VERBATIM LEARNING

Format
Talks & workshops
Audience
Boards, teams, cohorts
Approach
Built for the room
Consulting

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Learning

I offer workshops and tutorials for individuals, small groups, and organizations.

Every learning opportunity is shaped around the people I’m teaching—their needs, intentions, craft, and industry. These specifics help determine how we work together, what we focus on, and what you can expect from the tool or suite of tools you’re learning.

My general philosophy for learning to use AI tools with confidence and intention is explored in a recent post I wrote about Orientation.

The short version is this: AI tools are context machines. They consume context and produce more context—in the form of text, images, audio, code, and more.

The quickest way to understand these tools is to begin with a thorough orientation: What do you want? What do you expect? What is the tool capable of producing? It sounds simple, but in practice it can be surprisingly difficult—and learning how to answer those questions is a large part of learning how to use AI well.

Please explore the packages below, and reach out if you have any questions. I’m always happy to work with you to shape a learning opportunity around your particular needs.

Session format
Single hourly session
One hour, one problem. Bring a specific question, tool, or workflow and leave with an answer instead of homework.
Set of three sessions
Three sessions spread across a few weeks, for the kind of skill that needs more than an hour to actually stick.
Group size
Individual
One person, one hour, whatever you're actually stuck on.
Small group
A handful of colleagues working through the same material, at the same table, at the same time.
Organizations
Built around a whole team or department, calibrated to the tools and workflows they're already using.

Speaking

I speak to audiences who are trying to think clearly about AI, not be sold on it. Boards, conference rooms, cohorts of writers and editors, healthcare and association leaders working out what any of this means for the people they serve. The talk changes with the room. The starting point doesn't: most AI decisions are actually decisions about direction, and that's worth saying out loud before anyone reaches for a tool.

Recent themes
Organizational development in the age of agentic AI
What structure, roles, and decision-making look like once AI agents are doing real work inside the organization.
Human-centred AI
Keeping people, not the tool, at the center of every decision about how AI gets used.
Building Sympathetic Technology
What it actually takes to build AI that respects the people and organizations it touches.
AI for healthcare organizations
What AI means for care, privacy, and trust in healthcare settings.
The future of knowledge work
How AI is changing what it means to think, research, and know something for a living.
AI for writers and publishers
Where AI helps the craft of writing and publishing, and where it doesn't.
Leading through technological change
How leaders steady an organization while the ground under it keeps shifting.
Responsible AI adoption
Adopting AI with judgment, not just speed.
The future of reading and writing
What happens to how we read and write as more of both is mediated by AI.
Designing better relationships with technology
Building a healthier, clearer relationship between people and the tools they use.

None of these are fixed talks. Each one gets built for the specific room, the specific questions, the specific stakes in play that day.

Workshops

Workshops here aren't a curriculum delivered at people. They're built around the questions an organization is actually sitting with, which means the content changes but the approach doesn't: start with what's true about this team, this board, this moment, and work from there.

Formats
Executive briefings
Focused sessions that get leadership oriented fast, before bigger decisions get made.
Team workshops
Working sessions built around what a specific team is trying to figure out.
Leadership retreats
Time away from the day-to-day to think clearly about direction as a leadership group.
Strategy sessions
Structured conversations that turn a vague direction into a decision.
Conference presentations
Talks built for a conference stage, sized to the room and the time.
Half-day and full-day intensives
Concentrated sessions for when a team needs real progress in one sitting.
Multi-session cohorts
A series of sessions that build on each other over weeks, not one and done.
Community workshops
Sessions built for members, volunteers, and the people closest to the mission.
Writing residencies
Extended time with a group of writers, working through craft and practice together.
Custom programs, built to spec
Anything that doesn't fit a category above, shaped to what the organization actually needs.

Some of these run in an afternoon. Some run across months. The right length depends on what the organization needs to walk away knowing how to do on its own.

Have an event or workshop in mind?

Tell me about the room and the problem you're trying to solve in it, and I'll tell you what shape makes sense.

Let's talk

These are the kinds of conversations I have most often, with organizations, writers, publishers, healthcare leaders, and creative communities. Every engagement gets developed around the questions you're actually trying to answer, not a fixed package.