Built by someone who's seen it from the inside.
- Across mining and resources, we've seen organisations make genuine commitments to safety, inclusion, and culture. We've also seen those commitments stall, not from a lack of will, but from a lack of the practical human skills needed to turn them into everyday behaviour.
- Lina Gillespie spent 25 years working across mining operations, operational improvement, digital transformation, and workforce change. In that time, she watched a consistent pattern emerge: technical systems advancing faster than the human capability to lead within them.
- Despite increasing investment in technology, organisations kept struggling with the same challenges — communication breakdown, reactive leadership, psychosocial risk, workforce disengagement, and preventable human-factor incidents.
- In 2025, she founded PowerSkillsAi to give mining organisations a better answer.
Where Diverse Thinking Drives Innovation
PowerSkillsAi brings together expertise across mining operations, leadership, behavioural science, technology, systems thinking, and human performance. Our solutions are designed by people who have led teams, managed change, and solved real operational challenges, not built in a classroom.
What makes us different?
We are not a training company. We are a capability platform provider. Most workforce development programs are built around events, a workshop, a course, a one-day offsite. People leave motivated. Three weeks later, nothing has changed. PowerSkillsAi is built around behaviour change. Our platform combines immersive practice, AI-enabled coaching, and real-time workforce intelligence so that learning translates into how people actually lead and communicate on site, every day.
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Practical, not theoretical
Everything we build is designed for how mining actually works, site-based, high-pressure, multi-generational, often remote. Not adapted from a corporate model. Built from the ground up for this industry.
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Outcomes, not activity
We measure success by behaviour change and operational outcomes, not completion rates or training hours. If a program isn't working, we'll tell you and fix it.
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Long-term partnership
We're not here to run a program and move on. Our best client relationships are ongoing, because building human capability isn't a one-off event, it's an operating discipline.