GO AI Academy · Workshops

AI Workshops for Leaders and Their Teams

Your team spends the session on its own work. They leave with assistants they built, prompts that work, and a way of checking AI output that holds up on a Monday.

Rooted in Louisville. On site at your office or virtual, whichever fits the team.

The gap

A license is not a skill.

Most teams already have the tools. A few people use them well, most use them like a search box, and some use them quietly on client work with no rules at all. The gap is not access. It is judgment: what to check, how to ask, what to trust and what to do when it goes wrong.

That is what a session practices. Not slides about AI, and not a demo of a tool your team will never open again.

Four formats

Pick the one that matches the decision in front of you.

No pricing on this page. Format, team size and travel change the number, so we scope it on a call.

Build Day

For a team that will use AI on its own work

A half day working session for up to 30 people. A short teach, then your team builds two or three working AI assistants around its own recurring tasks and tests them on real inputs before the session ends.

  • On site at your office or virtual
  • Built on your workflows, not generic demos
  • Clear rules on what data can go where
You keep: working assistants and the prompts behind them

Executive Briefing

For owners and leadership teams

A session for the people who approve the spending. What to adopt, what to govern, what to skip, and how to tell whether it is working.

  • On site or virtual
  • A short list of pilots worth running
  • An AI use and disclosure policy draft
You keep: a one page decision brief

30 Day Launch Support

For teams that want the work to stick

An optional month of support after a Build Day. We refine what your team built, answer the questions that only show up in real use, and measure the time it saves.

  • Added to a Build Day, not sold alone
  • Refinement of what was built in the room
  • A read on time saved and errors caught
You keep: assistants that survived contact with real work

Hourly Advisory

For a specific question, not a program

Expertise on tap. Bring one decision, one tool evaluation or one policy question and use the time for that. Booked in a minimum block.

  • No retainer, no commitment
  • Useful between sessions or before one
  • Same people who teach the workshops
You keep: a decision you can defend
The curriculum

Five modules. Each one ends with something your team uses.

A session draws on the modules that fit your team. Module 1 is playable online today, free, so you can see the teaching before you book.

Inside the Machine

How a language model actually produces an answer, why it fills gaps, and why a guess reads exactly like a fact. Your team practices on an AI summary of a business memo and marks each claim Supported, Contradicted or Not established.

You keep: A verification checklist

The Brief

Vague in, vague out. Your team rewrites a real request as a brief with role, task, context, format, constraints and examples, then compares what comes back.

You keep: A reusable prompt

The Pilot

Pick one workflow that happens every week. Set a baseline, an owner, a success criterion and a stop condition, so the result can earn a budget or end cleanly.

You keep: A two week pilot plan

The Backfire

An AI error has already reached a customer. Correct it, communicate it, and find the gap in the process that let it through.

You keep: A response checklist

The Boardroom

Recommend an AI investment when the evidence is thin. Separate what is known from what is assumed and name the threshold that would justify going further.

You keep: A one page decision brief
How a session runs

One call, one working session, and what comes after.

Before

Pick the work

A short call with your leads to choose the recurring tasks worth practicing on and to set the rules about what data can be used.

The session

Practice on it

A short teach, then hands on work in pairs on your own tasks. Everything built or written gets tested before the session ends.

After

Keep it running

Your team leaves with the prompts, checklists and plans it produced. Launch support and advisory hours are there if the work needs them.

Who it is for

Leaders who were handed AI without a plan.

Owners and executives whose teams have AI licenses and no shared way of using them.
Leadership teams asked by a board or an owner to come back with an AI plan they can defend.
Department heads whose people already use AI quietly, without guardrails.
Why Guardian Owl

Practitioners who teach.

We teach it

Jenna Ahern teaches AI to business students as a lecturer at the University of Louisville College of Business.

We run it

Guardian Owl operates its own working AI agents, including a lead triage agent live since July 2026.

Recognized leadership

Jenna was named a 2025 Most Admired CEO by Louisville Business First.

Brands and press

Jenna has advised Angel’s Envy, GE and the Kentucky Derby Museum, and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company and Business Insider.

After the session

A workshop has an end. Some teams want a rhythm.

If your leadership team needs AI on the agenda every month rather than once, the Executive AI Fluency Retainer is built for that: a monthly working session, a running list of workflows worth automating, and on the higher tiers a working agent built and maintained for you.

Questions

What leaders ask before booking.

How much does a workshop cost?

It depends on the format, the size of your team and whether we travel. We scope it on a short call so you are paying for the session your team actually needs. Nothing is sold from a rate card.

On site or virtual?

Both. We are based in Louisville and travel for on site sessions, including Lexington and the Cincinnati metro. Virtual suits leadership teams split across more than one location.

How many people can take part?

Up to 30 in the room for a Build Day. Smaller groups get more hands on time, which is usually the better trade.

Do we need technical staff?

No. The sessions are built for business teams. If someone can write an email, they can do the work in the room.

Which AI tools do you teach on?

The ones you already pay for, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot. The judgment carries across all of them.

How is this different from the Executive AI Fluency Retainer?

A workshop is a session with a clear end and something your team keeps. The retainer is a monthly rhythm for leadership teams that want the work to keep moving after the session. Many teams start with a workshop and decide from there.

Can we see how you teach before we book?

Yes. The GO AI Academy free round is online and free. It takes about 15 minutes and uses the same verification exercise that opens most sessions.

Let’s GO further.

Tell us what your team is trying to do with AI.

Use the inquiry form and tick AI Training. Say how many people, where you are, and what work you want AI to take on. We will recommend a format and scope it on a short call.