Education and Capability
We get your people leading the work, not waiting on us.
We run executive literacy programmes, hands-on workshops and whole-of-staff sessions that stick.
The service
Confident staff are what actually makes an AI strategy work.
Strategies, frameworks and proofs of concept do not deliver value on their own, because people do. We design learning that meets staff where they are, build confidence through hands-on practice and connect your workforce to a wider community of practitioners. We co-founded AI in the Shadows with an Australian university, which is an open Canberra meetup for people working with this technology.
Services
Here is what education and capability work involves.
- We deliver all-staff AI presentations and keynotes.
- We run AI literacy programmes for executives and the SES.
- We run hands-on workshops covering generative AI, prompting and safe use.
- We build role-based curriculum for policy, delivery, cyber and legal teams.
- We design and facilitate your community of practice.
- We partner with academia, and we align to the APS Academy where that applies.
Why it works
Here is why we approach education and capability this way.
AI adoption stalls without confidence, and training is the cheapest risk control available to you.
People need somewhere safe to make mistakes with AI before the stakes are real.
Executives who understand AI make better investment and risk decisions than executives who do not.
Community-led learning builds advocates who carry the message long after we have left.
By stage
We scope education and capability to where you actually are.
You are aware of AI but have no strategy yet.
- We brief your executive.
- We run whole-of-staff sessions.
Your strategy is forming and the first use cases are running.
- We build role-based curriculum.
- We run hands-on workshops.
AI is running and you are ready to expand and govern it.
- We establish a community of practice.
- We bring in academic partnerships.
Evidence
This is our education and capability work on real engagements.
Giving charity CEOs the confidence to use AI properly
Charity chief executives were being asked to make decisions about AI without the grounding to make them safely. We ran capability workshops with CEOs across the Canberra community sector on where the ethical and legal lines sit, and where AI can improve the services they deliver.
- We aimed it at the people making the decision
- CEO-levelWe aimed it at the people making the decision
- We grounded it in their actual obligations
- Ethical & legalWe grounded it in their actual obligations
- We delivered it across organisations at once
- Sector-wideWe delivered it across organisations at once
Building AI capability at two scales: the enterprise and the community
Policy does not make people AI-capable. We pair whole-of-agency sessions that reach everyone with a small, open Canberra practitioner community co-founded with an Australian university, because confidence is built by trying things rather than by reading guidance.
- One agency heard the same message at once
- Whole-of-staffOne agency heard the same message at once
- The partnership keeps sessions evidence-based
- UniversityThe partnership keeps sessions evidence-based
- AI in the Shadows meets regularly in Canberra
- ~30 peopleAI in the Shadows meets regularly in Canberra
Contact
Tell us what you are trying to do and we will tell you whether AI helps.
If AI is the wrong tool for your problem we will say so, and we will explain why.