August 2025 Cohort

Teaching Fellow

Dannie	Jefferies	/	Waikato University	/	Teaching Fellow	

Arming senior leadership teams with the AI literacy, practical skills and strategic acumen needed to guide their companies into the AI era.

AI Strategist // Trainer // Futurist

Mark Laurence

Founder and lead consultant at generative AI consultancy Ten Past Tomorrow.

Rapid AI Traction for Senior Leadership Teams

Ten Past Tomorrow

<h3>Why I enrolled</h3>
<p class="p2-tall">I want to get better at working with AI -- more confident, more efficient, and smarter about how to collaborate with it. I'm here to grow my expertise and see what others are doing that I might not have thought of yet. </p>
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    <h3>A breakthrough moment</h3><p class="p2-tall">The most useful takeaway was building a personal prompt library (but agree we need a team library too). It saves me time while making it easier to adapt prompts across different teaching and research contexts. The consistency of results matters more to me than chasing the “perfect” single prompt. Something else I tried over the last few weeks is having different 'personas' for each of the roles I take on, I achieved this using custom GPTs. I have a 101-level GPT, whose language is simpler, and targeted at first year students; I have a 500-level GPT that focuses more on postgraduate-level communication. I also have a researcher persona, and have found the DeepResearch might just be a game-changer.</p>

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<h3>What I’ll apply</h3>
<p class="p2-tall">what Im already using is custom GPTs. I have completely different personalities for different tasks I do. I even wrote a coaching GPT which has been valuable for keeping on top of complex projects. Deep Research was also a real eye-opener, and I am amazed at the depth of what I can achieve in a really short time.</p>
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