Lori Niles-Hofmann

Corporate EdTech & AI adviser to enterprises & vendors

How to Transform into a CourseLess & AI Learning Function

See why one-size-fits-all courses can't meet modern workforce needs

Why L&D Must Change

Autonomous Learning Ecosystems and the six "tions" that enable them, plus how rightskilling is scaled into organisations

Agents, Tutors, and Automation

See a working example in Parta.io of an agent that automatically updates course content

The Self-Sustaining Course

You'll learn how to decide when and how to use AI (for both you and your learners), across your end to end workflow.

Class of July 2026 

World-leading expert in AI + L&D

Dr Philippa Hardman 

Class of May 2026 

Class of September 2026 

Most AI training teaches you to build courses faster. This bootcamp starts with a harder question: should you be building a course at all?Faster is easy. Ask AI to "write 5 learning objectives for a sales training" and it will — but they'll be generic, inconsistent, and you'll spend as much time fixing them as you'd have spent writing them yourself.Smarter is different. Smarter means building a tool that diagnoses the real problem first — is this a learning problem, a process problem, a management problem? — and then designs the right solution. A course if that's what's needed. A job aid, a feedback tool, or a coaching bot if it isn't.Whether you're designing, administering, reporting, or leading: this bootcamp teaches everyone in the learning organisation to use AI to ask better questions, make better decisions, and build better solutions — not just work faster.

"All L&D roles will be AI-enhanced roles in the very near future"

AI-Enhanced Analysis  - What's the real problem? 

AI-Enhanced Design - What's the best solution?

AI-Enhanced Development & Implementation - How do we optimise delivery? 

AI-Enhanced Evaluation - How do we know if the product worked as we intended?

Learning Designers - you want to stay ahead of the curve &amp; leverage AI to optimise your efficiency &amp; impact on learners

L&amp;D Professionals - you want to optimise org performance by taking an evidence-based, AI-powered approach to workplace training design

Academics &amp; Teachers - you want adopt an evidence-based design approach to learning design process &amp; stay ahead of the AI curve

Our Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation approaches are no longer working!

Future of Work Researcher | TEDx Speaker

Dr Mansoor Soomro

Future of Work- Researcher | Thought Leader | Speaker | Writer | Futurist

Cohort 6

Cohort 7

I must admit that AI-powered tools have fundamentally transformed the way we work- and should Lead, Strategize and Innovate (LSI).Traditional frameworks and approaches to leadership, strategy, and innovation are no longer sufficient. The rise of AI demands a rethink, a redefinition of how we lead teams, craft strategies, and drive innovation in a rapidly evolving business landscape.This power-packed 1-day course is designed to guide busy executives through this transformational shift. You’ll explore how AI reshapes leaders' decision-making, strategy design, and innovation processes while learning how to align these changes with your organization’s goals.This course is thoughtfully designed into 4 modules, delivered through 4 live sessions.The course ends with a hands-on implementation project (AI-driven Leadership, Strategy and Innovation Plan) giving you a chance to apply your learnings immediately.

AI is shaking things up! Our existing approach to leadership, strategy, and innovation might not cut it anymore.

Module 1: AI and its Business Implications

Module 2: Redefining Leadership in the Age of AI

Module 3: Strategic Thinking and Decision-Making in the AI Era

Module 4: Driving Innovation with AI

C-suite Executives and Senior Leaders looking to navigate the opportunities and challenges AI brings to their organizations.

Mid-Level Managers aiming to future-proof their leadership skills and drive impactful strategies in an AI-driven world.

Business Innovators and Strategists eager to leverage AI for breakthrough innovation and competitive advantage.

Your team adopted AI. Why hasn’t delivery improved?

Staff Software Engineer

Luis Vieira

Staff engineer

Agentic Engineering 1

<blockquote>AI coding tools make implementation faster. But typing code is only one part of getting software safely from idea to production.Teams still need to turn ambiguous requests into clear plans, understand how changes affect an existing system, verify that they are safe, and make sound decisions about what reaches production.When code becomes cheap to produce, context, judgment, and verification become the limiting factors.This is why faster coding does not automatically mean faster delivery. Improving one part of the workflow has limited impact when the rest of the system continues to create bottlenecks.This workshop gives you a practical method for improving delivery with agents. You’ll learn to find the constraints slowing down your SDLC, design agents that can safely take on bounded work, and improve them over time using proof of work, feedback, and evals.</blockquote>

Learn how to find delivery constraints, design trustworthy agent workflows, and improve them through evidence, feedback, and evals.

Understand the AI coding plateau

Find agent opportunities across the SDLC

Design a trustworthy agent harness

Improve agent workflows over time

Software engineers using AI coding tools looking to improve their team SDLC

Tech leads and engineering managers who want to understand how to increase engineering output using AI

Engineering leaders who adopted AI tools but aren't seeing it in delivery speed or business outcomes and want to understand why and fix it

Turn AI experimentation into value for you, your team, and your organization.

Founder & CEO, N-BAC | Author 

Nejat Abdurahman

Founder and CEO of N-BAC | Author

Leading in the Age of AI: Founding Workshop

Leading in the age of AI requires moving beyond basic tool awareness and isolated experimentation. It means knowing how to make AI work for you, your team, and your organization in ways that solve meaningful problems and generate measurable results.This practical four-hour workshop will help you make AI work for you, your team, and your organization, apply it to a real challenge, and leave with a practical action plan. You will explore AI augmentation through three essential leadership lenses:<h3>Lead Yourself More Effectively</h3>Use AI as a strategic thinking partner to strengthen your planning, decision-making, communication, problem-solving, and productivity.<h3>Lead Your Team Differently</h3>Determine how workflows may need to evolve, what should be automated, augmented, or remain human, and how to guide your team through AI adoption with clarity, trust, and accountability.<h3>Lead the Organization Forward</h3>Connect AI directly to a core business priority, whether that is expanding capacity, supporting growth, improving customer experience, strengthening decision-making, or reducing operational bottlenecks.

Learn to apply AI across your leadership, team workflows, and business priorities to solve meaningful problems and create measurable value.

Use AI as a Strategic Leadership Partner

Redesign Work with AI Intentionally

Lead Your Team Through AI Adoption

Turn a Business Challenge into an AI Opportunity

Executives and VPs who want to move beyond AI hype and identify practical opportunities to create business value.

Directors and senior managers who are leading teams through AI adoption and want to strengthen clarity, trust, and accountability.

Business owners and founders who want to improve efficiency, expand capacity, support growth, and reduce unnecessary overhead.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Building autonomous AI agent systems that take actions, use tools, and orchestrate multi-step workflows.

Teachers, course creators, and instructional designers building learning experiences.

HR and people operations professionals handling hiring, compensation, employee experience, and organizational development.

Leading organizational AI adoption — change management, strategy, and building AI-ready teams.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.