AI Skills for Real Work
Personalized, 90-minute practice built around your team’s responsibilities and approved AI tools.
See the practice examplesAI Readiness Institute · Practical AI for Real Work.
Personalized workforce development grounded in HR, adult learning, and risk management. Prepare your team to use approved AI tools, evaluate the results, and apply their professional experience.
Built for public agencies and community-serving organizations.
Practice one relevant task. Give clear instructions. Evaluate the result.
Personalized Workplace AI Skills Training
90 minutes · Virtual or onsite

Access is only the starting point
Some employees hesitate to use AI. Others experiment without clear guidance. Your organization needs practical skills and shared expectations for responsible use.
Personalized training gives experienced employees guided practice with approved tools, relevant work, and human review.
Designed for HR, workforce development, and organizational leaders preparing employees across departments to use AI professionally.
For cities, counties, school districts, associations, risk pools, and other community-serving organizations. HR expertise shapes the training; employees across departments participate.
One service. Three reasons to begin.
One focused service: Personalized Workplace AI Skills Training.
Examples · selected with your team
One focused starting service
Personalized Workplace AI Skills Training
90 minutes · Virtual or onsite
Practice uses fictional or non-confidential materials. People retain responsibility for reviewing the work and making decisions.
Read the full activity outline, participation requirements, and scopeOne connected professional background
Dr. Mary Alvarez, Ed.D., brings more than 15 years of experience spanning education, human resources, workforce development, municipal operations, and risk management.
She draws on that experience to prepare employees to use AI confidently and responsibly, with practical instruction grounded in their work.
Meet Dr. Alvarez
Speaking, moderation & women in AI
Speaking and moderation extend the same workforce mission: employee confidence, responsible AI use, and practical organizational change.
Dr. Alvarez advocates for women to build AI skills, speak openly about their capabilities, and recognize AI literacy as a professional strength. A technology job title is not a requirement.
Discuss a Speaking or Moderation EngagementStart with your team’s work
Tell Dr. Alvarez about your organization and one task your team would like to improve. We will discuss your priorities and prepare a proposed scope. Scope and fees are provided after discussing your organization’s needs, before scheduling.
Your request is saved for Dr. Alvarez to review. The next step is a conversation about fit, your team’s priorities, and scope.
You can also schedule a conversation using the existing booking calendar.
Book a Conversation With Dr. AlvarezPrefer email? mary@aireadinessinstitute.net