Workshop · In person · November 9–11, 2026
AI can write the content. You design the learning.
A three-day, hands-on workshop for trainers and training managers. Bring a real course or AI program. Leave with it rebuilt.
Your organization wants AI adoption. Your learners want training that works. And you’re being asked to do more, faster, with tools that can draft a full course outline in seconds.
But people learn when they retrieve, make, practice and apply. Designing for that is still the trainer’s job, and it matters more now, not less. This workshop shows you how to use AI to do that job better, while keeping it human.
Choose your focus
Everyone works through the same core. You pick the project that fits your role.
“We've been told to get everyone using AI. The demos didn't change anything.”
Design an AI-upskilling program for one real team, built on the Accelerated Learning cycle so it changes how people work, not just what they've seen.
“AI does in an hour what took me a week. Where do I fit?”
Redesign one of your own courses with AI as a design partner, and strengthen the human-centered parts that make learning stick.
Two methods, used together
Developed by interactive-learning pioneer Dave Meier, the Accelerated Learning cycle engages learners with authentic activities so they drive their own learning. Its four phases shape every day of this workshop.
Created by Josh Yavelberg, PhD, Be AI-gile is a way of knowing grounded in learning theory, not a checklist. AI widens the gap between the work people are asked to do and what they were trained for. Used wisely, it also helps them cross it.
How the three days run
The Accelerated Learning cycle, refreshed with current learning science. What AI changes, what it doesn't, and a map of your own work showing where AI helps and where it hurts.
Take your project through the four tenets, building with AI and learning while doing. Practice judging AI output against a standard instead of accepting what merely sounds right.
Teach a segment to your peers and defend your solution. Set team norms for AI, contribute to a shared use-case library, and leave with a 30-day plan and an accountability partner.
A follow-up session a few weeks later helps you review what's working and plan your next step.
From the room
What you'll leave with
Your facilitators
Director, The Center for Accelerated Learning
Tom helps trainers and organizations replace training that people sit through with learning they take part in. He has brought Accelerated Learning to clients including Rolls-Royce, Royal Dutch Shell, Koch Industries, Eaton, Walmart, Allison Transmission and the UAW, Waupaca Foundry and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He leads the Center his father, Dave Meier, founded in 1980.
Flying Cloud Solutions
Josh helps organizations and the people inside them adapt to the age of AI. His path runs through art history, art education, a doctorate in educational leadership and years in the association sector. He created Be AI-gile and is writing a book of the same name.
Reserve your seat
Registering 3 or more people? Pay the team rate with PayPal, with 10% off each seat.
Questions
No. If you can use a web browser, you're ready. The method matters more than the tool.
Any you like. The workshop is tool-agnostic, so bring whatever AI tool you use or want to try, plus a laptop.
One real course you own, or one AI-upskilling initiative you're responsible for. You'll work on it all three days.
Yes, and it helps, since teams leave with shared AI norms. Groups of three or more save 10%. Fill out the registration form, then pay the team rate with PayPal or request an invoice.
After you fill out the registration form, you can pay online with PayPal or request an invoice and pay by check.
The workshop is at Bella Vista Suites, 335 Wrigley Drive in downtown Lake Geneva, across from the lake. To stay on site, call the hotel at (262) 248-2100 to book a room.
Yes. A short follow-up session a few weeks later to review progress and plan your next step.
Use only material you're cleared to share with AI tools. We'll cover how to decide what's safe during the workshop.
Presented by The Center for Accelerated Learning and Flying Cloud Solutions. More on the frameworks behind the workshop:
