Alumni UK Skills Series: Practical skills for a changing world of work
Building on the success of last year’s programme, the Alumni UK Skills Series returns with six online webinars from November 2026 to March 2027, helping you strengthen your professional skills and put new ideas into practice.
From working strategically with AI to leading through uncertainty and communicating with confidence, the series offers practical insights to support your development at different stages of your career.
Sessions are developed with UK alumni who bring specialist expertise, including through our partnership with ASK Consulting, or draw on the professional skills courses offered by the British Council’s English Solutions. Together, they combine professional experience with practical approaches to learning.
Explore the programme below and follow the event links for further details and registration.
Registration open: From AI User to AI Strategist
19 November 2026 | Online
Time: 12:00–13:30 GMT (90 minutes)
Move beyond occasional AI use and explore how to make it a more purposeful part of your work. Discover approaches to effective prompting, rethink everyday workflows and identify your next steps in developing AI confidence and capability.
Discover how to move from using AI tools to working with AI more strategically, in this webinar from the Alumni UK Skills Series.
Using AI tools is increasingly part of professional life. But how can you move from occasional use to a more purposeful approach that improves your work?
Join Alumni UK for a practical webinar exploring how to work with AI to improve the quality, speed and consistency of your outcomes. Through real-world examples, discover how to ask better questions, rethink everyday workflows and identify the skills you need to develop next.
Designed for professionals across sectors and career stages, this moderated panel will bring together perspectives from different regions and from technology, financial services, consulting and corporate learning and development. The discussion will be accessible, actionable and relevant to a global audience. No technical background is needed.
This series is co-designed and delivered in partnership with ASK Consulting, a consultancy helps Turkish and international organisations turn leadership knowledge into lasting behaviour change through experiential, action-based learning. Its founder, Seher Sayman, is an HR consultant, professional coach and UK alumna (King’s College London) with more than 15 years’ experience in corporate HR leadership, learning and development, and culture transformation.
