Not think pieces. Policies you can adopt, contracts you can sign, prompts you can paste, and the leadership material underneath all of it — written by a trainer of more than twenty years, the founder and lead instructor of the National AI Certification Board.
Every title is available on Amazon in Kindle, and most in paperback. Bulk and event copies can be arranged for training sessions, conferences and staff development days — get in touch.
A Copy-Paste Library of 100 AI Prompts for Working Professionals
One hundred prompts you can paste straight into your work. Marketing copy, hiring, follow-up email, meeting notes, quoting, policy drafting. Each one is written out in full, with the variables marked so you can swap in your own details and go.
Who it's for: Anyone who opens an AI tool, stares at the empty box, and closes it again.
A step-by-step field guide aligned with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
A risk register nobody updates is not risk management. This workbook walks an organization through identifying where AI is actually being used, scoring the risk honestly, and putting controls in place that operate instead of sitting in a binder. Built on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.
Who it's for: Compliance leads, risk officers, IT directors, and anyone who has to answer to a board or an auditor.
Drop-in acceptable use, data handling, vendor management, incident response and disclosure policies
A policy nobody reads does not protect anyone. These are complete, adoptable policy documents with the decisions already made and the blanks marked, so a small team can go from nothing to a signed AI use policy in an afternoon.
Who it's for: HR, operations and executive teams that need a policy in place this month, not next quarter.
How to choose, contract and manage AI vendors without getting burned
The contract is where AI vendor risk actually lives. This guide gives you the evaluation scorecard, the questions that expose a thin product behind a good demo, and the provisions that matter: data ownership and reuse, training-data rights, accuracy commitments, human review, records handling, and a clean exit.
Who it's for: Procurement officers, finance directors, IT buyers, and nonprofit and public-agency boards.
Leading teams through the AI transition
The fundamentals of managing people did not change. What changed is what the work is. This is the practical guide for the layer where AI adoption actually succeeds or fails: the frontline manager who has to redistribute the work, stop measuring the wrong things, and answer the question the team is asking quietly.
Who it's for: Team leads, supervisors and middle managers, and the executives who keep wondering why the rollout stalled.
A Practitioner's Field Guide to AI Governance, Ethics and Risk Management
Alignment, Accountability, Agility. A structured way to take an organization from ad-hoc AI use to a governed programme, written by a practitioner rather than a committee, with the sequence of decisions laid out in the order you actually have to make them.
Who it's for: Leaders who have been handed AI governance and no map.
How Small Business Owners Can Generate $100K in 90 Days Without Burning Out
Working sixty-hour weeks and still short at the end of the month is not a hustle problem. It is usually a pricing problem, a follow-up problem, or an offer problem. Ninety days, one structured reset, and an honest look at what is actually holding the money back.
Who it's for: Small business owners who are busy and still broke.
A Bold Guide to Empowerment and Entrepreneurship
Your empire does not build itself. This is the book about doing the thing before you feel ready, written by someone who grew up with nothing and built three companies anyway. Direct, unsentimental, and specific about what it actually costs.
Who it's for: Women building something, and anyone starting from further back than the people around them.
How to Build Everything from Nothing
You were not handed a blueprint. Neither was she. The step-by-step of building a business and a person at the same time, from someone who did it without capital, without connections, and without a safety net.
Who it's for: First-generation founders building without a runway.
April delivers these as live keynotes, half-day workshops and full-day training for cities, counties, school districts, associations and corporate teams — in person across Texas and virtually anywhere.
Book a time to talk See all books on AmazonApril Lewis has spent more than twenty years in front of a classroom. She is the founder and lead instructor of the National AI Certification Board and the founder of A.S. Business Consulting LLC, a woman-owned Texas training and consulting firm. She holds three associate degrees and more than one hundred professional certifications. She works with cities, counties, school districts, associations and corporate teams — and her sessions end with the audience having built something rather than having watched a demonstration.