Your team is nervous about AI. One day changes that.

It's the most common thing I deal with, and it's usually two different fears wearing the same coat: "I'll look stupid in front of everyone" and "I'm training my own replacement." Both get addressed directly on the day, out loud, early. Nobody is put on the spot, nobody's screen goes up without them offering, and we start with a task each person chose because they hate it. The moment someone watches ninety minutes of their own weekly work collapse into ten, the fear tends to convert into something closer to relief. The people who arrive most skeptical are frequently the ones using it most by day thirty.

No. Bring a laptop and the three tasks you like least. If your team has never opened an AI tool, that is a completely normal starting point and roughly half of my sessions begin there. If you have accounts already, tell me which ones and I'll check whether you're on the right plan with the right privacy settings, which is frequently where the real problem is.

Take the half-day at $3,400 if you have fewer than about fifteen people, or if you want to see how this goes before committing further. Take the full day at $6,500 if you want the work itself to change. Three hours is enough to make people comfortable and send them home with a couple of useful habits. It is not enough to rebuild how proposals get written, run role-specific breakouts, set up custom assistants and write your policy. Most companies who start with a half-day book the full day within a few months, so if you already know you want the change, going straight to the full day is the cheaper route.

Individual attention, and time. A single day is a group event, and group events reach the confident people first. Across four visits I sit with people one to one, look at what they're actually doing between sessions, and fix the specific thing stopping them. That's where the quiet ones and the skeptics get reached, and they're usually the majority. It also means measurement happens between every visit rather than once at the end, so problems get caught in week three instead of month three. At $19,000 for four days it works out cheaper per day than booking them separately.

It's the risk you already have. Your staff are almost certainly using consumer AI tools right now with no policy governing it. The first thing we do is map your data by sensitivity and match each category to an appropriate tool: zero-retention API configurations, enterprise deployments with no training on your data, or on-device models for the most sensitive material. You get a written AI use policy as a deliverable. For law firms, accounting practices and healthcare organizations, this is usually the most valuable part of the engagement.

It depends on your province, and the answer is genuinely different in each one. Nova Scotia's WIPSI covers up to 75% of eligible employer training costs but runs windowed intake rather than year-round. New Brunswick's WorkingNB Labour Force Training reimburses 25 to 50% on rolling intake, and SkillsPEI covers 50%, also rolling. Both of those require the application to go in before training begins, so a funded engagement needs four to six weeks of lead time. In Newfoundland and Labrador the Canada NL Job Grant was suspended in 2024 with no replacement. There's also a Canada and Nova Scotia tariff response fund open through March 2028 for fisheries, seafood, agri-food, manufacturing and lumber. We'll tell you on the call which one applies to you and help you assemble the application. We don't build proposals around funding we can't confirm.

Those teach you what the tools do. They're genuinely useful and you should take them. What they can't do is look at your firm's actual proposal process and rebuild it, write a policy that fits your regulator, or come back in thirty days to find out why the operations team stopped using it. Generic instruction is a commodity now. Implementation inside a specific business is not.

Some of it will be, within a year. That's precisely why the deliverable is workflows and judgment rather than instructions for a particular product, and why the retainer exists, the companies that stay ahead are the ones with someone whose job is to keep watching. If a model release makes one of your workflows obsolete, we rebuild it.

Both, though in-person is noticeably better for the full day, because the hands-on blocks depend on being able to lean over someone's shoulder. Travel is included inside Halifax Regional Municipality. Outside HRM it's added to the fee and agreed before we book: rest of Nova Scotia from $250, New Brunswick and PEI from $500, Newfoundland quoted individually. Half-day sessions work well remotely if travel doesn't make sense for you, and I deliver those anywhere in Canada.

Under about fifteen people, a full day is usually more than you need, start with executive coaching or an Essentials session. Over about three hundred, you need a change-management program with internal resourcing, and you'd be better served by a firm with a delivery team. We'll say so rather than take the engagement.

We baseline time-on-task for the specific workflows we target, before the session, using the team's own estimates and spot checks. At thirty days we re-measure the same workflows. You get the honest number, including the ones that didn't move. Any consultant who promises a percentage before measuring your baseline is guessing.