Build your capability and career in AI governance.

Whether you're new to the field, learning to 'do the work' or deepening your expertise, we help practitioners build real-world AI governance capability so they can achieve their career goals. 
Built & led by James Kavanagh
Based on over two decades at Microsoft & Amazon
1,200+ students worldwide
A career path for novices to masters
A practitioner community
Building capability & a peer network
The Challenge

Does this sound familiar?

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. 

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. 

Effective AI governance needs practitioner capability and organizational capacity. 

Our AI Governance Assessment measures both so you can see where you and organization stand. 

What's Next?
Your Plan

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 'next step' recommendations. 
2

Explore & Learn 

Understand the field & opportunity
Learn about the real work of AI governance with our free Doing the Work of AI Governance course. Great for those new to the field, as well as existing practitioners. 
3

Commit & Grow

Build your foundations 
Go beyond the theory with the four courses of the Foundation Track, building real-world capability. 
Add our AIGP Exam Preparation Course and you have a Bundle. 
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.
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Foundation Track

from US$199

Four foundation courses, and two ways to learn.
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The Bundle

from US$249

Credential prep + Capability build in one.
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Specialty Courses

from US$349

Six domains, and a path to Mastery.

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.

Move fast.
Don't break things.

JAMES KAVANAGH, FOUNDER OF AI CAREER PRO
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.

Your Pathway to Mastery

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

Still Not Sure

Want to explore more? Everything here is free.

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 organization'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.