What Lakeland teams most often need
Many Lakeland organizations have Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses sitting unused or underused. This workshop gets your team using it for real daily tasks. Drafts, summaries, meeting notes. With safe habits from day one.
Lakeland nonprofits, healthcare-adjacent organizations, and civic teams have real data sensitivity concerns. This session builds practical guardrails. What to share, what never to share, and how to validate outputs before acting on them.
Teams aren't getting useful AI outputs because they're guessing at prompts. This workshop teaches reusable patterns for drafts, summaries, analysis, and decision support. Skills your team keeps using long after the session.
Power Automate and similar tools can eliminate repetitive manual work. But only if your team understands what to automate, how to design it responsibly, and how to own and maintain it without an IT dependency.
How a session works
Every engagement is tailored to your team's actual tools and workflows. There's no generic slide deck and no vendor pitch. Just practical skill-building matched to your situation.
We talk through your team's tools, pain points, and what a good outcome looks like. Free, 20 minutes.
A 90-minute scoping session maps your workflows and identifies where AI can help. You receive a written Roadmap document. $400–$600 flat fee.
Optional next step: a half-day Accelerator workshop, full-day Enterprise engagement, or Fractional AI Advisor retainer. Only if it makes sense.
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Common questions. Lakeland clients
Yes. AI Evolution is based in Lakeland and can deliver workshops in-person at your office, conference room, or offsite venue in the Lakeland / Polk County area. Virtual delivery is also available and uses the same content and pricing.
The Accelerator workshop is designed for 5–15 participants. Smaller teams (1–4 people) often get the most value starting with a Roadmap session. Larger organizations (15+) can book The Enterprise for a full-day or multi-session engagement.
Yes. Lakeland has a strong nonprofit community and AI Evolution has worked with mission-driven organizations. If budget is a constraint, start with a Roadmap session ($400–$600) to identify where AI can have the most impact with the least risk.
Not at all. These workshops are designed for operations, admin, HR, marketing, communications, and leadership teams. People who use productivity tools daily but aren't developers. No coding. No buzzwords.
The Roadmap is $400–$600 flat fee for a 90-minute session. The Accelerator is $2,500–$3,500 for a half-day workshop with 5–12 people. The Enterprise tier starts at $5,000. No recurring contracts, no upsells, no platform fees.
Same workshop, same price, delivered over Zoom. The hands-on portion still works because everyone uses their own laptop and real tools. The only thing that changes is the room.
Microsoft trainers teach Microsoft tools. They have to. AI Evolution is vendor-neutral. If your team uses Copilot, you'll learn Copilot. But the thinking patterns travel with the person, not the tool. So when Microsoft ships the next license tier, your training doesn't go stale.
For workshops, 5 people is the minimum that makes the format work. Smaller teams or individuals get more out of starting with a Roadmap session ($400–$600), which is built for 1:1 or 1:few conversations.
No. AI Evolution is an educational practice, not an implementation shop. The workshops teach your team to design, build, and own things internally. Copilot Studio agents, Power Automate flows, prompt patterns. If you need someone to build and run AI tools for you, this isn't the right fit. Honest about that on day one.
Why Lakeland-based matters
AI Evolution is based in Lakeland. Not Tampa, not Orlando, not parachuted in from somewhere else. The work happens with people who drive past Florida Polytechnic on the way to work and know the difference between a Publix corporate team and a Polk County family-owned services business.
Polk County has a mix you don't see everywhere. Large enterprise headquarters. A growing tech-adjacent workforce centered around Florida Poly. Established nonprofits. Healthcare networks. A long tail of family-owned services businesses that have been around longer than half the tech industry. For Lakeland teams, in-person matters. AI training that lands sticks better when the trainer is in the room. The drive from Plant City, Bartow, Auburndale, or Winter Haven takes 20 minutes. The drive from a Tampa or Orlando trainer to your office takes an hour and a different attitude. Same price either way, in-person or virtual. But if you want someone in the room who already lives here, that's the difference.
What a Lakeland AI workshop looks like in practice
A composite example, drawn from real Central Florida engagements. Identifying details changed.
A 35-person professional services firm in Polk County had Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses for nine months. Adoption was uneven. The owner-operator and the two younger staff used it daily. Everyone else opened it once and went back to writing emails the way they always had. The licenses kept renewing. The work didn't change.
The Roadmap session mapped the actual workflows. Most of the team wasn't avoiding Copilot. They didn't know which kinds of work it was useful for, and they'd never been shown a prompt that produced something worth keeping. The recommendation was specific. Not "more training" but a half-day Accelerator focused on three real workflows the team did every week. Client meeting summaries. Project status emails. Proposal drafts.
The workshop ran on a Friday. The following Monday, three different people used Copilot to draft something they would have written from scratch the week before. Two weeks later, the team had agreed on a consistent format for meeting summaries. The training didn't transform anything. It built a habit. The habit is what survives the next model release.
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