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Clarity for audiences who have heard enough hype.
Keynotes and hands on sessions for business leaders, and AI safety talks for schools and parents. Every session ends with something the room can act on.
I do not talk about AI. I get one thing working.
Your audience has sat through enough talks about how everything is changing. They know. What they do not know is what to do on Monday morning.
I have trained over 500 leaders across more than 12 industries, and the pattern is the same everywhere. The businesses that get results are not the ones with the best tools. They are the ones where somebody in charge made a decision and held it.
For business audiences
Two keynotes, three hands on sessions, and a programme for whole teams. All of them end with something the room can act on.
The Delegation Problem
Most leaders are using the most capable business tool they have ever had access to as a slightly politer search engine.
This talk explains why, using the four levels of AI adoption: chatbots, where you ask and it answers. Automations, where work runs without you asking. Agents, where work gets handed over rather than requested. And teams of agents working together. Most businesses have been stuck on level one for eighteen months, and not because levels two and three are difficult.
You do not have a prompting problem. You have a delegation problem.
They leave with A simple test for what to hand over and what to keep, and an honest read on which level their own business is actually on.
Out of the Pilot
Why AI projects stall between the demo and the numbers, and what the ones that succeed do differently.
Built around the GUIDE Framework, my five step method: Ground, Understand, Implement, Develop and Evolve. Most projects fail at Ground, the step where you define the problem before choosing the tool, and then get blamed on Implement.
Includes what has gone wrong in my own businesses, which is usually the part people quote back to me afterwards.
They leave with The five steps, and a way to rank their own processes by payback rather than by which one sounds most impressive.
Claude Masterclass for Business Leaders
Everyone opens a laptop. Nobody watches.
Attendees bring one repetitive job from their own week. Quotes, weekly reports, follow ups, meeting notes, briefs. We set the tool up around their business, move from asking it questions to handing work over, and build one job live in front of the room.
Not a feature tour. Not a demo. People leave with work already done.
They leave with The tool set up with their own business context, three tasks from their week running, and a one page thirty day plan written during the session.
AI Masterclass
The long version. A full day working through all four levels of AI adoption, using each attendee's own business as the case study.
By the end of the day everyone has a working toolkit, a prompt library they keep, and at least one system they built themselves and can run on Monday.
They leave with Their own AI toolkit, prompts written for their business, one system built by them, and a certificate of completion.
Build Your Business with AI
A fast tour of where AI fits across a whole business, in four phases: strategy and ideation, marketing and sales, operations and team, and legal, compliance and analytics.
Live demonstrations throughout, using a business from the audience rather than a prepared example.
They leave with A prompt toolkit, a tool list with the free options marked, and a clear first step in each of the four phases.
AI literacy for your whole team
For businesses where the tools are already bought and adoption is the bottleneck.
Built around your actual workflows rather than a generic curriculum. Hands on sessions, not lectures. I spent twenty years in education and instructional design before any of this, and that is the part that decides whether people are still using the tools three months later.
They leave with Written takeaways, prompt libraries built around their own work, and a named group inside the business who can carry it on.
For schools, parents and educators
I spent more than twenty years in education before I moved into business technology. Schools are not a side project for me, and I do not deliver the corporate talk with the slides changed. Most schools book both sessions on the same day, learners during school hours and parents in the evening. They work far better together, because the children and the parents end up with the same five rules.
AI and You: Using It Wisely, Using It Well
Honest, age appropriate, and not a lecture about the dangers.
Three parts. The possibilities, where AI genuinely helps with schoolwork, creativity and understanding hard things. The dangers, covering hallucinations, bias, deepfakes, privacy and what I call cheating yourself. And the future, meaning the world they are walking into and the skills that will still matter.
Using AI to skip the thinking is like using a wheelchair when your legs work perfectly well. Over time you lose the ability to walk.
They leave with A five rule AI code of conduct they can remember: check it, own it, think first, protect yourself, be kind.
AI and Your Child: A Parent's Guide
The session parents ask for once they realise their child knows more about this than they do.
What their children are actually doing with AI, as opposed to what they say they are doing. The real risks in order of urgency, starting with AI companion chatbots and deepfakes rather than homework. Then the practical part: how to start the conversation without a fight, which family rules actually work, and which parental controls are worth setting up.
No scare tactics and no blanket bans, because neither works.
Your children do not need perfect parents. They need informed ones.
They leave with Conversation openers that do not trigger defensiveness, a set of family rules, and a short list of settings to change that evening.
How I choose what to deliver
Tell me three things and I will tell you which session fits, or build a different one. If none of them is right for your audience, I will say so.
The practical bits
What people say
The course leans heavily on the practical side, allowing users to be able to run and use AI straight away instead of just theory that will be simply forgotten.
I liked how it was not made over complicated, and very hands on and practical. We actually did the things we discussed, it was not just told to us.
Dennis met us where we were at. He got the level of his presentation right for the audience. Very informative but also practical, showing how to implement it in real life and business.
Dennis is amazing. Super inspiring, clued up, and makes the work practical for all industries and roles.
I am all set up now. This kind of stuff was quite daunting to me until now. I really cannot believe it was this easy all along.
Dennis has a brilliant practical understanding of the topic. He made it very clear and straightforward to understand the concepts.
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