AI PLAY DAY
You've bought the tools and set the AI strategy. But half your people are quietly worried about what AI means for their job, and most of the rest haven't opened it. AI Play Day is a full-day, hands-on experience run inside your organisation, and it ends with every team building a working app that fixes a real problem in your business.
Your people don't need another AI briefing. They need permission to play.
Most AI training teaches the tools and hopes people get over their fear. It rarely works that way. People who feel threatened by AI don't learn it. They wait it out.
So Jane starts where the resistance actually lives. She covers how large language models mirror the way our own brains predict and pattern-match, why the people who adapt are the ones who thrive, and what it means to be the director of AI rather than its passenger. Once the fear has a name, curiosity takes its place, and then the tools get picked up.
By the afternoon your team is competing to build apps, and the ideas are coming from the people who do the work.
How the Day Runs . . .
The Human Side of AI
The neuroscience of how large language models mirror the way we think, and why the people who adapt are the ones who thrive. Fear is named and answered, and your team learns to act as the director of AI rather than its passenger.
AI as a Force Multiplier
Live demos of what's possible right now: AI assistants, a sales negotiation playbook, and an idea sketched on a napkin that becomes a finished presentation in minutes.
Hands-On Tools Lab
Everyone plays: prompt crafting, research with Gemini NotebookLM, how to create instant presentations, and original theme songs.
The App Build Challenge
Each group picks a real workplace frustration and builds a working app to solve it, with no previous coding skills needed. Teams can even get competitive: the top teams present their apps and showcase them with their new presentation and theme-song skills.
AI Comes Home
Personal uses such as a storybook for the kids or a plan for the weekend, so people leave with something to show their family and a reason to keep playing.
Built for organisations where AI needs to land with people, not just systems.
Leaders about to roll out AI (Copilot, ChatGPT, agents or a custom platform) who need their people on board
Organisations where pockets of AI resistance or fear are slowing adoption
CEOs who want the best AI ideas to come from the floor, not just the boardroom
Conference and offsite days that need energy and a real outcome
"Your people don't need another AI briefing. They need permission to play."
From scepticism to 15 working apps in one day
Saunders Havill Group is a leading South East Queensland planning, surveying, environmental and landscape architecture firm. It had a significant AI investment on the horizon, and a team that wasn't sure what that meant for them. A pre-event staff survey showed that 85% thought AI could provide practical tools for their role, but the majority were only using it for email assistance, and many were openly sceptical.
Jane designed and ran a full AI Play Day for 100+ staff, from directors to graduates, working with the leadership team and in-house IT to get the platforms set up before the day. Fifteen tables built fifteen working apps, each one targeting a real frustration in their own work. This exercise alone unearthed some real opportunities that the company was able to pursue.
Before
- 11% were very comfortable using AI
- 21% were concerned or indifferent to the impact of AI on their role
- "What will AI bring to our company and each department?"
After
- 67% welcoming AI into their roles
- 15 working apps + a backlog of fixable "niggles"
- "An openness to the opportunities that lie ahead instead of the trepidation some had before hearing from Jane"
"Jane has been a fantastic assistance to Saunders Havill in navigating the world of AI. Jane brings both a wealth of knowledge and an energy that transforms AI skepticism into optimism. Jane took the lead in helping us coordinate and run our AI conference for the staff. The combination of engaging presentations and practical workshops taught the teams about what is possible and made them excited about what is coming and how they can individually use AI in their day to day roles. Since the conference, we have seen a continued interest in the use of AI and an openness to the opportunities that lie ahead instead of the trepidation some had before hearing from Jane."
Michael Forwood — Director, Saunders Havill Group
From first call to lasting momentum
01Discovery
A call with leadership to understand your AI plans, your goals for the day and where the resistance sits.
02Staff Pulse
A short pre-event AI survey so the content speaks to your people's real questions and fears.
03IT & Set-Up
Jane works directly with your IT lead to approve the tools, create a team app workspace and brief the table captains.
04The Day
About six hours, facilitated by Jane: part keynote, part lab, part competition.
05After
A before-and-after survey, the list of apps built, and a plan to keep the apps and the momentum going.
- Venue with strong WiFi and power at every table
- Tables of 5–7 people with a shared screen and one laptop per table
- A table captain per team (with an app-builder licence, arranged in set-up), preferably grouped by team or department
- An IT contact to whitelist the tools ahead of the day
- Your people, curious or not. Sceptics welcome.
Why Jane? Most AI trainers teach the tools. Jane starts with the people. She's an explosives engineer turned wealth educator turned AI pioneer, and she's tested everything on her own businesses first. Since 2022 she has used AI to replace 25 hours of her own working week.
- Finalist, inaugural Australian AI Awards (2024)
- Ran hands-on "build your own marketing assistant" AI workshops in 5 cities with 80–150 people per room
- Creator of PropertyChat.ai, the world's first property clone
- Twice Australian Mortgage Broker of the Year. Taught 30,000+ Australians to invest strategically in low-risk residential property.
- Qantas Magazine: one of the four most influential people in wealth creation for everyday Australians
- Podcast host, Exit the Matrix: Stories of Success
- Author, Your Property Success: 2 Properties, 1 Renovation, $1 Million in the Bank (Wiley & Sons)
- ABC's Australian Story (1997) · Churchill Fellowship recipient for a cutting-edge study on mine-site rehabilitation using explosives · Who's Who of Australian Women for contribution to mining and property education
Do our people need any technical skills?
None. The app build uses a no-code platform. If someone can describe a problem in plain English, they can build the app.
What if our IT security is strict?
Good. Jane works with your IT team ahead of the day to whitelist the tools and test access from your devices, so there are no surprises on the day.
What happens to the apps afterwards?
They belong to you. Before any trial licences lapse, Jane walks your administrator through keeping every app, so nothing your team built is lost.
Can this be part of our conference or offsite?
Yes. AI Play Day was first delivered as the centrepiece of a staff conference.
How much does it cost?
Investment depends on team size, location and set-up. Get in touch and we'll put together a proposal.
Book AI Play Day for your organisation . . .
Turn AI resistance into AI momentum in one day.
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