Training & workshops

An engaging session for organisations wanting to build a shared understanding of AI, reducing fear, building alignment.

 

We explore:

• Relevant examples of AI helping with documents, information, communication and routine tasks.

• How AI is developing, including tools that carry out tasks on your behalf.

• Accuracy, confidentiality and the importance of checking results.

• How AI can support your people’s experience, skills and judgement.

• Practical starting points within your organisation’s policies and approved tools.

People leave with: a clearer understanding of AI, useful ideas to try and greater confidence about when to use it.

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Format: 60 minutes plus questions and discussion, or a longer tailored briefing.

A hands-on workshop for teams ready to make more effective use of AI. We work through tasks relevant to your organisation, helping participants improve the quality of their results and recognise when further checking or professional input is needed.

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Depending on your priorities, we explore:

• Choosing tasks where AI can make a useful contribution.

• Giving AI the context, instructions and source material it needs.

• Working with reports, documents, spreadsheets and other information.

• Creating and adapting templates and recurring deliverables.

• Building reusable AI assistants or agents for defined tasks.

• - Checking outputs and deciding what is suitable to use.

 

Exercises are matched to participants’ experience and the tools available in your organisation.

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People leave with: practical techniques, examples they have worked through and a clearer approach to using AI in their own role.

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Format: 3, 4 or 6 hour workshop.

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AI is changing how organisations work, deliver services and make decisions. Boards and executives need enough understanding to guide that change and provide effective oversight.

Drawing on my experience in governance and applied AI, I make the technology tangible through live demonstrations, discussion and a realistic board scenario.

 

We explore:

• What AI can and cannot reliably do.

• Implications for strategy, services, workforce and professional capability.

• The respective responsibilities of the board, executive and staff.

• AI risk appetite, policies and expectations for appropriate use.

• Questions to ask about proposed investments and existing AI use.

• How directors and executives can use AI in their own work while protecting confidentiality and accountability.

People leave with: greater confidence to challenge proposals, oversee AI use and identify priorities for their organisation.

 

Format: Usually a half-day workshop, tailored to your board or leadership team.

I work with professional bodies, industry associations and organisations to develop AI sessions around the tasks and decisions their people face.

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Examples, exercises and discussion are tailored to your sector, including engineering and infrastructure, construction, professional services, government, health and education.

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Topics can include:

• Applying AI to common professional tasks.

• Reviewing and verifying AI-assisted work.

• Confidentiality, professional obligations and accountability.

• Maintaining expertise and developing early-career judgement.

• Establishing practical expectations for AI use across teams.

 

People leave with: relevant techniques and a stronger understanding of how to use AI within their professional responsibilities.

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Format: Short CPD sessions, half-day workshops or full-day programmes. Where formal CPD recognition is required, this is agreed with the relevant professional body.

When people start using AI, managers face new questions. What should we encourage? What needs checking? How do we assess work we know AI has helped produce? And how will less experienced staff develop judgement if AI does more of the work they used to learn from?

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This practical session helps leaders work through those questions. I combine live demonstrations with realistic workplace scenarios and facilitated discussion, drawing on my experience in engineering, leadership, governance and AI education.

 

We explore:

• Choosing where AI can improve your team’s work and where human involvement remains essential.

• Setting clear expectations for AI use, review and accountability.

• Recognising the difference between a polished output and sound work.

• Helping staff build confidence and share effective approaches.

• Developing junior staff when AI can complete many traditional learning tasks.

• Deciding what to delegate to AI, what to supervise and what people need to practise themselves.

 

People leave with: practical actions for their team, clearer expectations for AI-assisted work and ways to strengthen professional judgement as AI use grows.

 

Who it’s for: Team leaders, managers, practice leaders and people responsible for staff development.

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Format:  half-day workshop using scenarios tailored to your organisation.

A murder mystery. A real AI. Your team’s judgement.

 

What if your next team-building activity also taught your people how to get more from Generative AI?​

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The Last Prompt combines an interactive murder mystery with a hands-on AI training workshop. Teams examine physical clues, question testimony and work with VERITY, a real generative AI, to investigate the case.

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The mystery gives people a reason to ask better questions, try different approaches and check what AI tells them. Working together, they discover how clearer instructions, thoughtful follow-up and careful judgement can change the results.

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Throughout the session, I introduce practical tips, techniques and short demonstrations. Teams put these into practice immediately, using the unfolding case to build their skills and understanding. A facilitated debrief connects the experience to how they use AI in their everyday work.

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Through teamwork, fun and competition, your people practise:

• Giving AI a clear task, relevant context and a useful output format. Improving results through follow-up questions and refined instructions.

• Using AI to compare documents, organise information and identify gaps. Checking AI’s claims against original sources and evidence.

• Recognising when AI is reinforcing their assumptions and asking it to explore alternatives.

• Deciding what to delegate to AI, what to verify and where human judgement matters!!

 

People leave with: a memorable shared experience, greater confidence using Generative AI, techniques they have practised and a Best Practice Guide to Working Together with AI.

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Who it’s for: Professional teams, leadership groups and organisations looking to combine a team event or away day with practical AI capability building. 

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Format: A facilitated, face-to-face workshop in three acts, with new evidence, practical instruction and opportunities to apply the learning throughout, followed by a debrief. It can also be delivered over dinner.

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Professional development: Structured instruction, practical exercises and reflection can contribute to CPD, subject to participants’ professional-body requirements.