Productivity

Become a Founding Member of the AI Campus

By |2026-04-19T10:39:50+12:00April 9th, 2026|Articles, Business, Excellence, GenAI, Investment, Productivity|

The future is coming fast. How long until you will level up? If you are serious about improving your AI skills, then consider joining the AI Campus in the AI Coaching Academy. 💡 The Founders of the AI Campus Earlier this year I launched the AI Coaching Academy to give ambitious professionals a place to practice [...]

Overlap AI With Your Area of Expertise

By |2026-04-11T02:43:53+12:00April 7th, 2026|Articles, Business, Case Studies, GenAI, Productivity|

  At last night's Christchurch AI Meetup, we demonstrated how the barrier is collapsing between someone having an idea and building something useful. Greg Dickson demonstrated how to vibe code an app with Manus, and with just a few prompts, he created a dashboard for managing YouTube complicated YouTube workflows. It wasn't technical skill that enabled him to create [...]

5 Lessons from ‘Lead like a Human in the Age of AI’

By |2026-04-01T03:23:49+13:00March 24th, 2026|Articles, Blog, Business, Excellence, GenAI, Productivity|

Last week I was invited by Rita Cincotta onto the Deliberate Leader Podcast. If you don't know Rita, she is a is a leadership coach and who helps leaders grow through strengths-based practice, reflection, and deliberate action.   She's also a trusted colleague and an old friend. We were able to quickly get into deep conversation about the overlap [...]

🧠 FAQ: Everything You’ve Wanted to Ask About Learning AI (But Didn’t Want to Google)

By |2025-12-31T16:23:25+13:00October 31st, 2025|Articles, Business, Events, GenAI, Investment, Productivity|

📊 Practical, hands-on experience in using AI tools is the biggest predictor of success. Let’s be real: Everyone’s talking about AI, but most professionals are still experimenting blindly. If you’ve been wondering whether an AI workshop is worth your time — this one’s for you. Here are the most common questions I have been getting [...]

NZ adoption of AI – are kiwis fast, or slow?

By |2026-04-22T14:23:44+12:00July 1st, 2025|Articles, Balance, Business, Content Marketing, GenAI, Productivity|

  As an immigrant, I have an outsider's perspective on New Zealand. (I recently received my citizenship, making me the Newest Zealander!) During the first workshop of the AI Training Programme I teach through Agentic Intelligence, I always ask, 'Does New Zealand adopt new technology fast, or slowly?" I am fascinated by the variety of responses. Many [...]

AI Context Secrets: How to Get Better Results from ChatGPT

By |2025-12-31T16:27:02+13:00June 3rd, 2025|Articles, Business, Content Marketing, GenAI, Productivity|

“AI is very good at content, but not context. Without context, it doesn’t know what to do, so it doesn’t have any purpose.” - Daniel Priestley The quality of your AI outputs depends on the context you give it. What is Context with AI? Think of it like having a conversation. If your partner doesn’t [...]

ChatGPT’s New Image Generator & The Ghibli-fication Controversy

By |2026-04-28T02:35:03+12:00April 2nd, 2025|Articles, Content Marketing, Excellence, GenAI, Productivity|

💡Creativity Is Shifting from Craft to Concept Have you tried ChatGPT's new Image Generator? It is miles beyond DALL-E. Some of the things it can do include: Consistent character generation across prompts Simple edits without revising the whole picture Text rendering without misspellings and warps (finally!) And, of course, you can upload any photo with [...]

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