Trainings at Hawthorne Consulting

The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence into enterprise workflows has created both opportunity and urgency. Yet professionals and businesses across many industries are struggling to capture value in the profound shifts happening across project management, team collaboration, risk forecasting, and organizational decision-making.

At Hawthorne Consulting, we believe that AI literacy is a foundational skill. In the same way that every company has become a technology company, we believe that every company will eventually become an AI company. 

Your teams need to understand not just how to use AI tools, but when to use them, how to interpret their outputs, and how to maintain human judgment in an increasingly AI-powered world.

Our training programs are designed for organizations ready to move beyond awareness into capability. We combine expert instruction, hands-on demonstrations, real-world case studies, and customizable implementation roadmaps — delivering training that sticks and drives measurable business impact.

Whether you're upskilling individual contributors, transforming your Agile practices, reimagining project management, or preparing your leadership for the AI era, Hawthorne Consulting brings deep expertise and a pragmatic approach to organizational transformation and workforce upskilling. 

Transform your workforce.
Compete at scale.
Lead with confidence.

Training Tracks

1. AI Fundamentals for Professionals
Dispel the myth that AI is just ChatGPT. Explore machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI with clarity and nuance. Learn where AI excels, where it fails, and how different AI technologies will reshape professional workflows—building the conceptual foundation every employee needs in the AI era.

2. Effective Prompting for Leveraging GenAI
Master the art and science of prompting to unlock AI's full potential. Move beyond basic queries to structured, iterative prompting techniques that extract nuanced, high-value outputs. Learn role-specific strategies for marketing, finance, operations, and knowledge work—and understand when AI-generated content requires human refinement.

3. Data Literacy for the AI Era
Develop the confidence to interpret data quality, evaluate AI-generated insights, and make informed decisions in a data-driven world. Cover statistical thinking, spotting bias in data, understanding AI model confidence and limitations, and asking critical questions of AI recommendations.

4. Workflow Automation using AI
Identify automation opportunities in existing business processes and build no-code AI agents to drive efficiency. Learn to design workflows that integrate ChatGPT, Zapier, n8n, and Make—connecting AI to your actual work and measuring productivity gains with real ROI metrics.

5. Microsoft 365 Copilot & Enterprise AI Tools
Deploy AI at scale across your organization's existing tech stack. Master Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook—the tools employees already use daily. Learn effective prompting for business applications, troubleshooting common pitfalls, and building organizational adoption strategies.

6. Agentic AI for Business Applications
Go beyond chatbots to autonomous AI agents that solve complex, multi-step business problems. Understand how agentic AI differs from generative AI, design AI agents for real use cases — research, customer service, data analysis — and maintain human-in-the-loop oversight for high-stakes decisions.

7. Responsible AI: Ethics & Safety
Navigate bias, fairness, transparency, and safety in enterprise AI deployment. Align with regulatory frameworks (EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF) and build organizational ethics guidelines. Essential for compliance officers, risk managers, and leaders accountable for responsible AI governance.

8. Change Management in the Era of AI
Address the human side of AI adoption. Learn to manage resistance, communicate AI's value to skeptical stakeholders, design workforce transition strategies, and build AI-ready organizational culture. Transform fear into competence and fragmented adoption into strategic capability.

9. AI for Executives: Strategy, ROI, Change, Scale & Governance
Lead your organization's AI transformation with strategic clarity. Develop AI integration roadmaps, measure ROI and competitive impact, build governance frameworks, scale adoption across the enterprise, and make boardroom-ready decisions about AI investment and risk. Designed for C-suite and program leaders.

10. AI-Enhanced Project Management: Predictive Forecasting, Risk Intelligence & Delivery Acceleration
Shift from reactive to predictive project management. Leverage AI for accurate timeline and budget forecasting, early risk detection, intelligent resource optimization, and automated reporting. Reduce delays by 25–40%, improve forecast accuracy to 85%+, and reclaim PM time for strategic leadership.

11. AI-Powered Agile: Automating Excellence in Teams
Integrate AI into Scrum workflows to enhance sprint planning, automate backlog management, detect delivery risks in real-time, and augment retrospectives with data-driven insights. Empower Scrum Masters and Product Owners to move from process administration to team excellence and continuous velocity improvement.

Delivery & Next Steps

Hawthorne Consulting delivers training through in-person workshops, virtual instructor-led sessions, hybrid blended programs, and custom corporate programs — all tailored to your industry, workflow, and learning preferences. Participants receive certification recognized for professional development. To discuss your organization's training needs, design a customized program, and begin building AI capability at scale, reach out to us.