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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.

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.

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.

Creative Problem Solving

In the current volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world, solving problems in unique ways and thinking outside of the box are becoming increasingly important for an organization’s success.

Description

This highly-interactive, fun, and fast-paced session provides a framework for understanding and applying tools to meet real business needs. You will walk away from this session with increased confidence to generate creative ideas, techniques to recognize/replace unproductive thinking
patterns, and a methodology to foster creative potential and innovation.

Participants are encouraged to think about real-life organizational problems and bring these situations to the program to discuss and brainstorm together. By walking through these problems together, participants will learn the steps to creatively solve problems.

Finally, participants will complete an assessment prior to the program to discover their natural tendencies when thinking creatively and where they can shift their attention to yield better results.

Audience

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

Outcomes

Participants will walk away with these skills:

  • How to define and unleash creativity
  • Understand the myths of creativity
  • Learn to identify problems with effective brainstorming
  • Gain skills to strengthen creativity
  • Capture ways to think differently
  • Learn The Three-Legged Stool of Innovation
  • Tackle actual organizational problems

Venue

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