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Professional Development Workshops

Choose from these upcoming professional development workshops:

  • Elevate Your Job Search with AI Tools
  • Transforming Your Business and Workday with Generative AI

Elevate Your Job Search with AI Tools

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to build a strong, AI-supported resume. Create a resume that gets through applicant tracking systems (ATS) and that highlights your value.

Workshop date: Friday, April 24
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Cost: $50 
Delivery: Online through Zoom

Register for April 24 workshop

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Knowledge and steps to create a polished, AI-enhanced resume.
  • Templates and prompts you can reuse throughout your job search.

What to Bring

  • Please set up a free or paid account for three large language model (LLM) tools: ChatGPT, Claude.ai, and Grammarly.
  • Your current resume
  • One or two real jobs you’re interested in
  • Be ready to practice during the workshop.

One Day before the Workshop:

We will send you a template and LLM instructions. Review these; this is your homework.

Instructor

Christopher Duffy

Chris Duffy has overseen global teams of 75+, scaled 24/7 support operations, modernized tooling to operationalize AI, and driven major initiatives such as completing a board‑directed SOC 2 program in under nine months and launching a comprehensive customer trust and compliance portal. His track record includes significant improvements in NPS, billing efficiency, and product adoption through strategic innovation, process redesign, and leadership development. He has deep expertise in lifecycle management from onboarding through renewal and expansion, he builds high‑performing, customer‑centric teams focused on measurable outcomes, operational excellence, and long‑term retention.


Transforming Your Business and Workday with Generative AI

Workshop date: Thursday, April 30
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Delivery: Online
Cost: $100 (early rate through April 23) / $125 (begins April 24)

Register for april 30 workshop

Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how work gets done across industries. In this practical, hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to use modern AI tools to think more clearly, work more efficiently, and make better business decisions. 

Through live demonstrations and guided exercises, we will explore how generative AI can support strategic planning, financial analysis, marketing, operations, and everyday problem-solving. Participants will build both confidence and competence using AI as a professional thought partner, integrating it into real workflows to improve clarity, speed, and decision quality. By the end of the session, attendees will be equipped to apply these tools thoughtfully and effectively within their own organizations.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Apply practical prompt engineering techniques to generate higher-quality outputs for business tasks, such as analysis, planning, communication, and ideation.
  • Identify high-impact use cases for generative AI within their own role or organization, including opportunities to improve efficiency, creativity, and decision quality.
  • Evaluate the risks, limitations, and ethical considerations of generative AI in professional settings, and use these tools responsibly and strategically.

Instructor

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Aaron Proietti is the founder of Today’s Innovator and a former Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Customer Advocate at Transamerica. He works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and systems thinking, helping leaders and organizations make better decisions in complex and rapidly changing environments.

Aaron facilitates strategic planning processes, executive sessions, and leadership conversations across higher education, nonprofit, and business sectors. His work focuses on how complex systems behave under pressure and how leaders can design responses that are disciplined, practical, and durable. He blends structured strategic frameworks with live demonstrations of generative AI, showing how emerging tools can deepen analysis, sharpen synthesis, and expand perspective when human judgment remains central.

He is the author of "Today’s Innovator," "Becoming Today’s Innovator," and "Your QUEST Awaits," books that explore innovation, behavioral roles, and the patterns that shape meaningful change. Aaron speaks frequently on artificial intelligence, disruption, and the evolving relationship between human and machine intelligence.

He serves on the Advisory Board of Penn State Great Valley and on several nonprofit boards, including YMCA Camp Cory and the Chester County United Way. He lives in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. 

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