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Leveraging AI with Critical Thinking

When critical thinking drives AI use, the results are more accurate, more useful, and more trustworthy.

Description

AI tools are only as effective as the thinking behind them. Without intentional critical thinking, AI can produce outputs that are vague, inaccurate, or misleading. This program gives participants the skills to use AI as a precision instrument, not just a shortcut.

Participants will learn to craft prompts that guide AI toward clear and relevant results, evaluate outputs with a discerning eye, and refine responses into decision-ready information.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Using prompt engineering intentionally to guide AI toward clear, relevant, and high-quality responses
  • Evaluating AI-generated outputs critically by checking for accuracy, identifying assumptions, and refining responses to remove error and express your/your brand’s voice
  • Strengthening analysis through iterative prompting by asking follow-up questions and exploring alternative perspectives to deepen insights
  • Understanding when and how to cite AI, including when disclosure is appropriate and how to judge the reliability of AI‑provided sources

Venue

Health United Building
1723 Cleneay Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45212 United States + Google Map

Ethical Decision Making and Responsible AI

Responsible AI use is not just a compliance issue — it is a leadership imperative.

Description

As AI becomes embedded in everyday workplace decisions, leaders are increasingly responsible for ensuring that its use is fair, transparent, and aligned with organizational values. The stakes are real: bias, privacy risks, and lack of accountability can create serious legal, ethical, and reputational consequences.

This program equips participants with practical ethical frameworks to navigate complex AI-related decisions. Participants will leave with the tools and confidence to communicate clearly about AI and to protect both their people and their organizations.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Applying practical ethical frameworks to workplace situations where AI intersects with people, processes, and decision-making
  • Recognizing and addressing bias in AI tools by learning how to spot risks
  • Communicating transparently about AI use so employees and stakeholders understand when AI is used, its limitations, and how outputs are validated

Venue

Health United Building
1723 Cleneay Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45212 United States + Google Map

Leading Through AI Change

Technology evolves quickly, but successful adoption depends on people.

Description

Introducing AI into an organization is not just a technology challenge—it is a leadership and change management challenge. Even the most powerful tools will fall short if teams lack the awareness, motivation, and confidence to use them effectively. Leaders play a critical role in building understanding, alignment, and momentum as new technologies reshape how work gets done.

This program equips participants with practical strategies to increase buy-in, guide teams through change, and support successful AI adoption. Participants will also explore how AI can redesign work to make roles more engaging, efficient, and impactful.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Building alignment and buy-in using the ADKAR model for AI adoption
  • Understanding how AI can elevate task variety, autonomy, meaning, and feedback through intentional job design
  • Using data collection, pre/post measures, and social influence to make a compelling case for AI adoption and sustain momentum

Venue

Health United Building
1723 Cleneay Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45212 United States + Google Map

Supporting Human Performance Using AI

AI can sharpen a leader's thinking, but it is the leader's humanity that makes the difference.

Description

Effective leadership depends on the quality of human connection and no AI tool can replace the judgment, empathy, and accountability that great leaders bring to their people. But AI can make leaders better prepared, more self-aware, and more effective in the conversations that matter most.

This program explores how leaders can use AI as a thoughtful partner in coaching, feedback, and performance conversations, not to automate relationships, but to strengthen them. Participants will practice using AI to challenge their own assumptions, prepare for difficult discussions, and approach performance challenges with curiosity rather than judgment.

Audience

Professionals in a manager role, individual contributors, or leaders of any kind.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Improving the quality of feedback conversations by using AI to translate frustrations into clear observations that support employee growth
  • Shifting from judgment to curiosity by using AI to generate thoughtful questions and uncover underlying causes behind performance challenges
  • Applying practical guardrails for responsible AI use in leadership, ensuring AI supports human judgment, protects confidentiality, and strengthens rather than replaces human relationships

Venue

Health United Building
1723 Cleneay Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45212 United States + Google Map

Beyond Market Rate: Aligning Pay to the Value of Work

Compensation is more than a budget line item—it’s a strategic lever that shapes retention, performance, and trust. Yet many organizations still rely on market benchmarks as the primary driver of pay, even though market data is backward-looking and increasingly misaligned with how work is evolving.

Description

This interactive session equips senior HR leaders to move beyond job titles and “going rate” shortcuts and build a more strategic, data-driven approach to compensation. Participants will learn how to clarify their compensation philosophy, identify the skills that truly create value (including “hard-to-automate” capabilities like judgment and relationship-building), and translate internal role value into repeatable decision rules leaders can apply consistently.

Through practical examples and hands-on exercises, participants will pressure-test their reliance on benchmarks, reframe roles through a skills lens, and leave with a clear roadmap for implementing pay practices that are fair, defensible, and future-ready—turning complexity into clarity leaders can communicate with confidence.

Audience

Appropriate for senior HR leaders.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Recognizing the limitations and risks of benchmark-first pay decisions
  • Drafting a clear compensation philosophy aligned with strategic priorities
  • Building an internal value framework that reflects real role impact—not just job titles
  • Identifying value-creating skills (including capabilities that are often undervalued) and integrating them into pay decisions
  • Spotting common drivers of inequity and inconsistency
  • Translating internal value and skills into clear, repeatable pay decision rules
  • Creating a practical roadmap that uses market data as an input while strengthening culture, reinforcing trust, and positioning the organization for long-term success.

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Practical AI for Efficiency

As AI accelerates across industries, professionals need more than basic prompting skills—they need a working understanding of how AI systems function, how data shapes their output, and how intelligent workflows can transform operations.

Description

This program provides a practical and modern foundation in applied AI, blending accessible technical explanations with hands-on demonstrations of automation and real-world use cases.

Participants explore a range of applied capabilities, including how to identify the right tasks for automation, when to deploy agentic workflows, and how to structure work so humans and AI systems complement one another effectively. The session covers how to leverage data for advanced analysis, how to design intelligent processes that scale, and how to recognize the jagged edge of AI intelligence—where systems perform exceptionally well and where they fail in predictable ways. These topics are introduced through practical exercises and demonstrations that help participants build confidence using AI in real workflows. From automating routine tasks to augmenting complex analytical work, the session illustrates how AI can radically increase productivity across diverse roles.

By connecting concepts from classical machine learning, data analytics, and modern Generative AI, participants gain a cohesive understanding of how these technologies fit together—and how to deploy them responsibly, efficiently, and at scale within their organizations.

Audience

Professionals in any industry who want to explore and gain knowledge about artificial intelligence.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understand the core building blocks of modern AI and how machine learning, data pipelines, and GenAI fit into today’s tech stacks.
  • Build technical fluency to collaborate effectively with data teams, engineers, and analysts.
  • Evaluate how data structure, quality, and format impact AI and machine learning performance.
  • Identify tasks suitable for AI, anticipate the “jagged edge” of intelligence, and avoid misuse.
  • Gain hands-on skills in designing intelligent workflows that blend human oversight with automation.
  • Apply Generative AI to analytics tasks—from summarization and pattern detection to advanced augmentation.

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094

Strategic AI for Business

The rise of Generative AI is reshaping not only how organizations operate, but how they think, compete, and innovate in an environment defined by rapid technological change.

Description

The session begins with a practical, holistic overview of prompting and context engineering—the core disciplines that allow today’s leading generative AI systems to support work across every level of an organization. Participants will learn how to work effectively with the best Generative AI tools on the market, understanding both the art and science behind high-quality outputs.

From there, the focus expands to leadership in the modern enterprise: how AI is altering competitive dynamics, how innovation pipelines must evolve, and how managers can guide individuals, teams, and cross-functional groups through transformation. The program blends research-driven insights with real-world examples, illustrating how organizations create value with AI, how teams integrate AI into workflows, and how to shape culture, accountability, and decision-making in an era of intelligent agents.

Audience

Professionals in any industry who want to explore and gain knowledge about artificial intelligence.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Master prompting and context engineering to work effectively with today’s top AI systems.
  • Evaluate emerging AI trends and separate true breakthroughs from short-lived hype.
  • Understand how AI reshapes competitive advantage, business models, and long-term strategy.
  • Learn why individual AI productivity gains don’t always scale and how organizations can close the gap.
  • Grasp disruptive innovation in the AI era and identify inflection points for organizational adaptation.
  • Analyze practical frameworks for leading individuals, teams, and cross-functional groups as they adopt AI tools and automations.
  • Apply techniques for AI-driven experimentation, rapid iteration, and data-informed innovation.

Influencing and Persuading for Results

When ideas are met with hesitation, influence bridges the gap between being heard and making things happen.

Description

In today’s dynamic work environment, success depends on engaging others, building trust, and moving forward together. Influence is the ability to guide people through credibility and integrity, while persuasion turns ideas into cooperation by connecting logic and emotion to shared values.

This one-day program equips you to influence and persuade ethically and effectively. You’ll learn how to strengthen relationships, communicate with purpose, and navigate resistance with confidence, enabling collaboration and meaningful results.

Audience

Employees at all levels who need to effectively influence others up, down, and over in order to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Build credibility and trust that encourages others to listen and follow.
  • Adjust your approach to influence different audiences and situations.
  • Listen to understand, not just to respond, so you can address real needs.
  • Present ideas in ways that motivate action and support.
  • Handle resistance constructively, transforming disagreement into progress.

Social Skills for Professional Success

Harnessing social and emotional intelligence to strengthen leadership, relationships, and team collaboration.

Description

Social and Emotional Intelligence (SEI) is a cornerstone of professional and personal success, promoting enhanced self-awareness, improved communication, stronger relationships, and improved personal health. This program leverages a four-quadrant SEI model based off of Daniel Goleman’s research to explore how SEI fosters inclusive leadership, encourages conflict resolution, and builds trust and rapport within teams. Participants will discover how SEI impacts essential skills like stress management, resiliency, empathy, and effective teamwork, driving both personal and team growth.

Through a comprehensive assessment, participants will identify their SEI strengths and areas for growth. The program offers actionable strategies and tools for improvement, empowering participants to promote team engagement and create a culture of collaboration. Optional follow-up coaching is available to support ongoing development and success.

Audience

Appropriate for any professional who wants to enhance their creative problem-solving skills.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Gain an in-depth understanding of the four-quadrant SEI model.
  • Explore the business case and health benefits of strengthening SEI.
  • Learn how SEI fosters improved communication, inclusive leadership, and team engagement.
  • Develop actionable plans for stress management, resiliency, empathy, and teamwork.
  • Enhance skills to encourage personal and team growth while promoting effective conflict resolution.

One-Hour Virtual Coaching Session

This one-hour virtual coaching session provides tailored guidance to help you navigate your workplace interactions, build strong professional relationships, and communicate with confidence.

Influencing in a Business Environment

Professionals become frustrated, aggravated, and discouraged when they feel like they are limited in what they can do, are not being heard, or their ideas are not grasped or appreciated.

Description

Organizations oftentimes have many different departments that work together to achieve the overall mission and vision. However, these departments can become siloed and develop agendas of their own. How does a professional get buy-in from colleagues at all levels of the organization in this type of business environment?

The key is influencing. This one-day program will provide strategies to influence others no matter their position or title to achieve common goals that will propel the overall organization toward success. Goal setting, preparation to be persuasive, and crafting an effective message for specific audiences will all be discussed through conversations and experiential activities.

Audience

Employees at all levels who need to effectively influence others up, down, and over in order to achieve personal, team, and organizational goals.

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • Understanding and leveraging various ways to be influential
  • Creating a plan to become a trusted advisor that colleagues seek out for guidance
  • Strengthening the ability to have a voice that is heard
  • Defining clear outcomes and identifying objectives, obstacles, strategies, and tactics
  • Responding to concerns and hesitations in an impactful way
  • Maintaining commitments to earn trust and credibility

Venue

Cintas Center
1624 Musketeer Drive
Cincinnati, 45207 United States + Google Map
Phone
513-745-1094