of Canadian business leaders use or pilot AI. Only 2% report measurable returns. Source: KPMG Canada, March 2026.
Igniting human ingenuity through AI education.
Practical AI education and advisory for small and mid-sized businesses.
Ingenuity Labs helps business owners, professionals, executives, and teams learn how to use AI clearly, safely, and practically, turning experimentation into useful skills, better workflows, and confident adoption.
For small business owners, professionals, leadership teams, and organizations that want a practical path into AI without overwhelm.
Most teams are already being pushed to use AI. Fewer have a clear way to make it useful.
of board members say the C-suite owns AI strategy. Only 32% of executives agree. Source: Pearl Meyer / Fortune, April 2026.
Choose your path
What brings you here?
We need AI support for our organization
For businesses and teams that need practical AI education, clearer workflows, and a responsible starting point.
View AI for OrganizationsI want to learn AI
For women entrepreneurs, small business owners, professionals, and leaders who want live, practical AI education through coworking sessions and cohorts.
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For events, associations, leadership groups, and business communities that need a practical AI session.
View Speaking TopicsThe operational reality
AI adoption works best when people know how to use it in real work.
Your team may already be experimenting with AI. Some of it is useful. Some of it is inconsistent. Most of it would be stronger with clearer context, shared practices, and better judgment.
For small and mid-sized businesses, AI adoption often raises practical questions: where to start, what tools to use, what is safe to share, how to train people, and how to turn early experiments into repeatable workflows.
Ingenuity Labs helps you slow down enough to understand the work, build practical AI capability, and create simple systems your team can keep using.
Free assessment
Start with a free 1-hour AI Assessment
For business owners, executives, leaders, and operators who know AI matters but are not sure where to begin.
We will look at your workflows, where AI could help, what is getting in the way, and what next step makes the most sense.
For organizations
AI for Organizations
Most AI adoption work begins in one of three places: helping leaders choose a clear path, educating people to use AI well, or building simple systems that make AI useful in daily work.
AI Strategy and Adoption Roadmap
For leaders who know AI matters but do not know where to focus first.
See the roadmap serviceTeam AI Education and Enablement
For teams that need practical AI training tied to the work they already do.
See team educationAI-Powered Systems Implementation
For teams that need help turning repeated work, scattered knowledge, and unclear processes into practical AI-supported systems.
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How we make AI useful inside real work
Understand the work
We look at how information, decisions, and handoffs actually move through your team.
Find the right AI opportunities
We separate useful use cases from distracting experiments.
Build team capability
We teach people how to use AI with better context, clearer judgment, and practical guardrails.
Create reusable systems
We help turn learning into workflows, templates, prompts, project spaces, and habits your team can keep using.
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What this looks like in real work
CLIENT STORY
An AI-powered meeting and accountability system that caught a hidden problem in week one.
theFinanceStack was relying on two people to hold too much operational knowledge. We built a meeting and accountability system inside ClickUp with structured agendas, committed actions, and preparation reminders. In the first live meeting, the team surfaced a legacy integration issue that had been quietly corrupting capacity data for months.
“I could see the number of overdue tasks shrinking and capacity beginning to reflect reality - big improvement even after week 1.”
CLIENT STORY
Helping a fast-moving creative firm turn founder knowledge into AI-ready systems.
Exploration Sites had strong tools, but the company’s working knowledge still lived in people’s heads and disconnected systems. We helped restructure their AI project context, clarify what information should connect to AI, and begin turning verbal handoffs into workflows the team could reuse.
The knowledge that runs your company lives in two people’s heads. What happens when one of them leaves?
Learning paths
AI Education
Live AI education for women entrepreneurs, small business owners, professionals, executives, and teams who want practical learning without overwhelm.
Choose the learning path that fits where you are: supportive AI Coworking for women, a 12-week AI foundations cohort, executive AI leadership training, or team education for your organization.
AI Coworking for Women
Monthly in-person AI Coworking sessions in Victoria, BC for women who want a supportive, practical space to learn, experiment, ask questions, and build confidence with AI.
View Upcoming SessionsAI Edge
A live, virtual, 12-week AI foundations cohort for small business owners and professionals who want the practical skills, confidence, and context-building habits needed to work effectively with AI.
Ingenuity Labs offer
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AI for Executives: Lead from the Front
A live virtual cohort for senior leaders who need to understand AI, guide adoption, manage risk, and lead their people through this shift.
Visit AI for ExecutivesAI Education for Teams
Hands-on AI training for organizations that want their people using AI more clearly, safely, and consistently.
Request Team AI EducationLooking for AI education for your team or organization? Start with the free AI Assessment.
Speaking
Practical AI talks for business audiences
Rachel speaks to founders, professionals, students, teams, and business communities about AI-first thinking, context engineering, tool selection, and practical adoption without overwhelm.
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Founder
About Rachel
Rachel Krayenhoff van de Leur brings together startup operations, AI education, workflow optimization, change management, and training to help people and teams use AI in ways that are practical, human, and genuinely useful.
Rachel has built startups from the ground up, serving as Founder, COO, accountant, operator, trainer, and everything in between. Through that work, she has seen firsthand how much time, energy, and potential can be lost inside unclear systems, repetitive workflows, and tools that do not quite support the people using them.
As the founder of Ingenuity Labs, Rachel helps organizations and entrepreneurs turn AI into a practical extension of their work. Her approach blends operational experience with accessible AI education so teams can improve workflows, strengthen communication, and create systems that bring out the authenticity, brilliance, and ingenuity of the people behind the business.
She has spoken at programs including Vancouver Island University's Spark VIU, and her mission is simple: to ignite human ingenuity through AI education.
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