A Professional Certificate in AI Safety and Governance. Fully online and entirely self-paced, you will learn to design and implement an enterprise AI governance framework — and you will finish with the templates, methods and confidence to run it inside your organisation.
Pricing & enrolment See the seven modulesAI is already in your organisation — in the tools your teams use, the decisions your systems make and the promises your leadership has made to customers and regulators. Boards now expect someone in the room who can answer a hard question: how do we adopt AI at pace and prove it is safe? Most professionals have been given the accountability without the method. This certification gives you the method. Every module is built around a real task you will perform at work, so you graduate able to do the job, and to explain and evidence the job to your leadership.
Emma Johnson is a thought leader in AI safety who has spent years building and re-building AI safety frameworks inside real organisations — most recently as Executive Director for AI Safety and AI Talent at a global bank. Every method in this programme has been tested where the stakes are highest.
The programme follows Responsible Innovation's proprietary 5P Framework — Purpose, People, Processes, Partnerships, Performance — one module per P, so governance becomes a system you can build, run and mature.
Every template you practise with is yours to reuse: the AI Inventory, the AI Impact Assessment, the AI Governance Checklist, the Review Forum & Council pack and the AI Operating Manual. You leave with working documents, ready for Monday morning.
Each module answers four questions — why, what, how and now what — and ends with something you can use at work the same week. Together they build one capability: designing and running AI governance that lets your organisation say yes to AI, safely.
| Module & time | By the end you will be able to… | The value to you |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Foundations of AI Trust≈4 hours | Explain why AI governance exists, why organisations fail at AI, why regulation alone is insufficient and how governance accelerates safe adoption. | Credibility in the room — you can make the case for governance to any executive audience in plain, commercial language. |
| 2 — Purpose≈5 hours | Define your organisation's AI ambition, set red lines for what AI will never be used for, and write a use-case rationale leadership can stand behind. | Direction — a clear, defensible answer to "why are we using AI here?" before money is spent. |
| 3 — People≈5 hours | Design accountability for AI: roles, decision rights, meaningful human oversight of AI outputs, and the literacy and culture that make oversight real. | Ownership — named accountable people instead of "everyone and no one", and staff equipped to challenge AI decisions. |
| 4 — Processes≈8.5 hours — the flagship module | Run the full assessment and approval cycle: build an AI Inventory, complete a twelve-dimension AI Impact Assessment, evidence mitigations against the Governance Checklist, take a use case through a Review Forum and Council, and stand up post-go-live assurance and an AI Operating Manual. | The engine — a bank-grade, end-to-end method for assessing and approving AI use cases, practised on a realistic worked example, with every template included. |
| 5 — Partnerships≈5 hours | Govern AI you buy as rigorously as AI you build: vendor due diligence, procurement questions, contractual safeguards and engaging regulators with confidence. | Protection — most organisations meet AI through suppliers; you will know exactly what to ask and what to require. |
| 6 — Performance≈5 hours | Measure whether governance is working: monitoring, metrics and escalation triggers, board-ready reporting and a maturity path for the years ahead. | Proof — evidence for your board, your auditors and your regulator that AI is under control, and a roadmap to keep improving. |
| 7 — Capstone≈6 hours | Bring the five Ps together and design a complete, implementable AI governance framework for your own organisation, assessed against a professional rubric. | The deliverable — you finish holding a framework you can present to leadership, plus the AI Trust Certification to your name. |
| Total | ≈38 guided hours — entirely online, entirely self-paced | A capability your organisation needs and your CV can prove |
Self-paced and story-driven, with video lessons from Emma, scenario-based exercises, decision simulations, downloadable templates and a knowledge check in every lesson. You study when it suits you and move at your own pace — each module's hours are shown above, so you can plan the commitment around a full-time role.
Business owners who are accountable for AI systems. Risk, compliance and governance professionals. Technology, data and product leaders taking AI systems to market. Consultants and advisers building an AI governance practice. Executives and board members who must challenge and approve AI use.
Every graduate joins the Academy's community WhatsApp group for ongoing support — ask questions, share what you are building and learn from peers doing the same work.
Book calls with AI safety experts as you put the framework to work in your own organisation, so implementation questions get answered when they arise.
Join the ongoing dialogue on AI safety topics, so your knowledge keeps pace with the field long after the course ends.
"Certification is the difference between having attended training and being accountable for what you learned."
Complete all seven modules and the capstone assessment to earn the AI Trust Certification from the AI Trust Academy, delivered by Responsible Innovation UAE. The programme is entirely online and entirely self-paced.
US$2,500
One investment covering all seven modules, the capstone assessment, the complete reusable toolkit and the post-course community.
Register your interestEnrolment opens soon. Register your interest via the contact form and you will be the first to know when the doors open.
Want to go further? For organisations that want the full extent — a certified in-house team with on-site reviews and coaching — the client engagement is a separate offer.
