Managing People, Priorities, and Deadlines? Manage SMARTer with AI
Hosted by DGB Live
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
7:00 PM–8:30 PM ET
About
90-Minute Interactive Workshop
Audience: Entrepreneurs, small-business owners, managers, team leads, supervisors, and professionals responsible for getting work done.
Level: Practical and accessible. No project management certification or advanced AI experience required.
Session Overview
You may already be managing projects without calling yourself a project manager.
If you manage people, deadlines, vendors, budgets, resources, priorities, risks, or changing requirements, you are doing project work.
This practical 90-minute workshop introduces a lightweight approach to managing that work more deliberately and consistently. Participants use AI as a thought partner to clarify goals, organize work, challenge assumptions, identify risks, improve communication, and support better decisions.
The focus is better management with AI, not a collection of AI tricks.
What Participants Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Define clear outcomes and success criteria
- Organize tasks, owners, dates, priorities, and dependencies
- Identify risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions
- Turn meetings into clear actions and accountability
- Communicate status and escalate effectively
- Use AI to support planning, analysis, communication, and review
- Recognize where human judgment and accountability remain essential
How the Workshop Works
Participants will see each technique demonstrated using a simple small-business scenario, then immediately apply it to one real piece of their own work.
By the end of the workshop, each participant will have created a one-page management plan containing:
Outcome → Tasks → Owners → Dates → Risks → Dependencies → Decisions → Status → Next Action
Speakers
- Presenter
- Rohan Garricks, MSc, PMP, is a senior project and technical manager with experience delivering complex, multimillion-dollar projects across theme park construction, themed entertainment, museums, audiovisual systems, and lighting. He is PMP-certified and Smartsheet-certified, and he presents project management and AI use training sessions at LDI (Live Design International) in Las Vegas.
- Over the past two years, Rohan has deliberately tested and incorporated AI into his day-to-day project management practice, applying it to planning, risk and assumption analysis, workflow creation, stakeholder communication, meeting follow-up, and decision support. That sustained, hands-on use has given him a grounded view of where AI genuinely helps a working project manager, where it falls short or introduces new risks, and where professional judgment and accountability cannot be delegated to a tool.
- This workshop is built from that combination: real project experience, formal PM training, and two years of practical experimentation with AI. Rohan shares what has worked, what has not, and why, so participants leave with a realistic picture rather than a sales pitch for AI. He also brings this same hands-on, confidence-building approach to free AI training he supports for Caribbean and Orlando Based communities, including groups in Jamaica and across the wider diaspora.
- Contact Information
- Rohan Garricks, MSc, PMP
- Email: Rohan@dgblive.com
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rohangarrickspmp
- Connect with Rohan: connect-with-rohan.rgarricks198141.chatgpt.site
Host
DGB Live