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AI Officer Certification

Who in Your Organization Can Lead AI?

You've paid for the bootcamps. Your people are using the tools. And you're still in the same place: minimal return on the investment. Certification changes the question from "is my team learning AI" to "who on my team can lead it."

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We'll create a certification plan for your team. Pricing is based on company size and commitment length.

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arrive knowing how to lead an AI program
90
days until you know who is best equipped to lead
3
certifications, one path to Chief AI Officer
Why Certification

Training makes people busy. Certification makes them visible.

Bootcamps end with a certificate of attendance. Certification ends with proof. Every challenge is completed, graded, and tracked, so you see exactly who steps up, who leads, and who is stuck by inertia and quietly falling behind. Your next AI leaders are already on your payroll. This is how you find them.

The Certifications

Three Certifications. One Question Answered: Who Leads?

Certification One
AI Officer
Learn to Lead AI Programs
Covers both Generative and Agentic AI. Your people learn to design workflows, organize data, and run AI programs that deliver measurable results.
10 Core Challenges
Certification Two
AI Engineering
Learn to Build AI Programs
The developer stack and 18 protocols. For the people who will build and maintain the systems everyone else runs on.
8 Core Challenges
Certification Three
Leadership in the AI Era
Lead Humans and AI as Teammates
Executive education for the people setting direction. How to manage a workforce of people and AI agents across the Four Offices.
12 Core Challenges

To certify, students complete the core challenges plus 12 elective micro-sessions.

Complete All Three Certifications
Become a Chief AI Officer (CAIO)
How We Teach

A New Way to Learn. A New Way to Read.

Every generation gets a new way to learn. Classrooms. YouTube. TikTok. AI is ours.

A New Way to Learn
Every lesson is a challenge using your data, your workflows, your business. If your people can complete it, they can lead it. That's the test.

Our proprietary AI system teaches, grades challenges, and tracks progress. It knows where each person is, where they're stuck, and what they need next.
This is not a bootcamp. It's an intelligent system that knows the curriculum and knows your people.
A New Way to Read
Our AI Buddy knows everything we teach and everything about each person's progress. No static PDFs. No videos they'll never finish.

They ask a question and get an answer connected to where they are in the program and what they're working on right now.
The content is alive. They talk to it. It talks back with full context.
For Leaders

Full transparency into who is ready

The AI Buddy guides every student through every lesson and tracks everything about their progress along the way. Within 90 days you know who is best equipped for the jobs of the future.

01
See Your Next Leaders Emerge
Progress data shows you who steps up before you have to guess.
02
Spot Inertia Early
Know who is stuck and falling behind while there is still time to help.
03
Ramp Up Your High-Potentials
Redirect training investment to the people proving they can carry it.
What Your Team Gets
Real-World Challenges
Core challenges plus 12 elective micro-sessions, built on their actual data and business problems
Live Sessions & Micro-Learning
Weekly updates on tools and trends that matter
Weekly CAIO Office Hours
Group coaching so nobody stays stuck
AI Buddy
Personal AI coach through every challenge
Who Certifies You

At the Intersection of Academia, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

A certification is only as credible as the people behind it. Ours is built and graded by people who research leadership, ship technology, and build companies.

Academia
Dr. Brooks Holtom
Professor of Management, Georgetown University
Professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and an active collaborator on the certification curriculum. Brings two decades of research on how organizations build and keep human capital.
Technology
Dave Hajdu
Founder, AI Officer Institute
Began as a data analyst at Microsoft in 1999 and has spent two decades building technology companies. Founded Vinasource, co-founded TINYpulse (acquired by WebMD), and has automated systems handling millions of rows of data and millions of dollars in transactions.
Entrepreneurship
David Nilssen
Founder, DOXA Talent
Serial entrepreneur and CEO of DOXA Talent. Co-founded Guidant Financial, which has helped 30,000 entrepreneurs secure $7 billion to start or buy a business. Serves on the Global Board of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO).
Who to Enroll

The people you need running AI programs so you don't have to

The stress your team feels right now isn't failure. It's what it feels like when AI capability lives in one person instead of across the organization.

01
Department Heads
Design and implement AI programs for their teams. Hire smarter, move faster, stop escalating every decision back to you.
02
Emerging Managers
Invest in your top talent's career development while expanding your organization's AI innovation capacity.
03
Founders & CEOs
Finally distribute AI capability across the organization instead of carrying it yourself.
For Individuals

Just want to learn it yourself?

Join the AI Officer Community. The full certification curriculum, the AI Buddy, weekly Office Hours, and a private group of operators. $99/month, cancel anytime.

Join Community $99/month

Stop guessing who can lead AI

Schedule a time and we'll create a certification plan for your team. Pricing is based on company size and commitment length. In 90 days you'll know who your next leaders are.

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