Practical AI adoption for organizations
Practical training, hands-on workflow building, and ongoing support. We help your team use AI in everyday work, whether you’re getting started or improving the agents you already use.
30 minutes with Todd. Bring your team’s priorities; we’ll discuss a useful next step.
USE THE SMALLEST GEAR THAT CAN OWN THE RESULT
Sets direction · defines good · reviews the work · owns the outcome
We help your team choose the right gear for the work, then build the skills and workflows to use it well.
How we put this into practiceWe’ve trained leaders and staff from organizations including
8,000+ professionals trained across our programs.
The state of AI
Most of the AI conversation pulls toward an extreme: hype or letdown, doom or utopia. The useful work happens in the middle, with a simple rule for sharing the work between your people and AI.
Choose the task, gather the inputs, and define what good looks like.
Drafting, research, and the repeatable steps in between.
Check the result, handle the edge cases, and own the outcome.
How we help
Successful AI adoption involves people, processes, and technology. We help you connect all three, around your organization’s priorities.
Useful when: Your people are experimenting with AI, but adoption is uneven.
Bring leaders and staff together around what AI can do, where it fits, and how to use it responsibly. We facilitate decisions and teach practical skills through your team’s real work.
Useful when: You have promising use cases and need help implementing them.
Choose the work worth improving, then map, build, and tune AI workflows and agents alongside your team. Connect the instructions, context, and quality checks to the result you need.
Useful when: You’ve completed training and want the new habits to stick.
Keep applying what you learn with coaching, implementation support, and a place to work through obstacles. Help people build confidence, review results, and make the next improvement.
The ROI of AI
AI pays off when it saves time on a specific, recurring job, and that time helps your team make money or save it. So instead of asking “How can we use this tool?”, ask “Which job should this improve?”
When a newsletter is approved, I want to post it on LinkedIn automatically, so I can drive conversions and traffic.
Speed up recurring work that brings in revenue, like prepping prospect outreach.
Take hours out of recurring work, like drafting the weekly board update.
Tool-first use with no clear job burns time and tokens, and can leak sensitive data.
Our work / Health tech
A $75M health tech company needed a common foundation for AI adoption across executives, managers, and analysts.
We delivered a private, customized program connecting AI fundamentals to department workflows, a company playbook, and ongoing implementation support.
A deliverable from this engagement
| Where they started | What they built |
|---|---|
| Different understandings of AI | A shared language, from executives to analysts |
| Unclear connections to daily work | Department workflows tied to practical applications |
| No common framework for adoption | A company playbook and ongoing implementation support |
Our platform / Longhand
Longhand is our platform for building and running AI workflows. It connects practical AI skills with the repeatable work your team does every day.
The related enterprise classification case study shows the approach in action. In the workflow demo, agents research each item and propose a classification. Analysts review uncertain results, with their corrections captured as feedback for future runs.
See the operational case study on LonghandWays to work with us
Choose a focused program or talk with us about a private engagement. We’ll discuss your team, priorities, and timing, then confirm what the work includes.
AI 90 · For leadership teams
Build AI literacy and practical skills across your organization, with live training, custom tools built in the sessions, an executive debrief, and implementation support.
8 live training hours · 90 days of support
Up to 30 leaders
For your organization or event
Bring us into your organization for facilitated workshops, practical AI training, workflow implementation, or coaching shaped around your priorities.
Scope and delivery agreed with your team
On-site or virtual options
AI 30 · For individuals
Build and improve AI agents alongside us over 30 days. Bring work you want to automate, whether you’re starting fresh or expanding what you already use.
30 days of hands-on co-building
One year of AI Mastermind support
Who we are
Tech Leaders was founded by Todd Larsen and Stephen Bates to help technical professionals grow as leaders. Our work brings that foundation in leadership development to the challenges of AI adoption.
Our founders and educator network bring experience in engineering, executive coaching, product, and organizational change. We facilitate, train, and coach alongside your team.
Co-founder · Engineering & AI implementation
Former Global Platform Engineer at Groupon and Founding Engineer at Digit. Brings product, engineering, and technical leadership experience to practical AI adoption.
Co-founder · Leadership & organizational change
Executive coach and leadership consultant with more than 25 years of experience in corporate training and developing technical leaders.
Coaching & team development
Former IT Applications Services & Development Manager at iPSL. Helps leaders and teams build confidence and turn learning into action.
Product, marketing & growth
Fractional CMO for Tech Leaders and product and growth leader at Bottega8, with experience helping startups and AI companies launch and scale.
AI strategy & technical leadership
Former Microsoft technical leader and CTO and Partner at Bottega8. Advises executives and boards on AI strategy and implementation.
AI & machine learning
Engineering leader with experience at AugmentAI and Zeitworks, and author of the O’Reilly book Thoughtful Machine Learning.
Enterprise engineering & transformation
VP of Engineering at Bottega8 and former engineering executive at HPE and Delphix. Connects AI ambition with people, governance, and organizational change.
Our approach
Whether your team is exploring AI or already building agents, we begin with the work you want to improve and what a useful result would look like.
Start with your priorities, the people involved, and what is already happening with AI.
Agree on the scope, a practical use case, and what a good result should look like.
Apply the training to real workflows. Practice, build, and review with your team involved.
Use feedback, coaching, and agreed measures to improve the work and continue adoption.
Participant perspectives
Feedback from leaders and professionals who have taken part in our programs.
“With the help of this program, I can focus on building better solutions and significantly reduce the time I spend on repetitive tasks.”
“Tech Leaders will meet you where you are with patience, understanding, and real practical help.”
“Todd shows where the rubber hits the road because he's actively doing it for his companies at the exact same time.”
Practical questions
Have a question specific to your organization? Email Todd or book a conversation.
Yes. We work with leaders and teams who are getting started, as well as people already using AI workflows or agents. We start with your organization’s current experience and priorities, then shape the training and implementation work around them.
No technical background is required for our AI training and agent co-building programs. We connect the learning to participants’ roles and recurring work. The tools, integrations, and technical requirements for an engagement are discussed when we agree on scope.
Our training covers responsible AI use, output validation, and human accountability. Before applying AI to a workflow, we discuss your approved tools, data boundaries, access, and review requirements. Your organization’s policies and decision rights guide the work.
Yes. We offer private, customized programs for organizations, with on-site or virtual delivery. We discuss the participants, business priorities, delivery format, and support needs before defining the engagement.
The scope depends on the participants and the work. Our AI 90 team program supports up to 30 leaders, with 8 hours of live training and 90 days of implementation support. Private workshops and implementation engagements are scoped with your organization. AI 30 is a separate 30-day co-building program for individuals. We confirm the scope and schedule with you before you commit.
Explore our thinking
Start with practical examples, or explore how we can help at your next event.
A practical resource for your team
100 practical AI workflows for leaders and teams. Find a task, adapt the instructions, and put the ideas to work.
An example from the library
You bring: Meeting transcript or notes.
You get: A draft of the decisions and actions, with owners, deadlines, and source references. Missing details stay marked for confirmation.
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Let’s talk about your organization
In a 30-minute conversation with Todd, we’ll discuss your priorities, how your people use AI today, and where training or implementation support could help.
