Avado

Company Description

HR is being told to lead AI adoption. Most functions haven’t been given a map.

Avado built one. We ran the numbers ourselves, a survey of 188 HR teams and found what most HR leaders already suspected: 64% are still just experimenting, 40% have no AI policy at all, and only 8% of organisations have put HR in charge of AI governance, despite HR being the function best placed to manage the risk it creates.

That gap is why Avado’s AI for HR Bootcamps exists: three half-day, live-online sessions, Fundamentals, In Practice and Strategy, that take a team from wherever they’re starting to a function that owns its AI decisions instead of waiting for IT to make them.

Nobody leaves with slides to file away. Every session produces something the team uses that week: a starter kit, a working process, a governance framework, or a 12–24 month roadmap with a business case attached.

It’s led by Colin Smith, who’s built AI and data programmes for Google, Walmart and the CIPD itself. Same rigour we’ve used to train 50,000+ HR and L&D professionals, now pointed at the one capability gap every HR function has to close this year.