AI Enablement: From Spectators to Practitioners
Designed for immediate AI adoption and scale inside modern organizations
Course Overview
This in-person, immersive training session transforms professionals into AI practitioners through an accelerated combination of foundational awareness, hands-on experimentation, applied use cases, and reasoning-based deployment design. Designed to rapidly upskill the Canadian workforce, the program goes far beyond AI literacy.
It operationalizes AI fluency across domains like HR, Finance, Content Creation, Web Development, and Strategic Reasoning using both curated tools and advanced workflows.
Who Should Attend
Cross-functional business leaders (HR, Ops, Finance, Marketing).
Innovation, IT, or Transformation leads.
Responsible for evaluating or integrating AI into their workstreams.
Strategy professionals navigating AI disruption.
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