The Essential AI Table: Next Chapter Positioning
For executives, founders, and entrepreneurs who've already built something real βΒ and are now designing what comes next on their own terms.
Not "learn AI." Become AI fluent.
Design your next chapter in an AI world.
Implement the leading AI models as your advisory table with you in the leading chair.Β
Leave with clarity, a body of work, and a system you can run as an executive or as a founder.
WHY NOW.
The ground is shifting. You feel it.
Worker anxiety about AI is at an all-time high. Visibility is being automated. Leverage is being repriced. And speed is being redefined by tools that don't sleep, don't negotiate, and don't need benefits.
Here's what's actually happening:
- The market is quietly benchmarking everyone's value against a $20 subscription.
- Institutions are using AI to optimize for their goals β not yours.
- The gap between "positioned" and "replaceable" gets thinner every quarter.
- And the people who figure out AI while figuring out what's next? They're not waiting for permission.
You don't need more hype. You need a way to think, move, and build.
β Esi Eggleston Bracey, Former Chief Growth & Marketing Officer, Unilever Advertising Hall of Fame, Class of 2026
IS THIS FOR ME?
If this sounds like you, you're in the right place:
- You've built something real β a career, a company, a reputation β and you're ready to figure out what's next. Whether that's a bigger role, a new lane, a venture, or something you can't name yet.
- You're willing to use AI as a thinking partner, not a shortcut.
- You want your positioning to match the level you actually operate at β or the level you're building toward.
This is probably not your lane if:
- You want a prompt pack or a list of AI tools to copy-paste.
- You're looking for someone else to do the thinking for you.
- You want to automate your way out of doing the work.
β Rachel Noerdlinger, Award-winning Media Strategist & PartnerΒ at Actum
You've Built the Career. Now Build What's Next.
The Next Chapter Positioning Track gives you a system to build real AI fluency and figure out your next move β at the same time. You learn AI as you figure your next out. That's the design.
THOUGHT β
WORDΒ β
ACTION
Three modules.
One complete system.
THOUGHT
Gather Strategic Intelligence
Work through six AI platforms to analyze your background, your strengths, your market, and what's next β from every angle.
WORD
Transform Intelligence Into Communication
Turn your findings into messaging that lands β your value story, your talking points, the language that makes people lean in.
ACTION
Deploy YourΒ AdvisoryΒ Cabinet
Build AI tools trained on your intelligence β strategy, messaging, creativity, and decisions β that work alongside you long after the track is done.
β Orlena Nwokah Blanchard, Founder, Award-winning Global Marketing Thought LeaderΒ
TIME EXPECTATION
This is not a weekend bootcamp. Plan for focused work over several weeks, at your own pace.
You're not learning prompts. You're building AI fluency β by doing real work on your actual next chapter.
Most people have a $20 subscription they barely touch. You're building a system of AI tools that actually know your thinking, speak your language, and work alongside you.
By the end of The Next Chapter, you'll have:
Positioning chaos β Clarity
A body of work built by you, with AI β your value story, your market position, and a clear picture of what's next. Not for your company. Not for your industry. For YOU.
Scattered β A Portfolio
Every asset speaks the same language β your bio, your messaging, your pitch β and it all sounds like you actually said it. Consistent, sharp, and finally aligned.
Reactive β Fluent
You're not guessing which tool to use anymore. You have AI working alongside you β cross-checking, pressure-testing β and you decide what moves forward.
Expertise β Operational
Your positioning isn't a document sitting in a folder. It's running β publishing, scouting, prepping, and protecting your lane while you live your life.
How Is This Different?Β
THIS ISN'T PROMPT SCHOOL.
Most AI training teaches you to produce β write faster, post faster, copy what's working for someone else and scale it. You get speed. You get volume. And you get output that could have come from anybody.
But here's what none of that solves: who are you, and what comes next?
This is the opposite. You're not copying someone else's playbook. You're uncovering your own. Six platforms. Your actual situation. Patterns, blind spots, and value you couldn't see because you were too close to it.
One path gives you content. This one gives you clarity.
β Adaora Udoji, Executive Operator & Advisor | Emerging Tech, Portfolio Ops & Strategy Execution
TOOLS YOU'LL EXPLORE
Turn your documents into patterns you can't see alone
Build structured models and systematic analysis
Challenge your thinking and find blind spots
Validate with current data and cited sources
Bring AI into Word, Excel, and the tools you already use
Explore unexpected angles and imaginative scenarios
Clone your voice for audio content that sounds like you
Create a professional video with your AI avatar
Step-by-Step Set Up Instructions
Get fluent with the platforms and creative tools.
Setup, safety, and fluency across the leading AI platforms and creative tools. If you want to get comfortable before diving into The Next Chapter, start here.
If you'd rather jump in and figure it out as you go β and schedule a Power Session with Susan when you get stuck β that works too.
WHO IS SUSAN HEARN
I'm Susan Hearn. I've been walking with technology since the 5th grade in the heart of Silicon Valley β seeing what's next before it arrives and building with it while everyone else is still deciding whether it's real.
I went on to work with BET Networks, the CROWN Act, National Action Network, and Fortune 500 brands you've heard of. But by 2007, I was commercializing AI β and later advising brands in rooms you don't get invited to on social media strategy before most companies had a playbook. When ChatGPT dropped, I wasn't learning. I was adding it to the arsenal.
I chose a different path when everyone else was safely in corporate. And the power players who've known me for years β the ones who watched me walk in this space long before they got here β they all say the same thing: she's walking in her purpose.
I love working with them. And I love working with the people I serve.
I'm not here to make you dependent on me. I'm here to make you dangerous on your own.
YOU'RE NOT SURE YOU TRUST AI?
You're not wrong to feel the way you do.
Most people are more concerned than excited about where this is headed β worried about jobs, power grabs, creativity, mental health, and even whether we're training ourselves to stop thinking.
This isn't a pep rally. It's a containment strategy.
The Essential AI Table Method is built on three assumptions:
- AI is here, whether we like it or not.
- Institutions will use it to optimize for their goals β not yours.
- You deserve tools and structure that keep you from becoming collateral damage.
You don't have to like AI to use it β briefly and precisely β to protect your time, your positioning, and your next move.
AI is here. While it is, let's quietly make sure it doesn't eat your career, your margins, or your sense of self.
HOW THIS REFRAMESΒ AI FOR YOU
- AI asΒ mirror: to see your patterns, positioning gaps, blind spots, and leverage points more clearly than you can on your own.
- AI asΒ shield: to protect your lane and your time as the landscape shifts under you.
- AI asΒ infrastructure: to codify howΒ youΒ think and operate, so you're less dependent on any one platform or employer.
"This course, particularly the positioning, is like therapy. Itβs a lot to unwrap, and you have to sit with it for a period of time. And then move to the next phase."
βΒ Janel Merritt, C-Suite Executive| Energy Director | Board Member | Guest Lecturer | Diversity & Inclusion Advocate
YOU'LL FEEL THE SHIFT IMMEDIATELY.Β READY?
The Next Chapter Positioning Track
The transformation. Applied to YOUR situation.
Everything in THOUGHT β WORD β ACTION, focused on one question: What's your next move β and what makes it valuable? You leave with a body of work, a messaging suite, visibility assets, and AI tools trained on your intelligence.
BONUS: AI LANDSCAPE MODULE
Know what's actually happening β no hype, no panic.
The players, the money, the power structures, the policies β and what all of it means for someone like you. This is your strategic point of view on the industry. Not cheerleading. Not fear mongering. Just clarity about the world you're operating in.
Investment In Yourself
THE ESSENTIAL AI TABLE METHOD SELF-PACED
$497
Limited Launch Special ($1,385 value)
- The Next Chapter Track ($497 value) β The full methodology applied to YOUR situation
- BONUS: AI Landscape modules ($197 value) β your strategic POV on the industry
- BONUS: Foundation THOUGHT, WORD & ACTION ($297 value) β platform + creative tool fluency
- Your AI tools β custom-built and trained on your intelligence ($297 value)
- Master Documents: Findings, Creative Assets, Deployment ($97 value)
- Lifetime access
- Does not include cost of AI tool subscriptions
THE NEXT CHAPTER + PRIVATE COACHING
$1,997
($2,885 Value)
Everything above, plus:
- 3 private 90-minute sessions with Susan ($1,500 value)
- Which tools make sense for your situation, positioning review, asset refinement, and deployment support
- For people who want a strategist in the room β not a search engine
