AI Governance Leadership
Lead, oversee and account for AI in your organisation
A leadership course on AI strategy, oversight and accountability. You will map where AI is used, set risk appetite, design decision rights and review points, align with UK GDPR and the UK's cross-sector AI principles, and prepare a board-ready governance charter.
What you will be able to do
- Explain how modern AI systems create value and where they fail, in language a board understands.
- Map current and proposed AI use across your organisation into a living register.
- Set an AI risk appetite and match controls to the level of risk.
- Design clear decision rights, human oversight and escalation routes.
- Relate your governance model to UK GDPR, the UK AI principles and the EU AI Act where relevant.
- Produce an AI governance charter with owners, metrics and review dates.
- 12 lessons
- 3h 30m of guided learning
- 12 CPD hours & certificate
- AI tutor & SEND adaptation included
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Part of the AI Learning Pathways Programme. CPD-aligned certificate of completion — not a regulated qualification.
Course content
Module 1: AI in the organisation: value, risk and accountability
What AI is, what it is not, and why leaders stay accountable for its outcomes.
- AI in the organisation: value, risk and accountabilityPreviewreading · 25 min
- Module 1 quizquiz · 10 min
Module 2: Mapping AI use and setting risk appetite
Build an AI register and decide how much risk you are willing to carry.
- Mapping AI use and setting risk appetitereading · 25 min
- Module 2 quizquiz · 10 min
Module 3: The regulatory landscape
UK GDPR, the UK AI principles, the EU AI Act and sector rules, explained for leaders.
- The regulatory landscapereading · 25 min
- Module 3 quizquiz · 10 min
Module 4: Oversight, decision rights and human review
Design who decides, who reviews and who can stop an AI system.
- Oversight, decision rights and human reviewreading · 25 min
- Module 4 quizquiz · 10 min
Module 5: Assurance: testing, monitoring and incidents
How to know an AI system is still doing what you approved.
- Assurance: testing, monitoring and incidentsreading · 25 min
- Module 5 quizquiz · 10 min
Module 6: Your AI governance charter
Bring it together into a board-ready charter with owners and review points.
- Your AI governance charterreading · 25 min
- Module 6 quizquiz · 10 min