AI Workflow Training · Edmonton, AB

Most AI training stops at prompting.
That's like teaching someone to type and calling it writing.

I take product teams from basic ChatGPT use to properly integrated AI workflows — the processes and thinking that turn casual AI use into a genuine competitive advantage.

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Delivered with AI Collective Edmonton — Chapter Lead PMO-BP® Program — Facilitator TP Global — Instructor Schulich MBA CSPO
"Prompts are the easy part. Workflows are the hard part. Guess which one everyone else teaches."
The gap

Your team knows ChatGPT exists. Some of them use it. But the difference between casual AI use and a team that actually moves faster is a set of real workflows — integrated into how work gets done.

Most training covers the surface. A prompt template here, a demo there. The hard part — building the actual process, deciding where AI fits, knowing when it doesn't — nobody teaches that.

That's what Essen does.

What I offer

Three ways to work together

Workshop

AI Workflows for Teams

90 minutes. One real workflow built together. Your team leaves with something that runs Monday.

From $1,500 per session
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Build

AI Agent & Workflow Setup

One painful, repetitive task. Automated. Delivered with documentation your team can maintain.

From $2,000 per workflow
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Retainer

Ongoing Strategy & Office Hours

The person you call when you're not sure if AI is the right tool for this.

$500–$2,500/month
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In the room

What this looks like in practice

Presenting at AI Collective Liftoff Full room at AI Collective Liftoff
AI Collective Edmonton

Liftoff — Chapter Launch

35 attendees. Presented on AI's global impact and what Edmonton is building. Founders, practitioners, builders at every level.

ProductTO roundtable — Suwaid at head of table ProductTO networking
ProductTO — Toronto

Customer Discovery Techniques

Facilitated discussion for product leaders across non-profit, municipal, and publishing sectors. Toronto's established PM community.

NotebookLM knowledge map — PMO-BP live demo NotebookLM welcome screen — PMO-BP presentation
PMO-BP® Program

NotebookLM for PMOs

Presented to senior PMO leaders on using AI for strategic knowledge management. "An insightful presentation and demonstration." — Dr. Tony Prensa, ATP, PMP

What people said

After the session

Thoughtful conversations and a solid start. Especially enjoyed the discussion on AI agents. Excited for what's next.

Megha Brahmbhatt Business Analyst, GovTech & Healthcare AI Collective Edmonton — Liftoff

It was an enlightening conversation. Thank you for facilitating it. It was great to learn from everyone.

Edel Buggy Lead Service Designer, Women in Leadership & Innovation ProductTO — Customer Discovery Techniques

Many great takeaways from last night's discussion. Awesome job facilitating.

Amanda Fong Senior Product Manager, Loblaw Companies ProductTO — Customer Discovery Techniques

It was a great talk last night. I enjoyed it very much and hope to see it continued at next events as well.

Hossein Khodadadeh Senior Product Manager ProductTO — Customer Discovery Techniques

That was an insightful presentation and demonstration. It is a great pleasure to have you in the line up.

Dr. Tony Prensa, ATP, PMP, PMOCP AI-Enabled Strategic PMO Architect PMO-BP® Program — NotebookLM for PMOs

Honored to have you as part of the PMO-BP facilitators. This topic is so valuable to PMOs and PMO professionals.

Ethan Schwaber, MBA, PMP, PMO-CP Award-Winning PMO & Business Ops Executive PMO-BP® Program — NotebookLM for PMOs

Half your team is secretly embarrassed about AI. The other half is pretending they get it.

Fix both problems About Suwaid
Workshops & Training

Three ways to go from prompting to workflows

Lead with outcome, not format. Every engagement ends with something your team can run — not a slide deck about what AI could do.

Workshop

AI Workflows for Teams

Starting at $1,500
Full-day $5,000

A focused session where your team builds one actual workflow together — not watches a demo. Product teams, ops teams, startup founding teams.

In 90 minutes your team builds one real workflow. Not watches one. The difference matters: watching creates awareness, building creates habits.

Teams who already know basic prompting get the most out of this. If someone knows what ChatGPT is but isn't sure how to make it part of how the team works, this is the session.

How a session works

01

Discovery call — 30 min

What does your team spend time on that they wish they didn't? One real problem becomes the session's target.

02

Build — 90 min

The team builds together. Not watches. One real workflow, mapped to one real problem, in the tools you actually use.

03

Run — week one

One specific thing to do before the habit fades. Follow-up at end of week one.

Build

AI Agent & Workflow Setup

$2,000 single workflow
$5,000+ multi-step systems

For founders and ops leads who need something built, not just learned. One painful, repetitive task. Automated. Delivered with documentation.

Hands-on delivery — not consulting recommendations. You describe the problem, I build the solution, you get working code and a process document your team can maintain without me.

Recent builds include autonomous publishing pipelines, client onboarding automation, and multi-step data processing workflows. Built with the same approach used in MindYourMacro — production systems, not proofs of concept.

Retainer

Ongoing Strategy & Office Hours

$500–$2,500/month
depending on scope

For companies actively building AI-enabled workflows who want a thinking partner — not a project. The person you call when you're not sure if AI is the right tool for this.

Teams use this for: reviewing workflow designs before investing engineering time, pressure-testing AI vendor decisions, helping non-technical leads ask the right questions, and keeping the team honest about what's hype vs what actually moves work forward.

Questions

What people ask before booking

Is this for technical teams or non-technical teams?
Both. Sessions are designed for people who can write a Slack message, not people who can write Python. If you have engineers who want to go deeper, that's a different kind of engagement — reach out directly.
Can we do this remotely?
Yes. Based in Edmonton, working remotely across Canada. The build-together format works well over video — better than a lecture-style session, because everyone has their own screen.
What do you need from us before the session?
A 30-minute discovery call and honest answers to two questions: what does your team spend time on that they wish they didn't, and what AI tools are they already using (including none).
What size of team works best?
4–12 people for workshop sessions. Smaller than 4 and it's better run as a strategy session. Larger than 12 and we'd split into tracks. Full-day company workshops at $5,000 can accommodate larger groups.
Do you work with healthcare, public sector, or regulated industries?
Yes — the background includes healthcare and public sector contexts. Data governance and AI ethics questions come with the territory in those environments. It's part of the conversation, not an afterthought.

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Suwaid Khan
About

Suwaid Khan

I'm a product manager who spent six years shipping real products — at a YC-backed logistics startup, a large Pakistani bank, a healthtech company — before turning that experience toward helping teams actually use AI.

The Schulich MBA and CSPO weren't credentials collected for the sake of it. They came from working at the intersection of business strategy and technical execution, where the real problems live. That's the same place most AI problems live: not in the technology, but in the process around it.

I'm Chapter Lead for AI Collective Edmonton — a global community of 150,000+ AI founders, researchers, and operators. I present at programs like the PMO-BP® certification cohort on practical AI tools for senior leaders. I also teach at TP Global Business Consulting.

"I don't just teach it. I build with it. MindYourMacro runs a production multi-agent publishing system in my own stack."

Based in Edmonton. Working with product teams and founders across Canada, in-person and remotely.

Credentials

Why it's relevant

MBA — Schulich School of BusinessFor enterprise clients and anyone who needs to justify spend internally. Signals business rigor alongside technical depth.
CSPO — Certified Scrum Product OwnerProduct team work specifically. Signals fluency in PM and Agile ecosystems before a single word about AI.
6 years technology transformationFintech, healthtech, e-commerce, logistics. Not an overnight pivot. Healthcare and public sector backgrounds add weight in regulated-industry conversations.
AI Collective Edmonton — Chapter LeadEdmonton and local market credibility. Community investment, not just commercial interest.
PMO-BP® Program — FacilitatorInvited to present alongside globally recognised PMO leaders including Dr. Tony Prensa and Ethan Schwaber. Validates delivery to senior professional audiences.
TP Global Business Consulting — InstructorValidates workshop delivery. Someone who teaches and delivers, not just consults.
MindYourMacro

Built, not just taught

MindYourMacro is an autonomous multi-agent publishing platform that replaces a full editorial team with a coordinated swarm of specialized AI agents. It's a production system — not a side project, not a proof of concept.

Local vector retrieval, CI/CD deployment, structured quality governance, and a Multimodal RAG Image Ledger that uses a tiered image strategy to manage API costs. The kind of architecture decisions that only come from running something in production.

When I talk about token costs, context windows, and where multi-agent systems actually break down — I'm talking from a system I run, not a course I took.

Architecture
Multi-agent swarm with specialized roles
Retrieval
Local vector embeddings (RAG)
Deployment
CI/CD pipeline, production environment
Cost management
4-tier image strategy, token governance
Quality layer
Structured governance process
Professional recommendations

From colleagues at BlackBerry and Krave Mart (YC S22)

"Suwaid's ability to communicate clearly and directly made him a proactive contributor… specifically around AI-driven initiatives, he grasps complex concepts quickly and drives efficient implementation."

Ana Spike
Senior Sales Enablement Manager, eSentire (formerly BlackBerry)

"Suwaid is a self-starter, eager to educate himself on tools to help himself or his peers. An aptitude for learning fast and creating efficiencies using technology."

Karyn Mank
Senior Director, Content Marketing & Enablement, BlackBerry

"Strong work ethic, a positive attitude, and superior execution skills. As a leader, he was a natural in guiding important conversations and engaging a diverse array of stakeholders."

Hammad Bawany
Co-Founder & CPO, Krave Mart (YC S22)
Work & Writing

Proof of doing, not just talking

Published writing, sessions facilitated, events run. A record of the work.

Writing

Published articles

AI for Sales Analysis · Aug 2023

Using ChatGPT for Sales Data Analysis — Risks & Benefits

A real walkthrough of using ChatGPT's Code Interpreter on a 78,000-row B2B SaaS sales dataset. Covers prompts, error-catching, and key decision-making learnings. Part 1 of 2.

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Coming · 2025

From Analysis to Planning — Part 2

Taking the analysis from Part 1 into strategy: building a data-informed marketing and sales plan using AI. In progress.

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Sessions & Events

In the room

AI Collective Edmonton — Liftoff

February 2026 · Edmonton Unlimited · 35 attendees

Chapter Lead
Presenting at AI Collective Liftoff Full room view at AI Collective Liftoff Networking at AI Collective Liftoff

"Thoughtful conversations and a solid start. Especially enjoyed the discussion on AI agents."

Megha Brahmbhatt · Business Analyst, GovTech & Healthcare

35 people showed up in the cold for Edmonton's first AI Collective chapter event. Builders, practitioners, and curious minds at every level.

Sponsored by Civic Deeds & Edmonton Unlimited

Follow-on events planned across AI governance, vibe-coding, AI agents, AI for product management, and AI for marketers.

Global network: 150+ cities, 150,000 members

ProductTO — Customer Discovery Techniques

Toronto · Product leaders from non-profit, municipal, and publishing sectors

Facilitator
ProductTO roundtable — Suwaid at head of table ProductTO networking

"It was an enlightening conversation. Thank you for facilitating it. It was great to learn from everyone."

Edel Buggy · Lead Service Designer, Women in Leadership & Innovation

"The discussion was truly insightful. Thanks for picking up this topic."

Monisha Bhatia · Product Manager, Forbes Advisor

"It opened up some new avenues for me to explore in future. So many diverse opinions and techniques discussed."

Nick Boccone · Product Leader

PMO-BP® Program — NotebookLM for PMOs

Virtual cohort · Facilitated alongside Dr. Tony Prensa, Ethan Schwaber, Joey Perugino

Guest Facilitator
NotebookLM knowledge map live demo NotebookLM workspace — PMO projects

"That was an insightful presentation and demonstration. It is a great pleasure to have you in the line up."

Dr. Tony Prensa, ATP, PMP · AI-Enabled Strategic PMO Architect

"Honored to have you as part of the PMO-BP facilitators. This topic is so valuable to PMOs and PMO professionals."

Ethan Schwaber, MBA, PMP · Award-Winning PMO & Business Ops Executive

Session covered using Gemini and NotebookLM to turn PMO document archives into searchable knowledge engines — live demo, real project files, PMO-BP® certified cohort audience.

PMO-BP® is a globally recognised certification program
Get in touch

Start a conversation

Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no funnel. One conversation about what your team is trying to do and whether I'm the right person to help.

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Run a workshop for my team

90 minutes, one built workflow. Starting at $1,500.

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Build a workflow for us

One painful task. Automated. Delivered with documentation.

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Talk strategy

Monthly retainer. The person you call when you're not sure if AI is the right tool.

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📍Based in Edmonton, AB. Working remotely across Canada.

Prefer to reach out directly? Connect on LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/suwaidkhan