Talent Strategy & AI Advisory

Enterprise-grade talent strategy for organizations closing the gap.

AI upskilling, mentorship program design, and succession planning, built by an operator who ran these programs inside a Fortune 500, not just advised on them. Every engagement is led personally and staffed with senior practitioners as scope requires.

What We Do

Four ways to close the readiness gap in your organization.

AI FLUENCY

AI Upskilling for Organizations

Practical, Anthropic-certified AI fluency training for teams that need to move now, grounded in hands-on full-stack development (Penn LPS Coding Bootcamp, University of Pennsylvania) and real enterprise rollout experience, not slide-deck theory.

MENTORSHIP

Mentorship Program Design

End-to-end program design, including curriculum, platform configuration, and ongoing administration, drawing on hands-on delivery of enterprise leadership programs, for organizations building formal mentorship without formal mentorship experience.

SUCCESSION

Succession Planning Advisory

Nine-box readiness mapping and bench-strength reporting, grounded in the UNC Kenan-Flagler Talent Production Line framework and built on a decade of leadership-pipeline development at Fortune 500 scale, so your organization always knows who's ready next.

WORKFORCE

Workforce Transformation Advisory

Organizational capability and workforce planning for leaders navigating rapid change, drawing on two decades building talent infrastructure from the ground up, including recruiting operations, sourcing functions, and global program frameworks across multiple industries.

Track Record

Fortune 500 pedigree, built for what comes next.

Two decades in leadership development, workforce transformation, and early global technology talent programs, with thousands hired and trained across multiple continents, before founding Grainfield. The AI upskilling work alone spans a multi-year arc: building the first generative AI fluency program in-house, then moving fast into agentic AI training as the need became clear, formalized through a direct Anthropic partnership. Consistently recognized by senior leadership for executing under complexity and building durable frameworks across regions. Engagements are supported by a network of senior practitioners across succession, mentorship, and public-sector work, brought in where the scope calls for it.

4,000+
Engineers trained in AI fluency and agentic AI, from an in-house build to a formal Anthropic partnership
4 countries
Technology talent programs built and scaled across North America, India, Mexico, and Greece
2,800
Engineers upskilled through the Global Software Engineering Skills Academy

Chubb

Former Global Head of Learning & Development, Tech & Engineering

UNC Kenan-Flagler

Talent Management Institute, executive development under Marc Effron & Zac Upchurch

Anthropic

Certified AI practitioner

Penn State Smeal

MBA

Grainfield.AI

Founder, operating a live AI implementation for a $2M+ service business. Proof over theory.

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