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How a Big Company Taught 20, 000 People About AI

Des Moines, USASaturday, November 22, 2025
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Leadership Training

  • CEO Strable initiated AI training with top leaders.
  • Leaders initially questioned the need but understood its importance for company-wide AI adoption.

AI Literacy Program

  • Four courses under 10 hours each.
  • Topics: AI basics, prompt writing, data training for AI models.
  • 82% of 20,000 employees have taken at least one course.
  • 39% have completed all four courses.
  • Advanced training planned for 2026.

Business Goals

  • AI to support top three goals:
    1. Selling more retirement and insurance services to small and mid-sized businesses.
    2. Attracting more global clients.
    3. Increasing demand for individual retirement services.

AI Tools in Use

  • Generative AI assistant: Summarizing, drafting emails.
  • Usage grew from 800 to 14,000 with 8,000 regular users.
  • Enterprise ChatGPT, AI coding assistants, HR AI agents.

AI Ambassadors

  • 700 ambassadors across departments.
  • Help colleagues with AI-related queries.

Employee Engagement

  • C-suite shares monthly AI usage examples.
  • Conversations have become more engaging over time.

Impact on Job Security

  • AI aims to increase productivity, not eliminate jobs.
  • Strable believes AI will enhance customer service without needing more hires.

Usage Statistics

  • Other companies:
  • 14% use generative AI daily.
  • 45% never used it in the past year.
  • 6% use AI agents daily.
  • 57% never used AI agents.

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