From AI user to AI-native strategist.
Build advanced AI skills — directing agents, operating workflows — with a substantive focus on risk, strategy, and policy. The Dragonfly Method: analytical lenses that compound to produce insight no single lens can.
“The platform is mind blowing! This is the first time I have felt that I am really working together with AI. My mind is exploding with the possibilities.”
Course Participant
“The lenses are great and I love the theory behind it in the courses. I like that it doesn’t really take away critical thinking from the user, but supports it.”
Course Participant
Most organisations use AI the way they used search engines in 2005 — typing questions and hoping for answers. For strategy, policy, and risk professionals, the cost is higher: you're navigating complexity, uncertainty, and competing stakeholder interests. Generic AI gives you generic analysis. The shift isn't learning to prompt better — it's learning to direct AI systems across structured analytical lenses, hold more complexity than any individual can, and produce outputs that hold up in a boardroom or a cabinet submission.
Built for
- Professionals who want to become genuinely AI-native — directing agents, not just chatting with them
- Strategy, policy, and risk professionals working on complex, uncertain problems
- Teams building structured AI-augmented analytical capability
- Anyone ready to move from individual AI use to operating end-to-end analytical workflows
Not the right fit if...
- People still building core AI skills — prompt engineering, understanding hallucinations, responsible use (see AI Foundations first)
- Those seeking domain-specific investment analysis (see AI for Investment)
From AI user to AI director
Shift from chatting with AI to directing it — holding more complexity, seeing through multiple lenses, and steering structured analysis.
The Dragonfly Method
How analytical lenses add value to AI — and how multiple lenses compound across an analytical chain to produce insight no single lens can.
Direct agents and workflows
Learn to scope, direct, and oversee AI agents and structured workflows — from athlete to coach, from actor to director.
- The shift from using AI to directing it — from athlete to coach, from actor to director
- Agents, multi-agent systems, and structured workflows
- Introduction to the Dragonfly platform
- Hands-on: run your first structured analysis
Anthea Roberts
Founder & CEO, Dragonfly Thinking
Professor at ANU, Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Built the Dragonfly analytical methodology.
Miranda Forsyth
Co-Founder & Director, Dragonfly Thinking
Interdisciplinary socio-legal professor at ANU. Leads Dragonfly Learning's executive education approach.
Sam Barton
AI Operations & Development, Dragonfly Thinking
Operations lead with expertise in complex systems science. Cross-functional experience in product, operations, and strategy.
Linda Phompak
Product Manager & Designer, Dragonfly Thinking
Interdisciplinary designer with experience in enterprise technology, agencies, startups, and government.
Online
4 × 1.5hr over 4 weeksFour weekly sessions. The full Dragonfly Method with hands-on platform time in every session and practice between them.
- Dragonfly platform access (4 weeks)
- Hands-on exercises with real scenarios in risk, strategy, and policy
- Certificate of completion
| Format | Individual | Group (≤20) |
|---|---|---|
| Online (4 × 1.5hr) | $1,500 | $25,000 |
All prices AUD, ex GST. Enterprise invoicing and purchase orders supported.
Larger groups? Get in touchThe learning stack
The core methodology course. AI Foundations recommended, or existing AI literacy.