Artificial intelligence has moved from research labs into everyday administration. Banks score loans with models, hospitals triage with algorithms, ministries pilot chatbots and employees paste confidential text into public tools. Each use carries legal, ethical and operational risk, and most organisations have no consistent way to approve, monitor or retire these systems.

The Fundamentals of AI Governance, Responsible AI and ISO 42001 Training Course is a ten-day foundation for people who must put guardrails in place, not build models. The opening days explain core AI concepts, the lifecycle of an AI system and the main harms: bias, opacity, privacy loss, security attacks, hallucination and over-reliance. Participants then study responsible AI principles and how they are translated into policies, roles, review boards and controls.

The later days cover the structure of ISO/IEC 42001, the first international management system standard for AI, together with related frameworks and emerging regulation. Participants practise scoping a system, risk and impact assessment, supplier evaluation, documentation and audit. The course ends with an integrated project in which each participant drafts a governance framework and implementation roadmap for a chosen organisation.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain core AI and machine learning concepts and the lifecycle of an AI system.
• Identify the main ethical, legal, security and operational risks of AI use.
• Apply responsible AI principles to real use cases.
• Build an AI inventory and classify systems by risk.
• Carry out an AI impact assessment and record mitigation decisions.
• Draft AI policies, acceptable use rules and approval workflows.
• Interpret ISO/IEC 42001 requirements and Annex controls alongside the NIST AI RMF, ISO 27001 and data protection duties.
• Plan internal audit, monitoring and incident response for AI systems.

No technical background is needed. The course suits professionals who must oversee or assure AI use, including:

• Compliance, risk and governance officers
• Chief information officers and IT managers
• Information security and data protection officers
• Legal counsel and company secretaries
• Internal and external auditors
• Data, analytics and digital transformation leads
• Policy advisers in ministries and regulators
• Quality managers pursuing management system certification
• Project managers introducing AI tools

Participants complete the ten days with:

• A plain-language grasp of how AI systems work and fail.
• An AI system inventory and risk classification template.
• An AI impact assessment form completed on a real use case.
• A draft AI policy and acceptable use standard.
• An ISO/IEC 42001 gap analysis checklist.
• A roadmap and governance structure for their own organisation.

Because the audience is non-technical, ideas are introduced through demonstrations and then applied in workshops. The programme includes:

• Live demonstrations of AI tools, including their failures
• Case discussions of real AI incidents and decisions
• Template-based workshops for inventories, assessments and policies
• Gap analysis exercises against ISO/IEC 42001 clauses
• A ten-day integrated project with facilitator coaching

A CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion is issued by Vision Reach Global Consultancy to participants who attend the ten days and finish the integrated project. It recognises training completion and is not an ISO certification.