Overview
You will study alongside more than 2,000,000 PapaHR students from 185 countries., You will gain practical experience from Preply, Wargaming, Radford, and Deloitte from the course author., You will master the approach to thinking used by leaders of international companies., Distinguish facts from interpretations, emotions, and manipulations, Recognize cognitive biases and logical errors in decisions, Verify the accuracy of data, arguments, and sources, Build a strong and convincing argument, Making decisions in conditions of uncertainty and incomplete information, Use OODA, Cynefin, and Cost-Benefit decision-making models, Apply critical thinking in business, negotiations, and communications, Working with information in the age of AI, fake news, and social media, Create a personal plan for developing critical thinking skills
A person who takes responsibility for their own learning, I am ready to devote time to learning, take a course, and achieve results., Managers and team leaders, HR directors, HRBPs, and HR managers, Entrepreneurs and business owners, Marketers, analysts, consultants, Specialists working with data, strategy, and solutions, Anyone who is tired of the chaos of opinions and wants to think systematically
The desire to learn from the person who created the Unicorn Preply HR system, Ambitions to become number one in decision-making and management thinking, Willingness to move forward without looking back, complete the entire course, and apply the knowledge, Basic work or management experience would be an advantage, Internet access for viewing classes, Willingness to perform practical tasks
This course includes the use of artificial intelligence.
In a world where thousands of news items, posts, reports, opinions, and AI-generated answers hit you every day, the scarcest skill is no longer knowledge — it is the ability to think clearly.
Today, winners are not those who have read the most books.
Nor those who speak the loudest.
Winners are those who can:
separate facts from interpretations,
see logical fallacies where others see “convincing arguments,”
recognize manipulation before it affects decisions,
make balanced decisions under uncertainty.
This course is dedicated to exactly that.
It is based on practical experience in international companies, building HR systems at Preply and other businesses, and making hundreds of strategic decisions under pressure, with incomplete data and high responsibility.
Course program
First, you will explore the foundations of critical thinking: how it differs from logical and creative thinking, why it lies at the core of strong managerial decisions, and how an objective position is formed in complex situations.
Next, you will dive into logic and argumentation — learning to distinguish strong arguments from weak ones, identify reasoning errors, and build arguments that withstand questions, emotions, and politics.
A separate block is devoted to cognitive biases — hidden thinking traps that distort reality even for experienced leaders. You will learn how confirmation bias, anchoring, framing, and dozens of other effects work, and how to reduce their influence on decisions.
Then you will master information analysis and source evaluation: how to separate facts from opinions, verify data reliability, assess sources, and navigate the world of fakes, social media, and AI-generated content.
In the next module, you will study practical decision-making models (OODA, Cynefin, cost-benefit analysis), learn to account for risks and uncertainty, and apply rational approaches to real business cases.
The final block focuses on embedding this skill into everyday work: negotiations, communication, team management, and building a personal development strategy.
This course is not about abstract philosophy.
It is a tool that starts working from the very first lessons.
Important
On Udemy, you take the course without homework review and without receiving a Mike Pritula Academy diploma.
For the full version of the course with an official diploma, materials, and homework review, please visit the academy’s website.
If you want:
your opinion to be taken seriously,
your decisions to be reasoned, not intuitive,
to be seen as someone who “sees the whole picture,”
to stop being hostage to other people’s arguments and emotions,
— start now.
Most people remain at the level of reactions.
You can move to the level of leaders’ thinking.
Also included:
• Lifetime access to all materials and future updates
• Active instructor support in the Q&A section
• Certificate of completion (Udemy Certificate of Completion)
• 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked
• Practical skills for work and career
• Real business cases / projects
• Access to the student community
• A $1,000 program offered with a significant discount thanks to the platform
PapaHR ⇢ HR, SHRM, AI ChatGPT, Analytics, Management, Leadership PHRi Certification, Business Skills, People, Marketing, Project
Meet Mike — the HR Architect behind a Unicorn (Preply, $1.2B)
#1 Udemy AI in HR Instructor · Book Author · Founder of PapaHR / AI HR Academy
I don’t just teach HR.
I build HR systems that scale companies to Unicorn level.
Preply is one of them.
Before the $1.2B valuation.
Before the headlines.
Before the global hype.
I built the HR operating system that allowed Preply to scale fast — without destroying culture, engagement, or performance.
I’ve also built HR systems for:
• Wargaming
• Preply
• iDeals
• PeopleForce
• Alfa-Bank
• and other international companies
My impact in numbers
• 20+ years in HR & organizational design
• Built HR systems for multiple high-growth tech companies
• 150+ online courses
• 30 languages
• Students in 180 countries
• 130,000+ professionals trained on Udemy
• 200,000+ members in HR communities
• 5M+ views of articles & presentations
• YouTube Silver Button (educational HR channel)
What makes me different
Most instructors teach theory.
I build systems that work under pressure:
• hyper-growth
• chaos
• investor expectations
• global teams
• broken processes
At Preply (future Unicorn):
• Headcount: ~50 → 110+
• eNPS: 30 → 70 in 6 months
• Retention improved
• International workforce: 12% → 25%
• OKRs implemented and working
• Performance management system
• Leadership routines (1:1, feedback)
• Onboarding system + Employee Handbook
• HR tech stack (15Five, ATS, analytics)
• Berlin office launch
• Relocation & visa operations
• People Analytics via People Operations
That is not “HR theory”.
That is operational HR at scale.
Why learn from me
Because I combine three worlds:
Corporate HR at scale
• Unicorns
• gaming
• SaaS
• fintech
• global teams
AI & automation in HR
• chatbots
• analytics
• HRIS
• process automation
• AI agents
Industrial-grade learning design
• academies
• corporate universities
• measurable skill systems
What I built in education
• Founder of the world’s first & largest AI HR online academy
• 150+ courses in HR, AI, leadership, operations, analytics
• Used by professionals and companies worldwide
• Full learning ecosystem:
• content factory
• experts network
• learning analytics
• certification paths
Certifications & credibility
• PHRi
• SHRM-CP
• HCI sHRBP
Brought HRCI and SHRM certifications to 10+ countries.
Worked on HR projects with:
• Radford
• Deloitte
• EY
• HAY Group
• Korn Ferry
• and other global consultants
Awards & recognition
• Top-10 AI HR Leaders
• HR Person of the Year — Ukraine (2018)
• HR Person of the Year — Belarus (2017)
Author of:
• “Resume for a Million”
• “AI in HR”
#1 HR Instructor on Udemy
Udemy shareholder
What you get from my courses
• systems, not slides
• templates, not motivation quotes
• frameworks used in real companies
• step-by-step implementation
• AI tools you can apply immediately
• HR connected to business metrics:
• performance
• retention
• productivity
• cost
Final word
I don’t prepare people for exams.
I prepare them to build companies.
If your goal is:
• to become an HR leader, not an administrator
• to use AI instead of being replaced by it
• to build systems that scale, not paperwork
you are in the right place.
Welcome to the operating system behind modern HR.