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AI Readiness Institute · Practical AI for Real Work.

Prepare Your People for AI at 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

Dr. Mary Alvarez, Ed.D., founder of AI Readiness Institute.
Workforce development led by Dr. Mary Alvarez, Ed.D.

Access is only the starting point

Build Shared Skills for Everyday Work.

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.

Turn Access Into Workplace Capability.

AI Skills for Real Work

Personalized, 90-minute practice built around your team’s responsibilities and approved AI tools.

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Turn AI Access Into Skills

Equip experienced employees to give clear instructions, evaluate AI responses, and work confidently.

See what employees practice

Responsible AI at Work

Prepare your team to protect information, verify AI output, and put workplace AI policies into practice.

See responsible practice

One focused service: Personalized Workplace AI Skills Training.

Examples · selected with your team

Start With Work Your Employees Know.

Benefits Communication

Draft an announcement and FAQ from approved plan information. Check changes, deadlines, required actions, and where employees can ask questions.

Onboarding & Institutional Knowledge

Turn a non-confidential process description into a checklist. An experienced employee checks for missing steps and accuracy.

Approved Policy Communication

Prepare an employee summary and supervisor talking points. Verify that the wording preserves the policy’s meaning.

See the activity examples, including urgent service communication

One focused starting service

What Your Organization Receives

Personalized Workplace AI Skills Training
90 minutes · Virtual or onsite

  • A planning conversation to select one shared workplace task.
  • Live instruction and guided practice aligned with your approved tool and available guidance.
  • Time for questions, review, and revision.
  • A participant guide, reusable prompts, and an information-protection and verification checklist.
  • A written recap and agreed next steps.

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 scope

One connected professional background

Grounded in People, Work, and Responsibility.

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
Three women standing together on a conference stage beneath a screen showing a remote participant.

Speaking, moderation & women in AI

Make Room for People to Participate.

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 Engagement

Start with your team’s work

Discuss Your Team’s Training

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.

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Please do not submit confidential employee, student, resident, or organizational information. A general description is enough.

Your details are stored in a private inquiry inbox and used to respond, discuss fit, and prepare your proposal. Submission does not book training or commit your organization to a purchase. Inquiry and privacy information.

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