Dan Stillerman

Position: Founder
Organization: Excel Academy
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Dan Stillerman is the founder of Excel Academy and a leading voice in practical AI capability building for business. He works with HR and L&D leaders to move beyond AI hype and build measurable, responsible AI fluency across their organisations. Known for high-energy sessions and clear frameworks, Dan helps teams close capability gaps, embed governance, and drive real productivity gains. He is passionate about working smarter, thinking critically, and ensuring technology augments – not replaces – human potential.

Session Overview

AI Fluency: The Missing Link Between Adoption and Impact
AI adoption is accelerating across organisations. But fluency is not.
In many businesses, AI usage is uneven and unstructured. Junior employees experiment freely. Managers improvise. Technical teams advance quickly. Governance lags behind. The result? Inconsistent outputs, silent compliance exposure, and growing executive anxiety around risk, POPIA alignment, and accountability.
The real challenge in 2026 is not tool access. It is organisational readiness.
This session reframes AI from a technology rollout to a capability architecture issue. Dan Stillerman will explore how uneven AI maturity across roles creates hidden governance risk – and what responsible AI fluency looks like at enterprise level.
Attendees will gain a clear lens to diagnose AI maturity gaps, design structured, role-based fluency pathways, and embed guardrails that protect judgement while accelerating productivity. Through practical examples and a live demonstration, the session will highlight the difference between fragmented AI usage and intentional AI capability building.
Because in 2026, AI adoption is common.
Sustainable, governed AI fluency is the differentiator.
Three Tangible Learnings
Learning 1:
How to identify uneven AI maturity across roles – and why that creates hidden governance and compliance risk.
Learning 2:
A practical framework for moving from fragmented AI usage to structured, role-based AI fluency.
Learning 3:
Clear guardrails that protect judgement, POPIA alignment, and executive accountability while accelerating impact.

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Dan Stillerman is the founder of Excel Academy and a leading voice in practical AI capability building for business. He works with HR and L&D leaders to move beyond AI hype and build measurable, responsible AI fluency across their organisations. Known for high-energy sessions and clear frameworks, Dan helps teams close capability gaps, embed governance, and drive real productivity gains. He is passionate about working smarter, thinking critically, and ensuring technology augments – not replaces – human potential.