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Everything we teach, drawn from work on the front lines. Scroll to explore. Pick what excites your team and we shape the mix.

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Four pillars of AI proficiency

Start here. Then choose your path.

Everyone begins with the first pillar. After that, it is your adventure: pick the pillars that match where your team is headed, and we help you sequence the sessions. Choose a pillar to jump to its sessions.

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Start here

Foundations.

One shared starting line. Every team, every level, before anything else on this menu.

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The Mindset Shift & The Laws of AI Excellence

AI as amplifier, not replacement. The six rules we teach every team first.

You leave with

  • A shared mental model
  • Six rules for using AI well
  • One starting line for the team
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Prompting Best Practices

How to talk to AI so it understands you. Simple habits that hold up on real work.

You leave with

  • Simple, memorable habits
  • Usable answers, faster
  • Confidence to push back and refine
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Bot Building

Your first real builds. Projects, Gems, Custom GPTs, Copilot Agents.

You leave with

  • Custom bots for repeat work
  • No more retyping context
  • A skill that carries across platforms
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Fighting AI Work Slop

AI makes it easy to stop thinking. It happens to everyone, and it costs credibility. We show you how to catch it in your own work, and how to use AI to keep your work sharp.

You leave with

  • How to spot slop before your reader does
  • Habits that keep you intentional
  • Using AI to check your AI
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Tools · The software you already pay for

Platform & Tool Mastery.

Proven on real client work. Every session runs in the tools your team opens every morning, then climbs from chat to agents.

WorkshopTools

AI in Microsoft Excel

Proven on real financial services work.

You leave with

  • Faster analysis, cleaner output
  • Fewer manual hours
  • Confidence on your own spreadsheets
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AI in Microsoft PowerPoint

The do's, the don'ts, live demos.

You leave with

  • Idea to finished deck, faster
  • Clear do's and don'ts
  • Better slides with less effort
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Advanced Microsoft Copilot

The newest features, put to work across Microsoft 365.

You leave with

  • Real automation, no programming
  • The new features worth your time
  • Best practices from daily client work
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Gemini Notebook

The Google power tool you may know as NotebookLM.

You leave with

  • A working command of the tool
  • Documents and research, digested faster
  • A tool you reach for daily
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Visual Collateral with Claude Design & ChatGPT

Best practices for one-pagers, decks, and graphics that look like your brand.

You leave with

  • Brand-true visuals without a designer
  • The workflow from brief to finished asset
  • What to fix by hand, what to leave to the tool
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Claude: Crash Course to Cowork

The guided tour, then the advanced work. Projects, Connectors, and Skills, then Cowork agents that automate real tasks and run in the background.

You leave with

  • Skills: repeat tasks done your way, every time
  • Working Cowork agents, no code
  • Scheduled tasks and plugins for your function
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ChatGPT: Crash Course to Agents

The same climb on ChatGPT. The newest releases, then plugins, Work, Skills, and Astra 6, put to work on your job.

You leave with

  • Trained on new releases as they ship
  • Plugins and Skills on your real tasks
  • Agents handling the repeat work
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Consumer Agents: Grokbot & Muse

Agents that act on your behalf. What they can do, where they fall down, and how to use them without getting burned.

You leave with

  • Hands-on with Grokbot and Muse
  • What to hand an agent and what to keep
  • Guardrails before you turn one loose
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Tools · Customized advanced training

Made to Order.

Name the tool, the function, and the use case. We design the training on your actual work, then build the homework and host the reinforcement session.

WorkshopTools

Custom advanced training

Getting our arms around new tools and cutting-edge functionality is what we do. Generic demos are not on the menu.

You leave with

  • Training designed on your use cases
  • Your team current on cutting-edge tools, fast
  • Homework built around your real work
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Strategy · How we make it stick

Reinforcement Homework.

Take any item on this menu. We create the homework, your team does it, and we host the reinforcement session.

FacilitatedStrategy

The recap

What we trained on last session, refreshed in minutes.

You leave with

  • Expert validation on what's working
  • Course correction, live
  • A refreshed shared vocabulary
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The report-out

Where the change happens. Everyone shares what worked and what didn't, with an expert in the room.

You leave with

  • People learning from each other
  • Lightbulbs and solutions, in the room
  • A dialogue that outlives the session
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Strategy · The bigger picture

Strategy, Adoption & Policy.

For the people deciding where the company goes with AI, and the people responsible for getting it there. Facilitated policy sessions end with the document written.

TalkStrategy

AI Transformation

The playbook for transforming roles, teams, and whole companies with AI. Handing out logins is not a transformation. Our honest report from 100+ businesses.

You leave with

  • A clear read on what's real vs noise
  • How roles, teams, and companies actually change
  • Nine playbooks from teams winning with AI
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The Knowledge Worker Using AI

A live look at how serious AI users actually work.

You leave with

  • A real picture of an AI-amplified workday
  • Examples you can copy tomorrow
  • The "I could be doing this" moment
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The Safe AI Rollout Playbook

Security, privacy, and governance while the ground moves.

You leave with

  • The security questions that matter
  • Governance that keeps up
  • Speed without recklessness
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Train the Trainer

We teach you the way we do it, so you can scale it.

You leave with

  • Our build process, handed over
  • Fluency in our materials and methods
  • Training that scales, with or without us
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AI Data Security & Privacy Policy

What data can go into which tools, who decides, and what happens when someone gets it wrong. We draft the policy in the room.

You leave with

  • The decisions your policy has to make, made
  • A drafted policy, written with you
  • Rules your team can actually follow
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AI Use in Writing Policy or Guide

Where AI belongs in your writing and where it doesn't. We settle the standards with you and you leave with the guide.

You leave with

  • Where AI is welcome, and where it isn't
  • Standards for review and disclosure
  • A written guide, drafted with you
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Live, tailored to the room

Talks & Keynotes.

For leadership meetings, offsites, and all-hands. Built from what we see across 100+ businesses, not from headlines.

TalkStrategyNew every month

The State of AI for Business Leaders

A monthly read on where AI stands. Rebuilt from scratch every month with brand-new material.

You leave with

  • What's new and what actually matters
  • The front-line view from 100+ businesses
  • A standing session on your calendar
TalkPolicy

Capability-Based Governance

What can the AI see, change, and send? Govern that, not a list of tool names.

You leave with

  • Govern capabilities, not tool lists
  • The Read / Draft / Execute approval model
  • A six-question vetting checklist
TalkStrategy

Citizen Development

Let people build freely, then lift what matters onto real rails.

You leave with

  • One pipeline: Build, Trigger, Harden, Steady
  • The triggers that mean graduation
  • Hardening, not rebuilding
TalkStrategy

You Built Something. Now What?

Six fixes that take a vibe-coded app from fragile to owned.

You leave with

  • A checklist to own what you built
  • The habit of catching AI when it's wrong
  • Rollback and spend alerts, day one
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The charged topics, grounded

Social Issues.

The conversations people are already having in the hallway. We bring the data and don't dodge the hard parts.

TalkStrategy

AI and the Environment

The data center debate, grounded in data instead of headlines.

You leave with

  • The real arguments, with the data behind them
  • A calmer, grounded conversation
  • Room to form your own view
TalkStrategy

AI Career Advice

How to learn AI, master it, and translate it to the office. For college, early career, and career transitions.

You leave with

  • How to learn AI, then how to master it
  • Translating AI skill into office work
  • Our playbooks for every stage of the move

How every session works

Train. Do the homework. Report out.

  1. 01

    Train

    A live session on your real work, in your tools.

  2. 02

    Homework

    We write it. Your team does it on the job.

  3. 03

    Report out

    Everyone shares what worked, with an expert in the room.

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