AI-Ready Workforce Education

Practical learning for people doing real work with AI.

AI capability does not come from access alone. This work helps professionals connect AI tools to their roles, build the judgment to use them responsibly, and apply them to credible business problems.

Virginia Tech MBA collaboration

With Dr. Viswanath Venkatesh, Fabio is creating a Virginia Tech MBA course on data visualization and AI-assisted business analysis. The Defensible Decision will be used as its textbook. Its Starbucks AI-Driven BI Capstone shows how learners frame, analyze, and defend a business-intelligence recommendation with AI assistance. It is an independent educational project and is not affiliated with Starbucks.

How the learning is designed

Role-relevant practice

Learning starts with the work people actually need to do - analyze, decide, communicate, and build - not generic tool demonstrations.

Applied judgment

Participants learn to frame a task, test AI output against evidence, disclose relevant use, and improve a result before it is put to work.

Visible growth

Assessments, reflective practice, and adoption research make progress and readiness visible so learning can improve over time.

Start with a resource

• LearnAI: Free, role-specific AI playbooks for 80 disciplines, with interactive tools, assessments, and verified certificates.
• The Defensible Decision: Applied decision-making resources, interactive chart examples, datasets, templates, and prompts.
• AIRS Dissertation & Data: Open research on enterprise AI adoption readiness, including the final dissertation, reproducible data, and analysis notebooks.