A free six-part live series · August and September 2026
AI handles the volume. You handle the moment.
Six Tuesdays, live on LinkedIn. Built for the person running the people function largely alone who wants the hours back without handing over the part that matters.
- Format
- 6 live sessions
- Length
- 45 minutes each
- Cost
- Free
One sign-up covers all six. Replays available if you cannot attend live.
Why this series
Most AI advice for HR was written for departments. You are not a department.
You have read the pieces. Nearly all of them assume a team, a budget, and someone else absorbing the volume. You have none of those, and the advice does not survive contact with your actual Tuesday.
Underneath that sits a quieter concern, and it is the reasonable one. Not that AI will replace you. That it will reach past the volume and into a moment that needed a person, and you will not notice until it already has.
So you wait. The waiting gets read as falling behind.
You are not behind. You are discerning. There is a real difference.
This series is the version built for how you actually work.
The arc
Six sessions. Each one clears the next.
This runs in sequence rather than as six standalone talks. Every session removes the thing that would otherwise stop the one after it.
Tuesday, August 18 · 1 PM Pacific
You’re Not Behind on AI
The belief this one moves“Everyone else has figured this out already.”
The baseline session. What the tools do now, and what is reasonable for one person running a people function to expect. No jargon, no demos, nothing to buy.
A clear read on where you actually stand, which is further along than the noise has been telling you.
Tuesday, August 25 · 1 PM Pacific
Where Your Morning Actually Goes
The belief this one moves“I must be disorganized.”
You start the day with a plan and by 10:30 it is gone. The usual answer is better time management. The usual answer is wrong. We look at what consumes a morning in a small HR office, and why it is structural rather than personal.
The name for what has been eating your mornings, which is the part that has to happen before anything gets fixed.
Tuesday, September 1 · 1 PM Pacific
The Line You Lock First
The belief this one moves“AI creeps into everything eventually.”
The ethics work, done as an exercise rather than a lecture. Before you build anything, you write down what you will never hand to a tool. Bring one thing you would never give away.
Your own line, in your own words, settled before a single tool goes live.
Tuesday, September 8 · 1 PM Pacific
The Sort: What AI Absorbs and What Stays Yours
The belief this one moves“It is all or nothing.”
AI in an HR office is not a yes or no question. It is a sorting question, and it takes about twenty minutes. Volume is anything that needs someone but not you specifically. Moment is the part that needs your presence.
Your own week sorted and marked, which is the working document everything else builds on.
Tuesday, September 15 · 1 PM Pacific
Why the Generic Tool Never Fit, and What to Build Instead
The belief this one moves“AI is not built for someone like me.”
You tried something, it did not fit your office, and you concluded the problem was you. It was not. Most tools are built for departments. We look at why the fit failed, and what the first tool built for your actual practice looks like.
The one tool worth building first, which is smaller than you expect and almost never the one people start with.
Tuesday, September 22 · 1 PM Pacific
The Project That’s Been Sitting Since March
The belief this one moves“I will get to it when things slow down.”
The payoff session. There is a project you have been meaning to get to, waiting for things to slow down. Things have not slowed down. We look at what becomes possible once the volume is contained.
A realistic path to the thing you have been carrying, using hours that already exist in your week.
The practical details
What you can expect and what to plan for.
- One registration covers all six sessions. You sign up once.
- 45 minutes per session, live on LinkedIn. Teach-and-show, with comments open throughout.
- Replays available. If you cannot make one live, you can still watch it.
- Four of the six ask you to bring something. A rough sense of your week, or one thing you would never hand to a tool. Nothing that takes preparation.
- Built for solo practitioners. No technical background required and no engineering vocabulary.
- Free. The series is free because the conversation is the point.
Hosted by
Kimberly Washburn, Aveliara AI Studio.
Three decades inside HR and people leadership. Founder of Aveliara AI Studio and builder of the CLEAR Method.
I have spent those years in the rooms where the people calls actually land, which is why these tools get built for one pair of hands rather than a department. I would rather work through this alongside other practitioners than talk about it from above them.
The shift
You already know how to do the work. This is about what stops taking your morning.
There is a version of this where AI stays a thing you keep meaning to get to. You use it nervously, rewrite most of what it returns, and quietly wonder whether you should have started sooner.
There is another version. The volume gets absorbed, the moment stays yours on purpose, and the hours come back for the work only you can do.
You do not become someone else in that version. You become a less buried version of the practitioner you already are.
Save your seat
Six Tuesdays. One quiet build.
One sign-up covers all six sessions. Replays available if you cannot attend live.
The series begins Tuesday, August 18 at 1 PM Pacific.