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Services

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Spark Session (Quick Clarity)

 

Format:
2 hours

30 min prep (discovery Qs); 60 min live session; 30 min follow-up

 

Who and when it’s for:
When you’re not sure where to begin. If you don’t know where you are on your AI journey—or you need help orienting and then navigating—this is the place to start. It’s designed for leaders and teams who want clarity on their current landscape and guidance on the best next step forward.

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What we do:

  • Clarify the question you’re really trying to solve

  • Apply simple, proven frameworks (readiness, risk, change)

  • Identify immediate, low-lift moves and guardrails

 

You’ll get:

  • A short recap with key decisions, frameworks used, and next steps

  • One 30-minute follow-up within two weeks to support momentum

 

Perfect for: nonprofit staff and leaders who want orientation and direction without committing to a full engagement.

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AI / Digital Strategy Sprint

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Format:
A focused, time-boxed engagement that moves you from scattered experiments to a clear, near-term plan.

10 hour package with fixed deliverables

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What we do:

  • Discovery: current AI use, risks, constraints, priorities

  • Light readiness scan across people, process, policy

  • Identify quick wins + no-go zones

  • Draft a 90-day action plan and a one-page leadership brief

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Deliverables:

  • 90-Day Action Plan (sequenced steps, owners, guardrails)

  • One-Page Leadership Brief (purpose, risks, decisions)

  • Policy Starter Kit (template + guidelines)

 

Where partners come in:
Implementation and technical activation available via a curated network of vetted partners. I remain the lead for strategy, culture, and change.

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AI Workshops & Intensives

 

Start Safe. Scale Smart: Spark and Signal's Workshop Series

Practical, hands-on workshops that show you how to bring AI into your work responsibly. Come in uncertain; leave with a shared language, clear next steps, and the first pages of your AI Playbook. These two workshops are designed to work as a series: Workshop #1 builds the foundation, Workshop #2 scales it. If you're not sure, start with just one; either can stand alone depending on where your team is. Some customization is available within the series format. Reach out and let's talk about your needs.

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Workshop #1: AI Foundations for Nonprofits | 2.5 hours

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Who and when it's for:
Teams who know AI is already showing up in their work, but want structure, language, and guardrails to use it well. This is your starting point if you're not sure where you stand, what's safe to try, where to invest, or how to make the best decisions because everything seems so constantly changing and complicated.

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What we do:

  • Build shared literacy and psychological safety around AI

  • Introduce practical frameworks for ethical, mission-aligned decisions

  • Map where AI already lives in your organization (including shadow AI)

  • Design one safe, measurable 30-day pilot, often tied to fundraising or communications

 

You'll get:

  • Confidence to talk about AI openly as a team

  • Decision-making frameworks you can reuse

  • A 30-day pilot plan with clear roles and guardrails

  • Follow-up templates and tools

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Workshop #2: AI Strategy & Integration | 3 hours

 

Who and when it's for:
Teams already using AI in a number of ways, but in scattered or ad hoc or varying ways, often without strategic oversight or a policy. This workshop is for when you want to scale it intentionally, build governance, and align it with mission and values. Workshop #2 can be standalone, but was designed to follow Workshop #1.

 

What we do:

  • Surface and map AI activity across your entire organization

  • Turn successful pilots into repeatable practice

  • Build policy and governance grounded in evidence, not fear, using an ethical lens

  • Create measurement systems and a roadmap for the next 6-12 months

 

Deliverables:

  • An organizational AI playbook (where it lives, who's using it, what's working, how to evaluate, how decisions are made)

  • Policy outline and governance framework

  • 30-60-90 day plans

 

Results:
You move from scattered experimentation to strategic, organization-wide capability, with the leadership clarity and systems to sustain it.

 

Beyond the Series: Custom Workshops & Training

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The Start Safe. Scale Smart. series reflects what's working right now across the sector: distilled, tested, and ready to deliver. But if your team needs something tailored (board briefings, vendor selection frameworks, change management deep dives, or sector-specific scenarios), I design custom sessions too.

 

Custom workshops are priced at standard rates and typically require additional discovery to ensure they land well for your context.

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Reduced fall rate available for the Start Safe. Scale Smart. series through fall 2025.

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AI Readiness Partnership (6–8 weeks)

 

A deeper collaboration to align leadership, build shared language, produce a practical roadmap and manage or co-build AI implementation with your team.

 

What we do:

  • Stakeholder interviews + alignment workshop(s)

  • Values-aligned AI principles and guardrails

  • Team enablement plan (roles, training, comms)

  • Sequenced roadmap (3–6 months)

 

Deliverables:

  • AI Readiness Playbook (principles, risks, policy starter)

  • Org Adoption Roadmap (milestones, roles, metrics)

  • Enablement Plan (training, comms, change)

 

Where partners come in:
For hands-on pilots and technical work, I collaborate with trusted partners. I stay lead on strategy and change.

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Leaders Roundtables (Coming soon)

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Invite-only, small-group cohorts for executives: two 90-min sessions, peer learning, case sharing, and collaborative pilot testing.

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The experience:

  • Session 1: shared understanding + sector trends

  • Session 2: collaborative testing + action planning

  • Pre/post-session materials to maximize learning

 

Result:
Leaders return with practical experience, peer networks, and confidence to advance AI in their organizations.

Ready to transform your mission’s potential? Let’s talk. 

Spark and Signal operates on sacred and traditional land that has been a site of human activity for over 15,000 years. We’re grateful to be on this land, and we struggle with the injustice of how we came to be here, striving to deepen our understanding and solidarity with Indigenous peoples. We are on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

 

This territory is part of ‘the Dish with One Spoon’ wampum, a Treaty made between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee, where nations entered into an agreement to protect the land, and responsibly care for its resources in harmony. Toronto, a Mohawk word meaning ‘where there are trees standing in water’, is covered under the Toronto Treaty 13 of the Upper Canada Land Surrenders, and the Williams Treaties. We have all been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect. We are also mindful of broken treaties that persist across Turtle Island today and recognize our responsibilities as Treaty people to engage in a meaningful, continuous process of truth and reconciliation with all our relations. 

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