org expects you to have a point of view on it. But the firehose of tools, prompts, and frameworks is impossible to keep up with — and most of what gets shared online doesn't translate into something you can use on Monday morning.What's missing isn't another tool. It's a system.In this 3.5-hour workshop, you'll build a Management Second Brain: a personal AI that knows your team, your decisions, and your leadership patterns — and gets smarter every time you use it.You'll also build your management playbook: reusable frameworks for the situations you face repeatedly. Combine expert systems (EOS, OKRs, MGMT Accelerator, McKinsey 7-S) with your own hard-won lessons. Your AI references this playbook every time it coaches you, preps your meetings, or helps you make a decision.This isn't a lecture. It's a build session. Bring your laptop and your messy notes.

Managers with 3+ reports who are overscheduled and underprepared. You know you could show up better if you had more time. Or better help.

Leaders who know AI can do more than write emails but never make the time to figure out what. You want a system, not another tool to try.

Experienced managers who are keeping up but not leveling up. You're tired of solving the same problems and ready to start compounding.

The 5 Non-Negotiable Skills of the AI-Powered Leader

Five learnable capabilities — half deeply human, half deeply systematic — that compound over time.

The 5 Skills That Define the AI-Powered Leader

What it looks like when AI stops being a tool and starts being a system that learns with you.

How to Transform a Chatbot Into a Chief of Staff

How playbooks become skills, copy-paste becomes working connections, and feedback loops compound everything.

See the System That Gets Smarter Every Week

How AI Can 10x The Effectiveness of Your One-on-One Meeting

Co-founder MGMT Accelerator

Get an AI-powered scouting report before every meeting. No more 1:1s that feel like status updates going nowhere.

Run One-on-Ones That Actually Drive Performance

Stop letting critical work fall through the cracks with a simple framework your team owns and AI helps you analyze.

Build a Simple Dashboard That Creates Real Accountability

Watch AI connect meeting transcripts to development plans in real-time, transforming conversations into real growth.

Turn Every Meeting Into a Coaching Opportunity (+ Live Demo)

Build Your AI-Powered Leadership Coach in 30 Minutes

Co-founder MGMT Accelerator (fmr COO @ Bridgewater)

Co-founder MGMT Accelerator (fmr Sales Manager @ Google)

Build a structured repository of your style, team dynamics, and challenges that AI references for personalized coaching.

Create Your Personal Leadership Context Library

Learn exact prompt frameworks to get AI coaching on difficult conversations, decisions, and conflicts tailored to you.

Design Custom Prompts for Your Biggest Leadership Challenges

Set up systems where AI helps you reflect on meetings and decisions, turning every leadership moment into learning.

Build Feedback Loops That Accelerate Your Growth

AI-Powered Planning: Get Buy-In, Stay Agile, and Win 2026

Use AI to analyze your team's performance patterns, identify what's working, and spot hidden opportunities leaders miss.

Turn 2025 Data Into 2026 Strategic Insights

Master the art of ambitious but achievable goal-setting and learn frameworks for saying no to good ideas with finesse.

Set the Right Goals, Reject The Rest

Build alignment by having your team help write it, your peers support it, and your boss benefit from it.

Get Everyone Bought Into Your Plan

Leadership Lookback: Your AI-Powered Management Diagnostic

Use our comprehensive framework to identify your strengths and blind spots in managing yourself and your team.

Diagnose Your Management Effectiveness In 6 Critical Areas

Transform your diagnostic data into actionable intelligence using AI prompts that reveal patterns you might miss.

Let AI Synthesize Your Results Into Clear Insights

Walk away with a tailored plan to address your top 3 management gaps using proven frameworks from our MGMT programs.

Get Your Personalized 90-Day Management Improvement Roadmap

Let's Build an AI-Powered Employee Dashboard in 30 Minutes

Replace surface-level info with deep insights using psychometric tests and Personal User Manuals for each team member.

Build Rich Employee Profiles For Each Person

Transform vague job descriptions into clear, measurable expectations both you and your employee can evaluate.

Set Expectations That Actually Stick

Adapt your feedback and coaching to how each individual best receives and processes information.

Dave Kline trains managers to become AI-powered leaders

Dave Kline

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Courses

MGMT Accelerator: AI-Enhanced Leadership

MGMT Fundamentals: AI-Powered Leadership Skills for New Managers

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