Most businesses start their AI with a tool. They pick the software first, then try to work out what to do with it. That is the decision that should come last.

An AI strategy is really a set of decisions, and they are far easier to get right in the right order. This workshop walks you through them, three hours, working on your own business the whole way. You leave knowing what to focus on first and how to set things up so the first thing you try actually holds.

You bring your own business. Not a case study, not a hypothetical. By the end you will have made all five calls on your own organisation, and you will have the method to make them again next quarter, and the quarter after.

The five decisions you will work through:

• Where AI belongs in your business, and where you keep it out

• What to start with

• What counts as it working

• Who runs it, and who stands behind the result

• How it becomes the way you work, rather than a project that runs out of steam

What you take home:

• Your own first-draft AI strategy, in your own words, about your own business

• The method itself, so you can run it again with your team

Who it is for:

• Owners and managers of small and medium businesses who want to start AI the right way

• The people who decide where the business puts its time and money

• No technical background needed. You just need your own business to work on.

How it works:

• In person, three hours, everyone working on their own organisation.

• Tool agnostic. Use whatever AI you already work in, so bring what you have, or nothing.

Your facilitator:

Nina O'Donohue is co-founder of Cogrounding and works with businesses on making AI a competence in the organisation. She spent close to nine years at the LEGO Group with global marketing responsibility and has built two businesses of her own. She starts with what needs to be achieved and for whom. The technology follows.

12 October 2026, 9.00 am to 12.15 pm, Greenmeadows Centre, Stoke. $195 incl GST. Two person group tickets also avalable for $350 incl GST.

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