Seven Days, Three Keynotes, a Full Day Workshop, and 368 leaders.
One Message: The future of work is now. And AI will define it for small businesses and the partners who enable them.
It was Becky Davison, MBA, PMP who came to a webinar we put on and insisted we bring this to her membership after a newsletter (May 2023) and a webinar (Oct 2023).
Becky – You had the foresight. It was your leadership that challenged us to create a tactical and practical workshop for small business leaders.
And the results are incredible:
RFPs are taking 10% of the time they used to
Estimating in a fraction of the time
Scorecards built in a few prompts
Sales Dossiers ready in 17 minutes
Marketing content enabled for those who find it hard to write
Blue Collar “paperwork” done in minutes
Job ads that don’t suck
Interview questions that align with your values and go deep.
I start many of my keynotes with the story of marc knight and Phillip Robinson – co-owners of Trunk 7. Two months before our AI session, Marc bought his first laptop. And after the AI workshop, they were saving 600 hours annualized on proposal writing.
Until all of our small businesses have stories like Marc and Phil, the jobs not done.
We are all CEO’s of a Hybrid workforce now – Sentient and Non-Sentient.
What do you do with Knowledge on Tap?
How does your business look different when you can have a thousand PhDs working for you on 1000 different tasks?
We are undergoing the largest and fastest transformation in human history.
And only 8.9% of small business owners believe they need to invest. That’s terrifying.
We’re on a mission to change that.
Last Friday kicked off with the Small Business Big Growth Summit with the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.
Morgan Peters (He/Him) and the Fredericton Chamber of Commerce led the way in New Brunswick and brought the workshop to their members.
More than 327 businesses have been through it.
I’ve since taken on the role of the AI Entrepreneur in Residence at the at the UNB’s J Herbert Smith Centre (JHSC) TME program under the leadership of Dhirendra Shukla.
Dave Doucette from Roynat Capital and Krista Han from Doane Grant Thornton LLP have sponsored our work at the University of New Brunswick
Thank you to the Halifax Chamber, the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce, Ignite, and the Fredericton Chamber for an incredible week!
Next week, we have the Business Round Table in Moncton. Halifax Nov 5th, and Fredericton.
My dad wanted to make the word productivity sexy again. We laughed at the time. But he knew that profitable businesses could unlock prosperity in the Altantic Canada. He was proud of the work we were doing early on to integrate AI and unlock productivity gains.
There is no reason we can’t lead the world in AI integration to increase the productivity of our businesses!
