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Executive AI Boss Training™

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AI Can Prepare the Message. Leadership Still Owns the Relationship.™

Executive AI Boss Training™ prepares executives and managers to apply artificial intelligence without surrendering judgment, accountability, credibility, professional responsibility, or the human connection employees expect from leadership.

Five Courses. One Leadership Standard.™

The workplace does not need executives competing with AI. It needs executives who understand how to lead with it.

The Problem

The AI Boss Effect™

Executives and managers are increasingly applying AI to prepare the communications that shape how employees experience leadership.

AI is now used to prepare

  • ·Directives
  • ·Emails
  • ·Task assignments
  • ·Employee communications
  • ·Talking points
  • ·Performance communications
  • ·Operational instructions
  • ·Recommendations
  • ·Meeting materials
  • ·Internal announcements
  • ·Management responses

Employees experience this as

  • ·Impersonal
  • ·Dismissive
  • ·Disconnected
  • ·Excessively polished
  • ·Generic
  • ·Lacking context
  • ·Lacking human judgment
  • ·Evidence of outsourcing responsibility
  • ·Evidence the executive is no longer personally engaged

Efficiency can increase while employee trust decreases.

AI itself is not the central problem. Executive AI Boss Training™ teaches organizations how to prevent that tradeoff.

The Five-Course Portfolio

Five Courses. One Leadership Standard.™

A cohesive executive-education portfolio — not basic prompt engineering, beginner chatbot training, or generic AI literacy. Leadership education for organizations already applying AI, or preparing to do so.

01

Executive AI Communication™

AI-assisted executive communication, authentic voice, tone drift, when to personally write or deliver, review before distribution, confidentiality, credibility.

When AI helps write the message, the leader still owns every word sent under the leader’s name.

02

The AI Boss Effect™: Trust, Respect & Employee Perception

Employee perception, perceived disengagement, trust erosion, quiet resistance, repairing communication failures, restoring human presence.

Employees can appreciate AI and still dislike how a leader applies it.

03

AI Delegation, Directives & Decision Accountability™

AI-assisted delegation, analysis vs. authority, recommendation vs. decision, personnel decisions, escalation, documentation, ADAM™.

AI May Assist the Work. Leadership Remains Accountable for the Decision.

04

Human-Centered AI Management™

Communicating adoption, professional dignity, institutional knowledge, automation boundaries, displacement fears, reskilling, surveillance concerns.

Employees should experience AI adoption as managed change, rather than unexplained displacement.

05

Executive AI Governance, Ethics & Workplace Standards™

Executive AI policy, acceptable and prohibited applications, confidentiality, verification, authorship, attribution, incident response, enterprise governance.

Outcome: organizations begin preparing an internal Executive AI Use Standard™.

The Program

Executive AI Boss Training™

Five courses converging into a single leadership standard for the AI-enabled workplace.

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Pricing

Established Pricing

Individual Advanced Executive Course

$5,000

per course

Complete Five-Course Program

$25,000

5 Courses × $5,000 = $25,000

Both the Advanced Executive Certification and Authorized Train-the-Trainer Certification™ cost $25,000 and include the same complete five-module, five-day training. The difference is authority.

Enterprise and corporate licensing available by consultation. No discounts, payment plans, or volume pricing are listed. IHGS™ remains the curriculum, licensing, standards, and certification authority.

Three Organizational Pathways

Built for every scale of organization.

SMB

  • ·Founders
  • ·Owners
  • ·Supervisors
  • ·Small management teams
  • ·Growing businesses without dedicated AI-governance departments

Mid-Enterprise

  • ·Growing organizations
  • ·Multi-department organizations
  • ·Operational leaders
  • ·Management teams
  • ·HR
  • ·Organizational development
  • ·Compliance
  • ·Communications

These organizations require consistent AI leadership standards across management levels.

Enterprise

  • ·Senior executives
  • ·Boards
  • ·HR leadership
  • ·Legal
  • ·Compliance
  • ·Communications
  • ·Operations executives
  • ·Business-unit leaders
  • ·Government contractors
  • ·Health systems
  • ·Technology organizations
  • ·Professional-services firms

These organizations require scalable leadership standards and governance.

Certification

Three Certification Pathways

Pathway 11 Year

Executive AI Boss Training™ Certification

Standard professional certification based upon successful completion of required coursework, assessment, and program standards. Basic employee certifications remain valid for one year and must be renewed annually.

Teaching Authority

Does not authorize participants to teach, reproduce, modify, distribute, sublicense, or create derivative versions of the protected curriculum.

Pathway 23 Years

Executive Advanced Instructor-View Certification™

Deeper methodology access for executives who require substantially greater understanding of the curriculum — methodology, teaching rationale, ADAM™, leadership applications, and instructor perspectives.

Teaching Authority

The Advanced Executive may serve as the company’s internal advisor and program expert, but cannot teach or certify anyone.

$25,000 — complete five-module, five-day training.

Pathway 33 Years

Authorized Train-the-Trainer Certification™

For corporation-designated participants who are qualified and approved to teach the protected curriculum.

Teaching Authority

The Authorized Train-the-Trainer may teach company employees and administer renewable one-year certifications under an active IHGS™ corporate license. Authorized training may occur on the company’s campus or through the approved online system. Teaching authority exists only when expressly granted.

$25,000 — complete five-module, five-day training.

Access Does Not Equal Teaching Rights

Certification, instructor-level access, or completion of an Executive Instructor-View program does not independently grant teaching, reproduction, modification, sublicensing, distribution, or derivative-work rights. Teaching authority exists only when expressly granted through the Authorized Train-the-Trainer Certification™ pathway and applicable corporate licensing agreement.

No participant or trainer may alter, rebrand, reproduce, sublicense, or create derivative versions of the curriculum. IHGS™ remains the curriculum, licensing, standards, and certification authority.

An educational website statement. Not legal advice.

Continuing Education

Three-year credentials require continued engagement.

Anyone holding a three-year credential must remain engaged during the certification period. IHGS™ provides continuing-education opportunities addressing:

Continuing education requirements apply throughout the three-year credential term. Specific credit requirements will be established by IHGS™.

AI-assisted leadership

AI communication

Workplace AI governance

Privacy & confidentiality

Employee relations

New AI capabilities

New case studies

ADAM™ updates

Responsible AI decision practices

Workplace developments

Emerging regulations

AI risk

Leadership standards

Delivery Options

How the program is delivered.

Executive keynote

60–90 minute leadership briefing

Half-day executive workshop

Full-day executive training

Individual $5,000 courses

Complete five-course $25,000 Executive Certification Program

Five-day corporate certification series

Private executive coaching

Leadership-team advisory

Customized enterprise program

Executive Instructor-View pathway

Authorized Train-the-Trainer Certification™

Continuing education

Corporate licensing

Where private individualized advisory is requested, visitors are directed toward True Success Coaching™.

Corporate Licensing

License the curriculum for authorized internal use.

Qualifying organizations may license approved Executive AI Boss Training™ curriculum for authorized internal use. Corporate licensees receive approved materials subject to the governing agreement. Authorized trainers must maintain the applicable credential and corporate authorization.

·Cannot be altered without authorization
·Cannot be repackaged
·Cannot be rebranded
·Cannot be sublicensed
·Cannot be reproduced outside authorized terms
·Cannot be converted into derivative training
·Cannot be distributed beyond approved scope

Train-the-Trainer Preview

Authorized Train-the-Trainer Certification™

The program includes advanced preparation. A public overview is provided below; the protected instructor manual is not published.

Public overview includes

  • ·Master instructor methodology
  • ·Approved slide deck
  • ·Facilitator scripts
  • ·Trainer qualification requirements
  • ·Eligibility requirements
  • ·Observation standards
  • ·Scoring rubrics
  • ·Participant workbook methodology
  • ·Case-study instruction
  • ·Final trainer examination
  • ·Practicum
  • ·Certificate issuance
  • ·Verification procedures
  • ·Corporate implementation
  • ·Continuing education
  • ·Recertification
  • ·Version control
  • ·Curriculum integrity

Not publicly disclosed

  • ·Protected answer keys
  • ·Confidential scoring mechanisms
  • ·Proprietary instructor controls
  • ·Protected case-study answers
  • ·Confidential licensing procedures
  • ·Internal certification controls

For Executives Who Need to Understand the Program From the Instructor’s Side

Executive Advanced Instructor-View Certification™

Some senior executives may require greater knowledge than the standard participant curriculum provides. The Instructor-View pathway allows qualified executives to understand how the curriculum is structured, how managers may interpret its concepts, how leadership should respond to questions, and how the organization can apply the standards more consistently. These executives may become valuable internal leadership resources.

Instructor-level understanding does not equal teaching authorization. Teaching requires separate IHGS™ authorization and an active corporate license.

Integrity Standard · Credence Visual Integrity™ Score
98.6CVI™ Score
Verified

Held to the highest integrity standard defined by Credence.

Executive AI Boss Training™ is measured against the Credence Visual Integrity™ Score — the standard that differentiates authentic, human-grounded leadership communication from synthetic or misleading AI-generated output. A high CVI™ Score signals that the curriculum upholds transparency, attribution, and executive authenticity.

The CVI™ Score is developed by Credence to assess, on a scaled likelihood, whether content is genuine or potentially deceptive — the same standard now being adopted across high-integrity organizations.

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Training & Services Pricing

View published pricing for all IHGS Global™ programs.

P2P University™, Be The Magic™, RocketCity Relo™, The AI Boss Effect™ Executive Training, and the Executive AI Boss Effect™ Certification Pathway.

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Private executive advisory is provided through True Success Coaching™.

AI Is Changing the Work. Leadership Still Determines What the Workplace Becomes.

Executive AI Boss Training™

Five Courses. One Leadership Standard.™

Institute of Higher Global Studies™

IHGS™

Individual Course

$5,000

Complete Five-Course Executive Certification Program

$25,000

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