The AI Black Belt Sprint
4 weeks. 8 belts. Real project management workflows, real agents, real results — built around the actual deliverables on your desk right now.
This isn't just course. It’s a transformation.
What We Offer
The Cohort
You've probably already experimented with AI. Maybe you've tried a few prompts, generated a status report draft, asked it to summarise something. And it was... fine.
But fine doesn't future-proof your role. Fine doesn't credential your PMO. Fine doesn't save your team 5–10 hours a week or get you in front of an executive sponsor with a 30/60/90-day AI roadmap in your hand.
The Projectoria AI Black Belt Sprint is a four-week, virtual, cohort-based certification program designed specifically for PMO professionals and project managers that takes you from AI experimenter to AI workflow architect.
By the end of four weeks, you won't just understand AI. You'll have built it, tested it, and deployed it on your real work.
What you'll walk away with
AI Workflow Expert Black Belt (AIWE) credential — eight belt-level completions with working AI workflows at each level
8+ production-ready AI workflows and agents built on your actual PMO deliverables: risk registers, RAID logs, status reports, stakeholder maps, etc
AI Role Plan mapped to 81 real PM deliverables and their corresponding AI workflows
PMO Value Matrix — a reusable framework for AI-enabled PMO transformation and initiative prioritization
SOP Library — AI-ready process documentation for your highest-friction workflows
30/60/90 Day Implementation Roadmap — ready to deploy in your environment from day one
AI Portfolio — prompts and agents tailored to your actual PMO team or role, that you can speak to in interviews and executive meetings
The sprint. Week by week.
Virtual live sessions Wednesdays, 11 am – 12:15 pm PT · All sessions recorded
| Week | Date | Belts | Focus
| Week 1 | Wed, June 17 | Belts 1 & 2
Foundations of AI Workflow Thinking + Goal-Oriented AI Action Planning
| Week 2 | Wed, June 24 | Belts 3 & 4
Adaptive AI for KPI-Level Problem Solving + Critical Thinking & Human Judgment
| Week 3 | Wed, July 1 | Belts 5 & 6
Rethinking Roles: Task Executor to Process Owner + Building Repeatable AI Workflows
| Week 4 | Wed, July 8 | Belts 7 & 8
Multi-Role AI Processes + Black Belt Capstone: Building Agents
All 8 Belt Levels — what you're actually learning
The curriculum is built on the Humans + Agents AI workflow methodology, one of the most rigorous and practically-focused AI frameworks available today, and the same system used by many organizations actively deploying human-AI collaboration at scale. Every belt level builds on the last, moving you progressively from foundational thinking to agent-ready systems design, so by the time you reach Black Belt you're not just certified: you're operational.
🥋 Belt 1 — White Belt: Foundations of AI Workflow Thinking Stop using AI for isolated tasks. Start using it as a strategic workflow engine. You'll learn all 10 core AI input/output combinations and build the mental model that makes every belt after this click faster. Your personal AI Productivity Toolkit starts here.
🟡 Belt 2 — Yellow Belt: Goal-Oriented AI Action Planning Vague goals become structured, AI-powered execution plans. You'll learn Prompt Choreography — the technique where AI writes the workflow prompts on your behalf — and shift from siloed task ownership to orchestrated, AI-driven process management.
🟠 Belt 3 — Orange Belt: Adaptive AI for KPI-Level Problem Solving Identify your top 9 KPIs, map the obstacles draining your time and budget, and use AI to drill into root causes with precision. The highlight here is the 8×8 AI Expert Matrix — global-level expert thinking, without adding headcount.
🟢 Belt 4 — Green Belt: Critical Thinking & Human Judgment in AI Work AI outputs are not finished answers. Green Belt is where you develop the professional judgment to know when to trust AI, when to challenge it, and when to override it entirely — including how to spot hallucinations, weak logic, and false confidence. This is the belt that makes you dangerous in a good way.
🔵 Belt 5 — Blue Belt: Rethinking Roles — From Task Executor to Process Owner Step back from individual tasks and look at how value is actually created across your entire role. You'll map your responsibilities to end-to-end value streams, identify automation opportunities across planning, coordination, analysis, and reporting, and leave with a personalised Role Transformation Roadmap.
🟣 Belt 6 — Purple Belt: Building Repeatable AI Workflows This is where AI stops being reactive and becomes operational. You'll translate your knowledge, decisions, and best practices into structured, Level 3 and Level 4 workflows — a library of dependable tools built directly on your PMO's most critical deliverables.
🟤 Belt 7 — Brown Belt: Multi-Role AI Processes Move from role designer to process architect. You'll learn how to orchestrate multiple AI roles — strategist, analyst, editor, reviewer — inside a single, repeatable process. Using the APQC value chain as a framework, you'll design end-to-end multi-role workflows that span departments without increasing headcount.
🥷 Belt 8 — Black Belt (Capstone): Building Your First Agents This is where everything comes together. You'll master reverse engineering — starting from excellent finished deliverables and working backward to design the workflows that can reproduce them at scale. The capstone: you build 8 or more working agents applied to real PMBOK and Agile PMO deliverables. Production-ready. Deployable from day one.
WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH EVERY SEAT
PM AI Accelerator (1:1 Support)
90-minute private AI Workflow Audit
60-minute 1:1 consulting session
Custom AI Role Plan mapped to your PMO competencies
Personalized AI workflows built around your actual work
This isn't a generic case study experience. The 1:1 sessions exist specifically so what you build connects directly to your real environment, your real team, your real deliverables.
Our Process
Projectoria
Every great transformation has a hero at the center, and in the age of AI, that hero is you. Projectoria is the world where PMO leaders and project managers step into their next-level identity: not as task managers scrambling to keep up, but as architects of intelligent, AI-powered systems that move the needle. This is your quest, your credential, and your competitive edge.
The ROI Case
If you save just 5 hours per week at $50/hour, that's $1,000 per month recovered. and $12,000 per year.
Two team seats cost $998 total. That pays for itself in under 15 days.
After that, the efficiency compounds — indefinitely — across every project and every deliverable.
This sprint actually shows you how to recover money.
Who This is For
PMO leaders who have been handed “AI transformation” as a mandate with no roadmap
Project Managers who are ready to future-proof their role before AI does it for them
Senior PMs who want to move from prompt-user to workflow architect
Professionals who want credentials they can speak to in executive meetings and interviews
Teams where lean headcount is the permanent reality and capacity has to come from somewhere
About your facilitator
Lori McDaniel, PMP, is an authorized Humans+Agents training partner and the creator of the Projectoria AI Black Belt Sprint, a program tailored specifically to PMO and PM professionals who need AI to work in the complex, stakeholder-heavy environments they operate in every day.
With over 20 years of experience in global corporate project management and training, Lori is a seasoned professional known for delivering impactful, results-driven solutions. As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and certified AI Black Belt Trainer, she has successfully led national and international projects across diverse industries, specializing in technology implementations and training.
By combining her expertise in AI, project management, training, and leadership development, Lori’s work drives measurable improvements in operational efficiency, team performance, and leadership effectiveness, equipping organizations to thrive in even the most complex and unpredictable landscapes.
lori@rainbowbridgesconsulting.com
Testimonials
“I came into this sprint with 20+ years of project management experience across healthcare, education, and energy managing complex implementations and teams of up to 70 people. I wasn't new to technology, but I had a clear goal: I didn't just want to use AI, I wanted to be at the forefront of guiding others through this shift.
The belt structure gave me exactly what I needed. Each level built on the previous, introducing new AI techniques that layered into a complete methodology. By the time I completed the Black Belt level, I had developed a 9×9 AI Role Plan matrix, governance frameworks, ROI measurement systems, and multi-expert AI workflows a full portfolio of deliverables I'm now using to build my consulting practice across all industries.”
Bob Grove, CSM, CSPO, PBP, Senior Project Manager
“When I first started experimenting with AI, I wasn’t chasing buzzwords, I was trying to solve real problems. Like a lot of you, I had no idea where to begin. Fortunately, I had someone in my network who was just as curious and passionate about exploring AI innovations as I was. The difference? She was already lightyears ahead in her journey. That someone was Lori McDaniel and her program, "Projectoria" turned out to be a game-changer and the exact right place for me to start my own Journey.
Projectoria was the answer I didn’t know I needed: a gamified hero’s journey built specifically for project managers and change leaders. Over six weeks, we dove deep into AI assistants, prompt engineering, and the power of fast, focused iteration—applying it all directly to real-world PM frameworks and workflows.
Lori brought serious energy and clarity to the experience. She didn’t just teach tools—she taught us how to think with AI. Her program is hands-on, practical, and completely grounded in what today’s project managers actually need.”
Jeremy Lee, PMP, LSSGB, Veteran, Senior Director
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