Use AI with confidence. Keep your judgment in charge.
Live online seminars for experienced professionals who want stronger writing, clearer thinking, and less friction in the work they already know how to do.
The purpose, audience, context, and standard begin with you.
It can organize, draft, compare, question, and surface options.
You check the reasoning, revise the weak parts, and restore what is missing.
Your judgment, voice, and professional responsibility stay attached to the outcome.
HIA teaches the working relationship, not a pile of prompt scripts.
Start with the part of your work you want to improve.
You do not need to master every tool. Choose the result that matters now, learn a sound method, and build from there.
The recommendation changes as you select a goal. Ask HIA when two options seem equally useful.
AI Essentials
Understand what AI is doing, why the answers vary, where it fails, and how to use it with sound judgment.
A seminar for the work in front of you.
Each session is live, focused, and designed to give you a method you can use again after the class ends.
HIA 101 AI Essentials Understand how AI behaves, where it fails, and how to use it with sound judgment. $125
You have access to AI but the fundamentals still feel uneven, or you want a clearer basis for reviewing what it gives you.
A practical mental model, stronger habits, and better judgment about when to direct, check, revise, or ignore the output.
Details and dates →HIA 110 Prompting 1 Give AI better context, direction, and feedback so the output improves. $125
You already use AI, but the answers are inconsistent, too generic, or require too much repair.
A repeatable method for framing the work, supplying context, steering drafts, and recovering when a conversation drifts.
Details and dates →HIA 230 Prompting 2 Use documents, files, transcripts, and source material without losing what matters. $125
Your work begins with long reports, scattered notes, email chains, policies, spreadsheets, or several sources at once.
A disciplined process for inspecting, orienting, extracting, combining, and verifying source material before you rely on it.
Details and dates →HIA 201 AI Writing Plan, draft, and revise with AI while protecting your point and voice. $125
You write emails, reports, proposals, policies, presentations, or longer pieces and want the process to move faster without becoming generic.
A better writing process that separates diagnosis, direction, drafting, revision, and the protection of your meaning and voice.
Details and dates →HIA 310 Strategic Thinking Use AI to learn, frame problems, generate options, test ideas, and plan execution. $225
You lead people, projects, or initiatives and need more than fast idea generation.
A structured way to get oriented, identify the actual problem, build stronger options, pressure test a direction, and think through implementation.
Details and dates →HIA 320 ChatGPT Power User Coming soon Configure instructions, memory, projects, models, and privacy settings around the way you work. $225
You use paid ChatGPT features but still rely on defaults, repeat the same context, or mix unrelated work in one place.
A cleaner setup that gives ChatGPT better context, keeps workstreams separate, and makes model, memory, and privacy choices more intentional.
Details and waitlist →AI can help with the work. It should not decide what good looks like.
HIA is built for professionals whose work carries their name. The goal is useful leverage with the human standard still intact.
AI can improve the expression without quietly changing what you mean.
The final work should sound deliberate and recognizable, not generically polished.
You remain accountable for the facts, the judgment, and what ultimately leaves your hands.
Live instruction, with room to think.
The sessions are designed for adults who already know their jobs. You see the method, watch it applied, ask questions, and connect it to situations you recognize.
Mel demonstrates the reasoning behind the technique, including what can go wrong and how to recover.
Examples come from writing, planning, analysis, source material, decisions, and recurring professional tasks.
Live instruction lets you test the boundary cases that a recorded feature tour tends to skip.
You leave with a method rather than a script, so the learning survives the next product update.
Ideas for working with AI thoughtfully.
HIA writes about the choices beneath the tools: judgment, quality, responsibility, and the way professional work changes when AI becomes part of it.
Visit Insights →How to use AI without making professional work generic, careless, or difficult to defend.
Read more →Practical ways AI can support thinking, communication, decisions, and recurring work.
Read more →Clear guidance on confidentiality, review, risk, and the work AI should leave to humans.
Read more →Questions people usually ask before enrolling.
The essentials are here. The full FAQ covers registration, preparation, platforms, policies, and what to expect.
See the full FAQ →I am new to AI. Where should I begin?
HIA 101 is the best starting point. It gives you a dependable mental model, shows you where AI helps and fails, and prepares you for the more focused seminars.
I already use AI. Will the seminars still be useful?
Yes. The focused seminars move beyond basic prompting. They cover professional writing, stronger context, better setup, decision support, and more disciplined ways of working with AI.
Do I need a technical background?
No. HIA is designed for capable professionals who want practical fluency without becoming technical specialists.
Are the seminars live?
Yes. The seminars are taught live online by an instructor, with room for questions, examples, and discussion.
How much time should I set aside?
Most seminars run for sixty or ninety minutes. The course page for each seminar gives the exact length and agenda.
Can my employer pay for a seminar?
Often, yes. HIA provides reimbursement support you can use when asking your employer to cover the cost.
Your employer may already have a budget for this.
HIA provides a ready to send reimbursement request and a one page support kit with the seminar details, provider information, learning outcomes, and organizational value.
Choose one part of your work to make better.
Start with a focused seminar. Learn a sound method. Keep the judgment that made your work valuable in the first place.