AI Productivity Coach | Corporate AI Trainer | MBA Lecturer

The future of work is changing. Are your teams ready?

AI is already reshaping how work gets done. More than the tools, I help people build the mindset to work side by side with AI, so they become more productive and efficient in their everyday work. And I make learning AI enjoyable, practical and jargon-free.

40 years in technologyBuilding AI systems since the 1980sHRD Corp Accredited Trainer

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Franklin Styne guiding participants through a hands-on AI exercise in a corporate training room
HRD Corp Accredited TrainerID 13169
AI training sessions delivered since 2023
200+
Participants trained since 2025
1,500+
Groups trained since 2025
90+
Countries: Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, India
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Why organisations choose me

What I bring to every programme.

Four decades of technology, business and teaching experience, applied to the way your teams actually work.

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  • Proven programme designProgrammes refined over more than 200 sessions, with clear learning outcomes, a structured prompt engineering framework and hands-on practice throughout.
  • A mindset for working with AIBeyond the tools themselves, participants learn to work side by side with AI and build it into their daily workflows. Years in management give me a first-hand understanding of their pain points, from reporting and approvals to meetings and team communication.
  • Long-term partnershipsOrganisations consistently return for further cohorts and advanced programmes as their AI adoption grows.
  • Engaging and approachableSessions are lively, interactive and jargon-free, so participants enjoy the learning and leave confident to use AI, whatever their starting point.
  • Measurable outcomesEvery programme ends with group projects and presentations that show exactly what teams can now do with AI.
  • Capacity for large groupsFor large cohorts and organisation-wide rollouts, a network of experienced trainers and facilitators delivers the same programme with consistent quality across every group.
  • HRD Corp claimableProgrammes are claimable for eligible Malaysian employers when delivered through an HRD Corp registered training provider.

Programmes

From first prompts to working automations.

Each programme runs as a 1-day or 2-day session, in-house, public or live online, and is HRD Corp claimable when delivered through a registered training provider.

Core programme

Generative AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot

Prompting, checking AI output and using Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude for writing, analysis, presentations and meetings.

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Advanced

AI Automation

Working automations built with n8n and Power Automate that take repetitive steps out of reporting, email and approvals.

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Advanced

AI Agents for the Workplace

Where agents make sense, how to design them with clear instructions and guardrails, and how to keep people in control.

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Participants working together on an AI group project
Group project work
A participant presenting how their team used AI to solve a work problem
Final presentation

How I teach

Learn it. Apply it. Present it.

Learning an AI tool is only the start. The real value comes from knowing where it fits in the working day. Drawing on years in management, I build every session around the tasks, decisions and pain points participants actually face, with a structured prompt engineering framework from the first hour.

Every programme ends with a group project. Teams apply AI to a real problem from their work, then present how they solved it and the time it saved. They leave with a working example, and your organisation sees clear evidence of results, which is why so many return for the next programme.

In their words

What participants say.

ParticipantMaybank
ParticipantOSRAM procurement and supply chain
Assistant Director, Cyber MediaJabatan Penerangan Malaysia

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Organisations trained

Trusted across sectors and the region.

  • Maybank
  • Intel
  • Altera
  • Keysight
  • Osram
  • Unicharm
  • DSG
  • Maxell Tohshin
  • KMWE
  • Kiswire
  • Oryx
  • Technip Energies
  • Mitsui & Co
  • Ministry of Education
  • JKR
  • HRD Corp
  • PSDC
  • Malaysia Airports
  • Jabatan Penerangan Malaysia
  • RTM
  • TV3
  • Bernama
  • UNITEN
  • Taylor’s University
  • Swinburne University
  • Low Yat Group
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About Franklin

Technology, business and teaching, in one trainer.

MBA, MCIM, PhD (Candidate). AI has been my passion since the 1980s, when I began my career as a computer programmer and systems analyst building expert systems, an early form of AI. I later moved into business development, leading international market expansion as Head of International Business Development for a global company. Over 40 years, that combination has given me a deep understanding of how technology works, how businesses run and how adults learn.

Today I help corporate and government teams across Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and India save time on repetitive work with the right AI tools. I am an ICDL AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot certified productivity coach, a Digital Marketing Institute (UK) certified digital marketing professional, an HRD Corp Accredited Trainer and an adjunct MBA lecturer.

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Planning AI training for your team? Let’s talk.

Tell me about your team, the work they do and what you want AI to improve, with preferred dates and the number of participants. I will recommend a programme and send a course outline.

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