Workshops

Workshops & Professional Development

Practical AI Readiness, Faculty Development, and Leadership Sessions for Colleges, Organizations, and Professional Teams

Every session is built around your audience. The workshops below are starting points, not fixed packages. Each one is tailored to your goals, your people, and the time you have, and can be combined into a longer series. Tell Dr. Austin what your team needs and she will shape the session around it.

1. From AI Training to AI Readiness

Many organizations are offering AI training, but training alone does not create readiness. This workshop helps leaders and teams move beyond tool demonstrations and begin preparing people, workflows, roles, expectations, and safeguards for responsible AI adoption.

This session connects directly to Dr. Austin’s doctoral work and forthcoming book, The AI Readiness Advantage: A Leader’s Guide to Preparing People, Workflows, and Organizations for Responsible AI.

Best for: Business leaders, higher education leaders, HR teams, workforce development teams, professional associations, and organizations beginning or refining AI adoption.

Participants will learn how to:

• Distinguish AI awareness, AI training, and AI readiness
• Identify readiness gaps that slow adoption
• Prepare people and workflows for responsible AI use
• Strengthen trust, role clarity, and accountability
• Build practical next steps for AI implementation

2. Ethical AI Prompting for Faculty

Faculty are being asked to respond to AI quickly, often without enough practical guidance. This workshop helps educators teach students to use AI ethically, transparently, and responsibly while protecting academic integrity and student learning.

This session pairs well with The Ethical AI Prompting Pocket Guide for Faculty.

Best for: Faculty development programs, teaching and learning centers, academic integrity teams, instructional designers, department chairs, and college faculty.

Participants will learn how to:

• Teach students the difference between AI assistance and academic dishonesty
• Create ethical prompting activities
• Build AI disclosure expectations into assignments
• Evaluate AI output with professional judgment
• Keep student thinking central to the learning process

3. Ethical AI Prompting for Students

Students are already using AI, but many do not know how to use it responsibly. This workshop helps students understand how AI can support learning without replacing their effort, voice, judgment, or accountability.

This session pairs well with The Ethical AI Prompting Pocket Guide for Students, co-authored by Dr. Lynn F. Austin and Dr. Andrea Banto.

Best for: Student success programs, first-year experience programs, writing centers, academic integrity offices, adult learner programs, and career readiness initiatives.

Participants will learn how to:

• Use AI as a study partner, not a shortcut
• Ask better questions and write stronger prompts
• Recognize when AI output may be incomplete, biased, or inaccurate
• Disclose AI use appropriately
• Protect academic integrity and professional credibility

4. AI as a Teaching Assistant

AI can support planning, feedback, communication, examples, rubrics, and student support. But AI should assist teaching, not replace faculty judgment. This workshop helps educators use AI as a teaching assistant while keeping the instructor fully in the loop.

This session pairs well with the forthcoming Ethical AI Prompting Pocket Guide for AI as a Teaching Assistant, co-authored by Dr. Lynn F. Austin and Dr. Gwendolyn Dooley.

Best for: Faculty, lead faculty, instructional teams, online teaching programs, academic leaders, and institutions exploring AI-supported teaching practices.

Participants will learn how to:

• Use AI to support planning, feedback, and communication
• Create examples, rubrics, announcements, and support resources
• Identify what should not be delegated to AI
• Review AI output for accuracy, tone, and bias
• Maintain faculty judgment, presence, and responsibility

5. Designing Assignments That Reveal Student Thinking in the Age of AI

AI has changed what students can produce. It has not changed the need for students to think. This workshop helps faculty redesign assignments so students demonstrate process, reflection, judgment, application, and learning rather than simply submitting polished final products.

Best for: Faculty, academic leaders, instructional designers, assessment teams, writing-intensive courses, and academic integrity teams.

Participants will learn how to:

• Identify assignments vulnerable to shallow AI use
• Add process-based checkpoints
• Require reflection, revision, and rationale
• Use AI as a learning tool without replacing student thinking
• Strengthen assessment integrity

6. Human Judgment in an AI-Mediated Workplace

AI can summarize, draft, organize, and recommend, but it cannot replace wisdom, context, ethics, empathy, or accountability. This workshop helps professionals use AI responsibly while keeping human judgment at the center of decision-making.

Best for: Business professionals, educators, leadership teams, workforce development programs, professional associations, and organizations preparing employees for AI-enabled work.

Participants will learn how to:

• Evaluate AI output before using it
• Question responses that sound polished but may be wrong
• Protect sensitive information
• Decide what should remain human-led
• Use AI to support better thinking, not replace it

Optional Leadership Workshop

Purpose-Driven Leadership in a Changing World

Change requires more than strategy. It requires courage, clarity, resilience, and purpose. This workshop helps professionals and leaders reflect on their values, decision-making, leadership voice, and next steps during seasons of transition, reinvention, or growth.

Best for: Women’s leadership groups, professional development programs, faith-based organizations, student leadership programs, and career transition events.

Participants will learn how to:

• Clarify personal and professional purpose
• Identify limiting narratives
• Strengthen confidence and leadership presence
• Move from reflection to action
• Lead through change with integrity

AI Readiness for Faculty and Academic Leaders

A practical series focused on ethical AI prompting, assignment design, academic integrity, AI-supported feedback, and faculty judgment.

AI Readiness for Workforce and Business Leaders

A leadership-focused series on preparing people, workflows, roles, and organizations for responsible AI adoption.

Ethical AI Prompting Series

A practical training series built around the Ethical AI Prompting Pocket Guide resources for faculty, students, and AI as a teaching assistant.

Purpose, Strategy, and Leadership Series

A professional growth series focused on leadership clarity, resilience, confidence, and navigating change with purpose.

Bring a Workshop to Your Organization

Dr. Austin customizes each workshop based on the audience, event goals, time available, and desired outcomes.

To request a workshop, please use the contact form and include:

• Organization or event name
• Desired topic or area of focus
• Audience type and estimated size
• Preferred format: virtual, in person, keynote, workshop, or series
• Event date or target timeframe
• Budget range, if available

Custom proposals are available for colleges, universities, businesses, professional associations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and workforce development initiatives.

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