AI Opportunity Accelerator
Make Your Region AI-Ready
Career-ready AI skills for youth and adult learners. The AI Opportunity Accelerator gives workforce boards, youth programs, colleges, Tribal programs and employers a ready-to-launch way to move people into jobs, promotions and new businesses.
How It Works
- 1
AI Professional Foundations
Every participant builds the AI and human skills employers want in every role.
- 2
Choose a Pathway
Employment, career advancement or entrepreneurship, matched to local demand.
- 3
Earn Stackable Badges
Up to 10 credentials that document skills for employers and for your reports.
Employers Want AI Skills. Your Participants Need a Way In.
Your learners are being asked about AI in job interviews, and most programs still skip it or teach it like a software manual. The AI Opportunity Accelerator (AIOA) starts with the person: practical AI skills they can use at work right away, then a pathway into employment, career advancement or entrepreneurship. It was built by someone who has worked inside a workforce board, taught in the classroom and built software, so your staff can actually run it.
The Challenge
- Employers ask about AI in interviews for every role.
- Most businesses see the value of AI and lack a plan to use it.
- Job seekers face screening algorithms before a person ever sees their resume.
The Solution
- Practical AI training for job seekers and current workers that builds talent, widens opportunity and strengthens local business.
- A Digital Products Creator track that helps aspiring entrepreneurs launch businesses.
One Program for Every Population You Serve
From a 17-year-old looking for a first job to a 50-year-old starting over, one program serves every population you support.
Job Seekers
Move dislocated and underemployed workers into AI-ready roles faster.
Incumbent Workers
Help employers upskill current staff and keep their best people.
Entrepreneurs
Turn AI skills into new businesses and local jobs.
Youth
Ages 14 to 24. Self-paced AI skills, interest-based tracks and remote internships, in school and out.
Veterans
Turn military skills and leadership into AI-ready civilian careers.
Justice-Involved
Second-chance pathways to AI skills, credentials and steady work after release.
Youth Programs That
Lead Somewhere
Ages 14 to 24. Self-paced AI training that runs in school, out of school or both, and ends with a remote internship.
1. Learn
Self-paced AI Professional Foundations, in school or out.
2. Specialize
Interest-based tracks in entrepreneurship, technology, marketing, media and business.
3. Prove It
A remote internship and all 10 badges, including Entrepreneur.
Remote Work Internships
That Open Doors Anywhere
Young people ages 14 to 24 gain real work experience on a real team, with no commute and no barrier of location.
For Youth
5+ weeks working remotely inside a McGivney Media LLC business, supervised directly by Shannon McGivney. Interns finish with all 10 AI badges, including Entrepreneur, and a portfolio to show.
For Placing Agencies
Eligible for agency-funded youth work experience. Your agency pays the intern. We provide the placement, the supervision and the training, so there is no host site to find and no office space to arrange.
For Boards and Schools
A work-based learning option you can document, delivered remotely to reach rural and underserved communities, in school and out.
See the Program Through Your Participants' Eyes
Three Gaps We Close
Job access. Industry skills. Human skills.
Foundational AI Skills
Employer-ready competencies for nearly any industry.
AI Fundamentals
Prompting, AI-assisted research, tool selection and responsible use.
Productivity and Automation
Automate workflows, manage projects, analyze data and produce documents faster.
Content and Marketing
Create video, design, branding and marketing campaigns with AI.
Digital Development
Build apps and digital products without a coding background.
The Human Skills Employers Keep Asking For
AI skills open the door. The ReHuman method builds the confidence, communication and mindset that keep learners growing after class ends.
Confidence and Self-Leadership
Build resilience, manage overwhelm and step into new roles with confidence.
Communication and Collaboration
Network, build partnerships and lead with empathy and emotional intelligence.
Productivity and Adaptability
Set goals, manage time, do deep work and keep learning.
Three Pathways
Every pathway ties to a measurable outcome: a job, a promotion or a business.
After AI Professional Foundations, each participant follows the pathway that fits their goals and your local labor market.
- Job Seekers
- Career Advancement
- Entrepreneur Pathways
Delivery That Fits Your Capacity
Launch without building curriculum from scratch.
Self-Paced
Learn on your schedule.
Hands-On Labs
Practice on real tasks.
AI Coworkers
Support any hour.
Coaching
Keep learners finishing.
Content updates as the tools change, so your program stays current.
Stackable credentials
Credentials That Prove Skills to Employers and Funders
Participants earn up to 10 stackable AI badges. Each one documents a hands-on skill that employers can see and your reports can count.
Start here
AI-Ready Professional. Every participant begins with AI Professional Foundations.
Then choose your specialties
Nine specialty badges, from AI Data Analysis for Decisions to Entrepreneur.
Proof you can show
Employers see real, hands-on skills on resumes, LinkedIn profiles and portfolios.
Founder
About Shannon McGivney
Shannon spent a decade saving lives as a paramedic. Now he teaches the AI skills that change them. He has worked inside a workforce board, taught in the classroom and built software, so he designs programs your staff can actually run.
Recent work: Digital Products Creator cohorts for Pierce County residents with WorkForce Central and WorkSource Pierce, and speaker at the Oregon Connections Telecommunication Conference.
I went from saving lives to saving quality of lives.Book a call
Want to Bring This to Your Program?
"Ready isn't a feeling, it's a decision."
We partner with workforce boards, youth programs, colleges, Tribal programs and employers who want their people ready for an AI-enabled job market. Start with a pilot cohort. We will match pathways to your labor market, set outcome targets with you and plan your reporting. What would you most like your next cohort to achieve?
