# Education and Capability

> We get your people leading the work, not waiting on us.

- Type: Service
- URL: https://www.blackmountainai.com.au/services/education-and-capability

We run executive literacy programmes, hands-on workshops and whole-of-staff sessions that stick.

## 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.

## What the 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 we work 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 maturity stage

### Exploring

You are aware of AI but have no strategy yet.

- We brief your executive.
- We run whole-of-staff sessions.

### Developing

Your strategy is forming and the first use cases are running.

- We build role-based curriculum.
- We run hands-on workshops.

### Scaling

AI is running and you are ready to expand and govern it.

- We establish a community of practice.
- We bring in academic partnerships.