Workshops, Facilitation and Speaking for Growing Businesses

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Practical sessions that help people understand problems, make decisions and improve how work gets done.

ENID Studio provides workshops, professional learning series, and facilitation for growing businesses, professional associations, conferences, and community organizations.

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Led by ENID Studio founder Jess Lowry, each session combines practical instruction, facilitated discussion, and structured activities. Participants examine how a challenge affects their work, contribute knowledge from their own experience, and leave with decisions, tools, or next steps they can use.

Jess is based in Austin, Texas, and is available for virtual programs and in-person engagements throughout the United States and internationally.

You can:

  • Join an upcoming learning series

  • Hire Jess for a private business workshop

  • Commission a customized professional training program

  • Invite Jess to facilitate a conference workshop

  • Book Jess as a speaker, moderator, or panelist

Workshops for Small Businesses and Growing Teams

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Small businesses rarely need another generic presentation about innovation or the latest technology. They need protected time to understand what creates unnecessary work, decide what should change, and determine whether technology will genuinely simplify the business.

ENID Studio workshops can help your team:

  • Simplify complicated business processes

  • Improve workflows and handoffs

  • Clarify responsibilities and decision authority

  • Reduce repeated or unnecessary work

  • Identify where information gets lost

  • Improve collaboration across roles

  • Evaluate AI and automation opportunities

  • Make better use of existing technology

  • Test a new business, service or operational idea

  • Turn an unresolved problem into practical next steps

Every session is designed around the business problem and the people involved. ENID does not begin with a predetermined method or assume that AI, automation, or new software is always the answer.

AI Workshops for Small Businesses

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Understand the work before you automate it

AI tools are easy to purchase and increasingly easy to use. Deciding where they belong in a business—and what employees and customers need when you introduce them—is much harder.

ENID Studio’s small-business AI workshops help owners and teams evaluate AI in the context of their real operations.

Participants may examine:

  • Where repetitive work is consuming time

  • Which processes are already too complicated

  • What employees currently do to keep work moving

  • Where human judgment remains essential

  • What information an AI tool would need

  • What should be automated, assisted, or left alone

  • How people will review AI-generated work

  • Who will be responsible when the system is wrong

  • Whether an existing tool can solve the problem

  • What needs to change before technology is introduced

The objective is not to automate as much as possible. It is to create a business that is easier to operate without sacrificing trust, service quality, or essential human judgment.

“The session was very helpful! I was able to talk to employees about a few things that can easily tighten up our production as well as address some misunderstandings about the process or command chain.”

– Former Attendee

About the facilitator

Jess Lowry

Founder of ENID Studio

She has more than 20 years of experience in organizational research, service design, technology implementation, professional training, and workshop facilitation. She has led hundreds of strategy sessions, innovation workshops, and collaborative problem-solving programs for small businesses, startups, government organizations, and global enterprises.

Her experience includes coaching Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Innovation Teams in creative facilitation and design thinking, leading two General Assembly UX Design bootcamps, and facilitating strategic workshops with Experian and its partners on the future of protecting personal identity data.

Jess’s approach is grounded in a simple principle:

Before investing in technology or automation, understand the work and the people it supports.

Frequently Asked Questions

These are not generic sessions about productivity or lists of AI tools.

Each workshop helps participants examine how work actually happens inside their business: how employees make decisions, exchange information, use technology, serve customers, and handle challenges when something doesn't work as intended.

Jess introduces practical concepts and structured activities, but participants work with examples from their own businesses. The goal is to leave with a more accurate understanding of the problem and a useful next step.

Upcoming Sessions

  • No. The AI workshop is designed for business owners and decision-makers. It focuses on identifying appropriate uses of AI and automation rather than teaching programming or promoting specific software.

  • No. The workshops are designed for growing businesses across construction, professional services, cleaning and facilities services, accounting, legal services, community services, hospitality and other sectors.

  • Yes. Owners may benefit from attending with a manager or employee who understands how work happens day to day.

  • No. Participants decide what they are comfortable discussing. Activities can be completed without disclosing sensitive financial, customer or employee information.

  • Each workshop includes a practical tool or working artifact connected to the topic. Depending on the session, this may include an automation decision worksheet, a founder-dependency map or an operational growth assessment.