Workshop: AI in the Workplace - A Practical Guide for Business Leaders

PLEASE NOTE: This training has eligibility requirements for participation listed below - please read carefully

Join us as Symplicity Designs offers their 1-day training on AI in the Workplace, covering best practices on how to leverage its use in each core area of your business (Marketing, Sales, Operations, HR, and Leadership).

MEET YOUR FACILITATOR

Matt Symes, CEO & Founding Partner
Symplicity Designs
Matt Symes is a serial entrepreneur, a recovering academic, and a marathoner. As a founding partner of Symplicity Designs, Matt has been the organization's CEO for ten years. Matt has helped over 500 organizations and institutions both scale and recover from some of their darkest moments. He brings a reality check to leadership teams, works with them to confront the brutal facts, and specializes in developing sound strategies to navigate through uncertain times. 
 
In addition to Symplicity Designs, Matt also manages a portfolio of companies of which he holds a majority or minority stake, including bio-tec, signage and vehicle wrapping, meal prep and delivery, geospatial building modeling, bookkeeping, online learning, and an experiential retail coffee shop. Matt has a unique ability to bring clarity to chaos, which has earned him the honour of being named Business Leader of the Year (2020) from the Halifax Chamber of Commerce and one of Atlantic Canada’s Top 50 CEOs (2022, 2023) with Atlantic Business Magazine. He sits on the Board at Groupe Savoie and is a Strategic advisor for an 80M IT firm. Matt also goes out of his way to embrace leading-edge environmentally sustainable practices at his companies, no matter how much effort and resources are required. Matt believes in stoicism – that we all have 100 percent control over our mindset. With that frame of mind, it’s possible to do almost anything, and he enjoys solving complex problems.

 

ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES

As per the guidelines for LSI funding, there is eligibility criteria for participants. **
A business is eligible to participate if it:

• is located in Nova Scotia
• is registered and active in the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies or incorporated by an Act of the Nova Scotia Legislature
• has a direct workforce development need (like upskilling employees, adopting new technologies or addressing critical skills gaps within their industry)
• operates within or support sectors that align with Nova Scotia's economic and workforce development priorities, contributing to industry growth and innovation
• demonstrates financial and administrative capacity to successfully deliver the proposed initiative, including project coordination, participant tracking and reporting on outcomes