Certifications
For leaders who decide how their organization uses AI. Each executive certification has two parts: an executive core, the same in every one, and a part written for the role. The course guide is free to download. Enrollment is $495 USD, or $395 USD for members per certification and includes the study guide, the online exam and your certificate.
Anyone can take an executive certification. They are written for experienced leaders, and we recommend them for people who hold, or are preparing for, a senior leadership role.
- AI-CDO Certified AI Executive: Chief Data Officer Lead an organization's data for AI: decide which data matters and who owns it, make it fit and ready for AI, use it lawfully across borders, and build the data organization and platforms that AI depends on. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CEO Certified AI Executive: Chief Executive Officer Lead a company's use of AI from the top: decide where it creates value and competitive advantage, govern its risks, allocate capital to it, and keep the trust of the board, investors, customers and staff. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CFO Certified AI Executive: Chief Financial Officer Lead the finance function's use of AI and the company's financial discipline over it: apply AI to the close, forecasting and payments, keep controls and reporting reliable, control and value AI spending, and keep guidance, capital and contracts sound. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CHRO Certified AI Executive: Chief Human Resources Officer Lead the people side of AI: plan the workforce it needs, keep hiring, promotion and performance decisions fair, set limits on monitoring that protect privacy and wellbeing, and run HR's own use of AI well. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CIO Certified AI Executive: Chief Information Officer Lead the use of AI across an organization's enterprise systems: bring AI into the platforms staff use, run it as a managed IT service, control access, data and records, and keep systems resilient as AI becomes part of daily work. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CISO Certified AI Executive: Chief Information Security Officer Lead the security of a company's AI and its defense against AI-enabled attacks: understand how AI systems are attacked, build security into AI from the start, use AI in defense with honest measures, and handle incidents, disclosure and board reporting. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CMO Certified AI Executive: Chief Marketing Officer Lead marketing's use of AI: customer insight and personalization, generative content and brand, marketing law and consumer trust, and measurement the CFO can rely on. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-COO Certified AI Executive: Chief Operating Officer Lead AI in an organization's operations: redesign processes around it, use it in supply chain, quality and service work, run it reliably in production with a working fallback, and bring the frontline workforce with you safely. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CRO Certified AI Executive: Chief Risk Officer Lead the oversight of AI risk across the enterprise: bring AI into the risk framework and appetite, manage model and third-party risk, test the organization against severe AI failures, and give the board an independent view. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-CTO Certified AI Executive: Chief Technology Officer Lead how AI is built into a company's products: choose the architecture, run engineering and MLOps at scale, meet safety, quality and legal bars, and shape the technology organization that delivers it. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam
- AI-GC Certified AI Executive: General Counsel Lead a company's legal response to AI: map its obligations across jurisdictions, allocate AI risk through contracts and insurance, protect its intellectual property, confidential information and privilege, and bring AI into the legal function responsibly. 40 study hours 8 modules 90 min exam