I teach AI the way I deploy it.
That means two things. At Mallick Tech I build these systems for law firms — the least forgiving environment there is — so I know exactly where professional work breaks. And I spent years teaching difficult subjects before there was any AI to teach, so I know how little of it survives one day in a room.
I've been on both sides of the fix. That is the whole of my qualification, and most of what makes the training worth sitting through.
Where one missed document is real liability
I trained and practised as a corporate lawyer, in banking, M&A and commercial work, with a UK postgraduate diploma behind it. That work teaches a particular kind of attention. Every sentence has a counterparty, and every omission has a cost that lands on somebody's name.
It also teaches you where the hours go. Rebuilding a checklist someone else already built. Reading the same clause across forty documents. Rewriting a client update for the fourth time because the deal moved again.
So when I talk to a room about what AI could take off their desk, I'm not guessing. I'm describing my own nights.
So I went and learned to build the fix.
Then I learned how software actually ships
Delivery work at Finsweet took me out of the profession and into the discipline of shipping. Scope, handover, the gap between what a client asked for and what they needed, and the unglamorous business of making something hold up after launch.
That's where my instinct about training changed. A workshop is a launch, and whether it worked is decided in the six weeks afterwards. So those six weeks are the part I design first now.
Mallick Tech
At Mallick Tech, my separate legal AI practice, I build systems for law firms and legal teams. Building for a profession with no appetite for risk means every shortcut a consumer tool takes is one I've had to defend or remove.
It's also why I don't teach very much. What survives contact with clients who can't afford to be wrong is a much shorter list than the internet suggests, and that short list is the course.
Mallick TechTrains like a performer. Thinks like a lawyer.
Long before AI, I made a living teaching things that are hard to teach. Argument. Timing. Standing up in front of strangers. None of it fits in a slide, so I had to learn how people actually pick things up. That is where the rest of this comes from.
I won the World Universities Debating Championship in 2015, and have coached debaters to that level since. I also trained in performance at iO Chicago, The Nursery Theatre and Hoopla Improv in London. That's the craft behind holding a room of people who would rather be somewhere else.
I also built and trained Auratnaak, an all-female stand-up troupe, from nothing to touring three cities. Getting people from can't to can, in public, when failing is humiliating, is where I learned how long that actually takes, and how gently it has to be handled.
Plenty of people know more about models than I do. Fewer have spent this long working out how anyone changes the way they work.
Let's design a day around your people.
Thirty minutes, no deck. Who's in the room, what they're stuck on, and what you need them able to do by when. If a day isn't what you need, I'll say so.