Leveraging AI for Workplace Productivity: ChatGPT and Beyond 2026

  • Wednesday
  • May
  • 13
  • 2026
Time:
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration:
60 Minutes
LeRoy Thompson Instructor:
LeRoy Thompson 
Webinar Id:
55046

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Overview:

This one-hour session provides a practical and accessible introduction to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, helping participants build a clear understanding of concepts such as machine learning, neural networks, large language models, and generative AI.

The session is designed to demystify how these technologies work so that participants can move beyond the hype and begin seeing AI as a powerful set of tools for improving workplace performance, expanding capability, and increasing efficiency.

Participants will explore both foundational and more advanced uses of ChatGPT for tasks such as drafting and refining documents, summarizing complex information, organizing ideas, generating reports, supporting research, conducting data analysis, identifying patterns and themes, and strengthening strategic thinking. The session will also look beyond ChatGPT to examine how other AI-based tools can support text generation, image creation, video development, presentation design, workflow support, and creative production.

Participants will gain exposure to platforms such as Claude and other AI assistants for writing and idea development, as well as tools such as DALL·E, Midjourney, and Synthesia for producing visual and video content that can enhance communication, training, outreach, and professional presentations.

In addition, the session will highlight how combining multiple AI tools can dramatically expand what professionals are able to accomplish in less time. Rather than viewing AI as a single tool, participants will be encouraged to understand it as a growing ecosystem that can support deeper analysis, stronger communication, faster content production, richer creativity, and more innovative problem solving.

By the end of the hour, participants will have a stronger foundation for understanding the rapidly expanding AI landscape and greater confidence in exploring advanced ways to use AI tools for text, image, video, data, and analysis in their own work.

Why you should Attend:
Artificial intelligence and generative models are transforming workplace productivity at a rapid pace. Understanding core concepts such as machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI is increasingly important for using tools like ChatGPT and many others in ways that are effective, responsible, and aligned with organizational goals. These technologies can help professionals save time, strengthen decision making, improve communication, accelerate research, and reduce the burden of repetitive tasks.

It is also important to recognize how quickly AI tools have proliferated across the workplace. What was once limited to a few specialized applications has now expanded into a broad ecosystem of platforms for writing, summarizing, brainstorming, data analysis, meeting support, image creation, video generation, workflow automation, project management, coding, and customer engagement. Knowing this landscape gives employees and leaders a major advantage. It helps them choose the right tool for the right task, avoid wasting time on inefficient methods, combine tools for greater impact, and spot new opportunities for creativity and innovation.

Just as important, awareness of the growing range of AI tools helps organizations make smarter decisions about ethics, privacy, accuracy, and quality control while staying competitive in a fast-changing environment.

Areas Covered in Session:

  • Overview of AI concepts, machine learning and large language models
  • Using ChatGPT beyond a advanced form of "googling" to include data analysis and document sourcing
  • Comparing ChatGPT with Claude and other AI assistants
  • Introduction to image and video generation tools (DALL·E, Midjourney, Hedra Synthesia)
  • Strengths, limitations, and ethical considerations of AI tools
  • Live Q&A

Who Will Benefit:
  • Executives
  • Managers
  • Team Leaders
  • Analysts
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Educators and Knowledge Workers who want to harness AI to improve productivity


Speaker Profile
LeRoy Thompson is Managing Director Of Thompson & Associates. He is a Certified Virtual Presenter with expertise in the development and delivery of training programs on more than twenty distinct topics. He has worked with over 150 client organizations and trained over 47,000 participants over the course of his career.

His training programs, work sessions, conference presentations, and keynote speeches all receive rave reviews. He is a dynamic instructor, energetic facilitator, and insightful consultant. His delivery balances his depth of knowledge with an appropriate mix of warmth and humor.

LeRoy's work in the public sector has included training and organizational development projects for the U.S. departments of Education, Environmental Protection, Defense, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, Health And Human Services, Energy, Agriculture, Justice, NASA, the Michigan Department of Community Health, Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Ohio Department Of Public Welfare, Governor’s Office of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Riverside County (CA), Fairfax County (VA), and Sarasota County (FL). Private sector and not-for-profit organizations include Citigroup, BMW, Gannett, Corning Inc., Motorola, Lockheed Martin, Sallie Mae, Boys & Girls Clubs, United Way of America, and the American Press Institute.

Prior to founding Thompson & Associates, he was an Associate with McKinsey & Company in their Washington, DC office. He has been a Practice Leader with Kepner-Tregoe in the Worldwide Strategy practice as well as a Senior Consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, specializing in change management projects with Federal agencies.

LeRoy was educated at Harvard University where he received a bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language, and a master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Columbia University School of Business. His AMA-By-Satellite television broadcast of “Written Skills for Business Communications” received the ‘Best of Business Television’ Award. His book, “Mastering the Challenges of Change” received a Newberry Book Club award. His article “E Commerce-Changing the Rules of Strategy Implementation” was published by Strategy and Leadership magazine.


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