Certified AI Leader

Two minutes on how the course works and how to get any word defined as you read. Then the two ways AI fails and the verifier that catches each. How to tell a rented engine from a product from an agent. And what an AI tool can see of your business, which is less than the pitch implies. Ends with the Jargon Decoder.

You build: Your plan's honest snapshot: the maturity level you can evidence, the workflow and owner behind it, where the value is next year, and the risk that worries you most.

1. 1.Before You Start
2. 2.Two Ways AI Fails, and Only One Is Loud
3. 3.Model, Product, Agent: The Question Each Layer Owes You
4. 4.The Demo That Looked Like Magic
5. 5.Connected Is Not Current: What the System Actually Sees
6. 6.The Jargon Decoder
7. 7.Your Organization: The Honest Snapshot
8. 8.Checkpoint: Thinking in AI

The tool and vendor map, build vs buy vs wait, what it still costs in month 13, and how to take a vendor claim apart.

You build: Your tool reality check: approved tools, shadow AI hotspots, and the category gap.

1. 1.Which Parts Run on Rules, Which Parts Guess
2. 2.What the Next Release Does for Free
3. 3.The Floor, the Cap, and Month 13
4. 4.The Platform That Does Everything
5. 5.Rewrite the Vendor Claim
6. 6.Your Tool Reality Check
7. 7.Checkpoint: Landscape, Cost, and Pitches

AI candidates die at the funding meeting when nobody can state today's number. Size two use cases, score them so a fatal flaw stays fatal, and write the number that stops the work.

You build: Two use cases you would defend to your CFO, scored and multiplied, each with its weakest dimension named and a 12-month ROI number.

1. 1.Use Cases Beat Visions
2. 2.The Use-Case Scorecard
3. 3.Quick Win or Big Bet?
4. 4.Measuring ROI Honestly
5. 5.The Use-Case Scorecard Worksheet
6. 6.Your Best Bets
7. 7.Checkpoint: Strategy Foundations

Hand a real task to AI, review what comes back in sixty seconds, and call any use of it safe or reckless with one question.

You build: Your delegation contract: one task to hand over, a review rule, and a no-go zone.

1. 1.Brief AI Like a Smart New Hire
2. 2.Write a Delegation-Grade Prompt
3. 3.The 60-Second Review
4. 4.Stress-Test an AI Answer
5. 5.Drafts Yes, Final Numbers No
6. 6.Your Delegation Contract
7. 7.Checkpoint: Working with AI

Responsible AI you can actually run: the five risks that bite, the one-page policy that closes them, the first hour of a data leak, and the ten questions to put in writing before you sign a vendor contract.

You build: Your one-page AI use policy: the green zone, the red list, the decisions that stay human, and your disclosure line.

1. 1.Five Risks, Five Rules, Five Owners
2. 2.The One-Page Policy That Beats the Forty-Page One
3. 3.The Pasted Spreadsheet
4. 4.The One-Page AI Use Policy
5. 5.Ten Questions Before You Sign
6. 6.When the AI Acts Instead of Drafts
7. 7.Your Three Policy Rules
8. 8.Checkpoint: Guardrails

Most AI pilots never get stopped, because nobody wrote the number that would end one. Write both numbers, get straight answers out of your engineers without pretending to be one, read the six signals of a death-march, and kill a pilot in public so bad news keeps reaching you early.

You build: Your first pilot on one page: the workflow, the success bar, the kill number, the owner, and the verdict date.

1. 1.You Accept a Rate, Not a Result
2. 2.Write the Number That Ends It
3. 3.Work With Technical People Without Pretending
4. 4.Red Flags, and How to Kill a Project Proudly
5. 5.Week 8 of 10. Kill, Extend, or Scale?
6. 6.Your Pilot on One Page
7. 7.Checkpoint: Leading AI Projects

Who on your team is fluent, what a redesigned role costs to fill, and the announcement you send before the rumor beats you to it.

You build: Your team readiness map: named operators, translators and reviewers, where resistance sits, and the move you fund by day 30.

1. 1.Resistance Is Information
2. 2.Tasks Change Before Jobs Do
3. 3.Operators, Translators, Reviewers
4. 4.The Quiet Refusal
5. 5.Write the Announcement You'll Send
6. 6.Map Your Team's Readiness
7. 7.Checkpoint: Team & Change

One play per function, run for real: finance signs verified figures, marketing drafts faster without the slop, HR keeps the red line, and operations picks the process before the tool.

You build: Your first function play: the process it runs on, the human who signs the output, and the number that proves it worked.

1. 1.The 45-Minute Value Hunt
2. 2.Finance: Verify the Figure, Then Sign
3. 3.Marketing and Sales: Draft-First, Follow Up Faster
4. 4.HR: The Red Line
5. 5.HR: The Drafts That Help
6. 6.Operations: Choose the Process, Then the Play
7. 7.Run One Play, Then Write the Card
8. 8.Your First Play
9. 9.Checkpoint: Function Playbooks

Keep your plan current and defend it in the room. Grade your draft against six test lines. Review what you built module by module, fill the gaps, and generate your personalized PDF. Then sit the exam.

1. 1.Staying Current Without Chasing Headlines
2. 2.Defending Your Plan: The Leadership Meeting
3. 3.What Finished Looks Like: Six Test Lines
4. 4.Assemble your 90-Day AI Action Plan