Claude Foundations is a two-day, hands-on training program for business professionals — building the habits, workflows, and configurations that turn Claude access into Claude capability. Private cohort. Customized to your team. No coding background required.
Most teams already have Claude. What's missing is the structured training that turns it from a curiosity into a deployed capability your team actually reaches for.
Claude is available to your team today. But without structured training, it stays something people try once, get a mixed result from, and set aside. Meanwhile your best people are doing work below their pay grade — proposal drafting, status updates, data formatting, meeting notes — hours every week that should go to decisions, relationships, and strategic work.
The course moves Claude from a curiosity to a deployed capability through structured, hands-on training on real work. Participants learn which tasks to delegate first, how to configure Claude for their specific context, and how to build workflows that handle real business problems reliably — so the tool your team already has is actually used.
Claude Foundations is a 9-module, 2-day curriculum for non-technical professionals ready to put Claude to work on real business problems. Every module is hands-on. Every exercise uses real workflows. Cohorts are designed for teams of 8 or more — smaller team? we can work with you 1:1. The program is delivered as a private cohort for your team, customized to your organization's industry and workflows.
No coding. No IT background needed. Every module assumes participants are business professionals and builds from there. If you can use email and documents today, you're ready.
Your team only — no shared cohorts with other organizations. Content is customized to your industry, workflows, and the business problems your team faces every day.
Two full days across Claude's three primary surfaces, so participants leave knowing which tool to use for which job — and how Claude fits the tools they already use.
No theory for its own sake. Every module ends with something participants can use, built on their own real work.
Most AI training is conceptual — it explains what AI is without teaching people to do anything with it. Claude Foundations is entirely practical. Every module ends with something participants built during class, using their own real work. We also configure Claude specifically for each participant's role and context during the program, so they leave with a tool that already knows how they work — not a generic setup they have to figure out on their own.
Claude Foundations is one of two foundation courses in our training suite. Prefer to learn one-on-one? Mentoring pairs you with a guide on your own work.
The same hands-on, private-cohort approach for teams getting started with Microsoft 365 Copilot — grounded in your actual documents, data, and workflows.
View Copilot Foundations →Prefer to learn one-on-one, at your own pace? Mentoring pairs you with a guide as you build the skills on your own real work.
Explore 1:1 mentoring →Browse the full catalog of private courses and workshops for business users — foundations, role specialties, and more.
Browse all courses →Jerry is an AI Educator, Mentor, and Coach at NovoCircle with a career-long track record of helping working professionals adopt technology to solve real problems. Over three decades as a University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor, he became known for putting technology into the hands of people who never thought of themselves as tech users — through education, mentorship, and hands-on coaching rather than theory.
That same philosophy drives his approach to AI. Jerry designed our foundations curriculum for business professionals with no coding background, building every session around hands-on practice and real workflows, on a simple principle: the goal isn’t to learn AI — it’s to stop doing work that AI can do for you. He holds a graduate certificate in Management Information Systems from California State University, Chico.
Tell us your team, your tools, and the workflows eating your week. We'll talk through where to start — no pitch, just a conversation.
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