The AI-Empowered Leader: Building the Mindset and the Toolkit to Make AI Work for You

AI success isn’t just about having the right technology. It depends on leaders who know how to think differently and how to put AI to work effectively.

In this interactive three-hour workshop, Anna Barnhill, MCC, and Justin Barnhill, LSSMBB, combine leadership development and practical AI skills to help you build both.

Part One — Rewire: The Mindset

Explore the beliefs and default reactions that shape how you lead, especially under pressure. Through hands-on exercises, Anna will guide you through five key mindset shifts that help leaders move from certainty to curiosity, control to orchestration, expertise to learning, risk avoidance to experimentation, and individual decisions to collaborative intelligence.

Part Two — Delegate: The Toolkit

Learn how to move beyond basic prompting and delegate meaningful work to AI. Justin will introduce a simple four-part briefing framework to help you improve AI results, reduce errors, create effective review loops, and confidently use AI for research, analysis, planning, writing, and follow-through.

You’ll Walk Away With:

• A clearer understanding of your Leadership Operating System and where to focus first
• Five practical mindset shifts for leading effectively with AI
• A four-part framework for delegating work to AI
• Techniques to improve accuracy and first-pass results
• A repeatable approach for building organizational knowledge with AI
• A clearer understanding of what requires your judgment, AI support, or your team

Who it’s for:

Business owners, executives, managers, and emerging leaders who want to lead confidently in an AI-powered workplace. No technical background required.

Event Details:

📅 Tuesday, October 6, 2026

⏰ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

🔊 Anna Barnhill, MCC, Founder of AdvantEdge Leadership

🔊 Justin Barnhill, LSSMBB, Co-Founder of Leaderwired

📍 BBSI Southern Oregon: 2045 Cardinal Ave., Suite 100, Medford, OR 97504

👉 Please RSVP by using the form!

About Your Presenters:

Anna Barnhill, MCC is an ICF Master Certified Coach, author of Leaderwired: The AI-Era Leadership Playbook, founder of AdvantEdge Leadership, and co-founder of Leaderwired — where she owns the human side of change. Her work spans MIT Professional Education, Forbes, and McLean/Harvard Medical School, and draws on seventeen years of coaching executives, founders, and senior teams — mapping what happens in the brain and in behavior when pressure hits, and how durable change is engineered in humans.

Justin Barnhill, LSSMBB, is co-founder of Leaderwired — where he owns the systems side of change — and an engineer, operator and innovator who sees every outcome as a system — and every system as something that can be redesigned. Across CEO, COO, and executive roles in private equity-backed companies, he has led the kind of transformations most development programs only describe: reversing a $50M annual loss into $40M of EBITDA in under a year and growing a startup to $54M of revenue in three years. A Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach, Justin brings P&L discipline to the newest frontier of business performance: putting AI to work. In this workshop, he teaches the delegation and quality-control systems that turn AI from a novelty into a dependable member of the team.

Event Location:
BBSI Southern Oregon: 2045 Cardinal Ave., Suite 100, Medford, OR 97504