Three modular one-day courses for working professionals — become more productive, build automations that scale your output, or lead an AI-shaped team. The outcome is the point; AI is just the tool that gets you there. Choose your path, your approach and your dates.
50% hands-on. Always live with an experienced trainer — never recorded. Industry guest speakers. Every course counts toward the Proven Path Professional Certificate. Hybrid: max 13 participants, in-person or online. Occasional quarterly Saturday dates. Book early, pay less — prices rise as each date nears.
Each course is a standalone one-day level — take one, or stack them in any order that fits you. Foundation to become a more productive professional, Practitioner to build automations and agents, Leadership to run an AI-shaped team. Complete all three to earn the Proven Path Professional Certificate. Choose your path, your approach and your dates.
The fundamentals that give you your time back. Work faster and sharper, cut the busywork, and leave with practical routines you'll use the same week. Outcomes first — AI is simply how you get there.
Turn effort into leverage. Build the automations and agents that scale your output, learn when to chain tools, and ship something that keeps working after the day ends. For doers ready to build.
Lead the change with confidence. Strategy and operational excellence for an AI-shaped team — decisions, governance, OKRs and a 90-day plan you leave holding, defensible at your next board meeting.
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Every Proven Path course follows the same shape. Less talking, more doing. The structure stays steady; the content moves with the tools.
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Every concept is paired with a real workplace use case. No theory for theory's sake.
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Half the day is exercises. You can also use your own work — bring a real problem and the room will help you solve it. Optional, never required.
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You're in the room with the person who designed the course. No teaching assistants. Every question gets answered.
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A short test at the end of each course confirms what stuck. Pass it and you walk away with a Proven Path certificate.
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Industry leaders drop in for short, candid sessions on what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently.
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Every session is live with the trainer, never recorded — join in the room or online. A maximum of 13 participants per class — in the room or online — with occasional quarterly Saturday dates. The format flexes; a live trainer never changes.
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Every cohort is deliberately small. Past a certain size the room loses its texture and you stop getting the trainer's full attention.
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Prices step up as each date nears: an early-commit price 6 weeks out, up at 4 weeks, then the standard price 2 weeks before. No hidden costs — book early, pay less.
A glimpse of how a Proven Path day looks — small group, laptops open, post-its on the wall, coffee that gets cold because nobody's checking their phone. Everyone brings their own laptop.
Real moments from our sessions at Workshop17, V&A Waterfront — starting with our first class of 2026.
I came in expecting to nod through some slides about AI. By 11 in the morning I had built a thing that wrote my weekly status update. By the end of the day it was triggered automatically. Best training day I've had in years.Thandi M.Operations Manager · Logistics, Cape Town
Geoff doesn't sell anything. He explains, he demonstrates, and then he gets out of your way and watches you build. The room asks better questions because he doesn't pretend to have all the answers.James de V.Founder · B2B SaaS, Stellenbosch
I sent four people to the AI at Scale course. Three months later, our weekly reporting cycle is two days shorter. The investment paid for itself before the next quarter.Lerato K.Head of People · Financial Services, Johannesburg
The OKR day was the first time my exec team agreed on what "done" looks like. We left with one Objective, three Key Results, and — finally — the same definition of progress.Mark P.COO · Healthcare scale-up, Cape Town
Ten in the room is the right call. I asked questions I would have been too shy to ask in a 50-person room. By coffee I'd already paired up with another founder who was solving the same problem.Aisha P.Consultant · Independent, Durban
I'm in my fifties. I hadn't touched AI before this. I left at 15:00 with three working agents and the confidence to talk about it in our exec meeting on Wednesday. Worth every cent.Pieter v.d.M.CFO · Manufacturing, Paarl
Verbatim quotes from our June 2026 sessions — shared with permission; some names abbreviated for privacy.
Geoff has spent two decades in operating roles — building, scaling and turning around teams across South Africa, the UK and the US. He has set OKRs in start-ups of 12 and divisions of 1,200, and seen every variant of how they fall apart. He holds an MBA from HEC Paris and teaches operational-efficiency classes at SKEMA Business School in France. He runs Proven Path Academy out of Cape Town. The format is deliberate: small rooms, real work, no slides about slides.
He built Proven Path Academy because the AI training market is full of theatre and short on practice. His promise is simple: every course is 50% hands-on, every group is capped, and every student leaves with a practical solution they will use the following week.
Every session gets one industry leader dropping in for a candid 15-minute session. We don't announce them in advance — we want the conversation, not the LinkedIn buzz. Each guest is a working practitioner who has shipped AI or OKRs inside a real organisation, with the scars to prove it.
A guest joins for the last 15 minutes of the day for a Q&A about real-world implementation. They share what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently. No slides, no sales pitch — just a conversation.
A short, no-strings call with Geoff. Tell him what you're trying to do and which of your weeks you'd like to spend less time on. He'll point you at the right course — or not, if there isn't one.
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Both — every class is hybrid and always live, never recorded. Choose an in-person seat at Workshop17, V&A Waterfront, or an online seat and join live. We market in-person as the richer experience for exchange and networking. Occasional quarterly Saturday dates too.
Deliberately limited: a maximum of 13 participants per class, in-person or online. The class stays small enough that every question gets answered — when the 13 seats are gone, it shows sold out.
No problem — your booking is flexible: move your seat to any future session free with 15+ days' notice, or send a colleague in your place (free up to 7 days before). Bookings aren't refundable in cash. Full details in our Refund Policy.
No. None of the courses require coding. We work in free or licensed AI tools (Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Notion, NotebookLM) using their visual interfaces.
Yes — a Proven Path Academy certificate of completion, issued at the end of the session, after a 10-question multiple-choice knowledge check (7/10 to pass).
Yes — for teams from one organisation we run the same curriculum at your office, and deeper build work is available through Proven Path Strategy. Case study optionally swapped for your real context. Email us for a quote.
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Workshop17 · Watershed Building
17 Dock Road · V&A Waterfront
Cape Town 8001 · South Africa
All public cohorts run at this venue. In-house and corporate bookings run at your office on request.
Proven Path Academy is a trading name of LCSI Pty Ltd — a private company registered in the Republic of South Africa. We are an accredited CPD provider with the SA CPD Body — provider #50502026/0024, verifiable at register.sacpdbody.org.za.
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