A 3-hour interactive session where CEOs don't just learn about AI, they see it work on their actual business problems. Live. In the room.
No slides about "the future of AI." No generic chatbot demos. Jim walks in, identifies the operational pain points the group shares, and builds an AI team that solves them in real time, while they watch. This is proof, not slides.
Jim wrote the book on it, literally. Blindsided! was #1 in 80 countries. He doesn't follow trends; he identifies them before they hit.
Jim uses YOUR chapter's pain points and builds a working AI team on the spot. Attendees leave with a real artifact, not a slide deck.
50% of airtime is paired discussion and Q&A. These CEOs process by doing, not watching. Jim's format is built for that.
What they see built in the session can be deployed to their business. A managed AI team, not another tool to figure out.
Your CEOs are asking about AI. Most speakers will give them slides and theory. Jim Harris, TEC Canada Speaker of the Year, advisor to Walmart, IBM, and the UK Cabinet Office, gives them a working AI team built live in the session. This fits directly into your 2027 speaker calendar. Book it before another chapter does.
Format: 3 modules × (25-30 min teach + 20 min paired discussion + 10 min group Q&A). Max 2 hours of presentation content. CEOs are active participants, not an audience.
Teach: Why individual AI tools fail and teams succeed. The difference between a chatbot and a coordinated AI workforce. Live demo: show an AI team answering a lead, creating a follow-up sequence, and scheduling, all coordinated, all under 60 seconds.
Pair discussion: "What are the 3 tasks in your business that eat the most employee time but generate the least revenue? Could an AI team handle any of them?"
Teach: Jim takes the #1 pain point from Module 1 and builds an AI team to solve it. Live. In front of the room. Attendees see configuration, watch the AI agents activate, and see results in real time. No pre-built demo, this is responsive to what the room actually needs.
Pair discussion: "If this worked for your business, what would change in 90 days? What would you stop spending money on?"
Teach: How to evaluate, adopt, and scale AI teams in a real business. The 3 questions every CEO should ask before buying any AI product. Common pitfalls (the "shiny tool" trap, the "we tried ChatGPT" objection, the integration gap). What "AI-ready" actually means for a $10M-$500M company.
Pair discussion: "Draft your 90-day AI adoption plan. What's step 1? Who owns it? What does success look like?"
Add a 4th module: Industry-Specific AI Plays. Jim runs breakout groups by industry vertical (manufacturing, professional services, retail, etc.) and builds targeted AI team configurations for each. More hands-on, more customized. Best for groups with diverse industries represented.
Spread the content across 3 monthly sessions. Session 1: AI Team Model + first build. Session 2: Implementation check-in + advanced use cases. Session 3: ROI review + scaling strategy. Allows CEOs to implement between sessions and bring real results back to the group.
Jim coordinates, teaches Week 1 (AI Teams foundations). Weeks 2-8 cover: content creation, lead generation, client delivery, course development, speaking demos, sales automation, and scaling a practice with AI. Each week features a different expert speaker. Attendees build their own AI team-driven practice throughout.
You're an expert in manufacturing. Or pricing strategy. Or military logistics. Or leadership. Your clients pay for your brain, but you're drowning in the same operational overhead as everyone else.
Research the audience, generate customized materials, build interactive demos, handle logistics and comms with the organizer.
Live AI demo that wow the room. Real-time Q&A support. Audience engagement tracking.
Automated follow-up to every attendee. Proposal generation for interested prospects. Content repurposing from session recordings.
Course development, client onboarding, social media, newsletter, all handled by your AI team while you focus on what you're best at: teaching.
Jim's bringing together AI speakers for a hands-on workshop, followed by an 8-week course. This isn't theory, every participant builds their own AI team-driven practice and leaves with a working system. Jim teaches Week 1; seven other experts cover the rest.
This is the moment in the seminar where it stops being a presentation and starts being proof.
Jim asks the room: "What's the #1 task that eats your team's time?" Uses results from Module 1 pair discussions. Picks the top answer live.
Jim configures an AI team on screen, assigning roles (answering agent, follow-up agent, content agent, operations agent). Audience sees the setup in real time. No pre-built templates.
The AI team goes live. Jim triggers a test scenario (e.g., an inbound lead call, a content request, a scheduling task). The room watches the AI agents coordinate and respond.
Show the output: the lead was answered in under 60 seconds, the follow-up email was drafted and sent, the appointment was booked. Compare this to the manual process the CEOs described 30 minutes earlier.
Audience Q&A: "What if my business does X?" Jim adjusts the AI team configuration live. Different industry, different pain point, same framework. Proves the model is flexible, not scripted.
CEOs have seen enough slide decks. They've sat through enough "imagine the possibilities" talks. This demo takes 25 minutes and the AI team is actually working by the end of it. They don't have to imagine, they see it. That's the conversion moment.