Ray Evans blends a professional, easy-going style with a strong grasp of adult learning-demonstrated across classroom, seminar, workshop, and live-online delivery, supported by practical, high-retention instructional materials.
Backed by Microsoft certifications, Ray teaches more than 2,500 topics spanning Microsoft Excel, Access, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and Publisher-and is one of very few presenters delivering expert-level webinars across all six leading AI cognitive engines: Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, Gemini and DeepSeek.
He holds qualifications in Frontline Management, Accounting, Training and Assessment and is certified in Six Sigma business-improvement methodology.
Since 1990, Ray has trained over 40,000 students, business owners, and executives, and authored extensive training documentation, complex reports, and engaging web content-consistently demonstrating exceptional communication and knowledge transfer.
Ray's webinars replicate the in-person classroom experience and include:
A comprehensive step-by-step Learning Guide
Demonstrations and practical exercises
Exercise files; and
Productivity techniques, tips and shortcuts
Wednesday
01Insights & Innovation Masterclass Focus:
Wednesday
01Option 1 - Platform Comparison and Business Decision Focus: This 90-minute masterclass gives business professionals a clear, structured and honestly assessed basis for comparing ChatGPT, Copilot and Claude across the areas that matter most in real business use. You begin by understanding what each platform is, who builds it, and how fundamental differences in design philosophy and safety approach affect the outputs each tool produces. The session moves through side-by-side comparisons of plans and costs, interface layout, accuracy and hallucination behaviour, prompt response style, file and document handling, memory and conversation management, Microsoft 365 integration, output types and how each platform responds to the same business task. Ray demonstrates prompting and documentation discipline that applies equally across all three tools, leaving you with a reusable business prompt reference and a clear, practical basis for choosing the platform that fits your work.
Thursday
02Option 1 - Professional Setup and Prompting Focus: Most professionals using Claude are self-taught, with gaps that cost time and output quality.
Thursday
02Option 1 - Platform Comparison and Decision Focus: This 90-minute masterclass gives professionals a clear, structured basis for comparing Claude and ChatGPT across the areas that matter most in real business use.
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