Hemsley’s new AI curriculum equips companies to get best from AI
Hemsley Fraser has launched a new Human Skills and AI curriculum to help organisations build their AI fluency, confidence and human-centred capabilities, to make best use of AI. The company developed its curriculum in response to worldwide demand from enterprises and growth firms wanting to build the most effective ways for humans to work confidently with AI, whether at individual, team, and company-wide levels. Despite AI’s widespread adoption, it’s often treated as a largely technological change with comparatively few organisations developing people's understanding of the impacts and the capabilities needed to ensure optimal AI use.
Global learning and people development partner Hemsley Fraser has launched a new Human Skills & AI curriculum to help organisations build their AI fluency, confidence and human-centred capabilities, to make best use of AI.
Hemsley developed its curriculum in response to worldwide demand from enterprises and growth firms wanting to build the most effective ways for humans to work confidently with AI, whether at individual, team, and company-wide levels.
Despite AI’s increasing adoption, it’s often treated as a largely technological change with comparatively few firms developing people's understanding of the impacts and the capabilities needed to ensure optimal AI use.
McKinsey Global Institute has identified a sevenfold increase in demand for AI fluency in two years while Hemsley’s own 2026 poll of L&D professionals found that AI and digital/tech literacy was regarded as workforces’ most important future skill.
Deloitte’s research of C-suite leaders found that most companies (59%) are still taking a tech-focused approach to AI but those taking this approach are 1.6x more likely to not realise ROI on AI investments, compared to those taking people-led strategies.
The Hemsley curriculum’s seven topics bring in-demand AI fluency and human-centred capabilities to enterprises, comprising:
- Getting Smarter with AI: builds awareness, confidence, and the right mindset for safe and effective AI use.
- Prompt Power: develops prompt engineering skills to write clear, contextual prompts that generate value.
- Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: strengthens judgment and evaluation when assessing AI outputs.
- Leading with AI: equips managers with strategic and communication skills to leverage AI for team enablement.
- Productivity with AI: focuses on automating low‑value tasks and redirecting attention to high‑value work.
- Storytelling & Communication with AI: helps individuals craft clear, persuasive messages and data stories using AI tools.
- AI in Project Management: builds the understanding, skills, and confidence to apply AI.
The people skills-focused modules provide deeper insights than traditional tools-based or ad hoc training which can’t teach the judgement and behavioural capabilities and thinking needed to understand AI’s workplace impacts and design in responsible AI use.
Lynsey Whitmarsh, Chief Executive at Hemsley Fraser, said: “Our new AI curriculum will help companies make the crucial shift to people-centric organisational thinking on AI rather than deferring such decisions to technology.
“Our cutting-edge and highly-engaging learning topics equip leaders managers and teams in how to interpret and use AI outputs well, apply discernment, safeguard ethics and wellbeing in emerging work processes, and embed psychological safety so their people can explore AI’s possibilities responsibly.
“This people-centred approach is key to companies using AI safely and strategically and delivering crucial added business value. AI innovation and productivity gains emerge only when people apply their own judgment alongside AI, rather than regarding its adoption and use in new workflows as a primarily technology-driven question.”