Workshops and Training
We create custom workshops and training sessions that blend real-world experience with technical and strategic expertise. Whether you're launching a digital transformation, elevating your sales team, or developing an AI planning committee, our sessions deliver practical information and help teams take action.
Examples of Client Sessions
Innovation and Business Model Transformation Workshops - Lauren Cantor designs and facilitates intensive innovation workshops that help organizations navigate complex business transformations and drive strategic growth. Her curriculum integrates proven frameworks with practical tools for evaluating opportunities and validating innovative concepts. Through structured multi-day intensives for Fortune 500 companies and global consulting firms, Lauren guides senior leaders through a comprehensive innovation journey - from developing creative thinking capabilities to implementing market-driven solutions. Her workshops are built on a foundation of measurable outcomes to evaluate organizational maturity across strategy, culture, resources, and processes. For a major financial services firm, Lauren's innovation workshop helped the executive team reframe their approach to the build, buy, or partner decision – resulting in a strategic roadmap aligned with market opportunities. The Team Alignment sessions address the unique challenges of hybrid work environments, helping organizations boost accountability and achieve results in fast-paced, uncertain conditions. Drawing from her unique background in Wall Street analytics and design thinking, Lauren combines rigorous business model analysis with collaborative exercises, enabling participants to move from theoretical frameworks to actionable innovation plans while managing the complexities of enterprise-level transformation.
Strategic Planning Workshops - Clint Compton designs high-impact workshops that transform strategic vision into executable action plans. Drawing from his leadership of digital transformations at Fortune 50 companies like GM and HP, alongside private equity portfolio turnarounds, Clint guides organizations through complex transitions – from hunter/farmer sales model implementations to omnichannel commerce launches. Clint led a strategic alignment workshop for a $2.4B aerospace/defense company's digital transformation. By bringing together key stakeholders and facilitating focused collaboration, he helped create a clear roadmap that secured executive support and accelerated their e-commerce modernization initiative. Clint's workshops cut through complexity to deliver practical solutions teams can implement immediately. His philosophy is simple: while PowerPoint decks have their place, measurable results drive real business value.
Sales Training - Tasha Huebner has led transformative sales training programs across diverse industries. In a notable engagement, she trained 24 sales leaders at a global oil and gas leader, fundamentally shifting how they communicate complex innovations to C-suite decision makers. Her two-day program shifted participants from product-focused pitches to strategic dialogues about hidden operational challenges. Through classroom learning and role-playing exercises, sales leaders learned to translate technical specifications into compelling business narratives. With an 89% adoption rate after six months, the methodology became the client’s global standard for technical sales.
AI and Creative Innovation Workshops - Lauren Cantor designs and leads hands-on AI workshops that help organizations harness generative AI tools for strategic brand development and creative execution. Her curriculum guides participants through the practical application of AI across multiple media platforms - from crafting compelling brand narratives with language models to creating visual assets with image generation tools and developing audio-visual content. Following the structure of her graduate-level curriculum at the School of Visual Arts and ArtCenter College of Design, Lauren helps creative professionals and business leaders develop effective prompt engineering skills while building a robust AI toolkit. These workshops serve everyone from brand managers and strategists to content creators and design teams, focusing on practical applications of AI tools in daily workflows. Participants learn real-world applications, from using ChatGPT and Claude for strategic writing to leveraging Midjourney and Runway for visual asset creation to experimenting with Suno and ElevenLabs for sonic branding. Her methodology combines practical tool mastery with strategic frameworks for ethical AI implementation, enabling participants to thoughtfully integrate AI into their creative and business workflows while navigating important considerations around originality, copyright, and brand authenticity.
What Clients Are Saying
“NextAccess’s AI primer was invaluable, offering actionable strategies to leverage AI in our sales and marketing efforts. Essential for forward-thinking leaders aiming to drive AI adoption and maintain a competitive edge.””
— VP of Enterprise Applications & Digital Transformation, PE-backed global B2B SaaS company
