Mindtools Kineo AI Innovation Lab launches AI Skills Academy in partnership with Mindstone
AI is transforming workforce performance and productivity and reshaping how work gets done. Organizations are racing to meet this potential – 88%* report regular AI use. However, most are still in the experimentation phase, with two-thirds* yet to scale AI across their organization. The challenge is no longer access to AI tools but helping people to adopt new ways of working.
Business and learning teams face a rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, changing skills requirements, and increasing pressure to deliver measurable impact from AI investments. As organizations navigate one of the most significant workplace transformations in decades, the need for practical, scalable AI skills development has never been greater.
Learning and Development teams have a critical role to play in leading this change. Beyond delivering training, they are increasingly being asked to help organizations build confidence, drive adoption, and embed new technologies at scale. To do this successfully, they need partners who can help them turn AI learning into meaningful workplace performance.
Today, Mindtools Kineo is launching AI Skills Academy, a new enterprise AI enablement program in partnership with Mindstone, the AI upskilling experts. This innovative four-week blended program helps organizations move beyond experimentation by building practical AI capability that employees can apply immediately in their day-to-day work.
Complementing Mindtools Kineo’s specialist-led Executive AI Strategy workshops and custom AI Adoption programs, AI Skills Academy reinforces the company’s position as a partner for organizations seeking to build workforce readiness and accelerate responsible AI adoption. Together, these solutions will help learning leaders guide their organizations through AI-driven transformation with confidence.
Shabnam Shahani, CEO at Mindtools Kineo, said:
‘As AI reshapes the workplace, organizations need more than access to technology – they need the skills, confidence and behaviours that enable people to use it effectively. Learning and development teams are at the centre of this transformation, helping organizations adapt to new ways of working while ensuring AI delivers meaningful business value.
Our partnership with Mindstone represents an important step in expanding how we support customers through this change. AI Skills Academy bridges the gap between learning and adoption, helping organizations build practical AI capability at scale, embed it into everyday workflows, and deliver measurable business impact. We are committed to being a trusted partner for learning leaders as they help their organizations navigate one of the biggest workforce transformations of our time.’
Mindstone CEO, Joshua Wöhle said:
‘AI ushers in the most consequential period of change we have ever gone through as humans. It has the potential to reshape how we work, how we relate to the world around us, and how we relate to each other. Access to the technology is spreading fast, but most people don't know how to use it. In turn, this drives ever increasing inequality of opportunity and capability, splitting those who benefit from what AI can help with and those who don't know how.
Therefore, helping people use this technology is vitally important if we care about a world of equal opportunity, and it is not something Mindstone can do alone. Our partnership with Mindtools Kineo is a step toward ever-increasing collaboration with others in the ecosystem, and we couldn't be more excited to combine our platforms to help more people benefit from this technology worldwide.’
Mindtools Kineo AI Skills Academy provides a structured, organization-wide approach to building AI capability. The blended program combines expert-led live sessions, personalized, role-specific practical skills development, and in-the-flow support to help employees apply AI effectively in real workflows. The result is a practical, scalable approach to AI adoption that aligns with business goals, supports responsible use, and helps organizations realise value from their AI investments.
Find out more at www.mindtools-kineo.com
*McKinsey: The state of AI in 2025: survey November 2025
About Mindstone
Mindstone is a London-based AI transformation platform that helps organisations turn AI from experimentation into real business impact. From practical, hands-on training programmes to measurable ROI dashboards and their agentic AI company operating system (Rebel), Mindstone enables teams to build the skills and workflows needed to adopt AI tools effectively in their day-to-day work. For more information, visit www.mindstone.com.