AI Workshops That Drive Real Business Results
Hands-on workshops that give your team the knowledge, experience, and confidence to unlock growth with AI—led by Trent Gillespie, former Amazon executive.
Transform Your Team's AI Capabilities
These interactive workshops combine executive-level AI education with hands-on practice, giving your leadership team the practical experience they need to drive AI adoption. Led by Trent Gillespie, former Amazon executive and CEO of Stellis AI, each workshop is designed to move teams from AI uncertainty to confident action.
Drawing from his experience leading global expansion and AI initiatives at Amazon—including Last Mile Delivery innovation and Alexa AI Privacy—Trent delivers field-tested insights focused on removing growth bottlenecks and creating sustainable competitive advantage through AI.
Workshop Offerings
AI 101 for Business Leaders
(Half-Day Workshop)
Workshop Overview:
This half-day, hands-on workshop gives business leaders the shared understanding and practical experience needed to understand AI and begin using it effectively in their own roles.
The unique combination of a 2-hour executive seminar and a 2-hour hands-on lab provides leaders with direct experience using generative AI for real business work. Leaders leave with clarity, confidence, and a realistic understanding of how AI fits into their organization today — and what comes next.
The workshop introduces the AI SPRINT framework as a mental model for AI adoption, helping leaders understand how successful AI efforts typically progress, without committing to strategy or execution.
What Your Team Will Learn:
- A clear, plain-English understanding of what generative AI is (and isn’t), how it works at a high level, where it fits in modern business, and the common misconceptions, risks, and failure modes leaders need to avoid
- How AI is already changing leadership work, roles, and workflows, with real-world examples of where it creates leverage versus noise or risk
- Foundations of responsible and effective AI use, including safe usage patterns, basic guardrails, leadership norms, and how to talk about AI internally in a way that builds trust rather than fear
- Hands-on experience using ChatGPT as a business leader, with practical exercises focused on thinking, planning, communication, and analysis — and how to prompt effectively without technical expertise
- A shared language and baseline understanding for what comes next, including an introduction to the AI SPRINT framework and clarity on what typically requires deeper strategy or execution
Outcome:
Your leadership team leaves aligned, confident, and prepared — with a shared understanding of AI and the confidence to begin using it responsibly and productively in their own roles.
Workshop Details:
Length: Half-Day (4 hours)
Location: Virtual or Onsite (Onsite Preferred)
Best For: Executive Teams, Technology Leadership Teams
SPARK Action with AI
(One-Day Workshop)
Workshop Overview:
This private, one-day leadership workshop helps your team move from uncertainty to action with AI, building shared understanding, hands-on experience, and clarity on how to proceed with an AI-enabled business transformation.
Through a focused combination of executive-level training and hands-on lab work, leaders gain a practical understanding of how generative AI is reshaping business, where it can remove real growth bottlenecks, and how to apply it thoughtfully across roles.
As the first step of the AI SPRINT transformation framework, SPARK Action equips leaders with the clarity, alignment, and momentum needed to define their transformation approach — without committing prematurely to execution.What Your Team Will Learn:
- How to identify growth bottlenecks and constraints in your business and understand where AI could create meaningful leverage
- How to surface and evaluate high-potential AI opportunities directionally, separating ideas worth exploring from noise and distractions
- How generative AI reshapes strategy, operations, and competitive advantage by amplifying strengths and exposing leadership blind spots
- Hands-on application of generative AI across real business roles, translating AI capabilities into practical use across leadership, operations, sales, and marketing
- How the AI SPRINT framework guides successful AI transformations, including what typically comes next — and what should not be rushed into yet
Outcome:
Your leadership team leaves aligned, confident, and ready to move forward — with a shared understanding of AI, clarity on growth opportunities, and a clear approach for progressing toward an AI-enabled business transformation.
Workshop Details:
Length: One-Day (8 hours)
Location: Onsite Preferred
Best For: Executive Teams, Technology Leadership Teams
Custom AI Workshops
Tailored to Your Needs:
Need a workshop designed specifically for your organization's challenges and goals? Trent creates custom AI workshops that address your unique business context, industry, and team composition. From technical deep-dives to strategic planning sessions, we'll design the right experience for your team.
Workshop Details:
Length: Custom (Half-Day to Multi-Day)
Location: Virtual or Onsite
Best For: Organizations with specific AI adoption challenges or industry-specific needs
Why These Workshops Work
Hands-On Learning That Sticks
Unlike theoretical seminars, these workshops combine education with immediate application. Your team doesn't just learn about AI—they use it, practice with it, and build confidence with real business tools.
What Sets These Workshops Apart:
Executive-Quality Content:
Taught by a former Amazon executive who led AI initiatives at scale, ensuring insights are practical and battle-tested.
Practical, Not Theoretical:
Every workshop includes hands-on labs where participants work directly with AI tools relevant to their roles.
Framework-Driven:
Built on the proven AI SPRINT framework, giving teams a clear roadmap for continued adoption after the workshop.
Immediate Application:
Participants leave with specific use cases and techniques they can apply to their work the very next day.
Customizable Content:
Each workshop can be tailored to your organization's industry, challenges, and specific business objectives.
What Our Clients Say
"Fantastic, Actionable Content!"
~ Workshop Participant
"...a delightful peek behind the Amazon methodology curtain."
~ Workshop Participant