The instructor

Learn AI from a daily practitioner who has spent twenty years teaching adults.

Practitioner depth and instructor craft, in the same person.

1. 01

   A proven instructor, not a presenter.

   Chris has taught at Villanova, Northern Illinois University, Brookdale Community College, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the Pentagon, and through IFMA, BOMI, BOMA, and The CE Shop, including the Train-the-Trainer program at IFMA World Workplace. He has trained thousands of professionals and understands what makes adult learning stick.

2. 02

   A daily AI practitioner at a top-tier usage level.

   He uses AI in his businesses every single day. He spends $500–$1,000 a month on Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and adjacent tools — actively building workflows, automations, and shipping software, not just running demos in slides.

3. 03

   Cross-context perspective: small business, corporate, government.

   Founder of two technology companies. Managing broker for a multifamily corporation operating across several states. Air Force / Air National Guard service ending in Education Management and Instruction. He has lived the constraints of solo operators, corporate L&D, and regulated government environments.

4. 04

   Workflow-first, not tool-of-the-week.

   AI tools turn over every few months. The patterns underneath — framing, structure, evaluation, adoption — do not. Chris teaches the patterns, then applies them to whatever tools matter today, so the skills survive every model update.

Twenty years of teaching adults how to do their work better.

The teaching started where the work started. Chris began his career in Bio-Environmental Engineering with the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, and finished his service in Education Management and Instruction — running training and education for personnel. The pattern repeated everywhere afterwards: do the work, then teach others to do it.

He spent more than seven years as an IFMA Approved Instructor, teaching the Certified Facility Manager workshop, the Facility Management Professional credential, the Sustainability Facility Professional designation, and the Facilities Management Learning System nationwide — through universities, local chapters, and third-party providers. He taught the Train-the-Trainer program at IFMA World Workplace and other national events, helping experienced professionals become real instructors. As a BOMI and BOMA instructor he taught designation programs at organisations including the Pentagon, where he carried roughly a 98% student approval rating.

University and college work followed the same shape: co-teaching at Villanova with IFMA\u2019s FMP program, adjunct teaching in facilities management at Northern Illinois University, and developing and running Brookdale Community College\u2019s 100-hour Construction Management Certificate. With The CE Shop he served as a subject-matter expert and instructor of record for real estate courses across multiple states. The common thread: thousands of working professionals taught, and a steady reputation for making heavy content stick.

He doesn\u2019t talk about AI — he runs his businesses on it.

Since early 2025 Chris has used AI in his own work every single day. He runs a heavy rotation across Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and the surrounding tooling — and spends roughly $500 to $1,000 a month on those subscriptions. That kind of investment is not the casual user; it is the small percentage of operators who are continuously experimenting and treating AI as a serious cost of doing business.

Inside Website Wannabe and AIWannabe he has architected multi-tenant AI platforms, shipped a proprietary CRM, designed and built a custom LMS, and wired AI workflows into content production, support, sales, and reporting. The lessons in the workshops come from this practice, not from a vendor pitch deck.

He has lived the rooms he teaches into.

Chris has founded and run small businesses, served as Managing Broker for a multifamily real estate corporation operating across several states with full compliance and licensing responsibility, and trained inside federal and defense environments through his Air Force and Air National Guard service. He has been the owner-operator with no team, the corporate leader with a regulated portfolio, and the instructor inside a government installation.

That range matters because AI adoption looks fundamentally different in a five-person business than it does in a national portfolio, and different again in a regulated agency. The examples, build cases, and pacing in his courses are tuned to the room he is actually in, because he has been in those rooms.

Six things you should expect, and six things you should not.

1. 01

   You build, you don’t watch.

   Every workshop and course centres on hands-on building. By the time you leave, you have prompts, automations, and review patterns running against your own work — not slides about someone else’s.

2. 02

   Workflow-first, tool-agnostic.

   We start with the work you actually do, then pick the tool that fits. The skills carry across Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and whatever launches next quarter.

3. 03

   Designed for real jobs.

   Examples come from real roles — operators, managers, sales, admin, leadership — not generic productivity demos. The content is tuned to the kind of work the person across the room actually owns.

4. 04

   Taught by someone shipping AI today.

   Chris is actively building AI-powered SaaS products, internal tools, and multi-tenant platforms. The material is fresh because the practice is fresh.

5. 05

   Backed by adult-learning craft.

   The same Train-the-Trainer methods Chris uses to certify other instructors are baked into the AIWannabe curriculum. Pacing, questions, and feedback loops are designed deliberately, not improvised.

6. 06

   High standards, supportive room.

   Students consistently describe his classrooms as challenging in a productive way — clear expectations, generous feedback, and a sense that the instructor is genuinely there for them.

Bring this training into your university, association, conference, or company.

Universities, professional associations, conferences, and corporate L&D teams hire Chris to deliver AI training at their location, scheduled for their audience. The curriculum can be the standard AIWannabe program or a fully custom build shaped to your attendees and their workflows.

• ·Onsite or virtual delivery for universities, associations, conferences, and corporate teams.
• ·Standard AIWannabe curriculum or fully custom programs scoped to your audience.
• ·Train-the-Trainer engagements to certify your internal instructors.
• ·Single-event keynotes and conference workshops on practical AI adoption.

Chris cares about teaching because the people in the room have real jobs and real deadlines. AI does not earn its keep when it shows up as a TED talk; it earns it when a tired manager on a Tuesday afternoon can use it to clear two hours off their plate. That is the audience he writes for.

He cares about AI specifically because it is the first technology in twenty years that actually closes the gap between a small operator and a large one. A solo broker, a regional facilities team, and a Fortune 500 line manager can all reach for the same patterns and get measurably better at their work. Watching that happen is the part of the job he likes best.

When he is not running AIWannabe he is building the next iteration of his own platforms, spending time with family, and reading more than he probably should. He answers his own email.