Background
Maik Frank founded IntelliCoach, a leadership coaching practice in Singapore. He is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC). IntelliCoach runs about 20 group workshops that clients can combine: leadership styles, influencing without authority, effective one-to-ones, high-stakes conversations, executive presence, networking through stories and CliftonStrengths. Newer programmes, Leading Human-AI Teams and The AI-Fluent Leader, help leaders work alongside AI. Maik also coaches leaders, teaches coaching skills to HR business partners and leaders, and hosts The Coaching Leader Podcast.
He works with universities, business schools, companies in Asia and Europe, and public-sector teams in Singapore, in English and German, in person and online. As IntelliCoach puts it: "The human skills AI should not do for you."
The challenge
Maik's workshops are about changing behaviour, so everyone has to take part, including quieter participants and those joining online. Each client needed its own version of about 20 workshops, in two languages, kept current. Building tailored interactive decks quickly, without losing quality, was the constraint.
The solution
Maik has used AhaSlides since 2020. Six years on, he uses it to plan and run every programme.
Maik uses Claude Code, connected to AhaSlides through the AhaSlides MCP server. He keeps a notes folder for each client that his team can access too. His workflow: load the client's context, ask Claude Code to build the session directly in AhaSlides, complete with questions and click reveals, then check and rehearse before going live. Because Claude Code is connected to AhaSlides through the MCP, it builds every slide directly in AhaSlides and checks each one. That integration, he says, makes things so much easier.
"It creates very nice visual designs, exactly the way I wanted." — Maik Frank, Founder of IntelliCoach
The result
Since 2021, Maik has run 165 live AhaSlides sessions with more than 6,000 participants. A typical group is about 30 people; his largest had almost 300.
A tailored client deck used to take about 5 hours. Now it takes about 1.5 hours, most of it thinking and checking. A new version of a workshop now starts from his notes, not a blank deck.
Maik teaches leaders how to work with AI, and builds his workshops the same way. Since connecting AhaSlides via MCP, the time he used to spend building slides now goes into planning the conversations. He is also working on building his own custom interactive activities through the same connection.
"I give the AI a design to follow, and it rebuilds every slide in AhaSlides, click reveals included. My preparation time now goes into the conversations, not the layout." — Maik Frank, Founder of IntelliCoach
Key outcomes
- 165 live sessions and more than 6,000 participants since 2021
- Groups of 20 to almost 300, in person and online
- About 20 leadership workshops, adapted for each client in English and German
- Decks built in AhaSlides from client notes via his AI assistant and MCP
- Slides and participants' answers exported for clients after each session
How Maik uses AhaSlides
- Open questions and word clouds to surface what leaders think
- Polls, scales and image choice for check-ins and self-assessment
- Idea boards for brainstorming and ranking ideas as a group
- Building and updating decks with his AI assistant through the AhaSlides MCP server
- Exporting answers to share with clients
