AI Training & Adoption Strategist
Laura Gates, PhD
Partnering with consultancies and companies to drive AI adoption through expert training design, delivery, and change strategy.
I provide these services as a specialist partner to consultancies or directly to organisations:
AI Capacity Building: Design and delivery of tailored, evidence-based training programmes that develop the confidence and competence teams need to integrate AI into their workflows. Includes needs analysis, curriculum design, role-specific learning, and success metrics.
Strategic Adoption Planning: Consulting on how to align AI initiatives with organisational culture, skills, and structure. Includes stakeholder engagement, change management strategy, and the translation of technical AI goals into human-centred implementation plans.
Ethical Readiness & Governance Enablement: Support for embedding responsible, compliant, and context-aware AI practices. Includes training and facilitation to help teams understand and apply existing governance and ethics frameworks, and build internal capacity for ongoing ethical decision-making.
Why partner with me
I bring dual expertise: 20+ years as an academic designing training programmes and leading complex research projects, combined with hands-on software engineering experience building AI systems.
This rare combination enables me to bridge the gap that undermines many AI initiatives: the disconnect between technical capabilities and human adoption. I understand both what AI can realistically do, and how to design training and change strategies that help people actually use it.
I specialise in the challenge that determines whether AI projects succeed: getting organisations to adopt AI tools, not just deploy them.
Need expertise in AI training and adoption? Let’s talk about how we can work together: