Artificial Intelligence is evolving fast—and for many business leaders, the pressure is building. You know AI matters. You know you need to take action soon. But with so much noise, so many tools, and no clear starting point, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and stuck in indecision.

This practical, digestible workshop is designed specifically for business leaders who want clarity, not complexity. Together, we'll unpack the current AI landscape—what's real, what's hype, and what's immediately relevant for firms like yours. You'll walk away with practical tools and strategies you can implement the very next day. In the first 15 minutes alone, you'll learn a state-of-the-art technique that typically saves participants 5-10 hours per week—and that's before we get to the advanced content.

But this isn't just about technology. AI adoption is, first and foremost, a people challenge.

Together, we'll explore:

• Unlock capabilities that sound like science fiction—perfect meeting recall, 3x productivity in measurable areas, instant knowledge retrieval (5 practical applications you'll deploy immediately)
• The roadmap you've been missing—a clear framework showing what AI can actually do and which opportunities to pursue first
• Why AI gives some people brilliant answers and others useless garbage—and the simple shift that makes it deliver exactly what you need
• Why some firms succeed with AI while others struggle—and how to set your team up for sustainable adoption

This isn't generic AI training. It's 15 years of neuroscience research meeting AI expertise that predates the ChatGPT hype—giving you the 'why' behind the tools, not just the 'how'.

At the heart of every professional services firm are two sacred assets: the trust of your clients and the value of your proprietary data. The rise of AI creates a dangerous paradox: the very tools that promise an insurmountable competitive edge could inadvertently hand your firm's "secret sauce" to your competitors and shatter decades of client trust in a single stroke.

While you're stuck in compliance meetings, your competitors are deploying. Every week of delay is a week they widen the gap. The firms winning with AI aren't the ones with perfect, 100-page policies; they're the ones who found the courage to start smart. They understand that the space between "completely safe" and "completely reckless" is where market leadership is won.

This workshop is your roadmap to navigating that space with confidence. It's not a technical seminar; it's a strategic leadership session designed to move you from paralysis to action. In the first 30 minutes, you'll identify at least three AI applications you can deploy Monday morning—completely risk-free. We'll provide you with a practical, risk-appropriate framework that protects your firm while empowering you to seize the AI advantage, turning compliance from a barrier into a competitive weapon.

You will leave this workshop with:

• The Risk-Reality Matrix™ – A powerful tool to instantly categorise any AI use case into green (deploy now), amber (proceed with controls), or red (wait) zones, eliminating guesswork
• Your AI Transparency Playbook – The exact scripts and communication frameworks needed to proactively and confidently discuss your AI use with clients, turning it into a point of differentiation
• The "First Mover Protection" Framework – Legal and governance structures that enable speed and innovation while protecting the firm and its partners personally
• A Portfolio of "Zero-Risk" AI Applications – A curated list of high-ROI tools you can deploy immediately without exposing any client or firm-confidential data (most firms discover 8-12 hours of weekly time savings here)
• Your 90-Day Compliance Roadmap – A step-by-step plan to implement the essential policies and controls for your industry, tailored for agile firms, not massive enterprises
• The "Compliance Shield" Documentation System – A turnkey system to document your AI governance, satisfying both regulators (like ASIC, ATO, and the Law Society) and nervous partners

Developed through implementations at firms handling everything from insolvency data at Worrells to sensitive government contracts. This isn't theory—it's proven practice.

You see the vision. Your leadership team sees the potential. But look past the boardroom, and you'll see the reality: a silent rebellion is underway.

Your team is overwhelmed. The juniors fear the technology will make their roles obsolete. Your seniors worry it will devalue their hard-won expertise. Everyone is being asked to do more, learn more, and change faster—all while managing their existing workload. The result? Polite nods in meetings, enthusiastic demos, and then… a quiet return to the old way of doing things.

This silent rebellion isn't just a cultural issue; it's a financial disaster. Whether it's a $50K experiment or a "$500K Mistake"—a massive investment in licenses and training that now gathers digital dust—the pattern is the same. It's "Automation Theatre", where beautiful dashboards are celebrated while having zero impact on your P&L.

Here's the truth the vendors won't tell you: sustainable adoption is 20% technology and 80% human psychology. To fix the financial and operational problems, you must solve the human one first.

This workshop provides the roadmap. Based on our experience training over 10,000 professionals and driving transformations at major organisations like Tesserent and Impact Australia, we'll give you a neuroscience-backed framework that turns resistance into genuine enthusiasm and transforms your AI investment from a costly failure into your biggest competitive advantage.

You will leave this workshop with a complete adoption toolkit:

• The Reality Check Diagnostic – A brutally honest tool to calculate your current AI ROI and identify exactly where value is leaking from the business
• The Adoption Resistance Map™ – Instantly identify the 7 types of resistance active in your firm—from cynical to overwhelmed—and learn the specific strategies to engage each one
• The Psychological Safety Protocol – A leadership framework to address the real, unspoken fears about job security and expertise devaluation, creating a culture where it's safe to experiment
• The "Time Creation Promise" – A proven method to re-frame AI training that guarantees your team gets back at least two hours for every one hour invested
• The 21-Day Adoption Sprint – A step-by-step plan to build unstoppable momentum by focusing on small, high-impact behavioural changes that deliver immediate value
• The "No BS Dashboard" – A simple reporting tool to track the only metrics that matter: tangible business outcomes and bottom-line results, not just login statistics

Prioritisation is a skill that goes beyond work; it's a crucial life skill that separates the good from the great, the ordinary from the extraordinary, and a life wasted from a life well-lived. It impacts our productivity, success, and fulfilment in all areas of life.

However, it's never been harder to prioritise what matters most. Information overload, ever-changing priorities, and constant distractions force us from pillar to post. To make matters worse, many of the world's most powerful organisations have built teams of engineers, psychologists, and behaviour experts to hack our behaviour, literally, to increase their revenue. But are they helping us achieve our priorities or their priorities?

In this workshop, we make it a fair fight. By exploring the science of prioritisation, you'll discover the cognitive and emotive tricks these organisations have been using against you, and how you can use them to influence your own decisions and actions to ensure you make meaningful progress on what matters most to you. You'll also uncover how to help your team and organisation do the same.

Guaranteed to leave you gobsmacked, this workshop will excite, empower, and equip you to level up at work and life by mastering one of life's most important skills. It will help you sift through the noise and tune into what truly moves the needle.

Don't waste your chance to make a difference in the world; prioritise prioritisation and make time count.

GET READY TO:

• Challenge long held belief’s around prioritisation, decision making and behaviour.
• Tap into a suite of practical tools to immediately improve prioritisation and decision quality.
• Discover how to ethically hack your behaviour (and the behaviour of others) to ensure you’re set up to follow through with commitment and enthusiasm
• Become much better equipped to manage high workloads and while staying focused on what matters most.
• Discover how to overcome procrastination and leave the workshop feeling inspired and equipped to make positive change.

Have you ever experienced the frustration of meticulously planning your day, only to have it completely derailed by a single phone call? Or have you ever carefully crafted a project plan, only to see it go over time and budget? While external factors can certainly complicate matters, there is another culprit that often undermines our plans, and it’s closer to home than you might think—a.k.a. your brain.

Yes, planning is a core cognitive function, but it’s not as advanced as we often assume. Despite its remarkable abilities, our brain has certain limitations that can disrupt our plans, projects, and implementation if left unchecked.

But fear not! Our interactive and insightful presentation is here to shed light on the cognitive building blocks of planning. With a deeper understanding of the science behind it, we’ll explore how you can refine your planning tools, processes, and systems to ensure you and your team stay on track to achieve your goals in the most efficient way possible.

Join us for an event that promises to be both informative and engaging, where you will leave feeling inspired and equipped to overcome any planning challenges that come your way. See you there!

GET READY TO:

• Uncover why plans frequently come unstuck.
• Better understand the core cognitive drivers of planning and their shortcomings.
• Refine your planning processes to achieve your goals, faster.
• Build more productive work habits and processes.
• Reduce stress and overwhelm.

Our jobs demand more concentration, precision and lateral thinking than ever before, but it has become almost impossible to focus at work these days. And it’s only getting worse.

Social media giants now employ armies of engineers, psychologists and scientists aimed at finding new ways of keeping our attention in their apps. Collaboration tools have exploded, unleashing an avalanche of notifications and robbing us of deep focus. As marketers relentless test new ways capturing our concentration and influencing our behaviour, it’s no wonder we end each day feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated and exhausted.

But today, we level the playing field. Today, we strike back. Today, we help you use the same science these corporations have been using against you—the science of focus—to give you unprecedented access to this critical cognitive function to unleash your full potential.

Take a breath and join us on a journey into the intricacies of your brain's focus system. Be ready for a few surprises as we push your attention to its limits, reveal the true capabilities and constraints of concentration, and offer practical brain-based tools that you can apply immediately to transform your focus, your business, and maybe... your entire life.

It’s time to focus on focus.

GET READY TO:

• Transform your ability to concentrate and focus.
• Cultivate a focus-friendly, highly productive work environment.
• End the multitasking debate with hard science.
• Deploy new practical tools that facilitate both deep work and improved collaboration.
• Unlock the full potential of your focus in both your personal and work life.

The most important asset of any organisation is its people. The right staff, making the right decisions, with the right support is a sure path to success. Yet creating an optimal environment, operating rhythm, alignment and accountability for our staff to bring our strategy to life can be illusively complex.

Add challenging world events, remote working and AI to the mix and creating a high-performance team or culture has never been more difficult. If not managed effectively at the best of times, let alone in the aftermath of an international pandemic, we run the risk of doing more harm than good to our organisation’s and staff.

In this insightful workshop, Kognitive’s founder and managing director, Ethan Glessich, will reveal how new discoveries in cognitive science are shining light into how we can build better cultures. Coupled with research into remote working and case studies from organisations who’ve been operating with remote workforce for decades, you’ll leave with new science-backed and proven ways to create a high-performance organisation as we transition to the new normal.

THIS INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION WILL:

• Explore the cutting-edge science of how the limitations of our cognitive capabilities complicate strategy execution.
• Reveal how an awareness of our cognitive strengths and weaknesses can help us craft more effective cultures.
• Uncover case studies and insights from high-performance organisations who have extensive pre-COVID experience in leading remote teams.
• Deliver 5 practical tools your attendees can apply immediately to start their journey to elevating the performance of their organisation’s culture.
• Reveal the 7 key domains of Kognitive’s Performance Pyramid and how you can use it to optimise your tools, processes and culture.

The mind is a powerful tool, capable of sophisticated planning, prioritisation and creativity. But these thoughts don’t happen in a vacuum. When times are tough, when life is challenging and when the news is bad, the mind can work against us, generating thoughts and emotions we don’t want and interfering with our ability to lead a healthy, happy and productive life. 

There’s often no changing the bad times, but there are ways of changing how we respond to them. Breathe is an enlightening keynote, examining the importance of mental resilience and the scientifically proven ways we can all build it. Kognitive Managing Director, Ethan Glessich, draws on decades of research into cognitive science and his own personal life challenges, to help your audience synthesise the tools they need to build resilience into their day and life.

In light of recent chaotic and stressful events, it has become essential for leaders to prioritise their team’s wellbeing. This keynote is a gift they’ll cherish, one that continues to give even after the presentation. It’s a gift that will help them strengthen their mental resilience, wellbeing and productivity, benefiting all aspects of their professional and personal lives.

THIS TOUCHING PRESENTATION WILL:

• Give your attendees the tools they need to strengthen their mental resilience.
• Reveal the latest scientific discoveries of how we can lay the foundation lasting mental wellbeing.
• Show how small changes can lead to monumental shifts.
• Help build a more resilient, productive workforce and culture.
• Inspire your audience to take positive action today.

Do you have an idea for a keynote presentation or workshop but are not sure how to turn it into a reality? Leverage Kognitive’s extensive expertise in building high impact keynote presentations and workshops and have our team build you a presentation to make your next conference one to remember. We’ll conduct research in the science behind your challenge or desired outcome, build interactive activities that deliver key insights, and co-develop practical takeaways with you, that leave a lasting impression on your audience. We can even train your trainers to enable you to roll it out in a cost effective, controlled manner through-out the organisation. If you’ve got a particular idea or message in mind, get in contact and let’s turn it into a reality.