AI training for teams and solo professionals
Practical AI training built around your actual work. Learn to use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI tools well and responsibly, whether you're one person or a whole team. In person in Los Angeles, virtual anywhere or on site where you are.
Who this is for
Anyone who keeps hearing they should be using AI and has no idea where to start. Consultants, lawyers, stylists, creators and founders running their own practice. Executives who need to talk about AI credibly. Teams at nonprofits, newsrooms, universities and businesses that want the time savings without the risk.
We've run these sessions one-on-one and for organizations like USC, the United Nations and media production houses.
What you walk out with
- A short list of tools you'll actually use, and the ones to skip
- Custom prompts and templates built on your work
- A written AI guideline for your business, if you don't have one
- A recording and prep guide to come back to
What happens in a session
Bring your real work. We build on it live, with the tools you'll actually use.
- The tools, sortedWhat ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Canva AI, NotebookLM and more each do well, where they fail, and which one fits which job.
- Prompting that worksA simple formula, action plus context plus outcome, practiced on your actual tasks until the output is usable.
- Workflows and agents you keepThe three or four repetitive jobs in your week that AI can take, set up before you leave, plus an introduction to agents that can run them for you.
- Showing up in AI answersHow ChatGPT, Google and other AI tools decide which businesses to mention, and what to fix so yours shows up more and gets described right.
- The ethics that matterDeepfakes, privacy, data handling and disclosure, covered in plain language.
Packages
Every program is customized. These are the shapes most clients start from.
- AI Foundations2 hoursHow AI actually works, what it does well and where it fails. Plus the ethics your team needs to know: deepfakes, privacy and data. The right starting point for organizations that have not yet chosen a direction.
- AI Team IntensiveHalf or full dayHands-on workshop. Prompt writing, choosing the right tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more) and real workflows built on your own work during the session. Everyone leaves with something they can use.
- AI for Writers and Creative TeamsTwo half-day sessionsFor newsrooms, studios and content teams. Drafting, research, editing and fact-checking workflows with AI, built on your own scripts and stories, plus clear rules on where the line is. Pairs well with content creation training.
- AI CoachingOne-on-one, per sessionFor founders, executives and creators who want a private working session on their own tools, prompts and workflow. Bring real tasks and leave with them done.
- AI SetupDone for youWe audit where AI fits your organization, recommend the tools and privacy settings, build custom assistants in your voice, make sure ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and other AI tools can find you and describe you accurately, and hand over a written setup guide, with follow-up coaching as your team gets going. Start with the AI business setup audit.
Media training and AI training
from one team
One plan, two skill sets. We coach the craft first, from writing to on-camera delivery, then build AI into that same work so your team gets faster and better at it without losing its voice.
AI in the news
Every interview now has an AI question in it, and every leader is expected to have an answer. We prepare you to talk about AI on camera without sounding lost, and for the day a deepfake of you or your CEO shows up. See media training.
AI for your business
Learn to use AI across your team so it actually sticks: prep for press and interviews with it, build custom GPTs and agents, and set up workflows that keep running after we leave. Want it done for you? See AI business setup.
Formats
Hourly, half-day, full-day or multi-day. One-on-one or groups of any size. In person across Los Angeles, virtual anywhere or on site where you are.
Done for you
Want it handled instead of taught? AI business setup audits how you work, picks the tools and builds the system for you.
Who leads it
Olivia Smith is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, a professor at USC Annenberg, where she created the school's first journalism-and-AI course, and a former member of Meta's GenAI content engineering team. She teaches AI the way a journalist would: verify everything, disclose when it matters.
"Olivia is a standout instructor whose expertise and professionalism are notable. She made faculty participants feel immediately at ease."Allison Agsten, Director, USC
Start with a 15-minute call
Tell us what you're stuck on.
We'll tell you what a session would look like.