PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
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The U.S.-Mexico AI Education Initiative
Funders wanted veteran implementers to design and deliver a large-scale public-facing international project showcasing how AI can help entrepreneurs. They selected Actionworks because we embraced AI early—we ran our first AI-focused program with GPT-2 back in 2019. This head start, combined with our facilitation expertise, gives us a continued advantage in designing effective AI learning experiences.
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A 4-Week Program Changed Portugal’s Research Ecosystem
Portugal’s Ministry of Science and Technology faced a challenge: turning research into startups and spinoffs to drive economic growth and innovation. The “From Portugal to the World: Innovation-to-Business Journey” program addressed this need.
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From Tokyo to Texas: The University of Tokyo at SXSW
Helping Japanese technologists build international businesses, sell their ideas, and capitalize on conferences.
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Transforming Deep Tech: Actionworks at Intel
How we helped teams at Intel Ignite tell better stories on camera, sell to enterprise, and raise more capital.
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Customer-Centric Learning: A Week in Delhi with the Nexus Accelerator
A recap of a week’s worth of customer-focused founder education in Delhi, India.
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Minimum Viable Video at Silicon Valley Bank
At Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a challenge emerged: how to effectively distribute valuable market insights to their audience. The solution? Our Minimum Viable Video program designed to transform SVB’s experts into confident on-camera communicators.
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70 Executives Get Hands-on with AI
There I was, standing in front of 70 businesspeople and software developers visiting from India, watching them pound on table tops.
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Under Pressure: Dave Chang’s Desperate Creativity
170 degrees for 30 seconds. This is how hot and how long a kitchen sink needs to run to pass an NYC health code inspection. The water from the sinks in Dave Chang’s restaurant Momofuku had just failed this test. A critical health code violation. And because this was not the first strike against the […]
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What Navy SEALs Can Learn From Entrepreneurs
A month ago, I ran a program for a group of Navy pilots and SEALs. My role was to teach them how to think and act like entrepreneurs so they could bring the entrepreneurial mindset back to their organization to solve problems, navigate bureaucracy, and communicate better.
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Building a post-pandemic business: Minimum Viable Video goes to Ecuador
What happens when you fly to Ecuador to deliver sessions in Spanish (!) and 900 people register for your sessions? You get nervous, reframe those nerves as energy, and blow people’s minds. That’s what happened when the US Embassy Quito Ecuador, Cámara de Comercio de Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and UEM Benalcazar brought us down to teach entrepreneurs how to use video to pandemic-proof their businesses and reach global markets.
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Underrated Strategy: Find a Nemesis
A guy became a millionaire after he founded a tractor company. He made enough money that he could indulge his taste for Ferraris. He loved those cars so much that he bought two. A white one for him and a black one for his wife. But his infatuation faded when he burned out the clutch […]
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How U2 Got Unstuck
One minute you’re on top of the world, the next minute you’re pissed off at your coworkers. That’s where U2 found themselves after the success of the Joshua Tree album. The record made them global superstars…but they forgot a key idea. I mean, I get it. Expectations would be huge after an album that blew […]
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Minimum Viable Video on NPR
It was a joy to share stories and learnings from Minimum Viable Video, Actionworks’ flagship course, on such a big stage. Doug Wells and I talk about: how learning video changes the lives of entrepreneurs and knowledge workers cohort-based courses and David Perell’s Write of Passage reverse networking teaching entrepreneurship in Bogotá Listen here.