AI Enablement: From Spectators to Practitioners
Designed for immediate AI adoption and scale inside modern organizations
Course Overview
This in-person training session helps professionals become confident AI practitioners through a mix of foundation-building, hands-on exploration, real use cases, and reasoning-based deployment work. The experience is fast, practical, and focused on giving you skills you can use immediately.
The program is designed to quickly upskill the Canadian workforce and goes well beyond basic AI literacy. You will learn how to understand AI, work with it, and apply it in ways that matter to your role.
It supports AI fluency across areas like HR, Finance, Content Creation, Web Development, IT, and Strategy. You will work with curated tools and guided workflows that show you how AI fits into the work you already do.
Who Will Benefit Most
Leaders who want to move from AI curiosity to capability.
Teams seeking a repeatable system for applying AI in real operations.
Professionals who need to confidently evaluate AI tools and opportunities.
Executives responsible for AI governance, safety, and adoption.
Anyone responsible for translating AI strategy into shipped solutions.
Meet Your Session Leader
Alan Macdonald
Co-Founder, Bold AI | Certified AI Trainer | Doctoral Researcher in AI & Business
Alan MacDonald is a strategic operator who turns AI from headline hype into high-leverage execution. With over 25 years leading data-driven marketing and product teams, he has delivered enterprise-scale outcomes across industries.
As Co-Founder and Chief AI Officer at Bold AI, Alan builds agent-powered infrastructures that help organizations reason, decide, and deploy faster than the market. He has trained more than 1,500 executives across Finance, HR, Marketing, and Operations to move beyond experimentation into real-world orchestration using tools they understand and outputs they trust.
A doctoral candidate in AI for Business, Alan holds dual master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Business. He is the co-author of the 2025 best-selling book The AI Revolution, which distills years of applied experience into an actionable blueprint for teams navigating transformation at the edge of technology.
Alan connects AI strategy to operational reality with precision, relevance, and systems that ship.
Training Details
Duration
Level
Format
Method
Language
Mode
Group Size
Prerequisites
3 hours
Beginner to intermediate
In-person
Fully immersive, hands-on
English
Synchronous, trainer-led
Up to 20 participants
None
Session Outline
Big Steps to AGI: Setting the Strategic Frame
Departmental Use Cases & Toolkits
Reasoning Models & Agent Frameworks
AI Co-Workers: Agents, Autonomy, and Oversight
Miniaturization & Hidden Layers of AI
Live Sprint Labs