Your team already has the tools. Now they will use them.
Most people use a small slice of Excel, have never opened Power BI, and are guessing at AI. Start with the free readiness check below; it takes about five minutes. When you want help in the room, I run hands-on sessions where people work in real files and leave able to apply the learning to "real world" work on Monday.


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Practical AI and functional data skills for working teams
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Before AI can carry a process, the process has to be ready
Pick one process your team depends on. Ask each question in order. The first “no” is the rung you’re on, and the question you just failed is your next step.
Undocumented
“If that person is out for two weeks, does this still go well?”
Documented
Judged
Delegated
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“Could a competent new hire follow it without asking a question?”
“Does the document say why you choose A over B at the fork?
“Is there a written log and a human review before anything irreversible occurs?”
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Free tool · The Process Readiness Ladder
When you want help in the room
A general session gives a whole room a shared perspective, strategy, and starting point.
A workshop puts hands on keyboards. Every session is shaped around your people and, where it helps, your own files.
Working together
Keynotes and general sessions
For meeting and Event planners
Hands-on workshops
For Learning &Development and HR




Attendees will assess and score one real process and see what has to be true before AI can carry it.
Everyone leaves with three things to try this week.
45–60 min In person or virtual
AI at Work
Strategic Skills Series
Making Sense of Your Numbers
Strategic Skills Series
Attendees learn to tell a useful number from a decorative one.
Everyone leaves knowing which reports to stop making.
45–60 min In person or virtual
Excel for Data Analytics
Power BI Essentials
FUNctional Skills Series
FUNctional Skills Series
Participants learn efficient and effective methods for cleaning a messy file in minutes instead of hours.
They build a report that updates itself.
One half day with up to 20 participants attending
in-person or virtual
Participants build a working dashboard from their own data.
They can refresh it next month without help.
One half day with up to 20 participants attending
in-person or virtual
On-Call Speaker
For meeting and Event planners
A speaker dropped out and the program still says 10:30. If one of my open dates matches yours, I can step in. Tell me the audience and the time slot, and I’ll bring a practical session on AI or data at work, shaped for your room; check my calendar for location and availability.
What changes, and how to check it yourself
A quick check with your own numbers
People on the team 20
Loaded cost per hour $35
Time saved each, per week 1 hour
Value returned per week $700
For Learning &Development and HR
Swap in your own headcount and hourly cost.
Even at 30 minutes a week, the number is worth a conversation.
Over a 50-week working year $35,000

A question about a process, an event that needs a speaker, or a team that’s ready for more. Send a note and I’ll reply personally, with no pressure to book anything.
Walk one process through the Readiness Ladder together,
free, in 45 minutesTalk through a session or workshop for your team
Find a speaker for an upcoming event, including on short notice
Or just ask a question about something you read here
Tell me what you’re working on
Let's talk


Rob McCoy teaches people how to actually use AI and analytics at work; not what the technology is, but instructs what participants can do with it on Monday morning. Through Rob McCoy Workshops he runs practical sessions for business teams, HR and L&D groups, public sector organizations, and member associations, translating the same material for a skeptical executive and a hands-on operator in the same room.
His Process Readiness Ladder gives a team a plain way to score one real process and see the next step it needs before AI can carry it.
Rob McCoy
301-573-3870
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