Get your team to actually use AI
The Workplace AI Academy is the month-by-month membership for managers who've been handed the AI rollout and need it to stick. One focused module, one real deliverable, from baseline audit to a return summary you can put in front of leadership.
The adoption problem is always a people problem, and that's exactly the kind of problem a good manager can solve.
— Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton, Powerful Messages
Founding member pricing
There are 25 founding spots in the Workplace AI Academy. Use the code FOUNDING15 at checkout and you'll get 15% off your first month. When the 25 are taken the code stops working. There's no countdown timer and no deadline we'll quietly extend.
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Audit your team's weekly workload and identify the highest-value AI use cases worth tackling first
- Evaluate, select, and pilot AI tools against security, cost, and team-fit criteria without vendor lock-in
- Write a one-page AI policy covering use, disclosure, review, and accountability that your team will actually follow
- Design and deliver role-specific training sessions that stick, even for skeptical or resistant employees
- Measure real adoption, spot quiet non-users early, and measure return through time saved, error rates, and rework cost
- Build a quarterly review rhythm so your team's AI practice keeps pace as tools and best practices evolve
How it works
How the rollout gets done
Nothing in The Workplace AI Academy is a pre-recorded video you watch and forget. Every lesson is written live around your team, your tools and where your rollout actually is.
Month one is the audit
You audit the week your team actually works, then you pick the use cases worth doing first.
Then the pilot, the policy and the training
Then the tool pilot, the one-page policy and the training sessions, one real deliverable at a time.
Then the proof for leadership
By the end you're measuring adoption and putting a return summary in front of leadership.
What you get inside The Workplace AI Academy
One subscription, $97 a month, covers all of it for as long as you're a member. That works out to about $3.20 a day.
- 12 modules and 60 lessons, with a new module opening every month so you're working one thing at a time
- An AI coach inside every lesson that knows the material and knows where you are in it, so you get an answer in the middle of the work
- The community, where you post what you're stuck on and hear back from us and from other managers running the same rollout
- Both of us. Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton are in there reading and answering
- New lessons added as the tools change, at no extra cost
- No contract and no minimum. You can cancel from your account any month
The curriculum
What's inside your school
12 modules · 60 lessons
What AI Can And Can't Do At Work
Sets an honest, clear-eyed baseline on what workplace AI actually does, where it fails, and where your team's time really goes.
- 1.1The Adoption Gap Is a People Problem, Not a Tech ProblemIncluded
- 1.2What AI Is Actually Doing When It Helps YouIncluded
- 1.3The Real Failure Modes: What Goes Wrong and WhyIncluded
- 1.4Where the Time Actually Goes on Your TeamIncluded
- 1.5Your Month-One Deliverable: A Baseline SnapshotIncluded
Find Your Use Cases
Teaches managers how to audit their team's weekly workload and identify the repetitive, lower-risk tasks worth automating first.
- 2.1What Makes a Task a Good CandidateIncluded
- 2.2Running the Team Workload AuditIncluded
- 2.3Ranking and Prioritizing Your CandidatesIncluded
- 2.4Avoiding the Shiny-Tool TrapIncluded
- 2.5Your Month-Two Deliverable: A Prioritized Use Case ListIncluded
Choose The Tools
Gives managers a practical, vendor-agnostic framework for evaluating AI tools against security, cost, and team-fit criteria.
- 3.1The Evaluation Criteria That Actually MatterIncluded
- 3.2Why Fewer Tools Beats MoreIncluded
- 3.3Reading a Vendor's Security and Privacy ClaimsIncluded
- 3.4Getting Your IT or Legal Stakeholders on Board EarlyIncluded
- 3.5Your Month-Three Deliverable: A Tool Selection DecisionIncluded
Run A Small Pilot
Teaches managers how to scope, launch, and monitor a tight pilot with a friendly subset of the team before going wider.
- 4.1Why Small and Scoped Beats Company-Wide and FastIncluded
- 4.2Picking Your Pilot GroupIncluded
- 4.3Setting Success Criteria Before You StartIncluded
- 4.4Running the Pilot Week by WeekIncluded
- 4.5Your Month-Four Deliverable: A Pilot Findings SummaryIncluded
Prompting As A Team Skill
Builds prompting as a shared, teachable team competency rather than a trick a few power users figured out on their own.
- 5.1Why Prompting Is a Skill, Not a TalentIncluded
- 5.2The Anatomy of a Useful PromptIncluded
- 5.3Teaching Prompting Without a Tech BackgroundIncluded
- 5.4Building and Maintaining a Shared Prompt LibraryIncluded
- 5.5Your Month-Five Deliverable: A Starter Prompt LibraryIncluded
Data And Privacy Rules
Establishes clear, memorable rules about what information must never enter an AI tool and why those rules exist.
- 6.1The Data Categories Your Team Needs to KnowIncluded
- 6.2How AI Tools Handle the Data You Send ThemIncluded
- 6.3Writing Rules People Can Actually RememberIncluded
- 6.4When to Escalate and Who to AskIncluded
- 6.5Your Month-Six Deliverable: A Team Data Rules CardIncluded
Write The Policy
Walks managers through drafting a practical, one-page AI use policy that covers use, disclosure, review, and accountability.
- 7.1What a Workplace AI Policy Actually Needs to CoverIncluded
- 7.2The Disclosure Question: When Does the Team Say They Used AI?Included
- 7.3Setting Review and Accountability ExpectationsIncluded
- 7.4Getting the Policy Reviewed Without a Legal BottleneckIncluded
- 7.5Your Month-Seven Deliverable: A Signed One-Page AI PolicyIncluded
Train The Team
Equips managers to design and deliver role-specific, repeatable training sessions that build real skill rather than awareness.
- 8.1Why One Big Training Never WorksIncluded
- 8.2Designing a Session for a Specific RoleIncluded
- 8.3The Session Structure That Gets People PracticingIncluded
- 8.4Checking for Real Skill, Not Just AttendanceIncluded
- 8.5Your Month-Eight Deliverable: A Completed Training SessionIncluded
Handle Resistance
Gives managers honest, practical language for addressing the real objections, including job fear, that slow or stop adoption.
- 9.1Why Resistance Is Information, Not DefianceIncluded
- 9.2The Three Objections You Will HearIncluded
- 9.3Answering the Job Fear Question HonestlyIncluded
- 9.4Working With Reluctant Adopters Without Forcing ComplianceIncluded
- 9.5Your Month-Nine Deliverable: A Resistance Response PlanIncluded
Measure Adoption
Teaches managers how to track who is using AI tools, how often, and for what, and how to spot quiet non-adoption before it hardens.
- 10.1What Adoption Actually Means to MeasureIncluded
- 10.2The Data Sources Already Available to YouIncluded
- 10.3Spotting Quiet Non-Adoption EarlyIncluded
- 10.4Having the Follow-Up Conversation Without Making It PunitiveIncluded
- 10.5Your Month-Ten Deliverable: An Adoption Snapshot ReportIncluded
Measure Return
Teaches managers how to calculate and communicate meaningful return through time saved, quality improvements, and rework cost reduction.
- 11.1Why Most ROI Reports Miss the Most Important NumberIncluded
- 11.2Measuring Time Saved Without Self-Report BiasIncluded
- 11.3Measuring Quality and Error Rate ChangesIncluded
- 11.4Translating Findings Into a Number Leadership UnderstandsIncluded
- 11.5Your Month-Eleven Deliverable: A Return Summary for LeadershipIncluded
Stay Current
Builds a sustainable quarterly review rhythm that keeps your team's AI practice, policy, and toolset current as the landscape shifts.
- 12.1Why Your Policy Is Already Out of DateIncluded
- 12.2The Quarterly Review: What to Check and in What OrderIncluded
- 12.3Keeping the Team Informed Without Constant ChangeIncluded
- 12.4Growing Internal Expertise Over TimeIncluded
- 12.5Your Month-Twelve Deliverable: A Quarterly Review TemplateIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The reluctant rollout owner
She was handed the AI adoption project without a roadmap and needs a structured process to go from 'we have licenses' to 'we have results.'
The HR leader writing the policy
He needs a one-page AI policy his workforce will actually follow, not a 40-page legal document that collects dust.
The operations manager mid-rollout
He launched AI tools across his team, but adoption is patchy, and he needs to measure what's working and have the hard conversations with quiet non-users.
The small business owner going solo
She's responsible for every part of her business and needs to identify which AI use cases will actually save her time without creating new risks.
The team lead managing skeptics
His team ranges from early adopters to openly resistant employees, and he needs a practical way to bring everyone along without forcing compliance.
The department head proving ROI
She needs to translate time saved and error rates into a return summary that leadership will actually understand and believe.
Seven days to decide
You can read a whole lesson before you pay us anything, so you already know how we teach before you join. Then take your first week inside The Workplace AI Academy. Watch the lessons, work with your coach, post in the community, do the work. If it isn't right for you, email us within 7 days of joining and we'll refund your first month. You don't have to explain why and there's no form to fill in. There's no contract either, so you can cancel from your account any month after that.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton
If you're reading this, there's a good chance someone handed you the AI rollout and then moved on to the next agenda item.
Maybe your company just bought licenses for a tool your team hasn't opened. Maybe you're the one getting the "so what's our AI strategy?" emails and you'd love to have a real answer. Maybe you've already tried a rollout and it quietly fizzled, where people used the tool for a week, went back to their old habits, and nobody said anything about it.
We've been in all three of those spots. What we learned, slowly and with a lot of trial and error, is that the hard part was never the technology. The hard part was the people side: figuring out which tasks were actually worth handing over, getting skeptical employees to genuinely engage instead of just nodding, writing a policy that didn't get ignored immediately, and showing leadership that any of it was worth the investment. There was no single place to work through all of that, so we built one.
Workplace AI Academy is structured around the way a real rollout actually unfolds, month by month. Start with a clear picture of your team's workload, find your best use cases, choose your tools carefully, run a small pilot before you go wide, build prompting as a shared skill, get your data and privacy rules in place, write the policy, train by role instead of by announcement, handle the resistance conversations directly, measure adoption, measure return, and then set up the quarterly rhythm that keeps the whole thing from going stale. Every stage ends with a deliverable you actually need, not a quiz.
We're not going to tell you this is easy or that your whole team will be enthusiastic from day one. What we will tell you is that it's completely learnable, and that you don't need to be an AI expert to lead it well. You need a clear process, the right tools for your role, and someone in your corner who's already made the mistakes so you don't have to. That's what we're here for. Come join us.
— Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton
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