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Teaching business owners to put technology to work.
Practical adoption of AI tools and business automation: what to use, where to start, and how to bring a team along.
Learning on your own processes
Most technology training shows what a tool can do. Umesh's sessions start from what a business already does: how an enquiry becomes an order, how leave is approved, how a report reaches the owner. Tools are introduced only once the process is clear.
Participants work on examples from their own companies, so they leave with a short list of changes they can make the following week, rather than a notebook of features they may never use.
Ukvalley and Growth Valley sessions led by Umesh.
Featured workshop
Business Automation Workshop
A three-day programme for business owners on applying automation and AI tools to everyday operations, held in 2025.
- Format
- Three days
- Venue
- Swiss Trafalgar Luxury Hotels
- Year
- 2025
Topics
Practical AI tools for business
Which tools help with writing, research, analysis and customer communication, how to use them safely, and where they fall short.
Business process automation
How to map a process, find the hand-offs worth automating, and measure the result before and after.
Marketing and sales workflows
From enquiry capture to follow-up and reporting, so leads stop disappearing between a campaign and the sales team.
HR and operational systems
Attendance, payroll, approvals and day-to-day operations run through clear systems rather than chat groups and spreadsheets.
SOPs and business process design
Writing processes down as the team actually runs them, so they can be trained, improved and later automated.
Productivity and decision support
Using dashboards, summaries and AI assistance to spend less time gathering information and more time deciding.
Ways to work together
Multi-day workshops
Hands-on sessions where owners apply tools to their own processes.
Talks
Focused keynotes or panel contributions on automation, ERP and AI adoption.
In-company training
Sessions for a leadership or operations team, built around their own systems.