Executive Briefings
High-level sessions for boards, senior leaders, associations, and public-sector teams that need a grounded overview of the AI landscape, practical opportunities, risks, and investment priorities.
Selective Applied Advisory
My consulting work is selective and closely connected to my academic research, public scholarship, and applied partnerships. I work with organizations that want practical, responsible, and evidence-informed support for AI adoption, workforce enablement, digital transformation, and analytics strategy.
Engagements are designed to help organizations move beyond AI experimentation toward useful, governed, and repeatable workflows. The emphasis is on building internal capability, not dependency: clearer use cases, better prompts, stronger quality control, responsible governance, and practical training materials that teams can continue using after a session ends.
Engagement Formats
Applied AI Workshops
Hands-on sessions using relevant scenarios, sample data, prompt frameworks, and guided exercises so participants can see how AI supports communication, analysis, reporting, operations, and decision-making.
Governance and Responsible Adoption
Support for developing practical guidance around acceptable use, quality assurance, data handling, human oversight, risk tolerance, and responsible implementation across teams.
Workflow and Capability Building
Collaborative development of prompt libraries, workflow templates, training assets, playbooks, and implementation guidelines that help organizations scale learning beyond a single event.
Common Focus Areas
- AI strategy and readiness: helping leadership teams identify realistic, high-value opportunities and avoid technology-first adoption.
- Workforce AI enablement: teaching staff how to use AI as part of structured workflows rather than simple copy-and-paste interactions.
- Microsoft 365 Copilot and workplace AI: applied training for managers and departments using real communication, meeting, reporting, and analysis scenarios.
- Industry-specific AI workshops: examples, exercises, and use cases tailored to agriculture, municipal work, health, education, professional services, SMEs, and community organizations.
- AI governance and safety: plain-language support for responsible use, validation, policy development, and organizational standards.
- Advanced workflow exploration: introductory advisory on AI orchestration, agents, automation pipelines, and emerging AI-enabled work processes where appropriate.
Representative Engagements
These examples show the range of formats I have delivered, from keynote-style public education to hands-on organizational training and applied workshops.
- McCain / Potato Growers of Alberta: A three-hour workshop for the potato industry covering AI foundations, business applications, field management, resource use, market intelligence, operations, machine vision, and hands-on exercises with realistic data. Related materials: McCain project page and live-built game example.
- Western Tractor / John Deere: A three-hour program for department heads and cross-functional teams focused on generative AI foundations, prompt structure, customer communications, data analysis, meeting efficiency, and scalable departmental adoption. Related materials: Western Tractor project page.
- RANG, Indigenous Services Canada, and Health Canada: A session for First Nations health leaders on AI in plain language, machine learning versus large language models, effective prompting, prompt building, safety, governance, and fit with organizational standards and values. Related materials: RANG project page.
- City of Lethbridge: A talk and hands-on training project supporting Microsoft Copilot adoption and helping managers understand practical AI use cases with staff. Related materials: Lethbridge Copilot project page.
- Rotary Ag Dinner: An after-dinner talk for approximately 200 attendees, including civic and political leaders, using accessible examples and public-professor-style education. Related video: Public Professor talk example.
Best Fit
These engagements work best for organizations that want to approach AI thoughtfully and strategically. The strongest projects usually combine leadership alignment, workforce readiness, practical use cases, and clear operational goals. I do not position this work as generic AI consulting; it is applied, educational, and grounded in responsible digital transformation.
Booking and Inquiries
Consulting and applied training inquiries can be booked through my speaking representative, Ken Kirkwood at Speakers Associates, or initiated through LinkedIn for research-aligned collaborations.