Dave Birss
Top AI Instructor on LinkedIn Learning | Author & AI Creative Strategist
Principal AI instructor on LinkedIn Learning with over 1 million business professionals enrolled across his generative AI courses. Author of 'How to Get to Great Ideas' and creator of the CREATE prompt framework. Trains Fortune 500 leadership on practical workplace prompt engineering, creative problem-solving, and non-technical AI adoption.
Areas of focus
Professional niches
Proof of Work
Creative Problem Solving Augmented by Frontier Models
Published executive guidelines on combining lateral thinking techniques with conversational AI agents to overcome ideological fixation and produce divergent strategic hypotheses during corporate product ideation.
Unmoderated brainstorming prompts can produce generic cliches if domain constraints are omitted.
Context: Multi-persona prompting across conversational LLMs with explicit divergence-convergence stages.
View missionThe CREATE Framework for Executive Prompt Engineering
Formulated the CREATE methodology (Character, Request, Examples, Adjustments, Type, Extras) utilized by over 800,000 corporate learners to reliably direct LLMs in professional business settings without technical coding.
Needs role-based customization for highly regulated compliance environments like legal and clinical health.
Context: ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, Claude Pro. Designed for zero-shot and few-shot enterprise tasks.
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