✦ Velza Academy · AI Skills Bundle
Take both courses to build everyday AI writing and document skills, then practice AI Engineering with no coding needed.
9live sessions in this bundle6 live classes across both courses, plus 3 optional Friday office hours with job-market intel and open Q&A. Every session is recorded.
6live classes in this bundle6 live classes across both courses. Every session is recorded.
Both courses, one checkout. Coupon codes do not apply.
✦ The curriculum & schedule
Both courses include six live classes in total and three shared optional Friday office hours. Every session is recorded.
Both courses include six live classes in total. Every session is recorded.
Bring your questions for open Q&A and job-market discussion with the October Velza Academy cohorts.
Learn how an AI Chat Assistant fits into an ordinary workday. Turn rough notes into a clear client follow-up, then ask for changes and check the answer.
Most of what makes AI useful is not how you ask, it is what the AI knows when you ask. This week builds both.
Bring your questions for open Q&A and job-market discussion with the October Velza Academy cohorts.
Use the same business information to create polished social posts, emails, and texts that sound appropriate for your audience.
How to make AI work run on its own, remember what happened, and check itself. You follow along in a terminal or a desktop app, whichever you prefer.
Bring your questions for open Q&A and job-market discussion with the October Velza Academy cohorts.
Practice with fictional client agreements and document excerpts. Organize what the text says, prepare questions for professional review, and put your reusable instructions together.
AI work that ran fine last month quietly stops working. Use harness checks to catch failures and graph engineering to map workflow steps, decisions and handoffs.
Learn how an AI Chat Assistant fits into an ordinary workday. Turn rough notes into a clear client follow-up, then ask for changes and check the answer.
Most of what makes AI useful is not how you ask, it is what the AI knows when you ask. This week builds both.
Use the same business information to create polished social posts, emails, and texts that sound appropriate for your audience.
How to make AI work run on its own, remember what happened, and check itself. You follow along in a terminal or a desktop app, whichever you prefer.
Practice with fictional client agreements and document excerpts. Organize what the text says, prepare questions for professional review, and put your reusable instructions together.
AI work that ran fine last month quietly stops working. Use harness checks to catch failures and graph engineering to map workflow steps, decisions and handoffs.
Enrollment is closed for these dates. Contact Velza about future sessions.
✦ Your instructor
Mike Wheeler is an AI and Salesforce trainer and O’Reilly author. He has taught well over 500,000 global learners on major platforms such as edX, LinkedIn Learning, Pearson, and Udemy, and he built the first generative AI course on edX. He teaches for non-coders, working backward from your career goals.
Both courses are included
Meets Sundays, 7:30-8:30 PM Central
Meets Sundays, 7:30-8:30 PM Central
Use AI for the work already on your desk.
Meets Mondays, 2-3 PM Central
Meets Mondays, 7:30-8:30 PM Central
AI-Powered Professional takes your workflows from prompt to completion.
Who this is for
This bundle is for people who want help with everyday AI tasks and want to learn how to organize more involved AI work. No coding is needed.
The beginner course starts with familiar writing and document tasks. AI-Powered Professional builds on experience with AI chat, so you can define the work, inspect what the AI did, and improve the workflow.
AI Skills Bundle
Enroll in both courses together and learn through live classes, guided practice, and a year of replays.
Both courses, one checkout. Coupon codes do not apply.
AI for Beginners at Work starts with everyday chat, writing, revision, and document-support tasks. AI-Powered Professional moves into context, memory, agent workflows, and the controls around more advanced AI work. The bundle gives you both, so you can build the basics and then the system around them.
The beginner course builds the habit of asking for a useful draft, revising it in plain language, and checking it against the facts. AI-Powered Professional builds on that habit with the context, memory, loops, and checks that make AI work reliable when the task is bigger than a single draft.
Yes. AI for Beginners at Work begins with the basic conversation steps and applies them to familiar work tasks. You do not need experience using AI for your job.
No. You do not need a software-development background, and you will not be asked to learn a programming language. In AI-Powered Professional, the AI can generate commands and explain what they do. Your job is to define the work, direct it, inspect the evidence, and verify the result.
The first week of AI for Beginners at Work covers how an AI Chat Assistant produces its answers and why it can sound confident and still be wrong. You practice spotting invented details and checking a draft against the facts before you use it.
Prompting is the first layer. Context determines what the model knows, memory and state carry the work across steps, loops control what happens next, and the harness checks the result. AI-Powered Professional teaches you to engineer the complete workflow rather than keep polishing a single prompt.
Most of what makes AI useful is not how you ask but what the AI knows when you ask. You learn the three places context lives, which are memory, knowledge stores, and live connectors, and how to give the AI the background it needs up front so it stops guessing.
Bring the AI tool you actually use. Both courses stay tool-agnostic on purpose, so the concepts transfer to whatever you or your employer already run. Demos use one tool so you can see the whole thing work end to end, and the equivalents are named as we go.
Class exercises use fictional information. For real work, follow your employer’s rules and get the appropriate approval before putting client, personal, or confidential information into any AI tool.
From AI for Beginners at Work, a personal work kit of saved instructions, reviewed examples, and checklists. From AI-Powered Professional, a Prompt Pack built for your industry in the AI Workflow Builder, a LABS brief every week, and the demo files to rerun the session examples yourself.
AI for Beginners at Work includes its on-demand course and the AI Glossary for Work. Each week, Mike recommends on-demand lessons that go deeper on that week’s live topics, and the glossary is there whenever a term comes up in class or at work.
The optional office hours run Fridays, October 9, 16, and 23, from 2 to 3 PM Central, shared across the October Velza Academy cohorts. Each session covers job-market intel, including what employers are asking for in AI roles in the Velza AI Job Search Tool, plus open Q&A. Office hours are recorded too.
Every session in each course is recorded and shared. You keep access to the replays for a full year, so you can watch or rewatch on your own schedule.
You join the next live session and catch up on the earlier sessions with the replays, which arrive with your welcome email.
No. The bundle price already covers both courses, so coupon codes do not apply to it.
Yes. When each course ends, you receive a personalized certificate of completion by email. It shows your name, the course, the live session dates, and the hours of live instruction, with a public verification link your employer can confirm it against.
Our Terms explain refunds, including the full-refund window until 24 hours after the first live session starts.