Workshop
The Human Skills Lab
Build the capabilities AI can't replace.
About this Workshop
As AI takes on more analysis, writing and routine decisions, teams face a quiet risk: handing over the very capacities that make them valuable. Judgement, creativity and imagination don't develop by accident, and they weaken when they go unused.
This hands-on lab helps teams build those human capabilities on purpose. Through practical exercises, participants strengthen their judgement about where AI belongs and where it doesn't, and practice the creative thinking that produces genuinely new ideas.
Jordan also explores levels of mastery. Just as everyone can write but not everyone is a writer, knowing the vocabulary of human skills is not the same as having them. Participants assess where their team is strong, and where it's only saying the right words.
The lab closes with application. Teams choose a real challenge where AI and human skills meet, then design an approach that uses both well. They leave with a clearer view of their unique value.
Because the future of work belongs to people who stay human.
Key Takeaways
Learn a practical way to decide where AI adds value and where human judgement must lead.
Strengthen creative thinking with exercises that generate genuinely new ideas.
Explore why judgement, creativity and imagination grow more valuable as AI spreads.
Assess your team's real level of mastery in key human skills.
Discover how to avoid outsourcing the thinking that makes your team valuable.
Practice using story and narrative to create alignment around new ideas.
Apply human skills and AI together to a real challenge your team faces.
Leave with a plan to develop your team's human capabilities deliberately.
Length: Half or full day
Best for: Teams adopting AI, HR and L&D leaders
Pairs with: The Human Shift
About the Speaker
Jordan Bower: Guide on Your Side
Jordan Bower is a keynote speaker, facilitator and advisor who helps leaders see the future differently. Drawing on 15+ years and work with 200+ organizations, including Autodesk, Mozilla and Rakuten, he turns keynotes into facilitated conversations that blend story, research and live participation, so audiences leave moved to act.
