An executive program where you learn the principles, rehearse the hardest AI governance calls in a simulated boardroom, and earn the credential by demonstrating your judgment under pressure.
When an AI system fails, the board doesn't call your CTO. It calls you. And knowing the framework is not the same as making the decision—when the data is incomplete, the clock is running, and two of your most senior people disagree.
That gap—between understanding governance and exercising judgment under pressure—is where careers and companies are decided. No course measures it. No certificate proves you've closed it.
Pilots don't earn judgment from a manual. They earn it in the simulator, where getting it wrong costs nothing but teaches everything. This is that—for the executive AI decision.
A structured executive curriculum in AI governance, risk, strategy, compliance, ethics, and board-level decision-making—built around an executive's schedule, not an academic one.
Step into realistic AI governance situations across 12 companies and 24 scenarios—the misclassification, the biased system, the flash loss, the recall. You make the call and defend it.
Your decisions are scored against a defined standard across six dimensions of executive judgment. Clear the bar and you earn the credential—as proof of what you demonstrated.
You'll have led a board through an AI decision—before you do it for real.
You'll have made a $620M AI investment call, defended it, and seen where it broke.
You'll have built a governance framework under a 47-day regulatory deadline.
You'll have run the crisis—the flash loss, the biased system, the recall—before it runs you.
You'll have sat across from the regulator in the EU AI Act scenario and answered the hard question.
You'll have a scored transcript of your judgment—evidence, not attendance.
You can't grind a single scenario until it passes. You can't stay in the industry you already know. Certification requires demonstrated judgment across six different companies and six different situations—which is exactly why holding it means something.
A credential you can't fail isn't worth earning. This one, you can.
The simulation is the product. The credential is what proves you completed it.
Demonstrated Executive AI Governance Judgment
Earn the ACE designation, a scored transcript across all six judgment dimensions, a verifiable credential, and entry in the AIRE Council register—a portable record of executive judgment that travels with you.
Awarded on successful completion of the assessment · verifiable in the AIRE Council register
AIRE Council is new by design. Founding charter members earn the ACE designation first, help establish the standard, and hold a charter number later cohorts won't. If you'd rather follow a crowd, this isn't for you.