AI Agents, Training & Advisory

AI strategy consultant for marketing and revenue teams

Judgment is the edge.
AI is the multiplier.

As an AI strategy consultant, SlickMinds helps companies build and use AI with more judgment and less noise through custom agent development, practical training and personalized bootcamps designed to make this technology useful inside the business.

A SMARTER PLACE TO START

You know AI could help your business. But where do you start?

Stop guessing where AI fits. Get a clear, practical roadmap built around your business, your workflows and your commercial priorities.

The AI Opportunity Audit

  • 60-minute business discovery session
  • Review of three key business workflows
  • Five prioritized AI opportunities
  • Recommendations based on business impact
  • Your personalized 30-day action roadmap
FIXED-FEE AI ADVISORY
$1,500 CAD + HST

One focused engagement. No endless consulting hours. No unnecessary technology. Just a clear understanding of where AI can make a meaningful difference in your business.

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Practical strategy. Real business outcomes.

LIVE, HANDS-ON AI MASTERCLASS SERIES

Stop watching AI demos. Start doing it yourself.

Meet your new coworker. It's Claude.

I'm partnering with Women Love AI to deliver Master Claude Cowork, a three-part workshop series where you'll actually use AI, build practical workflows and learn how to put this technology to work.

Across three live, 90-minute sessions, you'll work directly with Claude Cowork, tackle practical tasks and build the confidence to apply what you've learned to your everyday work.

No endless theory. You'll be working with AI during every session.
LIVE WORKSHOP DATES
November 13, 20 & 27, 2026
7:00 – 8:30 AM EST
Every Friday · Eastern Standard Time (Toronto / New York)
In partnership with

Less watching.
More building.

This isn't another AI presentation. It's an opportunity to roll up your sleeves, work with Claude Cowork and discover what AI can actually do for you.

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AI Community

Building with AI. Teaching it. Bringing people together around it.

The work extends beyond client engagements. Sandra is active in the AI community as a builder, instructor and community leader, helping more people move from curiosity to practical application.

Women Applying AI (WAAI)
Toronto Hub Lead

Sandra leads the Toronto Hub for Women Applying AI and is an active member of its global community, bringing together people across the spectrum from AI-curious to experienced builders.

Women Love AI
Bootcamp Instructor

Hands-on AI instruction focused on practical use and agent building, helping professionals move beyond prompting and into creating with AI.

Why SlickMinds

This didn’t start with AI.

It started with building revenue systems, leading teams, and understanding how work moves inside a business. AI changed the tools. It didn’t replace the need for judgment.

That’s the difference behind SlickMinds. This is not AI for the sake of AI. It’s agent development, training, workshops, bootcamps, and executive keynotes that move ideas into practice across teams.

SlickMinds exists to help companies use AI with more clarity, better judgment, and a stronger connection to how work gets done.

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“A machine doesn't know what almost went wrong in your boardroom last year.
You do.”

— Sandra Mackechnie

● Speaking & Training
Speaking
Becoming AI-Native: Turning Decades of Expertise into Scalable Assets
Applied AI Day: From User to Builder · Women Love AI
How experienced professionals upskill in practical AI tools, turn decades of expertise into scalable assets, and build personal authority in the AI era.
June 26, 2026 · Online
Bootcamp
Build Your First AI Agents with MindStudio
Slick Labs × Women Love AI
3 hours, 3 working AI agents, built live. No code required.
May 29, 2026 · Online
Event
Applied AI Day
Women Love AI
March 2026 · Online
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Webinar
Agentic AI in Action
ASCM Western Canada Chapter
Dec 4, 2025 · Virtual
Keynote
AI Career Lab 2025
Conestoga College · School of Business
Nov 19, 2025 · Waterloo
Webinar
Agentic AI in Action
Learn & Beyond with Olga Khadieva
Sep 29, 2025 · Virtual
Watch on demand →
Panel
How B2B Marketers Are Using AI
Toronto B2B Marketing Community
Aug 2025 · Toronto
View on LinkedIn →
Event
Applied AI Day
Women Love AI
March 2026 · Online
View event →
Webinar
Agentic AI in Action
ASCM Western Canada Chapter
Dec 4, 2025 · Virtual
Keynote
AI Career Lab 2025
Conestoga College · School of Business
Nov 19, 2025 · Waterloo
Webinar
Agentic AI in Action
Learn & Beyond with Olga Khadieva
Sep 29, 2025 · Virtual
Watch on demand →
Panel
How B2B Marketers Are Using AI
Toronto B2B Marketing Community
Aug 2025 · Toronto
View on LinkedIn →
●  Why Work With us

The part AI
can't replicate.

AI doesn't know what happened in the boardroom last year. It doesn't know which relationship needs careful handling, which strategy died in Q3, or what your team actually needs to hear.

That's not a gap a model will close with the next release. That's judgment built over two decades operating inside real businesses — and it's what we bring to every engagement.

We don't consult on AI from the outside. We build inside it, every day. That's the difference.

Work with us →