Master the practice of
AI governance.

We help practitioners build real-world capability so they can establish or advance a successful and rewarding career in AI governance. And we help organizations grow capacity to govern AI safely, securely and lawfully. Featuring practitioner-built training, expert coaching, and tools grounded in real implementation experience. 

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Built for Practitioners
By James Kavanagh, based on two decades mastering the practice at Microsoft & Amazon.
From Novice to Mastery
Structured progression building both capability and credentials.
Self-paced or Guided
Learn at your own pace, in a practitioner cohort or within your team.
The Challenge

Does this sound familiar?

You've learned the theory, but now you have to implement. 

Most AI governance training teaches frameworks and principles. The gap between understanding a concept and applying it inside a real organization, with real systems and competing priorities, is where the work gets real.

You're building this alone, without a playbook.

There's no team, no community, and no obvious peer group who's solved the problems you're facing. You have no single source of truth, and most of what's available is either too theoretical or too generic to be useful.

The documents exist. The governance doesn't.

Principles, standards, and regulations aren't the hard part. Working out what they mean inside real organizations - with real systems, real pressure, and real accountability - is where professionals find themselves without a map. 

You have the credential but not yet the capability. 

Passing the exam signals you understand the discipline. But what about building a governance committee, responding to a model failure, or writing a policy that will hold up under scrutiny.

You know governance, but AI takes you into unfamiliar territory.

You are skilled at governing risk, compliance, legal, cybersecurity. AI governance starts in familiar territory, then takes you somewhere your existing frameworks weren't designed to go.

Questions are being asked, and they're getting harder.

Boards, regulators, clients are asking about AI governance now. The questions are getting harder and the tolerance for vague answers is shrinking. Being under-prepared is uncomfortable - and risky. 

Do you have the capability and capacity to govern AI?

For effective AI governance, you need both. That's why we created the Practitioner Capability Assessment and the Organizational Capacity Assessment. Take the assessment to find out where you and your organization stands.

What's Next?

Three steps. No guesswork.

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1

Assess & Plan

Find out where you stand.
Start with our FREE AI Governance  Assessment. Answer questions across five dimensions and see how ready you are to govern AI. You'll receive a personalized report with recommendations. 
Attend one of our live webinars and let James explain your results in more detail, so you can build your AI governance development plan. 
2

Learn & Grow

Build your foundations.
Learn about the real work of AI governance with our FREE introductory course - great for those new to the field, and existing practitioners. 
Go beyond the theory with the Foundation Track, building real-world capability, and earn the Practitioner Award, Foundations. 
If it's the AIGP credential you're after, take our AIGP exam preparation course. 
3

Advance & Be Recognized

Go deeper in your domain.
Build advanced capability with our specialty courses in compliance, risk, engineering, evaluation, operations and leadership, and earn a Practitioner Award in your chosen domains. 
Complete two or more specialty courses and qualify to achieve a Master Practitioner Award. The highest of our practitioner credentials. 
Your Guide 

James Kavanagh

James spent two decades at Microsoft and Amazon leading engineering and governance programs, from building global cloud services to engaging with regulators in over 20 countries. His work delivered multiple assurance credentials, including the first ISO 42001 certification for any global cloud provider.
As an engineer, he understands the systems being governed by AI: how they're architected, how they fail, and what it takes to implement and sustain safeguards that hold in production. 
Many practitioners arrive at AI Career Pro already following James' writings -  drawn to a perspective that is forthright, practical, and grounded in what actually works when organizations are under pressure.
James started AI Career Pro to teach the same practices he has built and tested at scale, so practitioners everywhere can design, implement, and sustain adaptive governance that keeps AI safe, secure and lawful.
Founder & CEO
“Most AI governance training goes no further than basic knowledge in regulations and frameworks. We teach you to do the work for real, with the techniques and tools to do it right."

James Kavanagh

Founder and CEO, AI Career Pro

For Practitioners

The AI Governance Practitioner Program

A structured pathway of capability development from foundational knowledge through specialist depth to accomplished, recognized mastery. 

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Individual Courses

from US$59

Build your foundations, one course at a time.
  • Introductory Course • FREE
  • AIGP Exam Prep Course • US$99 
  • Foundation Courses • US$59
Certificate of Completion awarded at completion of every course.
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Foundation Track

from US$199

All four Foundation Courses and two ways to learn.
  • Self-paced • US$199
  • Guided Cohort • US$899 
  • Practitioner Award • US$299*
* Additional cost with Self-paced. Included in Cohort cost.
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The Bundle

from US$249

AIGP Exam Prep +
Foundation Track in one.
  • Self-paced only • US$249
  • 1:1 call with James Kavanagh 
  • Exam-pass guarantee*
* Complete the course & if you don't pass the exam, we'll refund the $99.
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Specialty Courses

from US$399

Six domains, two ways to learn, and the path to Mastery.
  • Self-paced • US$349
  • Guided Cohort • US$949 
  • Practitioner Award • US$299*
Includes compliance, risk, engineering, leadership, operations & evaluation.

Move fast.
Don't break things.

JAMES KAVANAGH, FOUNDER OF AI CAREER PRO

Edward Feldman, USA

AI Governance & Risk | Certified AIGP
Having completed the Foundations Track of the AI Governance Practitioner Program, I now have a structured way to approach everything from building AI inventories, organisational mechanisms, incident response procedures, AI policy design and more - not as theory, but in practice.

Son-U Paik, South Korea

General Counsel | CEO, GRC Solutions
AI Career Pro is the best resource for GRC practitioners. The training is excellent, and the documents are immediately useful, with a bit of tweaking and tinkering for customisation. That's what the training is for. Highly recommend.

Rodrigo Zigante, Chile

CEO | AI Governance & Data Compliance
The AI Career Pro curriculum was clearly built by people who truly understand the job of AI governance from the inside out. It moves beyond abstract concepts and focuses on the practical how-to of day-to-day operations. That shift from theory to practice has been a game-changer for my consulting.

Nicole Jahn, Australia

CHIA | Cert. AI Governance Professional
Whilst theory and certifications are great, I am now working my way through the AI Career Pro Practitioner Program. I'm loving the practical application of the theory and templates, learning from James' years of hands-on experience at some of the world's biggest companies.

Your Pathway to Mastery

Most online courses end with a multiple-choice test and a digital certificate. Our programs are different.

The Goal

What mastery in AI governance looks like.

Expert-level Practitioner Capability

You work confidently across domains. Engineers, lawyers, and risk professionals take you seriously because you can operate in their world, not just translate for it. 
You design governance mechanisms that function under pressure, not just during reviews. 
Your judgement is trusted in high-stakes situations because you've made consequential decisions and learned from them.
You contribute to the field through publishing, mentoring, and teaching. 
Your career in AI governance is one you built deliberately.

Adaptive Organizational Capacity

You know exactly what AI systems exist, where they are, and how they're governed. And that picture stays current. 
Leadership owns governance as a strategic priority, not a compliance exercise. 
Risk findings drive real decisions about what gets built and deployed. 
Governance is embedded into how AI systems are designed, built, and operated, not layered on afterwards. 
Your people have the capability to govern what's coming next, not just what's already here. 
When something changes, your governance adapts with it.
Still Not Sure

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Blog & Newsletter

Doing AI Governance
Practical articles on the real work of AI governance. Written by practitioners for the real work of doing AI governance.

Introductory Course

Doing the Work of AI Governance
An introduction to adaptive governance. Real AI governance failures and what they reveal about practice. 

Leadership Brief

AI Governance Director's Brief
Fortnightly strategic intelligence on AI governance for Directors and senior leaders.

How ready are you to govern AI?

Determine your AI governance capability, and your organisation's AI governance readiness. Get the full picture and move forward with clarity and confidence. The assessment takes about 15 minutes, it's detailed, it's honest and it's free. This is where you start.