WORKSHOPS & ENABLEMENT
Two paths we help with: learning AI, and managing the change.
Two different problems, two different fixes. Some teams need their people to learn how to actually use AI. Others need the whole organization to adopt it. Pick the path that fits below. If you are not sure which one you need, a short readiness diagnostic will tell you. Every workshop is hands-on, run in person or virtually, and built around the work your people do every day.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START? · BEGIN HERE
AI Adoption Readiness Diagnostic
The lighter way in, before you commit to a full engagement.
2–3 weeks · fully virtual · credits in full toward any path or tier
Before you pick a path, find out where you actually stand. We interview your stakeholders, score your readiness across six dimensions, scan for change fatigue, and surface the shadow AI already running under your nose. You get back a written report with an honest recommended path, including which one to start with and why. Skip it, and the same instruments run as pre-work before Workshop 1, so nothing is wasted either way.
WHAT IT COVERS
- Stakeholder interviews across the people who will lead the change, feel its impact, and quietly resist it
- Readiness scored across six dimensions, from leadership alignment to data foundations to frontline capacity
- A change-fatigue scan that measures how much appetite your teams genuinely have for one more initiative
- A shadow AI sweep that surfaces the unofficial AI use already happening, as adoption data instead of a compliance problem
YOU GET BACK
- A written readiness report with an honest, recommended path
- Your six-dimension readiness scorecard
- A clear recommendation on which path and tier to start with
- Full credit of the diagnostic fee toward any engagement you book
PATH 1 · AI LITERACY
The AI Literacy Program
Teach your people to use AI well.
Three workshops, built on our three-tier skills taxonomy. Foundations gives the whole organization a shared, honest grasp of what AI is and how to use it.
Role-Specific Application then customizes the training by industry and role, so each team builds the exact skills their day-to-day work demands.
Builders takes your power users further, into the work that quietly upgrades a whole department.
Manager Enablement equips the people leading teams through it all. Run them on their own, or fold them into a full Adoption by Design™ engagement.
FOR EVERYONE · FRONTLINE TO EXECUTIVES
AI Foundations
A shared, honest picture of AI, and how to use it safely.
One full day · in person or two half-day virtual · no prerequisites
Foundations gives your whole organization the same honest understanding of what AI is, what it isn't, and how to use it in the flow of work. No prerequisites and no talking down. By the end of one day, every participant can explain how an LLM actually works in two sentences, has personally completed real tasks with your approved tools, and knows exactly what data never goes in.
WHAT THE DAY COVERS
- How LLMs actually work, no math: tokens, context windows, training vs. inference, and knowledge cutoffs
- Why it lies and how to catch it: hallucination, bias, and a practical verification habit scaled to stakes
- Prompting that isn't magic words: the context-task-format-example pattern, plus iteration as the real skill
- The lines: data safety, your AUP, shadow-AI amnesty, and an honest look at what AI means for their job
YOU LEAVE WITH
- A personal AI use map: where to start tomorrow, and the one task to never hand off
- Hands-on reps with your approved tools on real tasks from their own week
- A working verification habit, tiered by how much the answer matters
- A documented record that your team has completed AI literacy training
FOR EVERY TEAM · CUSTOMIZED BY INDUSTRY & ROLE
Role-Specific Application
The AI skills your people need for the work they actually do.
Half day · in person or virtual · L1 or equivalent fluency
Foundations gives everyone the same baseline. This is where it gets specific. Role-Specific Application is customized by industry and role to give each team the exact skills they need in their role, because adoption actually happens in the flow of work. Marketers learn AI for campaign work, HR learns it for job architecture and people analytics, finance learns it for reconciliation and reporting. The whole half day runs on the team's real artifacts, real prompts on real documents, because transfer dies the moment the examples get hypothetical.
WHAT THE HALF DAY COVERS
- Role-mapped use cases: the highest-value AI tasks for this specific team, drawn from their real workflows
- Hands-on with real artifacts: working prompts run on the team's own documents, never hypothetical samples
- Patterns that stick: reusable prompt and workflow templates tuned to the team's tools and outputs
- Judgment in context: what good looks like for this role, and where verification matters most
YOUR TEAM LEAVES WITH
- A role-specific playbook of AI use cases mapped to their actual work
- A library of tested prompts and templates for their tools and documents
- Reps completed on real tasks from their own week, not a generic demo
- A clear line on which work to hand to AI, and which to keep
FOR YOUR POWER USERS · ANALYSTS, OPS, DEVELOPERS
Builders
Turn the people already pushing the edges into force multipliers.
One full day · in person or two half-day virtual · L1 or equivalent fluency
Builders takes the people already pushing the edges, the analysts who live in spreadsheets, the ops people who automate, the shadow-AI power users your audit surfaced, and moves them into coding with AI, agents, and knowledge architecture. Mixed technical levels are welcome, and programmers and non-programmers get paired on purpose. By the end of the day, everyone has built one working automation or agent against a real task, and can explain the difference between a chatbot and an agent to their VP.
WHAT THE DAY COVERS
- From chatting to building: the maturity line from reusable prompts to automations to agents, and where each pays off
- Coding with AI for programmers and non-programmers alike: spec-first, test-first, and scripts you can actually read
- Agents in practice: the anatomy of an agentic workflow, where to place human gates, guardrails, and audit trails
- Knowledge architecture: structuring your team's context so every tool, and every new hire, gets grounded in minutes
YOU LEAVE WITH
- One working automation or agent, built against their real workflow
- A one-page guardrail checklist your security team will actually approve
- A knowledge-architecture starter map for their team, with owners assigned
- A prioritized build backlog: their next two automations, triaged on effort and impact
FOR PEOPLE MANAGERS · THE GROUP CHANGE DEPENDS ON MOST
Manager Enablement
Equip the people who lead teams through the change.
Half day · in person or virtual · 8–16 people managers · standalone or add-on
Research keeps naming people managers as the most critical and least equipped group in any change. 75% are not ready to lead it. This half day expands the manager module from Enable into full practiced mastery. Your managers rehearse the hard conversations, the “what does AI mean for my job?” kind. They learn to coach each person through the exact stage where adoption stalls, and build a sustainable weekly rhythm for leading change on top of business as usual. Available on its own even if you never run the full series, an add-on to any tier, and included in Enterprise.
WHAT THE HALF DAY COVERS
- ADKAR at the individual level: diagnosing where each person is stuck, and the coaching move that matches
- Practice round 1: the “AI and your role” conversation, on real scenarios
- Practice round 2: coaching the skeptic and spotting resistance before it hardens
- Leading while delivering: a 15-minute weekly team rhythm that fits a manager's real workload
YOUR MANAGERS LEAVE WITH
- A complete manager toolkit: talking points, team FAQ, coaching guide, and escalation paths
- A 30-day action plan with a dated first team conversation
- A 30-day follow-up check-in, included. We measure whether the conversations are actually happening
PATH 2 · CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Adoption by Design™
Make adoption actually stick.
Our flagship facilitated series takes your organization from AI strategy to sustained adoption. Four workshops spaced across your project timeline, connected by fieldwork, delivered in person or virtually and customized to your context. Built on Prosci’s ADKAR model and Kotter’s change principles, compiled from more than 40 research sources.
BEFORE THE BUILD
Empathize
Aligning strategy before you spend a dollar.
Most AI initiatives start with a tool. This one starts with your people. Empathize is a full day spent understanding the organization the change is about to land on: how much change your teams are already carrying, where AI is quietly being used without permission, and which stakeholders will make or break the effort. By the end of the day, the group has a shared, honest picture of where the organization actually stands.
WHAT THE DAY COVERS
- Change landscape and readiness: what your teams are already carrying, and how much capacity truly exists for one more initiative
- Shadow AI audit: surfacing the unofficial AI use already happening, as adoption data instead of a compliance problem
- Stakeholder mapping on the Adoption by Design™ Matrix: who has influence, who feels the impact, and what to do about each group
- Use case ideation: a structured exercise that turns frontline frustrations into a bank of candidate AI opportunities
YOU LEAVE WITH
- A readiness and change-capacity snapshot
- Your completed Stakeholder Matrix
- A validated use case bank
- A resistance map with first interventions
FROM IDEAS TO ACTION
Envision
Prioritizing what moves the needle.
Every organization leaves Empathize with more ideas than capacity. Envision is where the hard choices get made, together and out loud. The group sorts every candidate use case by effort and impact, then takes the winners into the Workflow Redesign Lab: mapping how work happens today and how it should happen with AI in the loop. This is the day the initiative stops being abstract and starts becoming real.
WHAT THE DAY COVERS
- Effort/impact prioritization: a disciplined exercise that separates quick wins from strategic bets and money pits
- Workflow Redesign Lab: redesigning the actual day-to-day work, because AI layered on old processes is cosmetic adoption
- Skills mapping: a three-tier view of what everyone, affected roles, and builders each need to learn
- Governance foundations: drafting the guardrails that give people confidence to use AI safely
YOU LEAVE WITH
- A prioritized use case shortlist with business cases
- Current-state and future-state workflow maps
- A draft AI governance framework
- A 30-day quick win plan
LAUNCH WITH CONFIDENCE
Enable
Building the engine for adoption.
A plan is not a launch. Enable is a full day building the machinery that carries the change: the pilot that proves value, the communication that reaches each audience with the message they actually need, and the managers and champions who will carry the change long after the workshop ends. Special attention goes to people managers, the group research consistently identifies as the most critical and least equipped in any change.
WHAT THE DAY COVERS
- Pilot definition and phased rollout: who goes first, what success looks like, and how the waves sequence
- Communication planning: the right message, from the right sender, for each stakeholder group
- Manager enablement: practiced conversations, coaching tools, and an FAQ kit for the people leading teams through the change
- Champion network design: identifying and equipping the trusted peers who make adoption spread
YOU LEAVE WITH
- A complete pilot and rollout plan
- A communication framework by audience
- A manager toolkit
- Your champion network design and training strategy
MAKE IT STICK
Evolve
Measuring what matters and building what's next.
Weeks after launch, the question is no longer whether you deployed. It's whether anything actually changed. Evolve reconvenes the group to look at the evidence honestly: real usage, real behaviors, real impact, measured on the Adoption Impact Model™. The day surfaces where people have quietly reverted to old ways of working, what the champions are hearing on the ground, and what gets fixed, scaled, or stopped next.
WHAT THE DAY COVERS
- Adoption evaluation: Usage, Behaviors, and Impact, measured honestly instead of celebrated prematurely
- Workflow effectiveness audit: the check that catches cosmetic adoption before it calcifies
- Health checks: change fatigue, governance in practice, and manager effectiveness
- Roadmap planning: a 30-day and 90-day forward plan with an owner on every item
YOU LEAVE WITH
- An adoption scorecard on the Impact Model™
- A workflow effectiveness audit
- A refreshed champion and manager support plan
- A forward roadmap with owners and deadlines
In person, virtual, or hybrid
Full days at your location, or two structured half-day virtual sessions per workshop. Same agendas, same deliverables, same price.
Moves at the pace of your business
Workshops are spaced deliberately and connected by fieldwork. The weeks between sessions are where adoption actually happens.
Customized, never compressed
Engagements scale by removing activities, never by squeezing them. What we run, we run properly.
Deliverables in 5 days
After every workshop, you receive a complete summary of outputs, decisions, and owners within 5 business days.
Ready to find the right starting point?
Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. We’ll talk about your initiative, your organization, and which path and engagement fit. No obligation and no pitch.