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Lead people through AI change while you are still learning, and stay current as it changes.
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Enabling & educating leaders
Lead AI change while you learn.
Responsible AI Leader™ is for anyone leading people through AI change, in a business, an organisation or a community. Self-paced, online, and personalised to what you lead.
- NZ$99 one-time
- Self-paced online
- After Citizen
- Certificate and LinkedIn badge
Who is it for
Anyone leading people through AI change.
You don't need a title or a technical background. When you set up the course you tell us what you lead, your role, how many people and your sector, and the scenarios are built around that.
- Owners and founders
- Executives
- Managers and team leaders
- Senior leaders
- Boards and trustees
- Governance and policy
- Community leaders
- Volunteer groups
- The go-to person for AI
What you earn
A certificate and a digital badge.
- Certificate as a PDF, with your name and a unique reference
- Digital badge to add to LinkedIn and your email signature
- Builds on your Citizen certification
Sample shown. Yours carries your name and the date you earn it.
Why it matters
Your people need you on the same page.
You are leading while you are learning
Nobody has this figured out yet. The course starts there: how to lead people through AI change honestly, without pretending to be the expert.
Your people are looking to you
They want to know what is allowed, what is safe and what is expected. A shared understanding across your people starts with the person leading them.
Values first, not tools first
AI as a technology with real opportunities and real trade-offs, not a tool tutorial. Grounded in the 8 pillars of AI the Right Way®.
Where you lead
In a business, an organisation or a community.
Leading a business
Owners, founders, executives and managers taking their team through AI change: what to adopt, how work gets checked, and what your people need from you.
Leading an organisation
Leaders in public-sector, not-for-profit and larger organisations, and the boards and committees that oversee them, who need AI to be governed, fair and accountable.
Leading a community
Marae, iwi, clubs, libraries, school boards, churches and volunteer groups. The people others turn to when AI turns up in their community.
What you get
From leading yourself to leading the change.
Leading While Learning
The leadership journey: yourself, while you learn, your people, your process, your tools, your governance, the change.
Pillar 1 · Culture
Leading People Through AI Change
Pillar 2 · Ethics
Owning AI Decisions
Pillar 3 · Critical Thinking
Designing Human Oversight
Pillar 4 · Sustainability
Leading for the Long Term
Pillar 5 · Privacy
Governing Information and Data
Pillar 6 · Strategy
Aligning AI With Purpose
Pillar 7 · Innovation
Making Experimentation Safe
Pillar 8 · Tooling
Choosing and Governing AI Tools
Our AI ground rules
Your own ground rules to take back to your people: leading myself while learning, our people, our process, our tools, our governance, our change.
Built on 8 pillars
The 8 pillars, through a leader's lens.
- 01
Culture
Culture is about people: their heritage, communities and perspectives. Aotearoa is a diverse nation, and responsible AI respects that.
- 02
Ethics
Knowing where the lines are, and why they exist. Ethics isn't a checkbox; it's an ongoing practice of aligning AI use with your values, your people, and your purpose.
- 03
Critical Thinking
AI is only as good as the human reviewing its output. Critical thinking means not taking AI at face value: questioning, verifying, and applying your own judgement before acting.
- 04
Sustainability
Responsible AI considers long-term impact: on people, communities, and the environment. Sustainable AI practice means thinking beyond the immediate output to the broader consequences.
- 05
Privacy
Understanding what data AI uses, how it's stored, and who can access it, and ensuring your AI use respects the privacy of the people your work touches.
- 06
Strategy
AI without strategy is just noise. This pillar is about aligning AI adoption with your goals, making intentional choices about where AI fits, where it doesn't, and how to get there.
- 07
Innovation
Innovation means using AI to solve real problems in new ways, with creativity, ambition, and the other seven pillars as your foundation.
- 08
Tooling
Choosing the right tools for the right job: evaluating AI platforms against your needs, your risk appetite, and your responsibilities before you deploy them in your work.
NZ$99
Leader: one-time