Halford & Wren Consulting · Baseline, May 2026
An AI behaviour change programme
Training people on AI does not work until they are on board with it. We do both, in that order.
Halford & Wren Consulting · Baseline, May 2026
You cannot train someone into wanting to use AI. The barrier is attitude, not knowledge.
A company-wide AI behaviour change programme. Not a course your people click through, but a measured shift you can take to the leadership.
Measure · The Alignment Index
Not a staff survey.
A five-signal read of where your workforce really stands, captured anonymously through Ada, the AI built into every lesson, so the answers are honest.
Alignment Index · illustrative
Baseline snapshot, five axes
Move · Foundations
Not a course library.
Foundations builds on what the index reveals: designed video lessons that change attitude before skill, teach how AI works underneath and set up your tools, plus structured live classes.
Twelve lessons, four themes
Live classes, led by James Wann
60 minutes each. Keynotes, workshops or executive briefings, structured into the programme with you.
Prove · The Alignment Index, again
The same index, re-read every quarter through Ada’s brief check-ins, so the movement is visible. Leadership-ready proof the workforce moved, not a data export.
Alignment Index · quarterly
Measure, then move, then measure again. This is what makes it an effective behaviour change programme.
The engine behind all of it
Not a bolt-on chatbot.
An AI learning companion, trained on your own policies and tools, that teaches by asking. It powers both the measure and the move: the check-ins behind the Index and the teaching inside every lesson. Learning AI by using an AI is the Assemble You instinct, applied to AI.
The programme comes from Assemble You, an established learning company. The same people, the same standard, now made for AI.
1,000+
organisations trust the team with their training.
Built with care
Each claim about how people and AI work together has a peer-reviewed paper behind it. The full reading list is yours on request.
Every lesson is presented by James Wann, on camera, not a synthetic voice or AI avatar narrating about AI.
The data Ada captures is anonymised to satisfy your DPO, on Cyber Essentials Plus infrastructure that is independently audited.
What users say
It felt more like watching a documentary out of choice than a training video for compliance. The approach to AI was balanced, in contrast to the extreme hype, especially from tech vendors.
The conversations with Ada really helped exemplify what AI can do. The videos were excellent quality, with a human presenter and helpful on-screen information.

Who presents the programme
Director of AI and Innovation
James authors and presents every lesson, and leads the live classes. The people who have worked with him put it better than we could.
James does what he says he’ll do, and what he produces actually works. He has consistently provided training that shattered engagement expectations.
Andrea SennettDirector, Content Partnerships · Docebo
I’ve known James for over a decade. Exceptionally curious and insightful, particularly with AI, from well before the GenAI explosion.
Marc Zao-SandersAuthor of Timeboxing · Founder, Filtered
James is one of the few people outside my field I can have a substantive technical conversation with. He gets the actual mechanics, not just the headlines.
Alex BarghLead AI Engineer · FTSE 100 company
The programme drops into the LMS you already run, with nothing for your IT team to build, so you can put it in front of your whole workforce in weeks.


Short, designed lessons with an AI companion built in, so people learn by doing, not by sitting through slides. The format that made our name, now applied to AI.

Short, designed lessons with an AI companion built in, so people learn by doing, not by sitting through slides. The format that made our name, now applied to AI.