Foundations
Where most teams start. The half-day gets a department working safely with AI in one morning; the full-day adds hands-on practice on your own documents.
DFO HR Consulting · Dr. Frank Olmos, Ed.D.
Practical AI assistance and training for the work your organization does.
We help small businesses, corporate teams, public agencies and nonprofits use AI in real workflows, with clear data boundaries, human review, and guidance your people can keep. Start with coaching, a scoped AI project, or a team workshop.
Download the 2026 catalog (PDF)
2024Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award, IPAC20+ yearsrunning HR and personnel departmentsEd.D.Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Cal State LA
20+years running HR and personnel departments
2024Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award, IPAC
3published books on assessment and AI
15training programs in the 2026 catalog
Ed.D.Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Cal State LA
Which path fits you
Three kinds of organizations come to us. Each gets a different starting point.
Small businesses and owners
Get AI working on the tasks you repeat
Set up useful AI workspaces, reusable prompts, and supervised workflows for the writing, customer communication, and admin you do every week.
Corporations and multi-site teams
Adopt AI across a department, consistently
Role-based training, workflow review, manager guidance, and a plan for follow-through, so the habit survives past launch week.
Public agencies and nonprofits
Train teams around merit, privacy, and defensible decisions
Fifteen programs built for records, fairness, confidentiality, and human review, with published rates and purchase orders welcome.
A recent example. AI integration, manager training, and sustainment design for a multi-location Southern California employer. Named engagements, not testimonials, and no results are implied.
Four ways to work together
Start with one person, one task, one team, or a standing arrangement.
Published rates are for individuals, public agencies and nonprofits. Corporate projects are quoted on scope.
01 · One to one coaching
One person, their own files, their approved tool
Working sessions on your screen. Set up ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or Gemini around your actual job, organize projects, and build prompts you reuse every week. $250 per hour, or $900 for a four-session starter.
02 · Workflow and AI assistant setup
One repeatable task, set up and handed over
Pick a process, define inputs and boundaries, write the instructions, decide where human review belongs, and configure an assistant inside the platform you already approve. Quoted on scope.
03 · Live team training
Half-day or full-day, virtual or on site
Fifteen programs across HR, finance, operations, and leadership, taught on your own documents. Public agencies and nonprofits from $1,800 per half-day; businesses quoted on scope.
04 · Retainer and sustainment
Keep the habit alive after training day
A monthly block of hours for review, questions, and follow-up, or a sustainment system with manager guidance and accountability. Retainer from $900 per month for four hours; larger blocks quoted.
2026 training catalog
Fifteen programs in four tracks. Half-day or full-day, virtual or on site.
Published rates are the public agency and nonprofit rate, so a coordinator can start a requisition without a sales call. Businesses and corporations are quoted on scope; training companies and associations should ask for instructor rates.
HR and Personnel
Six sessions built around the functions an HR department runs every week, in any sector. Each one is taught by someone who has done the job.
Department Focus
The same practical approach, applied to the work of a specific department. Useful when HR is asked to bring AI to the rest of the organization.
Specialized Topics
For leadership teams, counsel, and anyone who has to write the AI policy rather than just follow it.
How an engagement works
From first email to a room full of trained staff, in four steps.
A short scoping call
Twenty minutes on your audience, the AI tools your organization has approved, and the risks your counsel cares about.
Program and quote
Pick from the catalog or combine modules. For catalog programs, a PDF quote on letterhead usually follows within two business days, formatted for your purchasing process, requisition or purchase order. Custom projects start with a scoping conversation.
Vendor setup
W-9, business information, and any vendor forms are returned promptly. Materials, roster instructions, and a paste-ready bio and headshot for your flyer arrive one week ahead.
Delivery, and what your team keeps
Half-day or full-day, on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, or in your training room. Everyone leaves with the CHATPROMPT framework, a prompt library for their function, and written guidance they can hand to a supervisor.
AI consulting
Consulting, for organizations already putting AI to work.
Training teaches the people. Consulting is everything around it: deciding what AI is allowed to touch, writing the policy your staff will actually follow, choosing which workflows to change first, and building the accountability that keeps a one-day session from fading by the following month.
AI use policy
A written policy your legal counsel, your executive team and, where it applies, your union can all live with. Covers confidentiality, disclosure, record keeping and the lines nobody should cross.
Workflow review
A pass through the work your department actually does, naming which tasks AI should automate, which it should only assist, and which it should not touch at all.
Train the trainer
Your own people learn to run the sessions, so the capability stays in the building after the engagement ends.
Sustainment
The system that keeps new habits alive after the training day. A multi-location employer hired for exactly this, alongside a manager training program and the handbook behind it.
On retainer
A standing block of hours each month for the questions that come up between projects. A second set of eyes on a report or an analysis before it goes out, a sanity check on a policy draft, or a working call to think through a problem. Agencies, small businesses and nonprofits use this when a full training day is more than they need.
Project work
A single piece of work, scoped and quoted up front. An assessment or job analysis build, a classification or compensation study, a survey or data analysis, a written report in your format, or an AI rollout plan. He is also available to training companies and associations as a subcontracted instructor or subject matter expert.
Easy to buy
Buying this is not the hard part.
Purchase orders welcome
Public agencies invoice against a PO. Companies and nonprofits get a quote, a W-9, and whatever your standard vendor packet requires.
A reply in two business days
Straightforward workshop quotes can usually be prepared then, on letterhead and formatted for your purchasing process. Custom projects may need a scoping conversation before a written proposal.
Your confidential data stays out of it
Exercises use fictional scenarios and sanitized samples. Nobody is asked to put personnel records into a public AI tool, and the session covers exactly that boundary.
Step one takes twenty minutes. Ask for a scoping call.
Delivered for
Organizations that have brought Dr. Olmos in front of their staff.
- Los Angeles Unified School District Personnel CommissionAI training, about 50 staff
- Multi-location restaurant group, Southern CaliforniaAI for daily operations, a manager training program, and the sustainment system behind it
- Superior Court of California, County of Los AngelesTwo-session Amplified Intelligence for HR
- WRIPACFull-day workshops, San Francisco and Rancho Cucamonga
- CPS HR ConsultingAI in HR Today five-course certification series
- City of Moreno ValleyParks and Community Services AI curriculum
- Kings River Conservation DistrictAI training curriculum
- Walnut Valley Water DistrictAI productivity training
Named engagements, not testimonials. References available on request.
Speaking
Where to hear him.
- ConferencesStatewide and regional HR association conferences, as a keynote or breakout speaker
- WorkshopsHalf-day and full-day pre-conference workshops on responsible AI for public-sector HR
- SummitsPublic pension, retirement system, and personnel commission leadership summits
- WebinarsLive online sessions and multi-course certification series for training companies
- Agency sessionsClosed-door sessions for a single agency's leadership team, HR department, or board
One minute
See how he teaches before you book a room.
A short introduction to the CHATPROMPT approach. The video loads from YouTube only when you press play.
About
A practitioner first. The training follows from the job.
Dr. Frank Olmos is an Executive Director at a K-12 school district and President of DFO HR Consulting.
He has spent more than twenty years running HR and personnel departments, including leadership roles at a county office of education and two other Southern California school districts, and his consulting practice extends to private employers, including a multi-location, family-owned restaurant group. He teaches statistics as an adjunct professor at California State University, Los Angeles, is the author of three books on assessment and AI, and created the CHATPROMPT framework. In 2024 the International Personnel Assessment Council awarded him the Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award. He is a past president of PTC-SC and active in CSPCA, WRIPAC, IPAC, PCASC, and CODESP.
Ready when you are
Tell us the task. We take it from there.
Describe the task or workflow you want to improve, how many people are involved, and which AI tools you already approve. We reply within two business days. Workshop quotes can usually be prepared then; custom projects start with a twenty minute scoping call.