Joe Cook

Writing & speaking

I've been speaking and teaching for more than three decades. These days most of it is about putting AI to practical use.

Cover of Guardrail Parenting

Books

Guardrail Parenting

By Joe and Danielle Cook. Published October 2026 in paperback and Kindle, with an Audible edition coming.

Our first book, written together out of more than three decades of marriage and raising four children. You'll find more about it, and where to buy it, at guardrailparents.com.

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Speaking

Talks for conferences, leadership teams, associations, and professional groups. Each one is built around examples from real work, and I adjust the depth to the room.

Joe Cook in a black shirt in an open office

  • Practical artificial intelligence for business

    Where AI earns its keep in ordinary business work, and where it still needs a person.

  • Developing personal AI systems

    How to give an assistant a durable picture of how you work, so every conversation starts ahead.

  • Knowledge architecture for professionals

    Organizing what you and your organization know so people and AI tools can actually use it.

  • AI for writing and professional communication

    Getting drafts that sound like you, and editing the ones that don’t.

  • Building repeatable processes with AI

    Turning a good result into a reliable one with written workflows.

  • Human judgment in AI-assisted work

    Review, verification, and knowing which decisions should never be delegated.

Workshops

I design and lead hands-on sessions for organizations and professional groups. Participants bring their own work and leave with something finished, plus the worksheets and reference cards to keep going.

There's no fixed menu. Tell me who will be in the room and what they need to get done, and I'll put together a session that fits.

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Workshop structure. Three 90-minute sessions: studying Scripture with the CARE and READ frameworks, creating a ministry document, and creating a visual background. Each session moves through instruction, demonstration, guided practice, and review, and ends with a finished output: reviewed study notes, a one or two-page resource, and an image with a reusable prompt.Three 90-minute sessions for 20 to 25 participantsStudy ScriptureCARE and READInstructionDemonstrationGuided practiceReviewReviewed study notesMinistry documentIdea to finished fileInstructionDemonstrationGuided practiceReviewOne or two-page resourceVisual background16:9 presentation imageInstructionDemonstrationGuided practiceReviewImage and reusable promptEvery session ends with a finished piece, checked by a person before it is used.

From a three-session seminar on practical AI for ministry leaders. See the seminar

Educational projects & communities

The Pastor's Workbench

An online learning community that helps church leaders understand and apply AI to their everyday responsibilities, with practical training, resources, demonstrations, and conversation about responsible use.

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Looking for a speaker?

Whether you're exploring AI for your organization, building a knowledge system, creating training resources, or looking for a speaker, I'd welcome a conversation.

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