AI-Ready Recruiting Workshop
Recent instructor-led training for L&D recruiters learning how to recognize, interview for, and evaluate AI skills in candidate profiles.
Sample materials
RecruitingILT
Work
Selected work across AI, learning, and change.
This portfolio highlights the work I want to be known for now: practical AI strategy, workforce enablement, governance, change, technical writing, and learning design. Older samples are still here for context, but the emphasis is on durable work instead of every experiment I have ever tried.
Current AI work
AI strategy, readiness, and enablement
Brain, Heart, and Courage: Critical Thinking with AI
A one-hour interactive session on using critical thinking with AI, wrapped in a Wizard of Oz theme with timed activities, reflection prompts, and a participant handout.
Sample materials
AI literacyConference
Positive Change Management for HR
A one-hour AI change management session for HR audiences, built around AI impact mapping, concerns-and-solutions activities, and practical adoption metrics.
Sample materials
ChangeHR
Brave New Learning: Positive Change Management Strategies
A one-hour AI change management session customized for an Asia-Pacific audience, with live polling via QR codes and culturally appropriate scenarios and cases.
Sample materials
AI changeAPAC
Change Management and Governance in AI Automations
SME work for Ziplines Education learning modules, including on-camera subject matter expertise. This module consistently receives the highest NPS scores across the course.
Sample links
GovernanceLearning
AI Academy
Directed implementation of the full AI Academy for Rakuten and Mattel, including a sample draft course module on AI ethics.
EnablementPlaybook
AI Suitability Matrix
A prototype that scores workflows against practical criteria to decide whether AI is the right solution, then suggests augmentation approaches.
StrategyPrototype
Musical Grammar Rectifier
A humorous n8n workflow that uses GPT-4o to grammatically rectify classic rock song titles through a pompous fictional curator.
n8nGPT-4o
AI Organizational Readiness Tool
A lightweight readiness experience designed to help organizations think before they buy, pilot, or panic.
ReadinessChange
The AI Orchestra
An interactive explanation of multi-agent orchestration using a conductor-and-orchestra metaphor.
AgentsTeaching
Structured Prompt Tool
A practical tool for turning vague requests into better inputs, clearer context, and more useful AI output.
PromptingTool
michelleslentz.com
This static personal brand site was vibe-coded and designed with OpenAI Codex, then refined through iterative content and visual review.
Vibe-codedOpenAI Codex
Innovate + Elevate Strategies
My consulting home base for AI strategy and organizational enablement, vibe-coded with Claude Code.
Vibe-codedClaude Code
Learning + writing
Learning strategy and practical enablement
Inspired Instructional Design: Muppet Magic for Next Gen Learning
A one-hour hybrid session for in-person and live-streamed audiences, with learner persona work and interactions designed for in-person and online.
Sample materials
HybridInstructional design
GBS Training and Development Style Guide
A structured style guide for consistent training and development materials.
StyleTraining
GBS eLearning Guidelines
Standards and direction for consistent eLearning development.
eLearningGuidelines
Writing Effective Text Prompts
A 2024 job aid for helping users write clearer, more useful prompts.
AIJob aid
Writing Effective Image Prompts
A companion job aid for prompt clarity in image-generation workflows.
AIVisuals
Pre-Recording Checklist
A practical checklist for making recorded virtual sessions less chaotic and more polished.
VILTChecklist
LCA Virtual Training Sample
A pandemic-era virtual training sample designed for live online facilitation.
VILTTraining
Sample library
Additional work samples
Additional examples from earlier training, technical writing, and job-aid work. These show range and craft while the current AI, strategy, and enablement work stays front and center.
UPS Call Center MyHR/Workday Training Module
A training module for call center employees learning how to complete a Workday process through the MyHR support environment.
TrainingWorkday
Agile Presentation
A presentation sample from the learning and change archive.
AgilePresentation
Agile White Paper
A writing sample focused on agile thinking, learning work, and practical change.
AgileWriting
Growth Potential Job Aid
A talent-management job aid designed for quick, practical support.
HCMJob aid
OLP Guide
Learning experience platform support material.
LXPGuide
Memory Manager 2 Quick Start Guide
A technical writing sample focused on getting users moving.
QSGTechnical writing
Historian Online Help
A 2010 online help sample that turns product complexity into findable, usable guidance.
HelpUX writing
TME Quick Start Guide
Another quick-start sample from the technical writing archive.
QSGSupport
Lectora Basic Training Workbook
A workbook sample for software training and guided practice.
WorkbookTraining
SAP Job Aid
A focused job aid for enterprise software support.
SAPJob aid
SAP ILT Exercise
An instructor-led training exercise sample.
ILTExercise
TekWorx Manual
A manual excerpt showing longer-form technical training documentation.
ManualTechnical writing
Archive
Earlier samples and experiments
These are useful context, but they are not the headline act. Custom GPTs and older tactical examples show experimentation, not the center of the current brand.
The BrandonBot
A custom GPT grounded in Brandon Carson's writing and L&D strategy perspective.
ExperimentGPT
Training Your Dachshund Adaptive Tutor
A Socratic tutor that adapts to the learner's existing knowledge while teaching dachshund training concepts.
AdaptiveSocratic
Grammar Review Bot
A writing feedback bot based on grammar, clarity, style, and Chicago Manual of Style guidance.
WritingFeedback
Neon Pop Quiz GPT
A high-energy 1980s pop music quiz with full game show flair.
GameGPT
Grammar Girl
A late-1990s website adaptation of a style guide I created while working as an editor, written up in USA Today in 1998.
Style guideArchive