The AI Governance Practitioner Program: Specialty Course

From regulatory expectations to working controls

with the AI Compliance Specialty Course (self-paced or practitioner cohort).
Most compliance training teaches you to read regulations. This course teaches you to translate them — into unified controls and governance mechanisms that produce compliance evidence as a byproduct of well-functioning governance.
Become better

Course Release Date: JULY 2026

12 hours of video • 25 hours of readings
140 topics
Self-paced or Guided practitioner cohort
Earn Practitioner Award, AI Compliance

Who Is This For?

Built for practitioners who are responsible for making compliance real.

This course is for governance, legal, risk, compliance, and assurance professionals. If you're responsible for translating regulatory requirements into functioning controls - for any organisation deploying AI - this is for you.

What's Inside the Course

A method that works across any regulation.

The course runs a single case study from start to finish  a fictional firm navigating the EU AI Act, ISO 42001, and NIST AI RMF simultaneously, alongside GDPR and client requirements. Working through it, you build two artefacts: a crosswalk map showing how external regulatory expectations translate into a unified set of internal controls, and a mechanism portfolio demonstrating how your most compliance-critical controls are implemented in practice.
The method throughout is Artefact → Expectation → Control → Mechanism — applied across twelve governance domains using a seven-component diagnostic. It holds regardless of which regulation or framework you face next.
By the time you finish, you'll be able to:
  • Parse regulatory text for what it actually requires - not just what it says
  • Build a crosswalk map that unifies expectations from multiple regulatory sources into a single control set
  • Design controls that produce compliance evidence as a byproduct of governance that works
  • Construct a mechanism portfolio that demonstrates how compliance-critical controls function in practice
  • Apply the same method to any regulation, standard, or framework your organisation faces
Your Guide

James Kavanagh

James spent two decades building governance programs at Microsoft and Amazon — not advising on them, doing them. The AI Governance Practitioner Program is built on that experience. Every case study, every mechanism, every policy template comes from real implementation work at scale. When James teaches governance, he's teaching what he built and tested himself.
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How You'll Learn

Two ways to complete the AI Compliance Specialty Course.

The curriculum is the same either way. What differs is the pace, the structure, and how much support you want around you while you do the learn.

Self-Paced Learning

Learn on your schedule, at your own pace. 

US$349
Enrol and work through the course at your own pace. Everything you need is inside - the videos, the case study, the crosswalk templates, and the mechanism portfolio framework.
Includes: 
  • AI Compliance Specialty course
  • All videos, learning activities, tools, and templates
  • Certificate of completion
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

Guided Practitioner Cohort

Do the work alongside a group of peers, with James in the room.

US$949
(Limited Places) 
The Cohort runs over 8 weeks in a group of no more than 15 practitioners. Four live virtual sessions with James are built around the curriculum - so the method gets tested in conversation, not just in isolation. 
Includes: 
  • AI Compliance Specialty course
  • All videos, learning activities, tools, and templates
  • Four live virtual sessions with James Kavanagh
  • Email access to James between sessions
  • Dedicated peer community
  • Practitioner Award, AI Compliance on completion
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

AI compliance done well starts here.

The AI Compliance Specialty gives you a method that works across any regulation you face - grounded in practitioner experience, built for real implementation work.