Speaking & Signature Workshops

Empowering Industries and Revolutionizing AI in

Rita Powell delivers keynotes that cut through AI hype and deliver what leaders actually need: clarity, strategy, and confidence. Her expertise is rare. With 20 years in Navy cybersecurity and a degree in Health Information Administration, she understands both the technical and regulatory landscape, from CMMC and HIPAA to NIST and SOC 2 compliance. She shows leaders how to adopt AI without creating security gaps, compliance failures, or regulatory nightmares.
Every business is unique, and that means your AI training needs to be customized. Our Custom/Private Training is designed for organizations that want tailored solutions that match their specific goals, team structure, and tools. We’ll work with you to design a training program that addresses the challenges and objectives that are unique to your business.

Whether you’re looking to train a single department, a cross-functional team, or your entire organization, we offer personalized training that dives into AI strategies and tools that are specific to your industry and operational needs. Our private training includes one-on-one sessions with our AI experts, hands-on workshops, and customized action plans that ensure AI is integrated effectively into your business.

What’s Included in Custom Training

Tailored AI Roadmap

We’ll design an AI implementation plan specific to your team and goals.

In-Depth Training

Focused sessions on the tools and technologies that matter most to your business.

Ongoing Support

Post-training consultations to ensure your team is confidently using the tools and strategies learned.

Benefits of Custom/Private Training

  • A training plan designed to meet your team’s needs, using your existing tools
  • Hands-on, real-world applications that ensure your team can implement immediately
  • A flexible and engaging learning experience, tailored to your pace and objectives
Our Signature Workshops offer an intensive, high-impact way to learn AI strategies and tools in just one day. These build-in-a-day intensives focus on specific aspects of AI adoption, from creating automation systems to developing a strategic AI roadmap. These workshops are perfect for leaders and teams who want to learn quickly and implement even faster.

Available Workshops

1. AI Campus

This immersive workshop provides your team with comprehensive AI training designed to build confidence and competency across your organization. You’ll transform AI from an intimidating concept into a practical toolkit that every team member can leverage to work smarter and faster.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to evaluate and select the right AI tools for different business functions
  • Practical prompting techniques that get better results from AI assistants
  • Real-world use cases tailored to your industry and role-specific needs

2. How to Make AI Your Unfair Business Advantage

This strategic workshop reveals how forward-thinking companies are using AI to outpace competitors and capture market share. You’ll discover proven frameworks for identifying high-impact AI opportunities that deliver measurable ROI and sustainable competitive differentiation.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to identify AI opportunities that create genuine competitive moats
  • Frameworks for prioritizing AI investments based on business impact
  • Case studies of companies that transformed their market position with AI

3. When to Use or Not Use AI Agents in Your Business

This decision-making workshop cuts through the hype to help you determine where AI agents will actually move the needle for your business. You’ll learn a systematic approach to evaluating automation opportunities and avoiding costly implementation mistakes.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to assess which processes are ideal candidates for AI agent automation
  • Red flags that indicate where AI agents will underperform or create risk
  • A decision framework for building vs. buying AI agent solutions

4. AI in Action: Inspiring AI Adoption in Your Organization

This change management workshop addresses the human side of AI transformation. You’ll learn proven strategies for overcoming resistance, building enthusiasm, and creating a culture where teams actively embrace AI as a force multiplier rather than viewing it as a threat.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to communicate AI’s value in ways that resonate with different stakeholders
  • Strategies for addressing common fears and misconceptions about A
  • Tactics for creating early wins that build momentum for broader adoption

Why Our Workshops Stand Out

  • Learn actionable AI strategies in a single day
  • Walk away with a concrete plan you can implement immediately
  • Receive expert guidance from AIgnite professionals with years of experience

Corporate AI Strategy & Consulting

I help companies go from “dabbling” to aligned strategy, and then implementation. Working closely with leadership and technical teams, I bring structure, creativity, and momentum to AI adoption, making sure it’s not just a “tech upgrade”, but the necessary business shift that’s required with Generative AI transformation.

AI Impact & Readiness Assessment
AI Impact & Readiness Assessment
Uncover where your organization stands today. I lead a discovery process to assess your systems, workflows, and overall readiness for AI, highlighting where the real potential is, what barriers exist, and what needs to be in place before anything moves forward.
AI Opportunity Mapping
Pinpoint the highest-impact, most strategic use cases for generative AI across your business. I help teams prioritize what’s worth pursuing, what to avoid, and how to focus on solutions that deliver real value—not just experimentation.
Cross-Functional Strategy Development
Align leadership, technical, and operational teams under a clear, actionable AI strategy. I help you move from scattered experimentation to a unified roadmap that supports both business outcomes and cultural readiness.
Adoption Change Enablement
Help teams move from curiosity to capability. I support internal readiness, communication strategies, and the mindset shift required to ensure your AI strategy actually sticks.
Scaling & Integration Support
Once the foundation is in place, I help you scale what’s working—across teams, tools, and processes. From early pilots to full adoption, I make sure your AI efforts grow in a way that’s structured, sustainable, and aligned.
Company-Wide Literacy Programs
From leadership to frontline, I design and deliver training that builds a shared, baseline understanding of AI, so everyone knows what it is, what it isn’t, and how it fits into their role.
Sustainable Learning Ecosystems
I work with internal L&D teams to build systems that last—supporting ongoing literacy for onboarding, reskilling, and upskilling. It’s not a one-and-done workshop—it’s long-term culture change.
Executive Leadership
I work with both technical and non-technical leaders to help them understand how to lead their company through AI adoption—strategically and confidently. These sessions focus on leadership mindset, communication, and long-term (and creative) thinking, and decision-making.
AI Champion Programs & Certification Pathways
Every company has changemakers—the ones who raise their hand early, take on extra responsibility, and lead by example. I help you design programs that recognize and support those people. These certifications ensure that your internal AI champions—the trusted teachers, culture carriers, and positive forces—drive adoption from the inside out.

AI Literacy Design & Enablement

One of the biggest barriers to AI adoption is a team that doesn’t understand it, and doesn’t feel confident using it. I help organizations solve that gap. From executive-level fluency to frontline workflows, I design learning experiences that make AI practical, accessible, and relevant across every role. The goal: build an internal culture where AI isn’t intimidating, it’s useful, usable, and part of the everyday.