Corporate training · Workshops · Facilitation
I deliver corporate training and workshops around your people’s roles, decisions, and responsibilities.
Virtual and in-person delivery
Experienced delivery for your existing curriculum, adapted materials, or training developed for your audience.
Learning for the work at hand, including leadership development, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and adult learning. Start with the audience, topic, and what people need to be able to do.
See the three ways to work togetherPractical help with Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, prompts, and agents. Scoped to your audience and available tools.
Start with the basics, improve everyday prompts, compare tools, or explore creating and using agents. The session fits your licenses, permissions, and audience’s needs. Introductory training can be just that.
Explore AI trainingTraining for frontline employees, managers, and executives, using existing, adapted, or newly developed materials.
Delivery across modules and audiences, with preparation around the relevant workflows and environment. Short-notice requests are welcome, subject to scheduling, access, and scope.
Explore Workday trainingAdaptation and development depend on access to the relevant systems, environment, and materials.
Three ways to work together
I step into your existing training, prepared around your materials, audience, and delivery expectations.
Discuss delivery of your courseStart with a workshop or training session I already offer, adapted where appropriate for your audience.
Ask about available workshopsI develop and deliver training around what your people need to understand, practice, or do.
Discuss a custom workshopIdeas you can put to work
A useful objective connects the person, the capability, and the reason it matters. I introduce Learner Story Objectives in training and discussion, including when working with existing curriculum.
As a [role], I want/need/can [capability], so that [meaningful outcome]. Applying Agile user-story thinking to learning brings the learner’s responsibilities into the conversation.
The example describes an intended outcome, not a measured client result.
Applying Agile user-story thinking to learning.
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Knowledge into practice
Your people bring experience into the room. I use it to connect the material to the work they do, with practical examples, candid humor, and space for the questions that matter.
Explore training & workshopsConnect the subject to the roles, decisions, and responsibilities in front of me.
Talk honestly about what a tool can do, where it falls short, and what that means at work.
Use examples and practice suited to the session so people can work with the material.
Leadership & strategic facilitation
Leadership discussions, learning decisions, and workshops that need a prepared facilitator to structure the conversation and draw out useful perspectives.
Start with the question to address or the decision to make. I shape the session around the people involved and what it needs to accomplish.
Explore leadership facilitationSpeaking
I speak at conferences, leadership events, and internal gatherings, connecting thought-provoking ideas to the work people do.
Inspiration has a place here. So does giving people something useful to think about, discuss, or try afterward.
Explore speaking engagements
Meet your trainer, facilitator, and speaker
I treat participants as experienced adults, with knowledge worth bringing into the conversation. I prepare around your material and audience, connect ideas to practical examples, and make space for honest questions.
Bring your curriculum, ask about my existing workshops, including Run the Room, or discuss training developed for your people.
More about DeniseIt can build knowledge and capability. Putting that learning to work also depends on the systems, expectations, and support around it. Good training takes that context seriously.
Let’s work together
A course that needs a facilitator. A workshop for your people. A leadership discussion or an event worth making time for.
Tell me about the audience, topic, and timing. If you have materials or a brief, include them. I’ll help clarify the scope.
hello@iamdmarshall.comVirtual and in-person delivery available.