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AI Implementation Workshop for Professionals:
Client Growth & ROI
Make AI Your Profit Engine
More Cients - Premium Fees - Fewer Hours
Professional Services are at a Live-or-Die
Inflection Point
This year is an inflection point for professionals and professional service firms. This is the year those who implement AI successfully accelerate ahead of their competition.Â
This workshop guides professionals and firms through successfully implementing AI in workflows that are critical to success.
Why This Workshop is Critical to Your Professional Success!
This workshop will put you ahead of the AI inflection point and your competitors who do not implement AI successfully.
This is not a passive online course teaching tech tips on using AI tools.
This is an implemention workshop where you build and implement AI-optimized business projects that impact the success of professionals and firms.
Each Business Builder project includes robust AI prompts, editable workflow diagrams, recommended metrics, and implementation playbooks – all designed specifically for independent professionals and firms.
You will begin to see an impact in two to three weeks and recover your investment within 30 to 60 days. And that isn't static. Your revenue and client growth can continue compounding month over month, year over year.
AI Implementation Workshop Dates
Next Workshop Dates: Mid-MarchÂ
Live Meetings: Wednesdays, 10:00 AM –11:30 PM PT
Quick Answers
Grow revenue, fill your pipeline, win higher-value clients, and run your practice more efficiently - in 8 weeks.
This is not a passive AI tools course.
You will build fully functional AI-enabled business systems with step-by-step guidance, playbooks, and prompt libraries.
You will learn how to:
- Plan the phases and structure of implementing AI optimization in professional services
- Build AI systems that build revenue and increase productivity
- Identify high-value niche and ideal client signals and triggers
- Build authority using AI-assisted Deep Research and content generating systems
- Create a Magnetic Marketing Machine that runs 24Ă—7Ă—365
- Cut time for client deliverables by 30 – 60%
Begin seeing business results in 2 – 3 weeks and have a complete AI-optimized professional business system by week 8.
…I don't ever recommend training, but this is a rare exception.
Of the dozens of trainings I have been involved with over the last twenty years, this is hands down the best business training I have attended at any price point, highly recommended.
Steve Birks, BizDash Systems Ltd.
Providing managers with custom-made business dashboards,
and Visual Management Operating Systems
The AI Inflection is Separating
the Winners from Losers
Professional services are entering a structural divide.
By the end of 2026, firms will fall into two camps:
- The winners - those that systematically implement AI into strategic workflows
- The laggards - Those that remain stuck experimenting with prompts and tools
Most professionals know AI matters—but:
- They don’t know how to implement it correctly
- They run pilots without clear strategic objectives or metrics
- They fall behind firms that quickly and successfully implement
Firms implementing AI strategically are already:
- Increasing margins
- Shortening delivery cycles
- Winning deals faster
- Scaling authority without scaling headcount
The Solution
AI Implementation Workshops for Professionals™ focus on outcomes, not features.
These are hands-on implementation workshops where you build AI-optimized systems that directly support revenue, productivity, and growth.
What makes this different:
- You build business systems, not isolated skills
- You implement a functioning system every week—not “someday”
- The curriculum is grounded in decades of real consulting practice
What You Will Build in Your Implementation Sprints
By the end of the 8 week sprint workshop you will have built and implemented,
- A defensible niche and value proposition
- Ideal Client Profiles with clear buying signals and triggers
- Leading edge white papers drafted and cited with the highest-validity AI-Deep Research System
- Highly-personalized email sequences that target high-value prospects
- An AI powered multi-channel Magnetic Marketing Machine
- A structured, confidence-building sales system with role-playing GPT
- An AI powered automated proposal workflow
- Defendable Market or ROI-based fee models
- Scalable business models
Who These Sprints are For
Independent Professionals
Solo professionals, consultants, advisors, and specialists who want higher fees, better clients, and fewer hours by implementing AI-powered business systems—not juggling tools.
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 Small Professional-Service Firms (2-25)
Boutique professional firms that need predictable pipelines, faster delivery, and scalable systems without pulling partners or staff away from billable work.
Mid- to Large ProfessionalÂ
Established firms looking to align AI with strategic objectives, standardize AI-enabled workflows, improved margins, and scalable expertise.
This program is for professionals who want real business leverage, including:
- Professionals who want higher fees, better clients, and less wasted time
- Those ready to apply AI practically and responsibly in their work
- Firms ready to scale and expand with greater marketing
- Small firms who have not been able to devote time to marketing
- Â Consultants, advisors, and professional service providers
- Accountants, financial professionals, engineers, and specialists
- Solo practitioners and boutique firms focused on growth and efficiency
Grow Your Client Base - Increase Revenue!
Get Your AI AdvantageFully recommended for anyone starting out on their coaching or consulting practices, or even if you are already underway but would like to have a structured approach to growing your business.
In all, an excellent course, with excellent resources and a knowledgeable and very personable teacher.
Juan Antonio MartĂnez,  XLNS Coaching
Small Business Coach, Spain
Who This is Not For
This sprint workshop is not a fit if you are looking for shortcuts or theory, including:
- “Get rich quick” seekers or passive income hunters
- Anyone wanting AI to replace professional judgment
- People unwilling to apply what they learn
- Casual AI curiosity without business intent
What You Build in Your Sprint Workshops
8 Weeks of Hands-On Workshop and Implementation Includes:
- Hybrid workshops like those used by MIT, Harvard, Stanford
- Short videos teach purpose and concepts
- Hands-on work building AI Business Builder projects
- Live online follow-up meetings
- Live weekly meetings where we “dig in” to the week’s implementation
- AI implementation best practices (testing and rolling it out)
- AI prompt development and advanced techniques
- AI app integrations and future Agent expansions
- Implementation troubleshooting
- One-on-one consulting with the workshop leaders
- Get one-hour of private one-on-one consulting on AI, implementation, or digital marketing (Valued at $300/hr.)
- Consulting is available after the week you build your Magnetic Marketing Machine
- Consulting can be for yourself or your firm
- AI Implementation Packs
- AI Professional Prompt Library
- Editable workflow diagrams
- Recommended Metrics
- Templates
- Lifetime access to course materials
What Makes these Workshops Different
Most AI courses:
- Teach tools and techniques, not business improvement
- Use generic models not business systems for professionals
- Focus on features, not business improvement
- Ignore how professionals actually work
AI Implementation Sprint Workshops™ are different:
- Built specifically for professional services: consultants, agencies, financial advisors, accountants, legal firms, and more
- Focuses on increasing revenue, productivity, and growth
- Reinforces learning with playbooks, AI Professional Prompt Library, workflow diagrams, metrics, templates …
- Developed by an independent consultant with 30+ years experience
- Designed by a professional who has built and scaled consulting practices and has taught instructional design at University of California, Berkeley
This is not about becoming an “AI expert” although you will develop advanced prompt engineering skills.
This is about becoming a more effective, more profitable professional.
Workshop Modules
Workshop modules contain a complete topic, such as Building a Highly Targeted Prospect List or Automating Winning Proposals. Completing each module builds a business system you can put into action.
There may be more than one module in a week's work. Live weekly meetings are 60 - 90 minutes. Each weekly project is approximately one+ hours but you can spend more time customizing.
Module 1: Generative AI is Changing Professional ServicesÂ
Outcome: Gain a clear understanding of where AI creates leverage - and why waiting is a competitive mistake.
You will:
- Understand core Generative AI concepts relevant to professional work
- See the impact and funding of AI in professional/consulting firms
- Learn the stages of implementing Gen AI throughout a professional firm
- See the workflows where AI is most used widely used in professional firms and access the "seed" library
- Learn to select the most viable AI workflows for AIÂ piloting
Why this matters:
Clarity and best practices in implementation positions you to stay ahead of competitors and create a vital business. Lack of clarity produces poor decisions that give your competitors a chance to overtake and surpass you.
Module 2: Prompt Engineering for ProfessionalsÂ
Outcome:Â Produce reliable, accurate, work-ready business systems you can trust.
Most professionals try AI, get generic results, and assume it’s limited, unreliable, untrustworthy, or "content slop".
This module shows you how to tune AI to use your or your firm's voice and tone, produce highly valid work with citations, create secure AI environments, and turn AI into a highly reliable professional partner.
You will:
- Use structured prompts for consistent, high-quality output
- Create your own high-quality, high-authority sources using the Deep Research System.
- Teach AI your voice, tone, and writing standards.
- Securely work with your and client documents and trusted sources
- Precisely control output format and structure
- Teach AI how to analyze it's own work and interview you for greater depth
Why this matters:
High validity and high quality writing style reduces follow-on rework, speeds delivery, and protects your professional credibility.
Module 3:Â Find Your Perfect NicheÂ
Outcome:Â Position your firm with defensible market positioning, produce higher fees and close sales faster.
In high-value professional services, trust and niche authority beats breadth. This module shows you how to use AI for in-depth niche research to help you position with authority.
You will:
- Rapidly research niches and competitors with a proven multi-step Deep Research process.
- Define your defensible value proposition.
- Do Deep Research into niches, clients, and competitors and so you can "come up to speed" quickly on their pains and needs
- Identify client buying motives and sales triggers
Why this matters:
Clear positioning and niche ownership supports premium fees and shortens sales cycles.
Module 4: Build a Highly Targeted Prospect ListÂ
Outcome:Â Focus on prospects who need you - and can pay.
If your prospect list is “everyone,” conversion stays low. This module shows how to identify qualified clients with clear buying signals.
You will:
- Build Ideal Client Profiles (ICP) that include client needs, objections, buying signals and triggers
- Create targeted prospect listsÂ
- Learn how to enrich your prospect list with psychographic, infographic, and work contact information.
- Create personalized email sequences aligning your prospect's pains, problems, profits, and purpose with AIDA or PSA stages.
Why this matters:
Hyper-personalized targeting increases conversion rates and reduces wasted effort. (The founder of Critical to Success consulted and taught hyper-personalized digital marketing for 7 years with one of the leading Content Management System firms.)
Module 5: Promote Your High-Authority Professional Brand
Outcome:Â Increase trust, authority, and conversion.
Credibility is currency. This module helps you quickly build high-authority assets aligned to your niche and buyer psychology.
You will:
- Strengthen service statements and messaging
- Optimize LinkedIn for authority and inbound interest
- Research and draft high-authority white papers that show your leadership
- Draft landing pages that attract ideal prospects
Why this matters:
Clear positioning, promoting your authority, and niche ownership supports premium fees and shortens sales cycles.
Module 6:Â Build a Marketing Machine That Fills Your PipelineÂ
Outcome: Eliminate the ups and downs of a Feast-or-Famine cycle with an AI optimized marketing machine. Keep your prospect pipeline full with a magnetic marketing machine that attracts clients
7 X 24 X 365.
You will:
- Build an AI-assisted marketing machine aligned with your niche
- Create targeted email nurture sequences
- Quickly create lead magnets like eBooks, LinkedIn carousels, and more
- Use AI to build an integrated editorial calendar that includes multiple channels, campaigns, and events
Why this matters:
Your AI marketing machine fills your prospect pipeline, nurtures prospects to build your trust and authority, and gives you more time to work with clients. This is where professionals get greater than 5X to 10X productivity improvement.
Increase Productivity - Improve ROI!
Get Your AI AdvantageModule 7: Sell Your Professional Services with ConfidenceÂ
Outcome: Increase close rates without having to pretend you are someone you’re not.
Selling is easier when it’s structured, ethical, and natural. Learn proven sales methods that feel like your own and that match you and your prospect’s style.Â
You will:
- Use Strategy/Discovery Sessions to discover your prospect's needs and objections
- Turn objections into competitive advantages
- Practice Strategy/Discovery and sales sessions by roleplaying with an AI-sales partner trained in your prospect’s business situation
- Use the 12-Step Sales Ladder to engage clients at multiple levels
Why this matters:
Selling with a proven system you can practice gives you confidence while meeting and identifying the prospect’s needs. The result is a faster close and greater deal size.
Module 8: Calculate Defensible FeesÂ
Outcome:Â Price yourself confidently using market and value data.
Your fees should reflect your market positioning and the value you deliver - not guesswork. Most professionals undervalue their own work, losing money and losing credibility. Learn how to prove your worth.
You will:
- Evaluate different business delivery and pricing models
- Calculate market-based and value-based fees
- Build solid project pricing
Why this matters:
Better pricing actually improves trust and bolsters authority while directly improving your margins without more work.
Module 9: Automate Winning Proposals and RetainersÂ
Outcome:Â Close clients faster with stronger proposals using proven templates.
Your proposal’s turnaround time matters in closing professional clients. Don’t leave your warm prospect open to a competitor’s intervention. Follow up quickly with a winning proposal.
You will:
- Draft proposals with an AI system that converts your Strategy Session or Discovery notes and estimates into a solid proposal
- Apply proven templates or use your own past winning proposals as templates
- Create polished executive presentations and pitch decks to sell up to the executive level
Why this matters:
Faster proposals using proven templates and principles increase your win rate.Â
Module 10: Magnify Your Productivity with Multiple AI AppsÂ
Outcome:
5X to 10X your productivity by integrating multiple AI tools and apps.
You will:
- Quickly draft consulting or professional frameworks such as SWOT or Porter’s 5 Forces and create fill-in PDF forms for client use
- Use the Deep Research System to create in-depth, high-validity research reports
- Turn AI drafted outlines into slides, scripts, and videos
- Quickly turn your ideas into LinkedIn posts and carousels in minutes
- Build no-code GPTs that encapsulate and protect your prompts for distribution
Why this matters:
Using AI prompts and AI tools and apps in combination gives you a 5X to 10X productivity improvement you can apply to higher quality, niche expansion, or expanded production.
Bonus:
One-on-One Consulting Session
Use your Private Consulting Session for Implementation and Private Questions
- Don't Face the Business World AloneÂ
Don't face critical business decisions alone. Work one-on-one with a consultant and coach who knows professional services. - One-on-One Consulting
In addition to live weekly group coaching you receive an hour of one-on-one coaching/consulting with Ron Person. Ron has 30+ years consulting experience with regional and international corporations.
Guarantee
Business Growth Guarantee
Complete the Business Builder projects and if you don’t generate at least your course investment in additional new revenue, we will work with you until you do.
Increase Productivity - Improve ROI!
Get Your AI AdvantageWhy This Delivers ROI — Not Just EducationÂ
These implementation sprint workshops build functioning business systems designed for professional services.
They are not training exercises.
Think of this as you would a business investment.
Conservative ROI Snapshot
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Avg. billing rate: $200/hour
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Time saved: 5 hours per week
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Annual productivity value: $48,000
Revenue Lift Example
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One additional $15,000 client per quarter
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Annual revenue impact: $60,000
Most professionals recover the cost of this program within 30–60 days of starting implementation.
From there, the bottom-line contributions continue to compound month over month.
Future-Proof Your Professional Business
Increase Revenue. Increase Productivity. Build Scalable Systems.
This is an implementation workshop, not a course.
Your investment goes into building real, working AI professional business systems that improve your client value, prospect pipeline, conversion rate, and the productivity of your firm.
Most professionals and firms recover their investment through incremental revenue or productivity gains within 30–60 days.
AI Implementation Workshop Dates
Next Workshop Dates: Mid-MarchÂ
Live Meetings: Wednesdays, 10:00 AM –11:30 PM PT
đź’ĄJoin the Final Founder's Cohortđź’Ą
Limited to 20 Students
The final Founder's cohort before public release will be mid-March, 2026.
Implementation workshops will be priced significantly higher, $1,467, at public release.
Founder’s Cohort participants receive:
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Access to the full workshop prior to public release
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Full workshop materials, live meetings, and implementation guidance
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Preferential pricing in exchange for participation and feedback
Cohorts are intentionally limited to maintain hands-on implementation quality and direct access.
Founder's Cohort
Founder's Cohort
You Can't Lose Guarantee!
The "Business Builder Guarantee" - After completing your Business Builder projects, I guarantee you will generate enough new revenue to recover your investment.Â
From what you learn and build, the Business Builder projects, the AI prompts library, recommended metrics, playbooks, and community feedback, you will improve your business productivity and pay for this course.Â
If you don't, I will work with you until you do.
Ron's one-on-one approach was and still is an immense help for me...
The course met my expectations with step-by-step guides on how to achieve all my business goals. Ron was also extremely helpful and went above and beyond in supporting my business.
Enjoy every intense moment because it is intensive and utilizes Ron's wealth of experience, knowledge, and time. Ron's one-on-one approach was and still is an immense help for me in becoming an established independent management consultant.
Tolu Ajakaiye, Evance Consulting, United Kingdom
Working with Cx0s, HR, and Operations
to simplify back-office complexity for greater performance
In-House Workshops for Firms
Imagine your firm's growth after a team of your professionals take the AI Implementation Workshop!
And we can tailore the AI workshop to fit your needs.
This is not a passive online course -
This is Business Building workshop!
Critical to Success has decades of experience consulting and teaching Fortune 1000 companies with tailored programs.
Our clients have included Arthur Andersen, Pacific Gas & Electric, AT&T, Medtronic, and more. Ron Person has written 27 books on corporate performance improvement, digital marketing, and technology published by J Wiley and Macmillan and has taught instructional design at University California, Berkeley.Â
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Who Am I?
Hi, I'm Ron Person (the one on the left),
I've been a highly successful consultant for 30+ years and have developing business systems with AI for three years.
My corporate strategy and digital marketing consulting clients have included corporate giants like Microsoft, Arthur Andersen, AT&T, Medtronics, other Fortune 1000 and Global 1000 corporations.Â
 My experience came through multiple channels - consulting and training in mid-sized and global corporations, teaching in the Executive Extension of the University of California, Berkeley, and writing 27 books with four international bestsellers and three million copies sold.