Collaborative AI Lab
Collaborative AI Lab
Stop experimenting alone. Start transforming together.
Live Online
With Douglas Ferguson and Erik Skogsberg
In Partnership With Miro
Most people are stuck in single-player mode with AI. Individual tools, scattered pilots, no shared strategy. The teams pulling ahead have made the shift to collaborative, systemic AI adoption. You can't train your way there. You build the reps together.
In this complimentary, 2-hour workshop, you'll place your team on Voltage Control's AI Transformation Model, search engine, assistant, teammate, system, and map your path to the next level. This is a working session, not a webinar. You'll use AI as a live teammate in the room and build real artifacts together, not watch a demo.
In this complimentary, 2-hour workshop, you'll place your team on Voltage Control's AI Transformation Model, search engine, assistant, teammate, system, and map your path to the next level. This is a working session, not a webinar. You'll use AI as a live teammate in the room and build real artifacts together, not watch a demo.
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Agenda
Single-Player to Multiplayer AI
Explore why most teams are stuck experimenting alone with AI — scattered tools, scattered pilots, no shared strategy — and what changes when adoption becomes collaborative and systemic.
Mapping Your AI Transformation Level
Place your team on the 4-level AI Transformation Model (search engine, assistant, teammate, system) and pinpoint the gap between where you are and where you need to be.
Building Live With AI as a Teammate
Turn a real team input into a table, a prototype, a deck, or an action plan — with AI working alongside you in the room, not demoed to you.
Next Moves & Action Planning
Pinpoint your 1–2 highest-leverage next steps and decide whether the path forward is a quick win or a structural shift.
Who Should Attend
Execs & VPs Driving AI Transformation
Leaders who need a shared model for AI adoption and a clear next step — not another pilot.
Transformation & Operations Leaders
Who are aligning AI work across silos and need every team operating from the same playbook.
Teams With Scattered AI Wins
Who are seeing individual gains from AI tools but haven't cracked system-wide impact.
Facilitators & Team Leads
Who want hands-on reps using AI as a live teammate — real artifacts built in the room, not a demo watched from the sidelines.
Key Takeaways
Place your team on Voltage Control's 4-level AI Transformation Model — search engine, assistant, teammate, system — and see exactly where you stand today.
Surface the real friction blocking your jump from single-player AI to true team-wide, systemic adoption.
HandBuild live with AI as a teammate in the room, turning a real team input into a table, a prototype, a deck, or an action plan.
Walk away with your 1–2 highest-leverage next moves, and clarity on whether it's a quick win or a structural shift.
Featured Facilitators
Douglas Ferguson
Douglas is an entrepreneur, educator, and human-centered technologist with over 26 years of experience. He is founder and CEO of Voltage Control, a facilitation-led transformation consultancy that helps leaders and organizations elevate their ways of working to unlock their full collaborative potential. He has helped transform leaders, innovators, and creatives from Nike, U.S. SOCOM, Google, the Air Force, Gap, Tesla, MSU, Church & Dwight, Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.
Prior to Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups, where he led product and engineering teams using agile, lean, and human-centered design principles. While CTO at Twyla, Douglas worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints, and now brings this experience and process to companies everywhere.
Douglas is currently active in the Austin startup community, where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures.
Douglas is a thought leader and often writes and talks about facilitation, leadership, collaboration, innovation, culture, meetings, and Design Sprints. He is also the author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within, He has been published in Forbes, Fast Company, Innovation Leader, and is a regular contributor to The Future Shapers. He publishes a weekly podcast called Facilitation Lab.
When not facilitating or coaching facilitators, you might find Douglas patching up his Modular Synth, boxing, doing pilates, and taking photographs. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Prior to Voltage Control, Douglas held CTO positions at numerous Austin startups, where he led product and engineering teams using agile, lean, and human-centered design principles. While CTO at Twyla, Douglas worked directly with Google Ventures running Design Sprints, and now brings this experience and process to companies everywhere.
Douglas is currently active in the Austin startup community, where he serves on the board of several non-profits, mentors startups, and advises early-stage ventures.
Douglas is a thought leader and often writes and talks about facilitation, leadership, collaboration, innovation, culture, meetings, and Design Sprints. He is also the author of four books: Magical Meetings, Beyond the Prototype, How to Remix Anything, and Start Within, He has been published in Forbes, Fast Company, Innovation Leader, and is a regular contributor to The Future Shapers. He publishes a weekly podcast called Facilitation Lab.
When not facilitating or coaching facilitators, you might find Douglas patching up his Modular Synth, boxing, doing pilates, and taking photographs. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Erik Skogsberg
EErik Skogsberg is an educator, designer, researcher, and human-centered change agent. He is VP at Voltage Control, a facilitation-led transformation consultancy that helps leaders and organizations elevate their ways of working to unlock their full collaborative potential. He has worked with leaders, innovators, and creatives at organizations including Google, Microsoft, Nike, NASA, Lockheed Martin, USSOCOM, Atlassian, Stanford, the World Bank, and the Carnegie Foundation.
Prior to Voltage Control, Erik co-founded Michigan State University's Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation. Drawing on his background as an educator and researcher, he brought human-centered design and systems thinking to some of higher education's most complex organizational challenges.
Erik designs and leads immersive, research-backed programs that help leaders navigate complexity, build alignment, and move from misalignment to momentum — building facilitation as a craft, a calling, and a catalyst for change.
He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State University, an M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University.
Prior to Voltage Control, Erik co-founded Michigan State University's Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology, an internal design consultancy focused on learning experience design, innovation, and organizational transformation. Drawing on his background as an educator and researcher, he brought human-centered design and systems thinking to some of higher education's most complex organizational challenges.
Erik designs and leads immersive, research-backed programs that help leaders navigate complexity, build alignment, and move from misalignment to momentum — building facilitation as a craft, a calling, and a catalyst for change.
He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education from Michigan State University, an M.A.T. in Secondary English Education from Brown University, and a B.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University.
In Partnership With
Miro
Miro is an online workspace for innovation that is visually reminiscent to whiteboards we have in meeting rooms. All the tools are located on the left side of the screen. And it allows you to add various content from texts to images, create maps and diagrams, and work with visual templates together with a team.
What People Are Saying
"The community’s warmth and generosity in tending to me and the issue made me feel cared for and supported. Beyond the suggestions, which were immediately useful, the culture of the community makes leaning into that growth edge easier, and more delightful."
Katrina Mitchell
Senior Technical Advisor, JHPiego
“I just wanted to say thanks for the great session last night. Your feedback and suggestions were fantastic. I left very energized!"
Dan Corbin
Instructor at Pragmatic Institute
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